Biggest Loser – Recap & Review – Season 11, Episode 12

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Biggest Loser
Season 11, Episode 12

Original Air Date: Mar 22, 2011

Anne – Associate Editor
anne@thetwocentscorp.com

Welcome to another week on the ranch! The morning after the elimination, everyone walks into the gym with the trainers and are disheartened to find Ali. It’s never good news when she’s in the gym. She informs them that they are breaking up into four teams – one for each trainer.

What does this mean for the team alliances? Don’t they realize there are only 14 people left?

They each will choose a free weight from a rack. They each have a different color underneath. Here’s how it cracks down:

Blue – Bob – Moses, Irene, Olivia
Red – Brett – Justin, Jen, Courtney
Green – Cara – Austin, Ken, Kaylee
Black – Jillian – Rulon, Hannah, ?

Ali lets Rulon and Hannah know that they have to choose one eliminated player back into the game for their team. They discuss it with Jillian and the consensus is either Jay or Arthur. I’m hoping for Arthur, but he has burned a lot of bridges. Their choice will be revealed at the challenge.

Each trainer takes their teams on a different adventure. Bob (who is now an honorary Tongan!) takes the blue team to a spin class at Crunch. He pushes Moses, who seems to struggle a bit. They all still do a great job.

Jillian invites Rulon and Hannah to her beach house for rest and recreation. Stress on the recreation! They have a great beach workout and then she sends Hannah on a run so that she can talk to Rulon about his history. She can’t understand how he went from the Olympics to the Biggest Loser. He just got comfortable in his retirement.

Brett takes the red team for a hike up the mountain. They pause at the top for meditation and reflection on their successes. Cara, of course, takes her team to a boxing gym, where for the first time ever, Austin gets in the ring and has an actual boxing match. It goes pretty well. Cara also focuses on Kaylee and her weight gain last week.

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At the challenge, it’s revealed that Jay will join the black team. Ha! No wonder he wasn’t “available” for an interview. He was back on the ranch! He has immunity this week and his weight won’t count for the black team. So far he’s lost 111 lbs!

For the challenge, each team has to hold up a weighted box that represents the weight they’ve lost. It’s hanging over a tank of water over a fire. If the box hits the tank and the fire gets doused, they’re out. Last team standing gets video chats with their families. All the parents still left really want the prize. Especially Moses, who has been very homesick and wanting to go home. Green is first out, followed by Black, then Blue. Red wins! But get this – Red gives their video chats to the blue team. Yay! I love it when they do stuff like that.

Last chance workouts are more of the same. Both Moses and Kaylee are wavering about wanting to go home. Kaylee really wants to start her journey at home. She thinks she’s learned enough at the ranch. She really wants to go.

During the video chat with his wife and younger daughter, Moses realizes that he has to stay in the game. They love him and miss him, but they want him to be the last man standing.

Weigh-in time! All the players will vote separately at elimination. The losing team will be left with two possible choices to vote off after the biggest loser on that team is determined. Here are the results:

Black
Jay – 7 (won’t count towards game)
Hannah – 4
Rulon – 5
Total = 9 – 1.76%

Blue
Moses – 3
Irene – 5
Olivia – 5
Total = 13 – 1.95%

Red
Jen – 4
Courtney – 3
Justin – 2
Total = 9 – 1.33%

Green
Kaylee – 0 (asked her team to throw it!)
Austin – 3
Ken – 7
Total = 10 – 1.39%

Drama! Apparently Ken didn’t do a good enough job at “throwing” the thing and now Kaylee can’t go home. Ali gets a little angry and announces that it’s not a prison. They can leave anytime they wish. Ali tells Kaylee that she can leave, but someone will still get voted off the red team. Moses talks to her and she decides to stay. But she’s not happy and feels bad for Red.

Jen is the team’s biggest loser, so it has to be Justin or Courtney. They give their speeches and both want to sacrifice themselves for the other. Justin says that Courtney isn’t ready to go home. Courtney says that Justin is everyone’s motivator. He rightly admits that perhaps it’s time for people to motivate themselves. It’s a tearful elimination and by a vote of 5 to 1, Justin gets sent home.

He’s lost 140 lbs. and has a new program called “Justin’s Call Out”. He gets people moving and keeps on them if he feels they are faltering. I wish he lived in my neighborhood!!

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