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Survivor: Borneo Episode 5

Having been a target since day one, Ramona was voted out in Survivor: Borneo Episode 4.

Greg has an ear infection, which isn’t helping the spirits of Pagong any.

Kelly is growing tired of Sean and Dirk, who are going out fishing but not catching anything. The rest of the tribe is considering their efforts useless as well. Dirk and Sean mostly just want to have fun and enjoy their life on the island. If Dirk stops having fun, he’ll vote himself out.

The reward challenge is weapons: blowgun, slingshot, and spear tossing. They’re given a day to practice and choose who they want to represent them, as only three people will participate. Reward is food. Any fruit they hit goes into a basket that goes into the next round. Jenna and Sean compete in the blowguns. Hatch and Gretchen compete with slingshots. Then Joel and Sue compete, and we finally find out what the goal of this competition is. Regardless of what happened in the prior rounds, whichever spear comes closest wins reward. Sue hits the target on her first attempt. Joel gets one ring closer. Sue’s second shot ties them. Joel hits the bullseye. Sue comes close, but Pagong wins reward. In addition to the fruit, they get a mystery box, which contains three live chickens, to be named Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

Richard Hatch is okay with the other team having chickens. He catches his first eel, which they’re hoping tastes like chicken. It doesn’t. The eel tastes terrible. Good to know.

Greg is slipping into a leadership position, quite by accident. He doesn’t want to be a leader. He just wants to play with Colleen from the looks of it, but they insist there is no romance.

Hatch’s fun for the day: piss off a deadly snake.

Tagi is worried about Dirk, who is losing weight quicker than the rest of the tribe.

Kelly and Sue have decided they hate Dirk and Sean less than they used to, not that it matters since the alliance controls the votes anyway. At least they’re trying now, even if their tapioca hunting efforts aren’t much more successful than their fish hunting efforts have been.

At the immunity challenge, one member from each tribe will rescue the other members from the water using outrigger canoes. Since Kelly is a whitewater rafting guide, she will row for Tagi. Since Gervase can’t swim very well, Pagong has no choice but to put him in the boat. Ultimately, they find out that it doesn’t matter because the people in the water are just waiting in life jackets and don’t have to do any what you would call swimming. Despiter her alleged training, Kelly is getting crushed. Pagong goes up 3-1. Then 6-2. As much of a crushing defeat as this was expected to be, it sure was. Just with the opposite anticipated result. Pagong wins immunity.

Jeff has noticed Dirk spending a lot of time alone. Hatch plays dumb about alliances.

Votes
Dirk
Sue
Rudy
Dirk
Dirk

With three votes, Dirk has been voted off the island. He thanks the lord for that because everything’s all part of his plan.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Borneo episode 6.

The Apprentice UK Series 5 Episode 10

Ben was finally fired in The Apprentice UK Series 5 Episode 9. As for Debra, she’s up to like 6 strikes but still isn’t out yet, perhaps in part due to her increased efforts to be a big fat liar.

They’re told to pack an overnight bag. Going to Manchester again? Nope, Peterborough, but this time they get to go on TV (while on a TV show). They will star on Britain’s second biggest TV shopping show.

Howard steps up to lead Ignite. As for Empire, they’ve spent an hour in the car but still don’t know who will be project manager. Yasmina and Debra both want the position. Debra reluctantly allows Yasmina to be the leader. Her concern is that Yasmina sucks just as bad as she does. She’d rather see James lead apparently.

Each candidate will take a turn presenting and directing, giving them an opportunity both in front of and behind the camera.

After what happened last week, Yasmina doesn’t want to be risky. She wants them to hunt for low priced items. Yasmina and James will work together, while Debra chooses her products alone.

Howard’s team is in the studio training. Lorraine’s trying to sell a Sat-Nav safety camera by telling people it’s a great way to get away with breaking the law and continue speeding. Okay, then, if she can’t talk about speeding, how about talking about getting into car wrecks? As for Kate, she’s struggling getting any words out. Then it’s Howard’s turn. He seems like a natural. Despite that and the comments from Lorraine how good Howard looks on camera (which displeases Kate), or perhaps because of it, he will be working with Lorraine, while Kate does the solo presentation. He doesn’t want Lorraine on her own.

Then it’s the other team’s turn to practice. They seem to have already made up their mind. Debra does the solo pitch, perhaps because she doesn’t play well with others, while James and Yasmina pitch together.

