Previously on The Biggest Loser the Jofre family finally fell below the yellow line at the weigh in and now face a very tense elimination alongside the Hailwoods. The Jofres have an alliance with the Auvales which may yet save them.

And the result of the elimination tonight is going to have the trainers at each other’s throats. I don’t like it when Mummy and Daddy and Daddy fight. :-(

Before we get to any of that we have to go for another visit to the elimination room. Sam and Tony have been selected from their respective families to face elimination.

Jodie and Mel are pleased to get a chance to vote for once as they are usually below the yellow line with someone else. Their vote is fairly straightforward and they’re not too shy about saying it to each other and us, they’ll be voting to send a red team member home. Mel knows the alliance the Jofres have with the Auvales is strong, so their votes may not even matter.

The Auvales, the ones who this elimination really tips on, are discussing just that. Johnee says it makes more sense to knock a team of four down to three and the Jofres would do the same to them. Tenealle’s arguing in favour of at least returning the generosity the Jofres have shown in the past by not voting them out. Moses seems to be thinking along the same line as his brother, it’s a game at the end of the day.

Time for the elimination room. Fiona’s changed clothes again, she’s in a red top instead of the black dress she was in at the weigh in. Anyway, time for the Pestells and Auvales to see who’s up for elimination.

So, Tony, why are you the Jofre up for elimination? Rob and Pablo are too big to be up for elimination and Daniel’s injured, so it made the most sense for him to go up. Tony still needs to be there, he tells the others, because he’s still “addicted” to food. Still talks a lot about getting fast food and the like. And he’s not a threat, he thinks.

Sam says she’s there because Cliff is still far too heavy. There was no question of him going up, he’s her world and she’s there to protect him. She also needs to stay because she’s a Mum on the outside and hasn’t learned enough yet. And it’s taken seven weeks to get a Jofre into the elimination seat. They’re faster and stronger and winning everything. They’ve got to think of what’s the best for their families going forward. Honestly, sending Sam home is probably more in their interest since then Cliff will fall apart and they can send him home next week!

Tony’s worried, because you can never be sure how strong an alliance is. The Jofres saved the Auvales before, they’ve stayed true to their word unlike the Hailwoods, who can’t be trusted.

Pestells are, of course, voting first. Because everyone’s preeetty sure who they’ll be voting for, right?

Jodie’s first. She’s voting with her head, wants to stay as long as possible, so she’s voted for Tony. No big surprise there.

Mel thinks both teams are a threat but one team is clearly in front. She’s voted for Tony as well. One more vote for Tony and he’s going home.

Johnee? Johnee didn’t get a good enough reason out of either contestant, he says. It was a bit nonchalant, he says. That gets a bit of an odd look from Jodie. And me!

Still a toss up… but he’s voted for Sam in the end. He says that at the end of the day they made an alliance with the red team and this is how they’re going to play the game.

Tenealle’s heart is beating really fast so she’s just going to reveal she voted for Sam. Two votes each. Will Moses buck the trend?

Moses isn’t sure what to say since he’s never had to do this before. So we’ll take an ad break while he comes up with something…

He’s given his word and that’s all he can go by, so he’s also voted for Sam. Sam seems quite surprised and upset. At least she gets to go home before the fighting kicks off!

Sam’s worried about doing it on the outside without Cliff. Probably shouldn’t’ve pissed off Sylvia, would be much easier if the three of them could work together?

Sam tells the others to tell Cliff she loves him. Fiona tells her it’s doable on the outside, but she’s not the biggest loser. Time to say your goodbyes and go home!

Tony gives her a big hug and wishes her good luck. It’s easy to be magnanimous when you’ve just escaped the chopping block!

Sam tells us it’s been the craziest, hardest, funnest thing she’s ever done and she’d do it again in a heartbeat.

Out in the lounge Cliff is resigned to not seeing Sam come back. Rob says it’s the not knowing that’s the worst.

The remaining contestants file into the lounge and Cliff sees Tony come back.

Cliff says he knows it was a strategy, the other teams want the Hailwoods gone, but it was a bad strategy. If they get rid of the white and blue teams it’s just going to be the black team trying to face down the red team.

