In an abridged The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 4, Gail’s failure to peform finally led to her departure. I suspect we’re in for more interruptions yet again tonight with the Florida polls closing at 8, but with the results being known so early, Brian Williams tells us he’s going to stop talking soon.

Having been off the ranch and at home for 30 days, the aqua team is back. Pulling them away before they could get in the house was a bit cruel, but the challenge they have faced is both fair and easily doable. Sure, for people who don’t really want to do it, it’s simple to come up with any of a number of excuses, but those who put their minds to it merely need to learn to say no occasionally and do some basic math about what they’re putting in their bodies.

Daphne: 245 pounds (-26, 9.59%)
Adrian: 336 pounds (-34, 9.19%)

Having lost a total of 60 pounds, the aqua team has earned a second chance to come back into the game. By the way, you will now be separated. They both want to be with Bob. After a game of rock, paper, scissors, Daphne joins Bob’s black team. As long as they do not gain weight, they will be immune.

Meanwhile, everybody around them is making an extra effort to whine, especially Kim and Conda (who doesn’t like anybody). It’s not fair. It’s just not fair. Get used to it. The twists are just getting started.

Adrian tells the story about how hard he’s been working while he’s been home. He has been working out 14 hours a day.

Hoping to avoid a repeat of last week, Chris starts kissing up to the boys who voted to get rid of her last week after she talked about quitting. Daphne lucked out. She walked into a team divided. That makes her less likely to be target number one.

Conda has decided she can’t stand Adrian. Welcome to the club. I assume the feeling is mutual.

At the challenge, the teams will bounce balls over a wall that the contestants on the other side will catch and run through the sand to put in a net. The team that wins will be able to choose one player from each team whose weight will not count. Roy and Chism sit out for medical reasons. Nancy sits out for the red team. It’s a back and forth battle throughout the first half of the challenge. Eventually, things fall apart for the black team, though, and the red team builds a huge lead. Red team wins the challenge.

Red team calls an intervention. Mark fears that the cattiness will impact them as a team. Nancy inquires whether anybody there is in the eighth grade. I’ve got an idea. Get rid of Conda like you should have weeks ago. That should solve your issues, and those of the viewers. In any event, the intervention fails.

When confronted by Dolvett, Adrian pretends that everything is fine within the team. Not one to take the BS, Dolvett calls his own intervention. They make an effort to pretend to respect his input.

Having won the challenge, the red team can choose one person to sit out of the weigh in from each team. Megan will sit out for the black team; Nancy will sit out for the red team.

Nancy: 196 pounds (-4, 2.00%)
Megan: 229 pounds (-9, 3.78%)

Both of their picks look like they were pretty good.

Daphne: 244 pounds (-1, 0.41%, immune)
Chism: 318 pounds (-2, 0.63%)
Emily: 230 pounds (-5, 2.13%)
Chris: 211 pounds (-4, 1.86%)
Cassandra: 200 pounds (-6, 2.91%)
Jeremy: 338 pounds (-9, 2.59%)
Black Total: 1541 pounds (-27, 1.72%)

Darian: 334 pounds (-2, 0.60%, immune)
Kim: 215 pounds (-5, 2.27%)
Kimmy: 193 pounds (-4, 2.03%)
Roy: 268 pounds (-4, 1.47%)
Mark: 251 pounds (-4, 1.57%)
Buddy: 345 pounds (-8, 2.27%)
Conda: 263 pounds (-2, 0.75%)
Red Total: 1869 pounds (-29, 1.53%)

In hindsight, their Megan pick was spot on, not surprising after she lost 2 pounds last week. However, the Nancy pick was not the best, as 4 people lost a lower percentage of weight. If they had sat out Adrian instead of Nancy, red team would have won, but there’s no way anybody could have predicted that result.

Despite the low numbers, the black team manages to pull out the win. Brother and sister land with a thud, both saying there’s too much food in the house, but it’s moot since they are immune. As the person with the highest percentage of weight loss on the losing team, Kim is safe.

Mark takes the opportunity to point out that Adrian’s weight loss is suspicious and that he thinks he’s playing the game. Is this really the best time to discuss this? You can’t vote for him. I’m not so sure I buy into the game playing theory anyway. We’ve seen people gain 17 pounds in a week before. In this scenario, you gain weight, you lose immunity, and you go home. Too much of a risk for me, though certainly plausible.

