Matt was saved by Bob after falling below the red line in The Biggest Loser Season 15 Episode 6.
It’s Thanksgiving week, typically one of the worst for any of these contestants, most of whom used to consume 5-10,000 calories in a single day at this time of year before they started this journey. Now they can give back with the challenge. And then I walk away from the TV for a minute and apparently the challenge is over. Well, then. Anyway, the blue team won the challenge, whatever it was (loading trucks with boxes of food it seems), and they will be getting visitors from home.
With this visit, Hap gets to meet his new baby for the first time. Matt visits with his fiancee after having postponed their wedding in order to come on the show.
Bobby, who has now come out to the whole country, has yet to tell his father he’s gay, though surely he has been able to guess. To encourage him to talk about this with his dad, Bob discusses his sexuality for the first time in 15 seasons, acknowledging that he is gay, something that has been rumored for years but never confirmed nor denied.
Bob is worried that everything going on at the ranch this week may serve as a distraction for his team. We jump right from the visits to the weigh in with no yelling about last chance.
David: 306 pounds (-11, 3.47%) – over 100 pounds lost
Jennifer: 211 pounds (-9, 4.09%)
Tanya: 216 pounds (-4, 1.82%)
Rachel: 183 pounds (-12, 6.15%)
Ruben: 394 pounds (-7, 1.75%)
Red Total: 1310 pounds (-43, 3.18%)
Marie: 203 pounds (-4, 1.93%)
Jay: 219 pounds (-7, 3.10%)
Tumi: 250 pounds (-6, 2.34%)
White Total: 672 pounds (-17, 2.47%)
Matt: 281 pounds (-9, 3.10%)
Chelsea: 191 pounds (-6, 3.05%)
Hap: 334 pounds (-6, 1.76%)
Bobby: 284 pounds (-9, 3.07%)
Holley: 288 pounds (-3, 1.03%)
Blue Total: 1378 pounds (-33, 2.34%)
In a result that I don’t think anyone saw coming, Holley pushes her team into the losing column, and she falls below the red line.
But she’s not the only one going home tonight. Or next week anyway. Of course, that could mean anything, from double elimination to someone winning a trip to their hometown. Normally I would consider this a fake out, but there are only a few weeks but 12 contestants still left.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 15 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.