Well, the final three has been decided. Sam, Kirsten and Alison will face off at the finale.

But who will win? Vote now!

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Want my take on it?

Sam: The youngest of the three, Sam is also the only male of the remaining contestants. While neither factor guarantees a win, the two combined ought to provide a significant advantage to Sam. Excellent support from his family and friends will also contribute to Sam’s chances.
Working against Sam will be the temptation of returning to his “uni lifestyle”, which is what he credits with getting him in such a state to begin with.
Sam also has a question mark over his nutrition. Some contestants have said that Sam is not eating enough, plus Alison and Kirsten have been helping him with his meal preparation, assistance he will no longer receive at home.

My Prediction: First by a narrow margin. Sam won’t want to be the guy that lets a woman win. Coupled with his youth and being the only male left, he will be going home with the title.

Kirsten: In between Sam and Alison in age, Kirsten has earned her reputation as “The Enforcer.” Both Australian and American trainers have been impressed with Kirsten’s work ethic during training. Coupled with weightloss in line with the men in the competition, Kirsten has been considered a major threat for many weeks. With little at home to distract her, Kirsten will have little in the way of getting in the training she needs.
But she’s still female, and females always find it tougher to lose the weight than males. Enforcer or not, Kirsten has a very hard road ahead of her.

My prediction: Second, just behind Sam but ahead of Alison by a comfortable margin. Kirsten’s guts and determination will ensure it is a very close race, but ultimately it is unlikely to be enough.

Alison: The eldest of the group, Alison is the real dark horse in this race. In recent weeks her determination has grown as she has come to realise she might actually be a chance at winning. That determination will stand her in good stead at home. Also, having been looking after Sam’s nutrition, she clearly has her head screwed on right in that regard.
Unfortunately as the eldest in the group she will find it a little tougher, particularly tougher than ex-sportswoman Kirsten. A mother of three, she will also find there’s a lot of distractions in the real world as she returns to her regular life. She could choose to neglect her family obligations in favour of winning, but she is extremely unlikely to do so.

My prediction: Third, a couple of percent behind Kirsten. But be prepared for a surprise as stranger things have happened!

Who do I want to win? Alison. I still like Sam and would love to see him win, but a victory by Alison would be a great come-from-behind story, on top of being the first female Australian Biggest Loser. As a mother of three, she could also use the money more than either Sam or Kirsten.

Who do you think will win, and why? And who do you want to win?

Tonight on The Biggest Loser it’s time for the final weigh in and the final elimination before leaving The White House.

Can the Blue Team finish off the last remaining Red Team member or can Garry save himself from humiliation.

It’d sure make a nice change!

(And don’t forget to check out my Big Brother blog, if you’re into that kind of thing. It starts tomorrow night!)

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Just thought I would let fans of the Recap know that this year I’m going to try writing a Big Brother related blog.

There’s more details in the introductory post, for the curious, or you can just wait for the show to start and check it out then. Your choice!

The new blog’s name is “Big Bother”. You can find it at bigbrother.mythor.net

And now back to your regularly scheduled recappinating!

Tonight on The Biggest Loser Bryce, Garry, Kirsten and Sam must make their decision. Will one of them choose to leave the game with over $30,000 or will they all stand strong?

If you’ve already read the spoiler you know the answer to that question but shh, don’t spoil it for the rest of us!

Would you like to know if anyone succumbs? Read on…
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Well, Channel 10 have done it again! This time in spoilery poll form!

Want to know who’ll cash out tomorrow night? See after the break for the answer and a spoileriffic link!

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Tonight on The Biggest Loser is the last “The Walk” ever!

We hope. Common sense dictates that it won’t be back next year, but common sense is in short supply when it comes to the direction of The Biggest Loser.

In any event, Alison is the “lucky” contestant chosen to take The Walk today and it is once again going to involve money. Will she walk away with a suitcase full of it? Will she give a suitcase full to someone else and kick them out? Will a 5 minute decision be dragged out over the course of an hour?

Read on to find out…
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Tonight on The Biggest Loser it’s time for the last Temptation ever!

Who will succumb for the last time ever?
How many times will the word ever be used in the last Wednesday episode ever?

Read on to find out…
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Tonight on The Biggest Loser… wait, what episode is this?

SIXTY-NINE, DUDE! Awww yeah.

Ahem. Tonight on The Biggest Loser is Train the Trainers day and Dream Outfits day all rolled into one.
Can the contestants make Shannan or Michelle puke?

Read on to find out…
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With the season wrapping up I thought it was about time I actually wrote up the explanation for why it’s okay to be mean to the contestants on the show. I actually meant to write this a couple of weeks back but now the Finale has stealthily crept up on me and I’m almost out of time!

If you’ve been around some of the forums, the official one in particular, you are probably aware of the “Friends and Family of…” phenomenon. This is where the Friends and Family of a contestant will log onto a forum and strongly and/or viciously defend their friend from the various attacks forumgoers make.

This was best exemplified this season by the Friends and Family of Sheridan, known on the forums as “FAFOS” due to the alarming rate at which they sprang up.

Friends and Family will usually defend their loved one by telling us all that their beloved Fatty is not actually that mean, stupid, lazy or whatever they’ve been accused of. In real life, they’re actually kind, clever and just generally lovely. The forumgoers are told that they don’t know the real Fatty!

And they’re absolutely right. We don’t know the real person.

But they’ve also inadvertently given us a green light to continue being mean, precisely because we don’t know the real people.

What we see each night on television is just what the producers of the show want us to see. If they want us to think Alison is always the nicest, most caring, most considerate and generally lovely girl on set, then all the footage that supports that gets aired, while all the footage that might show her as a horrible, mean spirited and evil woman is conveniently left out.

So we’re not seeing the real Alison. What we are seeing is more like a caricature. We are seeing Biggest Loser Contestant Alison, a character in this reality soapie. If we were to say that Alison is horrible for not warmly welcoming Bryce and Michelle back, then it is Biggest Loser Contestant Alison we are criticising, not Real Life Alison.

A great example of this phenomenon from last season was Courtney. During the first half to two thirds of the season, Courtney was horrible. He was brattish, insolent, lazy, conniving and probably a lot of other very unkind words. But at some point during the show, either his personality turned the corner or the producers started giving him a kinder edit.

Which Courtney is the real one? Is it the horrible troll we saw for the first half of the season? Or the lovely, funny lad we saw in the last half?

If he’s actually the lovely, funny lad we saw in the last half of the season, does that make terrible people of those who criticised him during the first half?

I say no. We were reacting to what we saw of Courtney at the time.

That is the distinction, for me. Yes, I am mean to some of these people. I expect some of them do take it personally, though I expect my insults are at the low end of the spectrum, going by what I read on other sites! But if I could tell them just one thing, it would be that I am criticising the person I saw portrayed on my TV screen and that I am actually aware that that is not the sum total of their being.

Does that reasoning make sense to anyone but me? I certainly hope it does. :-)

It is believed that the finale of the show will air next Thursday night, 1st of May. The TV Guide doesn’t go quite that far into the future yet, but as there are no episodes next week after Sunday night, it seems likely to be the case!

I’ll put the rest of the schedule after the break, because there may be a few spoilers.

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