I think Alison Sweeney's having a lot of fun with these critical choices.

The Biggest Loser enters golden ticket week: it's goodbye to the old teams, and hello to the Jillian's black team or Bob's blue team.  It's not really a big deal--well, perhaps for the fact that we have to say goodbye to the two trainers working together in the past month or so--because it's something that always happens.  But of course, here goes Alison dangling those choices again.

On tonight's episode, another temptation is floated, and whoever wins it--if anybody does win it--gets the chance to choose which contestant goes to which team.  A really, really big move, indeed.  It's a lot of power for one contestant, and everybody's worried that this could mean they'll be separated from their ranch partners who they lost weight with from the very beginning.

I think someone did win that privilege.  Uh-oh.  Don't tell me it's Tracey.

But once all that's done, the new teams will have to get down and shed a few more pounds.  Tonight's challenge tests the contestants' ability to work together.  I think it'll be easy, really--they've been one team for most of the season so far, right?  Well, except for the alienation and all the bits in between.

That, and another contestant going home in a tough elimination--and one player giving another player a pretty special gift--on The Biggest Loser, returning tonight from 8pm on NBC.


- Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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