Can we finally get rid of Conda?

Votes
Kimmy: Nancy
Nancy: Mark
Mark: Nancy
Adrian: Mark
Buddy: Nancy
Kim: Nancy
Conda: Nancy

Putzes.

With 5 votes, Nancy is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 217, Nancy is down to 178 pounds today. Her very large family greets her, including some of her 13 children and 55 grandchildren.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Black team dominated face off week in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 3, sending Lauren packing.

This week’s excuse is not having a gym. For the team that loses this challenge, they will not have access to the gym this week.

They will have to answer a series of questions. For each one they get right, they can go through the door. For each one they get wrong, they’ll have to climb through an obstacle. Buddy is at home expecting the birth of his child. Gail will also sit out for the black team. This marks Nancy’s first challenge.

Which common vegetable is a very good source of vitamin C? Cauliflower or carrots.
Cauliflower. The incorrect answer leads the black team through the mud pit.

If you are using a tablespoon of oil to cook with, which is the worst for you? Peanut oil or vegetable oil.
Vegetable oil. Black team again heads into the mud.

What food builds the most muscle? Chicken or fish.
Fish. Both teams end up in the mud.

Which contains the most antioxidants? Pinto beans or blackberries.
Pinto beans. Again both teams are wrong.

Which of these foods contain the most protein? 4 hard boiled eggs or 1 cup of 1% lowfat cottage cheese.
Cottage cheese. Both teams are wrong for the third time.

Having turned in a less than stellar performance, the red team still wins the challenge over the black team, which got every question wrong.

Chris has decided she doesn’t want to be here any more, and she locks herself in the bathroom. Not another one. For the time being, Bob is able to talk some sense into her.

Without access to a gym, Bob’s going to have to get creative so his team can get their workouts. They head outdoors and tell us how cold it is. In California.

Nancy has a question for Dolvett. Have you ever given birth? His frustration with her is just the start. Conda hates him. Like she hates everybody else. She serves as nothing but a distraction, which is why I don’t understand their logic for keeping her last week. He shows her the door. As for Bob, he continues to struggle with Gail.

Apparently it’s going to take an hour and a half to tell us that the state of the union is as bad as it was last year, so we’re greeted by a very prompt end to tonight’s show, with the weigh in starting at the 35 minute mark. Buddy returns in time to hit the scales.

Emily: 235 pounds (-9, 3.69%)
Chism: 320 pounds (-12, 3.61%)
Cassandra: 206 pounds (-6, 2.83%)
Jeremy: 347 pounds (-11, 3.07%)
Gail: 297 pounds (-5, 1.66%)
Chris: 215 pounds (-7, 3.15%)
Megan: 238 pounds (-2, 0.83%)
Black Total: 1858 pounds (-52, 2.72%)

Buddy: 353 pounds (-10, 2.75%)
Roy: 272 pounds (-6, 2.16%)
Kimmy: 197 pounds (-6, 2.96%)
Mark: 255 pounds (-11, 4.14%)
Kim: 220 pounds (-10, 4.35%)
Nancy: 200 pounds (-5, 2.44%)
Conda: 265 pounds (-10, 3.64%)
Red Total: 1762 pounds (-58, 3.19%)

Lack of access to the gym leads to Bob’s team losing. As The Biggest Loser for her team this week, Emily is safe. It’s a battle between the person who seems the least dedicated versus the person who threatened to quit.

Votes
Megan: Gail
Chism: Chris
Cassandra: Gail
Jeremy: Chris
Chris: Gail
Gail: Chris
Emily: Gail

With 4 votes, Gail is not The Biggest Loser, joining her daughter Lauren after last week’s elimination. Upon her return home, she ends up with tendinitis in her hip, but that just means she’ll have to spend more time in the pool. Her goal is just to hear Bob say “You did it.”

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 5, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

In between the political coverage and following a stupid bet by his team and much whining from Conda, Mike found himself on the losing end of the vote in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 2.

They are greeted by the smell of Chinese food. There are 41,000 Chinese restaurants in the US, more than McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger King combined.

