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This season of The Biggest Loser marks another change in the format. Last time it was families, the time before that they tackled the town of Ararat. This time, it’s… people who aren’t grossly obese, just quite obese. Or even just overweight! It’s time to Transform some lives!

At least, that’s the stated goal this time around. Old-hand Shannan Ponton and new trainer Libby Babet take 16 overweight Australians for 8 weeks of intensive training and not eating so damn much. Shannan’s said we should imagine six packs on blokes and women in bikinis on the finale stage. We’ll see, won’t we?

Jake, the diabetic with an insulin pump installed we saw on the ads? He wants to get his health and diabetes under control lest he not be around much longer.

Steph’s postponed her wedding. Needs to go from a size 18 to a size 10 to fit in her wedding dress. Lynton needs to lose weight to keep his pilot licence. Nikki’s never been confident enough to get in a bikini.

The contestants are all being boated across Sydney Harbour to… Cockatoo Island, maybe? There’s a big fancy building with the new (ugly) Biggest Loser logo out front. So they go in!

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Previously on The Biggest Loser Cliff was sent home in a shock elimination after Tony won at Temptation.

The weekly challenge saw contestants struggling to build rafts capable of travelling a couple hundred metres on a calm lake. New host Fiona did this same challenge in her time on the show, taking first place alongside… that guy. Whatsisname. Yeah.

Tonight the paddling of the rafts continues. Daniel’s rapidly catching up to Tony, with Tenealle bringing up the rear. Nobody else has even made it to the water yet. I’m not sure Mel will even finish a raft before someone makes it back again.

Daniel’s raft looked very rickety on dry land but it’s a beast out on the water, taking Daniel past Tony with ease. Rob keeps telling us how amazed he was that Daniel’s raft held together. Not much faith in his nephew!

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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 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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