With the contestants newly divided into blue against black in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 5, Rick was voted out.
This week, it wil be up to the opposing team to decide which one person’s weight will count for the other team.
During the workout, Frado agrees to give Jillian one more effort. Sort of. She tells him to just jump off the treadmill three times, but he doesn’t listen. So then he falls. Her thought after this happens: this would never happen with Bob. Frado seems to have decided to be a rebel because he doesn’t get along with his dad, although he loves him anyway. Time to move on, dude, and stop fooling yourself. No need to punish yourself since your relationship with your parents is unhealthy.
Curtis Stone is joined by Lorena Garcia, whom I have never seen on The Biggest Loser or The Celebrity Apprentice. Aaron, Jessica, Lisa, Elizabeth Patrick, and Anna will be cooking with them. The other six will judge the dishes, without knowing which dish belongs to which team. The winning team wins 10 seconds at the challenge. The chefs are not allowed to touch the food. Aaron has not really been cooking since he last saw Curtis. Elizabeth is uncomfortable with cooking, having found it easier to just buy fast food.
Anna is assigned to make a shrimp ceviche martini, while Aaron will be making grilled shrimp, papaya, and peanut salad. Patrick cooks tuna tacos, and Jessica is cooking some tuna as well, grilled ratatouille. Elizabeth will make yogurt and grilled peaches, while Lisa also cooks yogurt and peaches. They’ll have to make sure they are done before the time limit expires.
Frado thinks there are people on his team who can’t cook, so his strategy is to pick the appetizer he likes the least. After tasting the martini, he says it was disgusting. He and Adam are in charge of judging the appetizers. Frado chooses Anna’s dish, while Adam chooses Aaron’s dish. In each case, they have backed their teammates, bringing us to a 1-1 tie. Frado’s lack of confidence in his team paid off because he thought the ceviche was worse than the salad. Ada picks the ratatouille, and so does Mark. No points for Patrick, allowing the blue team to take the 3-1 lead. Jesse chooses Elizabeth’s ice creamy peach cup, and so does Brendan. That brings us to a 3-3 tie.
With that, the tiebreaker is for the judges to accurately guess how many calories are in the dessert for their team. The black team’s strategy is to argue, which leads to Frado pouting and stepping to the side. He doesn’t care. Ada’s frustrated having to deal with children. Their guess is 185. The blue team guesses 109 for theirs. The winner is the blue team, as they are 9 calories over, whereas the black team is over by 45 calories. They will win 10 seconds, whatever that means. Even though it means he lost, too, Frado is happy to see Brendan lose.
Adam suggests that the obvious choice to weigh in is Elizabeth, who has been at the bottom of the pack pretty consistently. Patrick assumes that will be their choice as well.
Over on the other side, they want to choose Jessica, feeling that will be a pretty fair match against Elizabeth.
The team that wins the challenge has the option to block the other team’s first pick at the weigh in. With the black team having Ada and a bunch of big guys, the blue team really does not have a choice two, so they would probably have to default to Anna if they lose. The challenge will be dragonboat racing, 500 meters out and 500 meters back. Blue team will have a 10 second advantage from the cooking challenge. Jessica and Anna will do the steering, while the rest of the teams paddle. With their 10 second advantage… the blue team gets nowhere pretty quickly. By the time they start going straight, the black team is just about to catch them. Blue team has a slight lead heading into the turn. In the turn, the blue team takes a while to get it right, but the black team does it right, taking the lead. In a race down the final stretch, the blue team regains control to win the challenge by 6 seconds, so the advantage paid off after all. Brendan’s upset by how they celebrate their win.
Although everything will boil down to her this week, Elizabeth doesn’t seem to be giving it her best effort. Perhaps if Jillian can force her to have a breakthrough, she can get more out of her.
As much talk as there is from the trainers about how much they’re all in danger, nobody’s remotely thinking of nominating somebody like Mark, who strategically could throw the weigh in and just put up bigger numbers next week.
Adam has opted to not use his advantage, so it will be 4 pounds next week.
The blue team has chosen Elizabeth as expected. Jessica is chosen for her team, with the black team using the words “first pick” because they think it will be vetoed. The choice is to not block her nomination, however. I’m not sure there’s so much difference between her and Lisa (or even Aaron for that matter) that it really matters either way.
Anna: 283 pounds (-3, 1.05%)
Ada: 211 pounds (-4, 1.86%)
Brendan: 302 pounds (-11, 3.51%)
Patrick: 337 pounds (-9, 2.60%)
Frado: 294 pounds (-14, 4.54%)
Elizabeth: 213 pounds (-5, 2.29%)
Scoring better than the other two girls on her team, Elizabeth has lost a respectable, albeit not overwhelming, amount of weight.
The black team says their second pick was going to be Jesse. What?
Jesse: 296 pounds (-9, 2.95%)
Mark: 336 pounds (-16, 4.54%)
Adam: 322 pounds (-13, 3.88%)
Lisa: 244 pounds (-8, 3.17%)
Aaron: 398 pounds (-9, 2.21%)
Jessica: 244 pounds (-4, 1.61%)
Two people on the blue team lost less than Elizabeth, and Jessica is one of them, leading to the blue team losing the weigh in. If they chose to use the block and the black team voted for Jesse instead (seriously?), they would have won. Not only that, but had this been a team weigh in rather than a one person chosen by the other team weigh in, the blue team would have won by a comfortable margin of 7 pounds. They may have won the weigh in, but they lost the game.
As the biggest loser on his team, Mark is safe from the vote. Jessica doesn’t think she should be going home just because she had a(nother) bad week. Adam might want to consider getting rid of that target on his back, his “advantage” that keeps growing each week.
Votes
Mark: Adam
Adam: Jessica
Lisa: Jessica
Jessica: Adam
Jesse: Adam
Aaron: Jessica
With half of the blue team playing an individual game already, wanting to vote out one of their strongest players, we have a tie. Therefore, the black team will choose who to eliminate, and they can pick anybody other than Mark. Obviously, this comes down to a choice between the two strongest: Jesse and Adam. Jessica says that, if they’re leaning toward sending Adam home instead of her, they should just send her. This pitch should have been made to her own team before they played their hand so badly.
By the black team’s vote, Adam is not The Biggest Loser, a decision which three people on his team will be happy with, although it no doubt weakens their chances. From his starting weight of 402 pounds, Adam is now down to 264 pounds. He hopes to be an inspiration to the community and is working along with to YMCA to achieve that.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 7, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.