This week, each member of the red team will face off against one member of the black team. In that face off, the winner earns a point for their team at the weigh in. The prize at temptation is a 2 pound advantage. If nobody eats or if they eat the same amount, they will automatically be matched up against their loved ones.

After the other team leaves the room, they are given 5 minutes to discuss and eat what they want. In spite of that warning, the red team refuses to eat anything, even a 30 calorie fortune cookie. Unlike the red team, in which only Roy supported the concept of eating something that could be burned off in a minute or two, most of the black team seems to support at least eating the lowest calorie food item. A debate ensues. Cassandra eats one, and she eats a whole other one as well, giving her control for just 60 calories. She can keep the two pounds for herself or split it amongst her team, and she will also choose the matches.

Roy (6.21% lost) vs. Emily (5.30% lost)
Jeremy (5.14% lost) vs. Lauren (5.28% lost)
Joe (6.44% lost) vs. Nancy (4.61% lost)
Chism (5.54% lost) vs. Kim (6.35% lost)
Mark (5.84% lost) vs. Chris (5.83% lost)
Megan (4.25% lost) vs. Buddy (7.69% lost)
Gail (4.35% lost) vs. Kimmy (5.94% lost)
Conda (5.44% lost) vs. Cassandra (7.95% lost)

Joe packs his bags and says he’s quitting. Two whole weeks is apparently enough for him. In the season that’s supposed to be about no excuses, missing your family seems like one of the more convenient ones that could be used. At the end of the day, he should still benefit from his time on the ranch, but he obviously hasn’t learned what he went there to learn. For his team, this is the worst possible week in which he could leave, as they are depending on individual efforts now more than ever.

Gail continues to test Bob’s patience in the gym. Cassandra finds herself struggling as well, but she pushes through it and has a breakthrough.

The trainers pit the competing contestants against each other in various exercises. Emily beats Roy. Cassandra beats Conda, who has an excuse that it must be because Cassandra’s a cheater. Cassandra feels like kicking her ass. Who doesn’t?

The challenge is to get to the prize in the center of some ice, which they must melt with water they pump and then pass along the course by dumping it from each teammate’s bucket into the next. Nancy sits out for the red team. Megan says she lives on a farm doing chores like this. Apparently not. With her unable to get any water to the rest of the team, Bob swaps her out with Chris, and the water finally starts moving. On the other end of the course, Kimmy is afraid of heights, a ladder. Black team is closing the gap, but the red team retains their lead to win the challenge. The prize is a video chat with their families. Mark, Lauren, and Roy opt to give their prizes to their loved ones. Buddy gives his to Mark.

With two weeks down and two to go, Bob surprises the aqua team with a visit and a workout. Unlike Joe, they seem to really want to be on the ranch.

In order to get Conda to shut up, Dolvett arranged a rematch between her and Cassandra. She still isn’t shutting up, but hopefully she will (albeit ever so briefly) when she loses again.

Because Joe quit, his team forfeits his point, one of the ones they were originally most likely to win. Cassandra gives 1 pound to Megan and 1 pound to Gail, both of whom were pretty heavily outmatched based on the performances so far.

Nancy: 205 pounds (-2, 0.97%)
1-0 red team

Megan: 239 pounds (-8, -1, 3.63%)
Buddy: 363 pounds (-9, 2.42%)
1-1 tie

Gail: 302 pounds (-6, -1, 2.27%)
Kimmy: 203 pounds (-3, 1.46%)
2-1 black team

Jeremy: 358 pounds (-11, 2.98%)
Lauren: 230 pounds (-3, 1.29%)
3-1 black team

Emily: 244 pounds (-6, 2.40%)
Roy: 278 pounds (-9, 3.14%)
3-2 black team

Chris: 222 pounds (-4, 1.77%)
Mark: 266 pounds (-8, 2.92%)
3-3 tie

Chism: 332 pounds (-9, 2.64%)
Kim: 230 pounds (-6, 2.54%)
4-3 black team

Cassandra: 212 pounds (-8, 3.64%)
Conda: 275 pounds (-3, 1.08%)
5-3 black team

This puts Cassandra at the top of the leaderboard for the season thus far. Having won 5 out of 7 face offs, the black team wins the weigh in. Conda picks a fight with Dolvett because he doesn’t believe she’s doing her homework, and the scale suggests he’s right. Now she’s pissed off at him, too. Clearly somebody has an attitude problem if she’s going to keep getting into it with everybody. She’ll need to get over herself before she can improve herself. In the meantime, can she be sent home now? Please?