Sir Alan doesn’t want team members to sell their own choices, so whatever the other half of the team picked, they’re stuck with.

Lorraine and Howard will be selling Kate’s high ticket real leather jacket, which sells for £149.99, and a chip pan that sells for £139.99.

Debra will be selling products selected by James and Yasmina. They chose a £24.99 leaf grabber, which is their most expensive item. Additionally, they have a £9.99 polo pancho neck warmer, their team’s cheapest product. For their part, James and Yasmina will be selling a cut price remote controlled car that retails for £14.99. They also get a £17.99 three pack of hair clips. Unlike the other team, they are not taking any risks and instead are going for volume.

Kate will be selling £16.99 bejeweled dogs/cats and a £14.99 toy air guitar.

James and Yasmina go on first. Debra wants Yasmina to stop talking and for James to mention the price, which she has to request a few times. Then when they’re selling the hair clips, Yasmina says that it’s £9.99. So is it £9.99 or £17.99? After they repeat the incorrect price half a dozen times, somebody in the booth finally wakes up and realizes the mistake. When they get up to the production area, they’re told that their sales figures are not very good at about £400 so far.

Next up is Debra. Sir Alan’s unimpressed by their first product. Why is everything so cheap? Where is the high priced product to balance this out?

Howard is busy preparing for their pitch, while Lorraine plans to just wing it. They work well together, and Kate’s working well with them behind the scenes. Sir Alan is impressed with the choices. They’ve only gotta sell one of these to compete with 14 of the pancho things. Sir Alan’s concern is that they’re talking so much that they’re not in any hurry to provide a phone number.

Kate goes next. She’s got the low end products to balance out the higher end ones. The infrared air guitar gives her the chance to release her inner rock goddess, and the people in the studio love her.

Howard’s team supports him.

Sir Alan questions Howard and Lorraine about the amount of time they spent on explaining the frier, without spending enough time on the price and how it could be ordered. On the other side, he wasn’t overly impressed with the arts and crafts. With that said, he liked that they had a nice mix of product prices.

As for the other team, they had all cheap products. A cautious approach. Perhaps too cautious. Sir Alan says that James was stumbling a bit, but he does get feedback that his humor wasn’t lost on the audience.

Empire sold £1,541.88. Ignite sold £1,376.73. The cheap way beat the riskier strategy. The panchos sold pretty close to what a professional would have sold, and Debra gets kudos for her performance. Their reward is private flying with aerobatics.

The leather jacket sales were abysmal, while the frier was not sold well enough, although Sir Alan considered it a great product choice. Nick blames bad salesmanship for the loss. Considering what they’re viewing as the reason for the loss, it’s a safe bet that the person to be fired will be Howard or Lorraine, with Kate continuing to go through completely unscathed.

Lorraine and Howard blame each other. Kate can just sit back and watch the fight.

1 animal craft kit was sold. Howard and Lorraine chose that based on how easy it would be to demonstrate. Sir Alan had no clue what the product was. Howard didn’t really know either.

As for the toy air guitar, they sold less than 10% of what the channel would expect to sell. Kate didn’t feel the choices were the easiest products to sell. Speaking of toys, Lorraine really wanted a £229 dinosaur, but she didn’t really make an effort to get her point across. Howard wasn’t comfortable with the product anyway.

The leather jacket sold less than 5% of the projections. That and the frier are among the biggest sellers for the station. Howard didn’t like Lorraine’s lack of preparation for the presentation.

Sir Alan viewed Kate as a programmed robot and just to keep things interesting tries to make out like she’s actually in danger.

Kate blames Lorraine’s lack of understanding of the frier, which she had the night before but failed to bother getting to know.

Lorraine wants Howard fired, due to his lack of personality as a leader.

Sir Alan thinks Lorraine’s always one step behind in getting the plot. He’s concerned that Kate thinks she’s better than what she is. As for Howard, he’s concerned he’s risk averse.

Despite Lorraine being a “slow burner in the thought process,” Howard has been fired due to his unwillingness to take risks.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Apprentice UK Series 5 Episode 11.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 Episode 3

So You Think You Can Dance 5 Episode 2 was largely forgettable, but we did end up seeing Priscilla Marrero, Janette Manrara and Romulo Villaverde, Erik “Silky” Moore, Caitlin Kinney, and Evan and Ryan Kasprzak.

