The Biggest Loser Recap / Review January 26 2010
The Biggest Loser episode that aired on January 26 2010 started off with scenes of the players walking in the ranch from last weeks vote. Mike was sad because his Mom was gone and then John asked him if he was going to step it up this week. John told America that it was going to be a tough week because everyone was going to watch him. Allison appeared and said for the first time ever during a pop challenge the winner would have immunity. There were 3 envelopes and to see what was in them they had to win the challenge. To win the challenge the players had to run the presidential mile, which was a loop around the ranch. Every lap they get a key-card and that key-card will either give them and “X” or a green check mark from a machine that looked like an ATM. The first one to get 3 checks would win. Pink, Red, Brown and Yellow were the first to get a check. Then The Pink Team had the 2nd check which put them ahead. Mike went 4 laps and did not have any checks and he was getting upset. The Pink Team then got a red “X” and the results started to pile up with no clear winner in sight. Stephanie went 9 laps and did not get any points. Mike made a strong comeback and got a 2nd point. On lap 7 The Pink Team got anotherred “X” and then the Red Team aslo got another “x” and it went on and on until the winner was revealed to be The Red Team, and they had immunity.
Allison then took the 3 large blue envelopes and in them there were things to be done to other players. The first card was “no access to gym” while the second card was “no elimination vote” and the 3rd card said 2 pound disadvantage. They had to give the cards to any players of their choice and it could all go to one team or 3 teams. The Red Team players said they did not like the burden, but it had to be done. The choices of the envelopes were to give John no access to the gym because he had a knee issue and he would use the pool. John said he was okay with that. They then went to Michael and said he would receive the card for “no elimination vote” because of the hurtful things said last week. They gave him the card to give his emotions a chance to recover. The third card which was a 2 pound DIS-advantage was given The Green Team. Miggy flipped out and would not allow them The Red Team to explain. Lance explained anyway and said that they gave The Green Team the 2 pound disadvantage because they had a great week last week and expected them to bounce back with good numbers this week. The Green Team was not happy. Miggy told America that if they had the power, they would have handed all 3 envelopes to The Red Team
The next scene the players were in the gym and Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels walked in and said “where’s Bob?” Melissa stated they had immunity once again and Jillian put her head in her hands in disgust. Lance explained why they gave out the cards the way they did. Miggy chimed in that the reason was not true because they did not have the good numbers. Bob said he had to talk to The Red Team about their weigh in and there was a flash back to the yelling at last weeks weigh in. Melissa told America that last week Bob attacked her and she would hold a grudge forever. Melissa said that she was being accused of being a liar and then Melissa said she was not a liar. Bob told America that he was 99% sure it was game play and then said that he had 1% doubt. Lance said that he lost respect that night Bob verbally attacked Melissa but now he had some respect for Bob since he came out and spoke to them. Bob told America that he was ready to move on and get going and that Jillian would have a harder time with this than he did.
The players went outside to exercise and Lance was separated from the workout because of his knee issue. Jillian then cornered Lance and said that Melissa was telling a lie. Lance resented it all and said his wife was not telling a lie. Lance said she was not a liar and then Jillian said she was and she knew she was. Lance then said he lost all respect for Jillian and then walked away and said he would have nothing to do with her and would not work with her. Jillian said “such is life” and walked away and the camera went to a commercial.
Jillian walked over to Bob Harper training the players outside and said to Bob loudly in front of everyone that Lance walked away and that Jillian knew Melissa was a liar. Jillian said it quite loud so all the players heard what was going on. Jillian said that The Red Team was Bob’s because they won’t work with her anymore. Bob had a look of horror on his face as he realized how Jillian was talking about Melissa so loudly. Jillian then said that she needed one person from each team to do boxing training. Bob told Melissa to go with Jillian and then grabbed her and shook her wishing her good luck. Melissa walked up to Jillian to box and then told Melissa that she was not welcome to train with her. Jillian said that she knew the science of weight loss. Jillian said that there was no way Melissa was telling the truth and thus “Melissa was a liar”. Jillian said that Melissa was a liar and that was that. Melissa pleaded that she was not telling a lie. Jillian said she was not refusing her help, she was just refusing to believe her. Jillian held her ground and said you can work with me and if you want or you can go with Bob. Jillian told America that she had no doubt that Melissa was telling a lie.