Votes
Nancy: Kim
Kim: Nancy
Lauren: Nancy
Conda: Lauren
Buddy: Lauren
Mark: Lauren
Roy: Nancy
Kimmy: Lauren

With 4 votes, Lauren is not The Biggest Loser. Since she came to the ranch, Lauren has lost 53 pounds, and she ran a half marathon in under 3 hours. Her goal is to his 130 pounds by the finale, which would give her a decent shot at the at home prize, and seems entirely achieveable.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 4, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

In The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 1, one of the heaviest contestants, Ben, decided he’d had enough and asked to be sent home. At the start of the show, Adrian and Daphne were also eliminated and not allowed in the house for at least a month.

The player with the highest percentage of weight loss of the winning team will be able to give immunity to one person on the losing team, pretty much guaranteeing they will be able to keep the person they came into the house with safe.

Kim & Kimmy and Emily & Joe volunteer to be the leaders. They are given the opportunity to win a 5 pound advantage with their bids. They also have the opportunity to give the other team a 5 pound advantage if they win the bid but fail to achieve the results. Alison reminds them that they lost 3.64% and 3.98% last week. With that in mind, Kim & Kimmy bid 3.8% (94 pounds) with their first bid. Black team does not bid. In seasons past, the average weight loss in week 2 is 2%. Everybody thinks the Kims are crazy, but they’re proud of what they just did.

Dr. H shows up to talk to the brothers, but then we’re interrupted for breaking news, for the 0 people who didn’t see it coming. Mitt Romney won New Hampshire. At least he won early and they didn’t preempt the results, for a speech that was still being written.

When we return, it’s time for a challenge. Every member of the winning team will get The Biggest Loser Meal Plan every day for 6 months. They will work to turn the anchor wheel and pull in the puzzle pieces, then solve the puzzle. Nancy offers to sit out for the red team. Her role is that of an annoying cheerleader. Both teams end up neck and neck at the end, racing to hoist their puzzles. In a photo finish, black team wins the challenge.

Dolvett seems to have learned from the master. Bob is not happy that his routine has been stolen to be used against him.

During the challenge, when they had about half a dozen pieces, Gail opted to take a break and pretend she was working on the puzzle. That didn’t get her very far. Now they head outside, and she decides to take a rest and sit on a tire. This will get her even less far.

Dolvett doesn’t think Mike is 150% dedicated, which would be kind of impossible. Mike’s alone in the house. Even his half brother just hangs out with the black team all the time.

Kim: 236 pounds (-3, 1.26%)
Kimmy: 206 pounds (-4, 1.90%)
Roy: 287 pounds (-5, 1.71%)
Lauren: 233 pounds (-4, 1.69%)
Nancy: 207 pounds (-5, 2.36%)
Conda: 278 pounds (-7, 2.46%)
Mike: 338 pounds (-7, 2.03%)
Mark: 274 pounds (-8, 2.84%)
Buddy: 372 pounds (-9, 2.36%)
Red Total: 2431 pounds (-52, 2.09%)

2% would have been a risky wager, but it would have been a reasonable risk. 3.8% was just dumb. Black team gets a 5 pound advantage as a result.

Gail: 308 pounds (-5, 1.60%)
Megan: 248 pounds (-4, 1.59%)
Cassandra: 220 pounds (-5, 2.22%)
Emily: 250 pounds (-4, 1.57%)
Chris: 226 pounds (-6, 2.59%)
Joe: 334 pounds (-8, 2.34%)
Jeremy: 369 pounds (-7, 1.86%)
Chism: 341 pounds (-8, 2.29%)
Black Total: 2296 pounds (-47, -5, 2.22%)

Thanks to the 5 pound advantage, the black team wins the weigh in. As The Biggest Loser on his team, Mark is safe. With the highest percentage of weight loss on her team, Chris also gives Roy immunity.

Kim lost the least and was part of the gamble that cost them the weigh in, so she would be a logical choice to get rid of. However, Conda hates Mike for no good reason and wants to make this personal. His lack of effort at last chance training is all the ammo the rest of the team needs.