Adam Shankman will join Nigel and Mary in LA.

Bianca Revels was cut last year on the last day of Vegas (was everybody cut on the last day of Vegas last year?). She does a tap dancing routine that gets Mary up on her feet. She is heading back to Vegas.

Xavier and Brynelle Blanton are always going everywhere together and holding hands. People think they’re a couple, but they’re really just brother and sister. Kissing brother and sister? Xavier says that he’s fine if he doesn’t go further because it brought him and his sister closer together. I think they need some time apart. Brynelle, however, is disappointed because she’s been dancing on and off since she was 4.

Debra Lawson needs to get less revealing clothing and get dance lessons. Beyond that, she also has to make a decision whether her religion will let her dance or not because she supposedly can’t dance in front of men or on the sabbath. It’s really a moot point because the judges will pass.

Suzanne Fernandez does a fairy medicine dance. Whatever the hell that is. Next.

Calico Sequeira is a swinger. Nigel feels like she’s a member of a lindy hop club, but it’s entertaining. She will not be advancing, but Adam makes the mistake of volunteering to dance with her. He’s going to Vegas.

Asuka Kondoh and Ricky Sun dance international Latin ballroom, which they realize is unusual for Asians to be doing. Nigel says that Ricky holds his own really well, despite the fact that Asuka steals the limelight. Mary calls it breathtaking. Adam could not keep his eyes off Asuka. They’re both going to Vegas.

Nathan Trasoras quit dancing in eighth grade for a little while but then unquit it. Adam calls him pretty damn extraordinary. Mary seconds that. Nigel says he’s one of the best dancers they’ve had on the program. There’s a problem, though. He’s 17 and, therefore, ineligible. If he does not come back next year, Nigel and Mary will hunt him down. He will have to wait for fall to go to Vegas, but he has already been granted a ticket there for season 6, assuming he’s 18 by then. Considering this is a show with a public vote, this is not the wisest move. People will probably not remember this episode in 4 months. Granted, he’s a strong enough dancer that that’s probably a moot point.

Sammy Ramirez is a popper who’s having difficulty deciding what color he wants his hair to be. Adam just hopes he can do something else. Mary agrees and thought he was wonderful. He will go to choreography.

Stacey House is another one of those dancers who thinks she’s from the 80s. Adam asks if she has any training. What was she trained on a farm? Yes, yes she was.

Amanda Kerby hopes to bring her dad joy since he has multiple sclerosis. Nigel’s being grabbed by her beauty, rather than her dance. Mary says she’s got it going on. Adam says that she was disconnected from the song, but she was definitely dancing what she’s feeling, which is empowerment from seeing her father do what he does considering his condition. She’s going to Vegas.

Philip Chbeeb got pneumonia last year, so he couldn’t go to Vegas. He gets a golden ticket without auditioning.

However, this year, he has showed up with a partner, so he will dance anyway. He dances with Arielle Coker, whose mom taught them partnering from a wheelchair. Mary thought it was very good and clever. Adam calls her a beautiful dancer who made her partner a better dancer as well. She’s going to Vegas, too.

Kevin Cormier believes he’s Shakiro, like Shakira. Oh bloody hell. Nigel tells him that if he wants to be called a dancer, he’s got to do more than shake his hips. Nobody wants to see him shake anything else.

Sammy is going to Vegas. Diana Vaden and Alexi Agdeppa (from the going to choreography montage) also advance.

From sunny LA, they head to surprisingly rainy Seattle. Mia Michaels joins Nigel and Mary.

Christopher Keller does a mix between Argentine tango, east coast swing, and international tango. At least in his mind that’s what he’s doing anyway. His partner is not competing. She’s the sensible one.

Nick “Nasty” Salzman is an aspiring tattoo artist. So is he an aspiring dancer as well? He started strong but has difficulty with finishing prematurely. He’s not overly concerned whether he makes it through or not, and he tells Nigel that he’s there for the ladies instead. Nigel considers this disrespectful. Oh, somebody get this guy a binky. Poor executive producer got his feelings hurt. Mary comes to Nigel’s defense, pretending that she’s changed her mind from yes to no. As if.

Dmitrious Bistrevsky is 6’6″ and less confident after he videotaped himself dancing. The judges are worried he’ll hurt himself. Mary felt that he looked like he’s been dancing for three months, which he has.

