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The Bachelor 12 Episode 5

Three more women were sent home in The Bachelor 12 episode 4: Holly, Ashlee, and Kelly.

This week, there are two one-on-one dates and a group date. They will be heading to Sun Valley, Idaho… in the snow (this is like how Greenland got its name).

When they arrive, a date box is dropped off for them after a bit of playing in the snow. The first one-on-one date is for Chelsea. They start off with a sleigh ride. He wants to find out whether there’s more than just being best friends with her. She tells him she has a phobia of hand holding. That can’t be good, particularly since he’s looking for more affection. She tells him that her romantic side is vulnerable and shy, but it’s there somewhere. She decides to make her own fantasy suite card, even though that doesn’t happen for a couple episodes.

Amanda, Robin, Marshana, and Shayne get the group date, meaning that Robin will be the only one left who has not yet been on a one-on-one date. Marshana’s happy to see Robin not get the date. They’ll be hitting the slopes. Matt loves skiing but typically does it in France. Two of the girls (Amanda and Marshana) have never been skiing before, though, which gives them an excuse to spend some time with him learning, even if it means that Marshana needs to focus more on standing upright and less on talking about their relationship. Shayne makes sure to bring her makeup with her while snowboarding. While they’re on the ground kissing, Robin comes up behind them and interrupts. She wants to know why she didn’t get the one-on-one date. His answer is that they already have a close connection. Amanda’s worried that they haven’t really spent much time together.

Noelle gets the second one-on-one date. Matt doesn’t feel he knows her well, unlike the others. They’re going ice skating. Neither of them know what they’re doing, but they’re still having fun. They get closer discussing their injuries in which reconstructive surgery was needed. She feels more comfortable letting her guard down around him now that she feels he’s giving her signals to do so.

Marshana says she’s seen how Matt lives. Robin comments that Marshana hasn’t actually seen how he lives, once again bringing up that she’s the one who’s spent time in Britain. This leads to Chelsea telling Marshana that she’s got a negative attitude. Then Marshana gets loud and repeats herself again and again and again. Matt should know this chick may well have a screw or two loose. Shayne jumps in to pull Marshana back and hopefully give her a tranquilizer.

Marshana tells Matt she didn’t have a good night the night before. Only she tells it calmly instead of like a raving lunatic. Her defense is that she had the right to defend herself because her character was being attacked. Chelsea barges in but doesn’t feel bad about Marshana not being able to talk about what she wants to, since she wasted too much time complaining about the other girls. His question to Chelsea is whether she’s actually up for this.

Roses
Shayne
Noelle
Chelsea
Amanda

Robin and Marshana will be heading home. Marshana’s over it and ready to go back to Brooklyn, but Robin is upset and shocked.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Bachelor 12 episode 6, which airs Monday at 10/9c on ABC.

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Jason Castro is in the group to Ryan Seacrest’s left.

David Cook starts a group to Ryan’s right.

Carly Smithson thinks Simon has been a bit hard on her this season. She joins Jason’s group.

Kristy Lee Cook is also not happy with Simon. She joins David’s group.

Syesha Mercado joins Jason and Carly’s group.

Brooke White joins David and Kristy.

That leaves David Archuleta. Seacrest, do we need to do this every year at the final 7?

David Archuleta is safe.

David Cook and Syesha Mercado are asked to switch groups. Now it’s David Archuleta’s turn to choose which group he thinks is safe. Yeah, this lame nonsense again. David sits down. Seacrest tells him which way to go. He still doesn’t budge, so they come join him. David Cook, Jason Castro, and Carly Smithson are also safe.

Syesha Mercado, Brooke White, and Kristy Lee Cook are in the bottom three.

Syesha is safe. Simon is unsurprised by the bottom two and says that Kristy’s time may finally be up. Brooke White is safe. Kristy Lee Cook has been eliminated.

Big Brother 9 Episode 29

With Adam’s veto win in Big Brother 9 Episode 28, Sheila’s plan fell in to place, as she was able to have an excuse for nominating Natalie. Now it’s just a question of whether the boys want to pick the person they can’t beat in the end or the person who’s a challenge threat.

Adam and Ryan want to call a house meeting and bring everything to the table. Ah yes, season 9, the season of unnecessarily getting everybody together in a group and arguing about things openly. Natalie’s not happy about this. Sheila’s freaking out as well. Because Natalie is dying her hair, they want to have the meeting in the bathroom. They go to the bathroom with her and confront her and bring the bible with them. She says her true loyalty is with the boys and that she would put Sheila up on the block if she wins HOH. Then she says that Sharon said she’s a big threat and that they can go ahead and send her home if they want. Sheila’s pissed off by this meeting because, somehow, she’s surprised that her plan to get Natalie out is turning out to make her look bad.

