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Previously on The Biggest Loser: Families we nearly saw Cliff stage an upset and win the $20,000 at the weigh in, but it was not to be as Tony streaked from behind to claim the prize.

Tonight two of the biggest remaining contestants, Johnee and Jodie, will face elimination. Johnee is from the Auvale family, who’ve had a strong alliance with the Jofres, giving them control over five votes. Jodie is from the Pestells and can probably count on her sister not to vote for her, and maybe Cliff. It’s not hard to see why Jodie’s probably out the door tonight.

Unless the Jofres finally go with strategy over alliance. It’s really down to them, as it has been so often this season.

We’ll also find out what’s happened to Moses. One might expect he’d dehydrated himself too much for the weigh in or something similar but for the fact he didn’t lose a huge amount this week as he was trying to deliberately be below Johnee. Maybe the stress of Johnee going under the line has brought something more serious to the fore?

The weekly Game will also start tonight and it looks to be some kind of trivia mixed with an endurance event. Mixed with drama, because it’s Biggest Loser!

As the episode begins we’re treated again to the sight of Moses being wheeled out and into an ambulance. He’s got an oxygen mask on and Johnee says he looks like he’s in a lot of pain. His heart rate seemed to be 60, can that happen if he’s had a heart attack?

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Previously on The Biggest Loser the competition went to singles at last. Technically they are now all competing as individuals but realistically they’re still families and the friendships and alliances that have formed will continue. Which is to say the Jofres will continue to dominate the competition, probably.

At the singles announcement Shannan, Commando Steve and Michelle got into a bit of a fight over the alliance between the Jofre and Auvale families. Somehow that ended with Commando Steve thrashing Cliff in training, which seems like it might finally have switched the light on in Cliff’s head?

Tonight, we find out if the Jofres won the weekly challenge again. They probably did. Then it’ll be time for a weigh in, the first as singles. Which two contestants will be the first to face elimination on their efforts alone.

We left the challenge with Jodie tipping off the blocks the contestants were balancing on out on a dam lake. This sent a bunch more contestants toppling over in something of a cascade failure, one overweight person overbalancing and tipping off which unbalances the next, who unbalances the next…

Did anybody stay on the pontoons? Let’s find out! First, some more replayed footage. Including Johnee’s declaration, “I’m getting tired just trying to get you off.”

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Previously on The Biggest Loser Sam was sent home from the elimination room after the Auvale-Jofre alliance held strong. This ruffled feathers, particularly Shannan’s, and resulted in Cliff having a very tough training session with Commando Steve.

And it might actually have done some good for Cliff. We’ll see.

The competition has moved to singles, technically, but expect a lot of the old rivalries and alliances to still be in play going forward.

Such as tonight, in The Game, with Temptation standing between contestants and a potential reward of some kind. The old Jofre-Auvale alliance are all partaking, it seems. Whether Cliff, Jodie and Mel will also cave in remained to be seen.

Later, after The Game is won and a training session is done, the weekly challenge involves standing on individual platforms way out on a lake. Last man standing will win… something?

Quite a bit of replayed footage at the start of this episode. We see the setup of Temptation all over again. The alliance has all stepped forward to take their chances. Cliff is asked if he’s in or out and he says he’s out, he thinks he made a breakthrough today in Steve’s training session. Cliff tells us his actions are going to speak louder than words from here on in.

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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.

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Previously on The Jofre Show we saw some kind of challenge that the Jofres won at and now have an advantage over blah blah blah. The Biggest Loser Families is becoming a bit predictable, might be time to screw the Jofres over with something they can’t win?

Or is the competition fixed so Michelle’s team wins because she has a baby on the way and babies are super expensive…

Speaking of which, tonight the trainers will be bickering among themselves again, it seems. Commando Steve and Michelle can’t help it if they picked the better teams, Shannan!

Cliff and Sam, the remaining Hailwoods, have spent the latter half of the week back at home arguing with most recent evictee Sylvia.

But first we have to resolve the challenge, which the Jofres actually aren’t winning. Sort of, as Tony accidentally jammed up the Pestell’s box of wood. They’re supposed to be slipping bits of wood they’ve sawed off into a clear fronted box. First box to get filled means that team is out of the challenge.

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