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So, I know I have already explained this to quite a few people, but I’ll just say it again here so everyone knows what happened.

Apparently some time on Sunday night, something went boom in the server room of my webhost. I believe it was a hard disk failure. As you might imagine, a lot of things break when you lose a hard disk!

Then due to a series of stuff ups, it took a lot longer to get my site operational again than it really should have.

The only excuse I can offer is… I’m not made of money and can’t afford a more reliable host. Sorry.

Hopefully this won’t happen again, but if you want to know what’s up with my site not working in the future? Yeah, it’s probably just my host being unreliable. Fremantle/Ch10 haven’t put a hit out on me or anything, it’s just the vagaries of that wonderful invention, TEH INTERWEBS!

Sunday’s recap is this one.

Monday’s recap is this one.

Tuesday’s recap is this one.

Please, wish my poor little site good luck. :-D

See the things you people miss by sleeping at reasonable hours? Shame on you all!

naughtydogs over on the official forums just made a post about tonight’s challenge and an editing blunder contained therein.

During the show it was made to appear as if Sean managed to get into the maze before anyone managed to make it back out. I said as much in the recap.

But that’s not entirely accurate. In fact, it’s not at all accurate!

Check this out:

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While it is a little small, it does indeed seem to be Sean limping along in the background of this shot where Sam is being congratulated by Shannan.

Whoops! :-)

Seen any more silly mistakes? Drop a comment in the slot!

So once again tonight we were treated to an “Instant Elimination” of a contestant through what amounted to a roll of the dice. Kirsten was selected to make this decision through luck of the draw, then she had to select which three would be able to be eliminated and finally had to choose among them which made the most sense to send home.

This, to me, is not what The Biggest Loser is supposed to be about. This sort of thing belongs on shows like Big Brother, where the whole thing is just a game and nobody’s future is riding on the success or failure of their time in the house.

The show is supposed to be about a bunch of regular folks trying to get their lives and their bodies back into shape and come out the other end a healthier, happier person. To unceremoniously dump someone for the sake of adding drama to the show is unnecessary. The show already has enough inbuilt drama with injuries, health scares, challenges, temptations and the regular eliminations.

And more importantly, I thought the public had spoken on the matter of “Instant Eliminations” last season – we don’t like them.

Was I wrong?

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Well, it hasn’t taken long and we’re already off and racing on the forum conspiracies front.

The funniest one so far has been the suggestion that there weren’t really 30 people in the running on the first day at all, it was some lesser number walking up the driveway and being picked over by Michelle and Shannan.

Just to lay this one to bed, I’m posting a couple more images to go along with the earlier one confirming 30 Fatties. You can find them after the break.

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Following on from the interview with Sam in the SMH yesterday, two other papers have interviews with their local participants. The Sunshine Coast Daily has John Morrall while the Central Western Daily has Michael Sandford.

Both articles are worth a read for different reasons. John’s reveals a little more about why he applied to be on the show, and like so many others before him it’s due to a recent health scare:

John, who has had heart problems and recently had a bit of a heart scare, said he was motivated by his wife and family to shed the kilos and improve his health.

“The fear on her face is a picture I will carry with me for the rest of my life,” he said.

The article goes on to say that his daughter is expecting a baby soon and he’d like to get his life in order. He was also recently spotted in Maroochydore looking “decidedly slimmer and tanned”. So it sounds like, inside the house or not, John’s on the right track.

The piece on Michael is interesting for another reason. I’m sure we’re all well aware that the show is edited down for time considerations, so while we only saw maybe a half hour in total of the contestants being put through their paces in last night’s show, they were actually exercising for two or more hours.

Many have been assuming that because we didn’t see anybody quit during this session that nobody did give up. Not so, says Michael:

“No matter what [the trainers] threw at me I did it. A lot of things I did would, and did, make a lot of people quit but I never did. I never quit once.”

So it seems like, at least according to him, some folks did give up at some points during the selection process. I expect the producers had good reason not to show this, perhaps saving the “breakdown” for one of the Commando’s sessions, to reinforce his toughness?

At any rate, it’s interesting to sort of peek behind the curtain like this from time to time.

The rest of the story is just about Michael wanting to get his confidence back and perhaps get back into his local first grade footy team, so he can play with his brothers again. With Shannan’s background in footy training, you have to figure that’s a match made in heaven!

To read the rest of the articles, click here for John’s story or click here for Michael’s.