Adam tells Sheila he’s got a heart and wants to get rid of Natalie next week. This ends in a shouting match in which Adam calls Sheila a bitch.

Matt has one wish on his birthday. For James to be kicked out of the house. Josh and Chelsia are still as bitter as we remember them. Adam may have scored some points with the jury for not putting up James. James has a message for Chelsia. He was evicted because she was bitter and mean, and he was her residue. Even though she is the way she is, he still likes her, though.

Votes
Ryan-Natalie
Adam-Sharon

We have a tied vote. We know what Sheila’s going to do, but let her make the decision if that’s what she wants. No need for her to have clean hands. Sheila breaks the tie and votes to evict Natalie, pretending that she didn’t plan it all along and that instead it’s because of Natalie telling people where her loyalties were. Not sure this is the smartest decision by the boys, but they’re left with two completely hopeless competitors. Granted, in this game, all it takes is a bit of dumb luck, and anybody can become HOH.

Natalie’s not happy with anybody in the house now. Sheila manages to muster up some fake tears in her goodbye message, which may well get her somewhere.

The HOH competition is fact or fiction and is a series of questions about the house and the contestants. Ryan and Sharon get the first question right. Everybody gets the second question right, an obvious question about the toy in the guinea pig cage being just for decoration. Sharon knows Chelsia has not been escorted by security out of the jury house (surprisingly) and is right on the third question. Ryan and Sharon are correct on the fourth question. Everybody is correct on the fifth and sixth questions. Ryan gets the next question right, knowing there is one other preexisting relationship in the house. It comes down to a tiebreaker for Sharon and Ryan. Ryan is closest to the correct answer and wins HOH. Lucky for him Sharon appears to have misunderstood the question. Or she’s just really bad at math.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 30, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Episode 28

In Big Brother 9 Episode 27, Sheila managed to win the endurance HOH competition after Natalie quit based on a deal to keep herself and Ryan safe for the week. In Sheila’s mind, she never agreed to keep Natalie safe, though, just that she wouldn’t nominate her initially, so she plans to target Natalie in silence, putting up Sharon and Adam as pawns. Last time Natalie made a deal in an endurance competition, it bit her in the ass, as that was the week Matty was eliminated.

Sheila bashes Adam in front of the girls because she wants them to think she hates him. Granted, this isn’t entirely unusual for Sheila because she hates everybody in front of everybody else.

Everybody ensures Adam he’s not the target, but he has trouble believing them.

In the veto competition, players must use remotes to change the channel on 9 TV screens and solve a puzzle. Everybody has a good reason to win this one, though Sharon may be good to throw it and let them keep thinking she’s not a threat. Ryan tells us he took a long time because he’s mesmerized by how hot Jen looks. Sheila’s getting turned on because she is seeing Evel Dick’s body. So is the first statement worse because it’s a lame attempt at impressing a girl he’ll hate once he gets out and sees the footage, or is the second statement worse because it’s a revolting thought?

Ryan – 6:01
Sheila – 15:30
Adam – 3:20
Natalie – 12:09
Sharon – 4:56

Puzzle queen Natalie loses as Adam bails out Sheila following her pathetic effort at defending her strategy. Natalie is happy that Adam won rather than Sharon probably because she knows that if she goes up on the block against Adam, Sheila’s a threat to her in the event of a tie. Still, she knows she’s going up. Ryan continues to play both sides, and none of them are aware of it.

Sheila and Sharon don’t think Natalie’s very smart, which would explain why they’re terrified of her. Sheila decides she hates Natalie’s guts. Typical Sheila.

Natalie’s getting concerned to see Sharon and Sheila constantly together, and she knows that people may target her as a bigger threat (at this point in the game, I’m not seeing her as the bigger threat, but I could see why some might be confused and think otherwise).

It’s Sheila’s birthday, and they throw her a surprise party and sing For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow (because you have to pay Warner Chappell Music to sing Happy Birthday to You on TV, which is just plain ridiculous if you ask me). She gets a card from her mom, who she didn’t know was a huge fan of the show. Sheila says she’s the way she is because of her mother. Too easy.

Sharon tries to convince Adam that, despite the fact that she already has three votes locked up no question (two more than anybody else), she’ll lose in the end because everybody will remain loyal to their side. Ryan and Adam know this is BS but believe Natalie will be harder to get out of the game, though they know Natalie’s not well liked by the jury.