The judges are getting fed up with Seattle and hope Kelsea Taylor will turn the tide. Nigel calls her zany and slightly crazy. He likes it. She will be going to choreography, where she advances to Vegas. She’s one of only four dancers from day one to go there.

Kuponohi’ipoi (you can’t just put a bunch of vowels in a hat when naming someone, and then add an apostrophe) Aweau leaves Mary on the fence. She liked his strong movements but not the very feminine elements. He goes to choreography.

David “Sex” Solher is back for his fourth year. Last year, Nigel begged him not to come back. Here’s an idea. Stop putting him on TV. This got old a long time ago. He won’t be dancing just yet.

Leonid Knyshov is pretty well just filling space in what’s looking like the most lackluster audition city ever. Once the judges are done trying to figure out what purpose this guy serves, they find a purpose. It’s not a good one. He will participate in a dance off against Sex. Double the pointless, half the fun. Strangely enough, with the commercial break leading up to the dance off, my local Fox station froze. I take this as a sign that they’re trying to protect me from having to see this trainwreck.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 Episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 Episode 2

So You Think You Can Dance 5 Episode 1 saved the best for last with the performances of Brandon Bryant and Natalie Reid, who were eliminated at the end of Vegas last season, closing out the night. Additionally, we saw Maksim Kapitannikov, Nobuya Nagahama, Annie Taylor, Igor Zabrodin, Chimezie Nwosu, Kayla Radomski, and Nigel’s homophobia.

Tonight we start off in Miami, where someone will hopefully tell Cat to not try speaking in Spanish any more. Tyce Diorio will be joining Mary and Nigel.

Tony Riendeau is apparently auditioning for an 80s movie. His dance style: Tony style. Nigel appreciates that he fell, picked himself up, dusted himself off, and continued making a fool of himself. Meanwhile, I’m wondering when this Tyce guy will stop talking because he’s starting to sound like a mean Paula Abdul. Still not content with the camera time he’s received thus far, Tony asks for a medic because he’s just that tired.

Priscilla Marrero says that dance is a big part of her culture. Nigel enjoyed every moment of it. Tyce feels so happy to be a dancer after that performance. She will be going to Vegas.

Janette Manrara and Romulo Villaverde danced together last year. Janette made it to Vegas where she was cut, while Romulo was cut immediately. They get a scream from Mary. Because he’s afraid of her, Nigel will be sending them both to Vegas.

Twins Jennifer and Jessica Guadix are hip hop dancers, or at least that’s what they think they are. Nigel says that they’ve never had synchronized dancing on the show before. Mary responds that they still haven’t.

Joseph Smith plans to shwam and/or shwizam the judges. He’s not entirely clear whether that’s a good thing or not, but either way he says it, it sounds stupid. Nigel loved the humor and footwork. Tyce was sort of half impressed. Joseph will be going to choreography, where he is sent through to Vegas.

Wislande Letang is looking to put the hoochie into hoochie mama. Tyce wants to watch but has to divert his eyes. Mary is not sure what she was doing on that stage. Nigel says that she was doing what little girls do when they start dancing. She wants them to teach her how to dance.

Erik “Silky” Moore is a tap dancer who already has a stupid nickname. He hopes to bring tap back because not a lot of people do it any more. Nigel liked that there was everything there but the kitchen sink. Mary calls him one of the best dancers of the day. He’s going to Vegas.

Paris Torres was Miss Washington. Nigel thought her dancing was fabulous. Mary agrees. Tyce, however, thinks she’s focusing too much on her legs and feet and leaving the performance behind. He wants to see her do choreography, but the other two vote her through to Vegas.

Geo Smith is hoping to join the party, feathers and all. Mary was entertained, despite having dug her fingers into Nigel when Geo jumped out into the audience. They will have him do the choreography.

Talia Rickards has not auditioned in two years since her husband of four years died in a motorcycle accident. Nigel is worried about her facial movements and didn’t feel there was enough there for him. Mary liked the potential, despite the lack of substance. Mary and Nigel will let her go to choreography, but Tyce doesn’t think it’s enough.

Geo is going to Vegas, and Talia will be joining him.

The next stop is Memphis. Lil C is the guest judge there.

Marico Flake, a police officer assigned to deal with people who are “having a good time,” does Memphis juking. Nigel enjoyed the style, which has been kept underground for 20 years. Lil C uses some of that in his routines and enjoyed the performance. He will be going to Vegas.