Votes
Kim: Mike
Roy: Mike
Mike: Conda
Conda: Mike
Nancy: Mike
Kimmy: Mike

With 5 votes, Mike is not The Biggest Loser. Hopefully Conda will shut the hell up now. From his starting weight of 358 pounds, Mike is now down to 302 pounds but is still struggling to stop smoking.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

A new year brings us a new season of TV, at least for The Biggest Loser. Bob and Dolvett return to train pairs of family members who will be split up into opposite teams.

The pink team of Emily and Kim are the lone pair of strangers. One thing they have in common is that they are both former athletes.

One of the guys says he has 9 children. He is promptly topped by someone with 13 children. They say they don’t have time to lose weight. Uh huh.

Alison greets them with a challenge. The team that comes in last won’t make it through those gates. One member from each team will run a 40 yard dash, in which the first four teams will automatically advance into the ranch. Blue (brothers Mike Messina & Joe Messina), orange (grandmother and granddaughter Cassandra Sturos & Nancy Rajala), yellow (mother and daughter Gail Lee & Lauren Lee), and brown (brothers Ben Shuh & Allen “Buddy” Shuh) teams place in the top spots. The six people who did not participate in the first round will also compete in a 40 yard dash, complete with a puzzle in the center of the course, which will even up the odds and make it not completely physical. The first four teams will again advance. Grey (Issac “Chism” Cornelison & Mark Cornelison), red (husband and wife Roy Pickler & Christine Pickler), purple (Kim Stone & Megan Stone), and green (brother and sister Conda Britt & Jeremy Britt) are safe.

That brings us to a sudden death battle between pink team (strangers Emily Joy & Kim Neilson) and aqua team (brother and sister Adrian Dortch & Daphne Dortch). Each team has a platform. The last team standing wins. No more of those few seconds or few minutes battles. This is a test of wills that could go on for some time, or so you would think. As soon as they step up, their legs are all shaking. In the end, Daphne steps forward, eliminating the aqua team from the competition, and the pink team, which lost the last round in footrace, continues.

In one month, the aqua team will be allowed to come back into the game if they are able to lose 50 pounds as a team.

They are given two hours to work with both trainers, and after that they can pick who they want.

Bob makes an interesting observation. This season, relative to what we have seen lately, features perhaps the lightest cast. The only person over 400 pounds is Buddy at 403. Still, everybody is morbidly obese.

He gets his first crack at Roy, who looks like Santa, and collapses but recovers to let Bob know he’s on the nice list. Ben has a more serious problem, however, believing he is in Michigan training with somebody he doesn’t know.

Emily used to be an Olympic weightlifter. I’m not sure she’ll ever be thin, but that certainly shows she can be fit and dedicated. Her partner, Kim, was briefly a pro wrestler. During her wrestling days, she weighed 120 pounds and had 10% body fat.

Once they’re done training, the no partner twist is revealed. They can now choose which member of their team will train with Bob and which will train with Dolvett. Some of the teams have very clear opinions of who they want to train with, while some end up playing rock, paper, scissors.

Bob (black team): Jeremy, Emily, Joe, Chris, Cassandra, Buddy, Megan, Chism, Lauren
Dolvett (red team): Conda, Kim S, Mike, Roy, Nancy, Ben, Kim N, Mark, Gail

During last chance training, Dolvett says Bob’s team is over there killing it, while his team is the Bad News Bears.

Gail: 313 pounds (-9, 2.80%)
Chism: 349 pounds (-12, 3.32%)
Megan: 252 pounds (-7, 2.70%)
Chris: 232 pounds (-8, 3.33%)
Jeremy: 376 pounds (-13, 3.34%)
Joe: 342 pounds (-15, 4.20%)
Ben: 381 pounds (-15, 3.79%)
Emily: 254 pounds (-10, 3.79%)
Cassandra: 225 pounds (-14, 5.86%)
Black Total: 2724 pounds (-103, 3.64%)

During this weigh in, Conda reveals she can’t stand Mike because he’s cheering for Jeremy and apparently offends her by calling him Tank. She’s going to be a handful.