Sheila doesn’t think there’s even a choice to be made. She wants Natalie gone, and even though she wants to prove how tough she is and show Natalie she messed with the wrong person, she doesn’t want to deal with having to break a tie. She warns Adam to vote the way she wants, then she warns them if Natalie survives, she’ll be after all three of them (is there a fourth choice I’m missing?). Sheila thinks that taking out Natalie without breaking the tie will keep blood off her hands. Not content with Adam’s responses, she threatens to put up Ryan. The guys know they can do whatever they want once Natalie’s on the block.

Adam has used the power of veto on himself. As planned, Natalie has been nominated in Adam’s place. Natalie feels safe with the boys in power, but they don’t trust her any more than anybody else does.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 29, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

The Biggest Loser 5 Winner Ali Vincent – Got Milk?

The Biggest Loser 8 Winner
The Biggest Loser 7 Winner
The Biggest Loser 6 Winner
The Biggest Loser 4 Winner
The Biggest Loser 3 Winner

Following her victory last night in which Ali Vincent got the bragging rights as The Biggest Loser season 5 winner, to go along with being the first ever female Biggest Loser and the $250,000 check, Ali’s also getting some other perks.

As with prior seasons (like The Biggest Loser 3’s Erik), the winner of the show is also made part of the got milk? ad campaign with their milk moustache. Check out the ad below. You can definitely see how far Ali came during this season.

The Biggest Loser Couples Winner

The Biggest Loser 8 Winner
The Biggest Loser 7 Winner
The Biggest Loser 6 Winner
The Biggest Loser 4 Winner
The Biggest Loser 3 Winner

The Biggest Loser 5 was the season of couples, or at least it was for a few weeks anyway. In tonight’s live finale, we find out who the winner is. We already know that Ali Vincent and Kelly Fields make up two of the three finalists. The third will be chosen by America between Mark Kruger and Roger Shultz. Considering Ali’s performance thus far, she’s got the best shot any woman has ever had of winning this show, but both the guys would give her a run for her money.

America has chosen to bring Roger back into the game. Can’t say I’m surprised, but I’d argue that Mark should have been brought back. Of course, whichever of these two didn’t get chosen probably has the highest chance of winning the $100k, though I expect Bernie and Dan to challenge him for it.

Paul is ill and unable to be at the show tonight, but the others are all back.

Mark tells us he was a crybaby because he finally was able to embrace the emotional issues of why he got overweight to begin with.

Curtis wants to hit 238 pounds so that he can qualify for health insurance.

Jenni: 213 pounds (-54, 20.22%)
Lynn: 329 pounds (-80, 19.56%)
Mallory: 152 pounds (-65, 29.95%)
Curtis: 231 pounds (-150, 39.37%)
Amanda: 140 pounds (-64, 31.37%)
Neill: 229 pounds (-88, 27.76%)
Bette-Sue: 186 pounds (-75, 28.74%)
Jenn: 190 pounds (-64, 25.20%)
Maggie: 169 pounds (-70, 29.29%)
Jackie: 157 pounds (-89, 36.18%)
Dan: 174 pounds (-136, 43.87%)
Trent: 301 pounds (-135, 30.96%)
Bernie: 153 pounds (-130, 45.94%)
Brittany: 164 pounds (-57, 25.79%)
Jay: 190 pounds (-103, 35.15%)
Mark: 156 pounds (-129, 45.26%)

Bernie manages to inch out Mark and is the Biggest Loser 5 at-home winner, taking home the $100,000 prize.

That leaves us 43 minutes for three additional people to weigh in. They’ll be able to fill it without breaking a sweat.

America lost 1,129,347 pounds. This is one reason I hope to see this show continue for a long time. It’s good to see this kind of motivation on TV.

As the highest percentage weight loser on campus, Ali decides to allow Roger to go first, followed by Kelly, then herself.

Roger: 199 pounds (-164, 45.18%)
Kelly: 162 pounds (-109, 40.22%)
Ali: 122 pounds (-112, 47.86%)

And The Biggest Loser Couples winner is Ali Vincent, making her the first female Biggest Loser winner. This concludes a great story and lesson. Either give up and say “I can’t” like multiple women on this and prior seasons of this show, or push yourself to the limits and prove that if you set your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.

The Biggest Loser 6 was announced in February, and the NBC schedule has it slated as The Biggest Loser: Families.

Big Brother 9 Episode 27

James was finally evicted from the Big Brother house in Big Brother 9 episode 26, and we left off in the middle of an endurance competition for HOH.

As usual, 60 Minutes is running late, putting BB9 about 45 minutes behind schedule.

Sheila’s worried about not being able to trust Natalie, but no matter who wins, Sheila will probably be on the block. Ryan is also somewhat worried about Natalie. Sharon’s worried about everybody.