Dustin Dorough is wearing a bandana, which is a bad sign in itself. He says that his cousin is one of the Backstreet Boys. He should leave the dancing to his cousin. Nigel calls him delusional. That was not hip hop. In Dustin’s defense, he just got over the flu (presumably not swine) and bronchitis, and he couldn’t walk upstairs 5 days ago. Did he have hemorrhoids as well? Or perhaps a dead dog?

Chris Carrozzo is obviously here just to waste our time. It would be nice if this were at least funny or in some other way entertaining. Chris says he’s ready to go home before the judging is even halfway done. Good. Go away.

Caitlin Kinney is following in her sister Megan’s footsteps after she got a ticket to Vegas in Miami. She’s superb for 5 years of training and for someone who had hip reconstruction. She’s going to Vegas.

Anna Dunn’s father killed himself last year. She uses dancing as her outlet because she can’t really talk about it (except on national TV). Nigel says that she’s so overchoreographed and needs to calm it down. Mary loved everything except the constant head bouncing. Lil C wants her to connect with her pain. She advances to choreography.

Travis Prokop is from Texico, New Mexico, where his dad coaches high school football. He opted to dance instead, which his father supports. Nigel wants to see him strengthen up his body because he’s so big. Otherwise, he’s got potential. He will stick around for the choreography.

Ryan Kasprzak’s younger brother Evan Kasprzak made it to the last day of Vegas last year before being cut. The judges enjoyed his dancing but are concerned about his potential with other styles. Regardless, he’s obviously going back to Vegas.

Another set of twin sisters Lauren and Lydia Guerra are up next. Nigel thinks that, if the two of them were combined, they’d make a great dancer. One of them is powerful, while the other gives more performance. They will proceed to choreography.

Lastly, Evan’s brother Ryan Kasprzak does a tap dancing routine. When he’s not tapping, he does a bunch of other styles and also choreographed his brother’s routine. Nigel wants to see him do the choreography, but Lil C and Mary will send him to Vegas.

Lauren, the performing twin, will go to Vegas. Anna Dunn will also be going there. Travis has made it as well. Lydia, the more powerful of the two twins, will be joining her sister.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 Episode 3, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.

Survivor: Borneo Episode 4

Unable to organize the others against the ornery old Rudy, Stacey was voted out in Survivor: Borneo Episode 3. The good news for Tagi is that they’ve now got plenty of food with Richard Hatch having a new toy.

Back at camp, the tropical storm continues. Aside from the miserable conditions, Gretchen finally takes this as a sign that she’s right. BB’s insistence that the camp be on the beach has to be ditched once and for all, and she’s moving to the woods, with or without her tribe. They agree to move with her.

As for Greg, he couldn’t care less. He’ll do whatever she wants. First, he’ll have to make some phone calls on his coconut telephone.

Sean wants Sue to slow down for a little bit and to stop working. His version of slowing down: build a bowling alley on the beach.

The challenge is to build an SOS on the beach for a plane flying overhead. Whoever builds the best signal will win a crate of supplies. To add to their boxes, Jenna requests a spice rack, while Dirk wants a filet knife. Tagi can’t agree on anything, leading to a tribal split. Mostly, they’re against Sean and want to argue with him. Richard sees this as an opportunity to form some alliances and guarantee his long-term safety. Ramona continues to struggle with the island in general, as well as with her fellow castaways. She’s been given a second life on the island, but it doesn’t look like she wants it. Despite that, she says she’s starting to feel like she’s more part of the group as they begin the task. Tagi has written a message in the sand, and they’re wearing their yellow panchos while moving on the beach. Pagong has a smiley face and is waving their team flag. Tagi’s signal is more clear because they have moving bodies colorfully dressed, so they win reward. They receive pillows, hammocks, spices, and a knife to strap to Hatch’s thigh.

The alliances have begun. Sue, Richard, and Kelly are together. They would like to target the doctor. Rudy thinks that maybe at the end there could be alliances. Yeah, maybe sooner. He doesn’t believe in alliances anyway, so they’ll leave him out of the loop.

Gervase believes Ramona’s redeemed herself. Jenna believes that Ramona’s work ethic has changed, but her attitude has not yet gotten there and it’s too little too late anyway.