Jodie tells us it was stupid of the Auvales to keep Tony because it shows they won’t break the alliance.

Cliff’s still going on about it being stupid to keep Tony, he’s the fittest guy and he’s why the Jofres win every challenge.

The next morning everyone’s having breakfast together. Mel brings Johnee a cup of something? Lots of smiles from everyone but Cliff, basically!

Daniel and Pablo have found an envelope which they bring to the other contestants. Inside it is just a thing saying “change is coming, get your butts to the weigh in room”. Everyone else is excited to see what’s next, except Cliff. Who doesn’t give a stuff, he’s lonely. Awww!

The trainers are in the weigh in room, of course, because they’re about to fight! Tiffiny’s quite upset to have lost the last of her girls, she thinks the Auvales have been stupid. Not so sure, really. Their alliance has gotten them quite a ways into the competition.

Tiffiny asks Cliff what happened. Cliff wasn’t in there, so he doesn’t know. Jodie and Mel say they voted out Tony because they’re the strongest team.

Johnee was next, and all three of them voted for Sam. Johnee says Sam didn’t put up much of a fight, she seemed to know she was going home. Tiff is surprised by that. Johnee says there was no tears, which brings a look of surprise to Fiona’s face. We know that to be untrue, Johnee! What are you doing?

Jodie tells us that it was certainly not her impression of how things went down but maybe Johnee was in another room? Fiona’s looking on a bit bemused. Not going to butt in yet?

Mel’s shaking her head so Tiff asks if that’s what happened and Mel says that Sam said to vote with their heads. And Fiona speaks up, saying, “And there were tears.” Mel agrees, saying there was definitely tears. She was definitely crying. Jodie thinks Johnee just talks and doesn’t really pay attention, didn’t care what Sam said or did. He’s blinded by the alliance.

Jodie says it was all because of the alliance, Sam knew she was gone because of it. Then Michelle pipes up, asks for a transparent conversation. She thought it was the blue and white teams that formed an alliance, so the red and black team formed an alliance in response. Which is kinda right, but the blue-white alliance wasn’t really that big a deal, certainly not on the black-red level.

Shannan says it’s bullshit, that’s not how it worked. Mish and Steve are together, he wonders how they’d sit “E.T.” up front and apologise for one team voting the other out. Did he call Michelle E.T.? I must have misheard that, surely?

Michelle says she’s at work, Steve says it’s just Shannan’s assumption. Mish and Steve seem quite bemused, Shannan’s telling us that it’s certainly seemed like only the blue and white teams have copped it.

Mish tells us that having worked on the show for nine years and working with a range of contestants, her view has always been the same – stay out of the politics. Be there to train them and support them and educate them, nothing else.

Johnee says it’s nothing to do with the trainers. Shannan says the evidence speaks for itself. Steve tells us he’s keeping his personal life out of it, he’s there to work as well.

Daniel confirms that Michelle doesn’t want to get involved in any of the politics, because she doesn’t want any finger pointing. Daniel says Tiff called them a superteam, but it could have been Jofre and Hailwood as the team, but things didn’t pan out that way.

Cliff doesn’t want to hear it, he says they’re a bunch of fakes. The Jofres rightly retort that he’s the fake.

And now Steve’s had enough too. He tells Cliff he needs to watch what he says. Why, Cliff asks. Steve points out he’s standing there on his own, if he’d pulled the numbers he might have some family members left. He got on the scales and had a cry about his regrets about not pulling the numbers. He went home and learnt new things at home? Get off your arse and do something about it. Stop pointing the finger at everyone else. Steve tells us if Cliff had been putting in the effort he might have saved some of his family before now.

Commando Steve challenges Cliff to a training session once they’re in Singles… speaking of which, Fiona. Rescue us with that announcement?

Cliff’s not one to back down, he felt he was giving back as good as he got. Cliff calls Steve a bitch, a hairy bitch. Dude, he’s a soldier. He would fucking kill you, and nobody would care because you’re an ASS.