Not content with merely having people hang from a chain in glass boxes, BB starts sending smoke into the boxes. At 8 minutes, Sharon is out. Sheila’s pushing on because she needs to see something from home. At 56 minutes, Natalie tells Sheila she’s afraid she’s not safe, which is entirely true because neither of them trust her. Like the last endurance comeptition, Natalie just keeps talking. Ryan’s got blisters on his hands just before the two hour mark, not a good thing to have to recover from. Adam and Sharon go inside the house at 2 hours, 6 minutes. Natalie says they should all make a deal to put the other two up. Sheila agrees to put them up and if Sharon gets off the block, she’ll vote out Adam even in the event of a tie. Ryan drops at 2 hours, 47 minutes. Natalie just wants to know what Jesus would have done. She doesn’t want to drop because she’s not a quitter. Sharon advises her to drop, even though she’s not a quitter either (she quit at 8 minutes). After much debate, Natalie drops at 3 hours, and Sheila finally wins something rather than coming in last like usual.

Very risky deal to agree to. Natalie’s better off being able to participate in HOH next week… if she makes it that far.

Natalie and Ryan tell Adam about the deal.

Sheila reveals that Natalie’s her real target, and she’s convinced herself that she never agreed to not target Natalie this week. I’m not sure what point of this game would have made Natalie believe she could trust the deal. Keeping Sharon in the house is pretty stupid, though. Sharon has three jury votes locked. All it takes is four.

Sheila wants to see herself standing next to Adam at the end of the game.

Sharon and Adam are onboard to be nominated and then backdoor Natalie. Sheila tells us that there are a lot of people who don’t like Natalie, which to me further doesn’t make any sense because that makes her a great final two opponent.

Sheila goes to Ryan to ask for Adam’s removal if he wins POV. He agrees with her final three plan of himself, Adam, and Sheila.

Like Natalie, Ryan’s playing all sides (and doing it better than she is), except everybody’s too stupid to realize that’s been his game for weeks now.

Nominations
Natalie is safe.
Ryan is safe.

Adam and Sharon have been nominated for eviction.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 28, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

The Biggest Loser 5 Episode 15

The girls stayed strong in The Biggest Loser Couples Episode 14, so the guys were forced to choose one of their own, as the two brothers fell below the yellow line. At Jay’s request, they voted him out, bringing us down to the final four: Ali Vincent, Mark Kruger, Kelly Fields, and Roger Shultz.

Because the trainers are too busy working on The Biggest Loser Australia, the contestants won’t have trainers for their last week.

Rocco DiSpirito of The Restaurant is back. He spoke to their loved ones to find out what their favorite dishes are. Rather than having them continue to eat these meals that are bad for them or just simply avoiding them forever, he’s going to show them how to make healthy alternatives. By making substitutions like chickpea flour instead of white flour and brown rice instead of white rice, he cuts Roger’s dish down from 1700 to 385 calories, Kelly’s from 1300-1500 to 500, Ali’s from 1500 to 511, and Mark’s (ice cream no less) from 810 to 270.

Allison’s got some fat suits for them, which are precise replicas of what their bodies weighed when they first started. They’ll run to the end of the beach, shed the weight, grab a flag, and run to the top of the mountain. The winner will receive specially prepared food every day until the finale, along with $10,000. Mark gets off to an early lead as usual. Roger arrives at the shedding station just as Mark’s done taking his fat suit off. Ali’s right behind him, with Kelly in last. This is how the order stays, and Mark wins the final challenge.

Jillian and Bob are back for the final day and a pep talk. Allison warns them she’s got a special surprise for each of them. They get to see videos of themselves from when they started and their journey throughout the season.

It’s time for the weigh-in.

Roger: 219 pounds (-15, 6.41%), down 39.66% from his starting weight of 363 pounds
Mark: 169 pounds (-12, 6.63%), down 40.70% from his starting weight of 285 pounds
Ali: 135 pounds (-11, 7.53%), down 42.30% from her starting weight of 234 pounds
Kelly: 178 pounds (-13, 6.81%), down 34.31% from her starting weight of 271 pounds.

Huge numbers all around and a new record for Roger with 144 pounds lost on campus. Ali has also set a record, with 99 pounds lost on campus, and she’s also unquestionably kicking ass when it comes to percentages. Two boys end up below the yellow line again.

Roger assumes he’s going home, but as we knew, there’s a twist. The girls don’t have the power here. America will decide whether it’s Roger or Mark who go forward. I don’t like America having a vote like this, but there are a lot of ways this can be played. Is it based on who was the best competitor? Nicest guy? Most weight lost? Who will be the most threatening to Ali’s quest to become the first female Biggest Loser?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Biggest Loser: Couples episode 16, where we will find out who the winner is, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.