Roy: 292 pounds (-14, 4.58%)
Conda: 285 pounds (-9, 3.06%)
Mike: 345 pounds (-13, 3.63%)
Kimmy: 210 pounds (-9, 4.11%)
Lauren: 237 pounds (-9, 3.66%)
Mark: 282 pounds (-9, 3.09%)
Nancy: 212 pounds (-5, 2.30%)
Kim: 239 pounds (-13, 5.16%)
Buddy: 381 pounds (-22, 5.46%)
Red Total: 2483 pounds (-3.98%)

Bob’s team got off to a rough start, and they end up losing the weigh in after Dolvett’s last two team members put up big numbers. Megan says that, in all fairness, the person with the lowest weight loss should go home. That would be her, but she’s not ready. Ben offers to fall on the sword. After just one week, he’s missing his family too much and claims he has learned everything he needs to learn. He’s still the heaviest person on campus with probably the most health problems.

Everybody agrees to honor Ben’s wishes. With 5 votes, he is not The Biggest Loser. From his starting weight of 396 pounds, he is down 50 pounds to 346 pounds.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 2, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Ramon won the marathon in The Biggest Loser Season 12 Episode 12, putting him in the finals with John and Antone. Tonight one of them will be The Biggest Loser Season 12 winner.

We start off with a performance of the theme song. Yeah, so whatever happened to Proud? I’ve got that and Shannon Noll’s Lift on my iPod. This new song, Brand New Book by Train, is not nearly as catchy.

Tonight’s finale will only be 2 hours long. You know what that means, right? Not enough time to weigh in everybody. Only three people can weigh in for the $100,000 at home prize. The others will get a bit of time on stage before being sent into the audience after their weight is revealed.

Johnny: 231 pounds (-97, 29.57%)
Becky: 150 pounds (-88, 36.97%)
Jessica: 174 pounds (-80, 31.50%)

Vinny will be weighing in.

Bonnie: 177 pounds (-77, 30.31%)
Courtney: 183 pounds (-87, 32.22%)
Sunny: 171 pounds (-106, 38.27%)

Patrick joins the weigh in.

Debbie: 206 pounds (-33, 13.81%)
Mike: 223 pounds (-86, 27.83%)
Joe: 215 pounds (-133, 38.22%)

Jennifer is the last at home contestant to join the weigh in.

Patrick: 236 pounds (-151, 39.02%)
Jennifer: 185 pounds (-145, 43.94%)
Vinny: 242 pounds (-184, 43.19%)

Jennifer is The Biggest Loser at home winner of $100,000.

At the conclusion of last week, John had a 5.55% lead over Antone. Not insurmountable, but it’ll make it difficult for them to catch him. He will decide the order of the final weigh in.

Dr. H has some stats for the finalists. None of them have severe fatty hepatitis like the used to, and they shrunk their livers an average of 25%. Ramon and John have been cured of diabetes. Their average combined body fat is 15%, a finale record. Lastly, as a group, they added 54 years to their lives.

Ramon: 201 pounds (-154, 43.38%)
Antone: 245 pounds (-202, 45.19%)
John: 225 pounds (-220, 49.44%)

John Rhode is The Biggest Loser season 12 winner.

The Biggest Loser will be back again for season 13 in 3 weeks. Anna Kournikova will not be returning, having had her share of run ins with both the cast and crew. Dolvett, however, will be. Seems they have found their replacement for Jillian. Yawn. I guess he’s okay, but he’s no Bob or Jillian. They will be joined by… Santa Claus. He will be on the ranch with Mrs. Claus, as all the teams are paired up with their families. Minus the being paired up part. One member of each team will train with Bob, and the other member will train with Dolvett.

Now that A Michael Buble Christmas (wait, what?) is done, the final four return to compete. In an unusual show of voting based on popularity rather than taking out the potential threat this late in the game in The Biggest Loser Season 12 Episode 11, Sunny was eliminated.

Without enough time to fill in an entire episode, it looks like we’re in for a lot of filler tonight.

In addition to confronting his mom for letting his stepfather beat him, Vinny tops it off with a proposal to his girlfriend.

Unlike the others who are in the final four and are treating this like their jobs, Becky has gone back to the classroom and is working. Probably not the smartest way to win, but it has to happen eventually.