The immunity challenge is divided into separate responsibilities. The first leg is the swim, then a run across a floating bridge, then paddling, a sprint through the jungle, and lastly to dig for the buried treasure. Sean and Colleen take the first leg to swim out and grab the bottle underwater. Sean gets off to a strong early lead for Tagi. Greg and Kelly run across the bridge, joining Joel and Sue in their respective boats to paddle. It’s still Tagi’s race to lose. Dirk and Gervase run through the jungle, with Gervase seeming to take his time with it. Richard and Rudy dig for their team, while Jenna and Gretchen do their digging. Dirk is obviously the first to return from the jungle, and Richard and Rudy pull up their treasure chest. They built a lead on the swimming leg, which Pagong was unable to erase, and Tagi wins immunity.

Ramona’s the clear choice when they go to tribal council, but Colleen is worried that her challenge performance may be a problem.

Votes
Ramona
Jenna
Colleen
Colleen
Ramona
Ramona
Ramona

With 4 votes, Ramona has been voted off the island. As for the left field Jenna vote, that came from Greg, trying to protect his girlfriend Colleen.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Borneo episode 5.

The Bachelorette 5 Episode 2

Jillian Harris returned to get her pick of 25 30 men, of which she eliminated 10 in a matter of hours in The Bachelorette 5 Episode 1.

Reid was expecting to be in a mansion. Instead, he’s pretty much at camp. For those who get roses, they will be able to move out of the guest house and up to the mansion with Jillian.

Michael, Brian, Brad, Sasha, Tanner P, Wes, Ed, and Mathue will be going on the first group date for a pool party at her place. Her first bit of alone time is with Michael. She runs downstairs to grab the rose, and they assume he’s getting it. In reality, she’s wandering off and getting in a car. Chris comes by to tell them what’s up. Their task is to find her. The guys will team up to go look for her. One member of the winning team will get dinner with Jillian that night.

Wes and Brad hate each other already. Tanner and Michael are proving excessively loud. First, they must find car keys locked inside of a box. Frustrated with that task, they just break open the box. By looking at the map, which it takes some of them more time than others to figure out they need to do, they find out they’re going to Hollywood. They will first do a quick change and get into tuxes. Then they find notes in their pockets telling them to lay it all on the line. There’s an additional clue in the kitchen that leads them to a jewelry store. It’s not entirely clear who’s on what team or who’s in the lead because these guys pretty much all look the same to me for now, and the producers have apparently never watched an episode of The Amazing Race. From there, they have to put a spring in their step, heading to Spring St. Brad and Wes, who work the least like a team, manage to get there first in spite of each other. Now Jillian has to make a choice. She would like to have dinner with Wes, the guy who sang to her last week. Brad’s kicking himself for helping Wes get dinner with Jillian.

Wes tells her he’s just had a few girls and typically remains in relationships for a while. She’s not sure how much she buys this, especially since he’s out on the road so much. The guys who remain behind will now be able to start watching their date on TV, which includes the first kiss. Unsurprisingly, Wes gets the first rose. The other guys don’t get what she sees in him, though. Jillian says that she’s afraid that she falls for the semi-bad boys, and Wes probably falls into that category.

The individual date is for Jake. He packs his bag because if he doesn’t get a rose, he’s gone. Jillian wants to find out if he’s too conservative for her. First, they’re going to ditch his dress clothes, in favor of something more suitable for a barn dance. Jillian is having fun dressing and undressing and undressing him some more. They arrive at the bar, which they have all to themselves. She wants to do the Coyote Ugly bar dancing thing, with hopes that he can’t see up her dress. She’s surprised that he knows how to two step way better than she does. Jillian says that she could walk away from her life and start over because she knows Jake could take care of her. Would she get married out of this? Of course. Without waiting for her to finish her sentence, Jake takes this opportunity to kiss her. To end the night, they get a performance by Martina McBride. After the first dance, Jake receives the next rose.

The second group date is Jesse, Mark, David, Mike, Simon, Kiptyn, and Juan. That leaves Julien, Tanner F, Reid, and Robby out in the cold without dates for the week. Jillian says that she’s planned this date for the guys. The date card says they need to be ready to play ball, and since they all played sports in college, this competitiveness should be up their alley. Simon’s a soccer coach, though, so he has no concept of how to play basketball. The boys seem least worried about Juan, who they view as too intellectual. Not that it matters anyway because she’s going to match them up against the Harlem Globetrotters so they can lose humiliatingly. When the game’s over, the Globetrotters have voted for David. Knowing he’s been too quiet, Mike strips into his speedo to get Jillian’s attention, which she says melts her heart.