Tiff’s trying to get Cliff to calm down, breathe.

Fiona says tensions are high, obviously. Cliff knows everyone wants him out, that’s why he was the only one training last night. Tony says they all thought he’d pussied out last night, they couldn’t find him. Cliff says he was out front in the garage working out. Rob says to just keep telling his unicorn stories.

Pablo asks them all to just stop. He tells us he hates the arguing, the conflict, he just wants everyone to live in peace. Awww, what a softy!

Pablo says there’s a lack of respect, Cliff shouldn’t’ve spoken to Commando Steve like that. Steve says he shouldn’t’ve spoken like that either. Pablo goes on to say they’ve got four professionals there to help them, they’ve got to be accorded the respect they deserve. And they’ve got to respect each other as well, not be pointing fingers at each other. He tells us when you speak calmly people can go from the extreme of yelling at each other. Mish gives him a squeeze on the shoulders and says he’s done well.

They’ve been at Camp Biggest Loser for seven weeks, Fiona says, meaning they’re at the halfway mark. This is a competition to find the one biggest loser, so as of today they’re no longer competing as families. You’re all competing as individuals from this point onwards.

Shannan’s stoked because his girls are almost singles already. Tiff doesn’t mind either because Cliff’s the last man standing. Mish and Steve probably aren’t so keen, though Steve’s probably excited he gets to flog Cliff soon!

So now they’re in singles it’s time to see where they stand in relation to each other, rather than the family comparisons. This should be fun!

Currently in 10th place is Mel. She’s lost 21.8kg, 14.01%.
9th is Cliff. CLIFF. Wow. Total of 26.8kg, 14.03%.

Cliff’s not worried at all, says it’s not going to impact the next weigh in. Steve is appalled, clearly Cliff’s not been doing everything he can. Tiff says Cliff’s always claiming he’s smashing it but he’s obviously not if he’s second last.

8th is Tenealle. Total of 19.5kg, 14.55%
7th is Jodie. Total of 24kg, 15.09%. Jodie says it’s amazing, she wouldn’t’ve lost that at home, probably would have put on that much! She’s quite pleased, as she should be.
6th is Johnee. Total of 35.2kg, 16.32%.
5th is Moses. Total of 22kg, 18.03%.

Meaning the top four are all Jofres. Easy to see why Michelle Bridges is one of the most popular trainers in the country, huh?

4th is Pablo. Total of 29.8kg, 18.77%
3rd is Tony. Total of 26.5kg, 20.34%
2nd is Rob. Total of 34.5kg, 21.75%
1st is Daniel. Total of 29.3kg, 22.2%

Fiona says there’s another big reason to be motivated this week. Biggest loser at the next weigh in will receive $20,000 in cold, hard cash. Wow. That’s a really great way to encourage people to lift their game mid-season, huh?

The contestants go back to their bedrooms to find their singles gear. It’s all black, so the Pestells are wondering if they’re in the black team now? Why don’t they just use a different colour entirely, it’s silly.

Jofres are chatting about the Cliff and Steve bickering. They’re still amazed Cliff tried to showpony around Steve. Cliff’s telling us he’s ready for the training session. Dude, no, you’re going to get smashed.

Steve’s come to Camp and walks straight up to the bedrooms to ask Cliff if he’s ready for the training session. Yes? Good. Singlet on, be in the sandpit in 90 seconds. Cliff vaults the fence on the way to the training session, to Steve’s bemusement. Steve’s telling us he’s seen a lot of alpha male style behaviour from his time in the army before becoming a trainer and he sees straight through such garbage.

The session must have started, but I’m not sure. Cliff’s puffing heavily already, but Steve’s talking like it only just started? Hmm.

Anyway, run to the end of the pit and back. You call that running? No! Steve knows he’s got to push Cliff from the word go. Running to squats straight after. Set, go! Commando crawls across the sandpit. Steve tells him he wants Cliff to fight for himself. See, even when Cliff’s a toolbag Steve still wants to try and help him. Good guy, Commando Steve!

