On tonight’s episode of
The Biggest Loser, the contestants learned about the dreaded second week curse. The second week is almost always where players pull their lowest numbers. The players met up with host Alison Sweeney, who oversaw a bidding war for the contestants to predict how much weight they would lose this week.
Jillian was shocked when she found out that
Coleen and
Jerry placed a bet and would have to lose 14 pounds. If they don’t, they’ll automatically fall below the yellow line but if they win, they’ll get $10,000.
For tonight’s challenge, players must head down a slip and slide all the way down a giant hill that is over 200 feet long. They’ll also have to run back up and hit a button all in a matter of 2 minutes. The winner will get a phone call home, a prize that’s extremely meaningful to everyone in the game. After a few rounds, the time went down to only 90 seconds. The purple, yellow, orange, and pink teams went head to head for well over an hour. In the end, it was down to the purple and orange teams. Heba and Ed end up winning and are given an extra phone call, which they pass on to Amy and Phil, who have been desperately missing their son.
The contestants are visited by celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, who teaches them how to cook in a healthy and inexpensive manner. He asks the better cooks to stand up but then surprises them with the news that they’ll have to go food shopping and their teammates will have to cook! The players who shopped had to try each dish and rate them on a scale of 1-10, unaware of who cooked them. Amy gets the highest score and, for her prize, wins free groceries for a year for herself and her family.
In their last chance workout, Bob tells them that week 2 is always the hardest so he plans on pushing them extra hard. Jillian takes out her anger on Coleen during her last chance workout, for playing Russian roulette with her weight loss. After all the teams making it through their LCW, here are the numbers from tonight’s weigh in:
- Vicky and Brady: 4 + 7 = 11 pound loss (2.04%)
- Amy and Shellay: 3 + 3 = 6 pound loss (1.41%)
- Michelle and Renee: 2 + 5 = 7 pound loss (1.46%)
- Amy and Phil: 4 + 8 = 12 pound loss (2.30%)
- Heba and Ed: 2 + 9 = 11 pound loss (1.83%)
- LT and Tom: 3 pound gain + 3 = 0 pound loss (0.00%)
- Coleen and Jerry: 6 + 5 = 11 pound loss (1.93%)
All of Bob's teams are safe this week and Coleen and Jerry automatically fall below the yellow line. Had they not made that bet, they would've ended in third place instead of being considered for elimination. Everyone was shocked at Little Tom's weight gain but Jillian dismisses it as typical second week stuff. At the elimination, the grey team, LT and Tom, are eliminated. Alison finishes things up by telling the remaining contestants that they're about to head out on a road trip to the Grand Canyon.
Tomorrow, we'll hear from LT and Tom, this week's eliminees. Since leaving the show, LT has lost 81 pounds and Tom has lost 65.
- Gina Scarpa, BuddyTV Staff Writer
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