From the beach, they go to a hotel. David has decided he hates Juan’s guts and wants to tie him to a tree. Kiptyn says he’s never had his heart broken because he’s a heartbreaker, rather than the breakee. At this point, it looks like Jillian’s pretty much just kissing everybody. The final rose for the night goes to Mike because he jumped in the ocean with his speedo. Seems a little pointless.

Tanner P is still obsessed with feet. He’s still creepy, too. She thought it was nice when he did it the first night, but now it’s becoming an obsession. When Jillian asks who has the ugliest feet in the house, he responds Sasha. Yeah, he’s been checking out the guys’ feet, too.

Jesse says that he chose to go on The Bachelorette instead of going to Italy and learning the old school Italian wine business because Jillian was chosen.

Robby didn’t get a date and really hasn’t talked to Jillian much at all. So when he gets the chance to try to get to know her some, Wes, who already has a rose and is living with Jillian, comes to break them up. That’s not sitting well with the other guys, who don’t like him very much anyway.

Chris has a little surprise for the guys as a ballot box is brought out. They will each vote for the one man they want sent home. Is this guy actually going home, or is this just a way of causing animosity? Because Mike, Jake, and Wes have already received roses, they are excluded from the vote, which is lucky for Wes because he definitely had some votes coming his way. This enables him to continue being a jerk to the other guys while they’re voting.

While waiting for the results of the vote, Brian does a strip tease, and he doesn’t stop. If Mike gets a rose for being in his speedo, perhaps Brian will get a rose for getting butt naked.

The man receiving the third most votes was Julien, who we’ve seen for about two minutes total at most. With the second most votes is Dave. And in last place was Juan. Dave considers this good news, apparently with the fact that he received the second most votes being lost on him. Jillian will be able to save Juan if she wants by giving him a rose. She vetoes the decision and gives him a rose.

Roses
Wes (group date)
Jake (individual date)
Mike (group date)
Juan (result of the guys’ vote)
Jesse
David
Ed
Sasha
Mark
Michael
Tanner P
Kiptyn
Reid
Robby
Tanner F
Brad

The four guys who are eliminated are Julien (who never got a date), Brian, Mathue, and Simon. Brian thinks he’s probably going home because he stripped it off. Simon thinks he probably should have made more of an effort to get to know Jillian. Mathue calls this one of his hardest rejections (already?), but he realizes he may have been too reserved.

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Survivor: Borneo Episode 3

BB drove his tribe crazy for 6 days by bossing them around and telling them they didn’t do enough, leading to his demise in Survivor: Borneo Episode 2.

Over on Tagi, they’re still trying to get some fish. They’ve still got empty traps. When the girls go on a fish run, they complain about Rudy, who’s not contributing but is eating more than his share of food. Despite her complaints about Rudy, Sue plans to vote Stacey out, a point not lost on Stacey.

On their tapioca run, Greg, Gretchen, and Colleen stumble upon a mud volcano. Then they bring the rest of the tribe back to have a bonding experience.

Dirk is not afraid to share his preaching. That’s an easy way to alienate people. Sue’s had enough already.

Stacey thinks that Dirk has a little crush on Kelly, but that he doesn’t have a chance in hell, as if Kelly’s out of his league or something. All that aside, he’s heard she has a serious boyfriend, so he doesn’t plan on pursuing her. This leads to talk of how Dirk’s waiting until marriage, and how he doesn’t much care for Richard Hatch since he’s gay. He doesn’t like how Richard talks about his sexuality all the time, as if preaching to people all the time is any more socially acceptable.

When they get treemail, Hatch is thrilled to find out it’s an underwater challenge.

The reward challenge places a big emphasis on the tribe. They must swim under, grab a chest, and bring it back to the beach. Reward is fishing gear. They can’t dive under to get their chest until all members get out to the raft. Tagi gets off to an early lead. Pagong waits for Gervase to finally arrive, which he knew would happen because he’ll drag on any swimming challenge. Hatch and Dr. Sean take control on Tagi, and it’s not even close. For their reward, Tagi receives a fishing spear, mask, and snorkel.

Richard Hatch is the king now. He gets back and will be going fishing. Sean thinks he’s not going to catch anything, so he and Dirk go out with the superpole and a raft. They won’t have to waste their time on that much longer. Hatch returns with a ray. Sean is unimpressed. He gets another ray. Sean’s still unimpressed. Then he returns with a third. Okay, maybe they’ll eat them now.