What’s brought him to this point, Steve asks him. Taking the easy way out. Why’d he do that, Steve wonders. Because it’s the easy way out, Cliff says. Cliff tells us he’s not going to give in, Steve’s not his trainer! Steve tells us they’ll keep training until Cliff stops giving him superficial answers.

Cliff’s slamming a small medicine ball on the ground after an ad break, then dragging a tire behind him with a huge rope, but he’s not giving up. He promised he wouldn’t give up and he’s not going to. If only he’d had this motivation sooner!

Commando Steve says Cliff’s dealt with a lot of hardship over the past year, with his father passing away not long before the show starts. Cliff needs to learn he doesn’t have to repeat all the same mistakes his father made. And Steve might have finally broken him down. Steve tells us he sees a little boy in Cliff as he falls apart. Cliff knows he needs to be there, he’s too big, he needs to get healthy for his wife and his daughter. So he doesn’t die next year or the year after, he’s a heart attack waiting to happen. How’d it feel to lose his Dad? “Shithouse.” Don’t you wish he’d done something about it? Why didn’t he listen, was he too proud? He thought he was indestructible, Cliff says. But nobody is. His Dad tried various diets, had half his stomach cut out, had heart attacks and strokes throughout his life.

He eventually collapsed at home with a bleed on the brain and then a heart attack. They switched the life support off while Cliff was holding his hand, he was there for his Dad dying. So, okay, put yourself in that bed. His daughter gets to 3, 4, 7 years of age and she has to hold Cliff’s hand. It can’t happen.

Steve tells Cliff he’s not being hard on him because of his character, who he is, it’s the behaviours. He doesn’t have to pass those on to another generation. Or he can do something about it now, while there’s still time. Cliff tells us he was heavier than his Dad and he figured he’d be next. Time to grow up, Steve says. Stand on your own two feet and hold yourself accountable. The only way you can stay another week is to work out like he just did. And Cliff says he’s feeling good after the training session, so he stays a bit longer to work out a bit more after Steve leaves. He’s looking forward to training with Tiff again.

But not yet, it’s time for Temptation. And it looks to be French themed? There’s a French flag on the floor with plates of pastries. Tell me they’re not going to be walking on the French flag…

Tenealle’s not seen pastries in about seven weeks. But there’s a power up for grabs so everyone’s really tempted.

Bonjour, Princess Fiona! Welcome to The Game, she says to the contestants. It’s a Temptation kind of game again. 100 plates of tempting French pastries, five different kinds worth different calorie amounts.

Fruit tarts, 62 calories. Vanilla slices, 169 calories. Plain croissant, 210 calories. Chocolate eclairs, 275 calories. Raisin snails, 392 calories each.

Randomly hidden under five of the plates are five keys. Before you can check for a key you’ve got to eat a pastry. Each contestant will take turns in choosing a plate, assuming they play at all of course.

First person to find a key wins the game. The key opens the case with the power in it. Everyone wants the advantage this week because of the $20,000 on the line but it will also make it harder because they’ve got extra calories to burn off.

Johnee says the alliance had agreed they wouldn’t be playing. Tenealle didn’t get the memo, she steps forward for a shot at the key. Singles, eh?

So, one in all in? Johnee thinks they can share the calorie count out more with more people. So the rest of the alliance steps forward. Cliff and the Pestells are the last holdouts…

But now we catch up with Sam, who started at 109.3kg. Nine weeks later and she looks pretty fit! Still overweight of course but she’s feeding her daughter a lot better as she’s eating better things herself. She’s finding her daughter loves all kinds of fruits and veggies. Miracle child!

Sam’s shocked when she watches her weigh in video back. She didn’t realise she’d gotten so big. She was a size 20 before coming on the show, now she’s a 16. She looks a lot more than 4 dress sizes smaller, but women’s clothing is weird.

Tomorrow night, who’s going to succumb to Temptation? Will Cliff and the Pestells step up or save themselves some calories?

And then training. So much training. Singles is going to step things.

Then the weekly challenge is another one of those balancing on blocks over water things. Johnee’s going to try and rock the planks and it looks like it might backfire, with a number of people seeming to fall off simultaneously? Fun times ahead!