After some drawn out visits with the contestants at home, it’s time for the main event. The final four will all run a marathon. They will be joined by all the eliminated contestants. Whoever wins the marathon gets a ticket to the final three. In addition, there are cash prizes for the top 5 finishers. Bonnie sits out because she is having knee surgery next week.

Courtney starts off in the lead. Ramon and Jessica are together behind her. John is in fourth, and Patrick is behind him. Joe, Becky, Antone, and Sunny are running/walking together at the back. Jennifer, no longer on crutches, is in 10th. After about an hour and a half, Jessica’s stomach pain forces her to relinquish second place, and she tells Ramon to just keep going on his own. Courtney has been in the lead for 9 miles, but Ramon finally overtakes her.

15 miles go by, and the winds pick up significantly… in the middle of the desert with all the sand that entails. It’s no longer about running so much as hiding their faces. Awesome planning. Doesn’t look like it lasts long, though.

At the 18 mile mark, John catches Jessica. 20 miles down, and Dr. H pulls Vinny due to his leg pain. Joe meets the same fate about a mile later.

First: Ramon - 5:05:40 (wins $25,000 and a spot in the finale)
Second: Courtney - 5:09:01 (wins $10,000)
Third: John - 5:15:38 (wins $7,500)
Fourth: Jessica - 5:17:25 (wins $5,000)
Fifth: Patrick - 6:24:29 (wins $2,500)
Sixth: Sunny - 6:45:29
Seventh: Jennifer
Eighth: Antone - 7:15:29
Eighth (tie): Becky - 7:15:29
Tenth: Mike
Eleventh: Johnny
Twelfth: Debbie

The oldest contestants keep running throughout the night and keep it until they finish after about 10 hours.

At the weigh in, the original final four will now face the scales. Two people will be above the red line, while the other two will fall below and be eliminated.

Becky: 162 pounds (-10, 5.81%)
Vinny: 286 pounds (-28, 8.92%)
John: 267 pounds (-29, 9.80%)
Antone: 293 pounds (-30, 9.29%)

Having fallen below the red line, Becky and Vinny have been eliminated. That puts Antone and John in the finals with Ramon, as the testosterone level busts through the roof. As things stand currently, John has an edge, having lost 40%, but the others are doing well with Antone at 34.45% and Ramon at 32.86%.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 12 Episode 13, where we will find out who The Biggest Loser Season 13 winner is, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

For the second week in a row, the person who went home requested it, as Ramon was eliminated in The Biggest Loser Season 12 Episode 10.

Everybody suits up for the challenge wearing all the weight they used to weigh. As they dash to each station, they will be able to remove the weight they lost for each week. Reward is a 1 pound advantage. Antone takes off in the lead. As the person who was shedding the most pounds the fastest, John, who nobody wants to win, closes the gap with Antone and is on his heels before eventually passing him and overtaking the lead as they round the turn heading into week 7. They are neck and neck as they come around the final turn, and John extends his lead to win the challenge and the advantage. Sunny places third, followed by Becky and Vinny.

They’ve now made it to makeover week. In addition, they will receive $5,000 each plus Progresso Soup for a year.

They start off with a shopping trip through Beverly Hills. Vinny’s told to ditch the overalls. John has to add some color other than black or blue to his wardrobe. The ladies dress not like old women.

Then it’s off to the hair stylist for apparently their first haircuts in 3 months with the men getting shaved for a change.

Once made over, they round out their Hollywood experience with a walk on the red carpet.

No longer too big for her wedding ring, Becky is once again able to wear it.

After their makeovers are done, they head into the gyms for their final last chance workout. Win or lose, this is their last night there until the marathon.

Sunny: 201 pounds (-1, 0.50%) - Bob wants to know what she’s been doing this week
Antone: 334 pounds (-8, 2.42%)
John: 296 pounds (-9, -1, 3.28%)
Vinny: 314 pounds (-10, 3.09%)
Becky: 172 pounds (-5, 2.82%)

Antone and Sunny have fallen below the yellow line. After the week she had, Sunny should be the one going home, but Antone’s the bigger threat.

Votes
Becky: Sunny
John: Sunny

With 2 votes, Sunny is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 277 pounds, Sunny is down 96 pounds to 181 today.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 12 Episode 12, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.