Pagong’s worried that Tagi will catch fish now that they’ve got the gear, but they’re turning their attention back to rats. Greg has made a rat trap to catch them. Tastes almost like chicken. Ramona says they don’t eat the rats in the ghetto, but she’s willing to try now. They’re surprised by how good they taste.

The tribes will build a stretcher before they go to immunity. They have to carry their smallest member, but that’s the extent of what they know. Tagi has selected Kelly, while Pagong will go with Colleen. Not only does Pagong have a really light member, but they’ve got a good looking stretcher, one that they can rotate upside down without her falling off.

The two lightest people have been placed in the jungle. There’s been a plane wreck. They have to go rescue them from a tree and take them back to the beach, then to the first aid tent. Pagong takes the lead and is the first to rescue their member. They are also first to the beach. And they arrive at the first aid tent first. From the beginning of the challenge, Tagi was never even in this, and Pagong wins immunity.

Tagi doesn’t have a lot to think about. It’s either Rudy or Stacey, and most of them have made up their minds already. Hatch wanted to chat about it before leaving for tribal council, but nobody wanted to talk.

Tribal council is a brief one, as they get caught in the middle of the worst storm they’ve seen yet.

Votes
Stacey
Rudy
Stacey
Rudy
Stacey
Stacey

With 4 votes, Stacey has been eliminated. She knows Sue Hawk didn’t keep her word, but it doesn’t matter since Stacey’s game ends here.

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Survivor: Borneo Episode 2

After falling and costing her team the immunity challenge in Survivor: Borneo Episode 1, Sonja was the first person voted out of the game.

Stacey’s already talking about eating a rat. It’s day 4. There’s nothing in the fish traps, so those rats are looking better and better.

Stacey believes that Rudy voted for her, which she told Richard, the guy who actually voted for her.

BB continues to take control of Pagong, which they’re starting to appreciate to a point, but they’re still tired of him. He only notices people who work, which means he likes Gretchen, Greg, and Jenna.

The rest of the tribe knows Richard is gay. He hopes Rudy doesn’t because he can’t imagine he would take too kindly to it. Rudy has found out, although he doesn’t want to talk about it. He’s still a bigot, but he likes Richard nonetheless.

Ramona says that she’s finicky. They give her some papaya, but she knows she won’t be able to keep it down, so she doesn’t eat it. She’ll compensate by drinking more water. At some point, water’s not going to be enough. BB’s upset with her because she’s not working. He says he’s not trying to win a personality constest. That’s good.

Colleen and Greg are hanging out a lot. They say they’re just friends.

Gretchen and BB started arguing when they first got there about where the shelter should be. He got his way, and now they see that they’re close to being washed away. He agrees that maybe she was right, but he refuses to move it as high as she wants it to go.

Sean’s built himself a fishing pole, but he hasn’t caught anything with it. Sue tells him this is a stupid idea.

Pagong is ready to make some food. First thing BB does when he gets back, though, is to wash his clothes in their fresh food container. The sun’s going down, so they don’t have time to go get more water. This leads to a major blow out that’s been building up. BB believes he can do as he wants because he’s building the shelter. He hasn’t learned his lesson from this argument and will continue to do as he pleases.

BB wants to throw the immunity challenge. He’s not going to “quit” but rather is going to lose on purpose so he gets sent home. Sounds like quitting to me. Everybody else wants to win, but it’s obvious who they’ll vote out given the chance.

The immunity challenge is a gross eating challenge. The first person to refuse to eat something loses immunity for their tribe. They will be eating beetle larvae. After much freaking out from Gervase, he manages to eat it. Everybody else seems okay with those bugs. The tiebreaker round is to choose whoever from the other team they want. Pagong picks Stacey. Tagi picks Gervase. First person to finish two beetle larvae wins immunity. Stacey finishes first, and Tagi wins immunity.

That leaves Pagong with two choices: sick Ramona or bossy BB who wants to go home anyway. BB would also like to get rid of Joel, perhaps their strongest team member.

Votes
BB
Ramona
BB
Ramona
BB
BB
BB

With 5 votes, BB has been voted off the island. The tribe would have been better off to have lost Ramona, but BB isolated himself from the rest of the tribe, leading him to want to quit.

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