The next scene Lance and Melissa were in their bed talking about how to get past the issue. Melissa told Lance that they had to put all the stuff behind them and work with Jillian. There was then a commercial and after the commercial Jillian was in the kitchen and there was a commercial for another product. This was one of those TIVO proof commercials. After all of the commercials we were at a dock and there were ropes that went really high and Allison came out in a yellow hard hat. Allison told them they had to get in a cage and lift themselves up 120 feet in the air. The reward was a phone call home and also they could choose three other teams to call home also. The Green Team said thay had to win because they knew The Red Team would never pick them. They were in a cage that held each team. There was a pull up bar that had to be pulled down and that downward motion is what lifted the cage with the two players up a very short distance. All the players were struggling and all of them spoke of how much harder it was to do it than they thought it was going to be. Gray Team was winning with The Red Team close behind. It appeared as if the other teams already had given up swince they were so far behind. All of a sudden The Red Team kicked it into warp speed and almost won. The Gray Team won by about one second and the privilege to phone home. All of a sudden KOli started to cry because he was so happy to call home. They then chose who would be allowed to call home and they chose The Red Team and then Melissa broke out in tears because they were so happy. The second team was The Green Team and Miggy walked up to hug them and Migdalia said thanks, but was not emotional at all. The third team allowed to join in on the call home was John because he was by himself and he needed the contact with his family.
The show returned from the commercial break with the recap and then we saw all the players make their phone call home and the tears were flowing and the stories were tearful and it was just heart warning to hear the stories that were told. Sam spoke of how great it was to hear his father tell him he loved him in his adult life. John cried as he heard young child. John said he was their because of his family as his Dad died when he was 15 and he did not want to do that to his famishe wanted to go home. Lance and Melissa spoke to their two children and then we saw Miggy have a conversation with his family and said she may be home sooner than they thought. She told America once she heard his voice she wanted to go home. Migdalia then heard her families voice and she started to cry and told America he was a soldier adn he was deploying to Afghanistan and she would not get to see him before he goes. It was sad to see.
Bob then took the entire house to a Subway restaurant and the built in commercial and started to talk about a surprise last chance workout. Bob told them they had to run to the top of the hill. Mike said it was not a hill, it wasw a mountain. John was happy since he got to workout with everyone even though he was not allowed into the gym. Bob pushed yelled and chided from behind as the players were going up to ther top of the hill. Jillian was at the top of the hill and said it was not the end, but it was only the start. Bob told Jillian to “kill em” and the paces became faster as Jillian made all of the players lift, run and push wheelbarrows. Jillia told America she normally did not like the outdoors, but since she could torture people she liked it. The players were soaking wet with sweat and Koli had to push Sam up the hill in the wheelbarrow. Sam kept flipping out of the wheelbarrow and Jillian told them it was alright because it was impossible. Sam and Koli decided that they were going to do it and tried again and again until the made it to the top of the hilll in the wheelbarrow.
After the commercialthe weigh in began with Miggy whining about how the 2 pound disadvantage . Miggy told Allison that Melissa was all about game play from the start. John was told that since he was the only player on his team, if he was below the yellow line, he would just go home. The first team to weight in was the Red Team. The results from the weigh in were as follows:
Red Team: Melissa 214 /203 lost 11 pounds / Lance 324/ 318 lost 6 pounds. 17 pounds team total. 3.16%
White Team: Michael: 471 / 456 lost 15 pounds. 3.18%
Black Team: Andrea 272 / 267 lost 5 pounds. Darrell 361 / 351 lost 10 pounds. 15 pounds team total. 2.37%
Gray Team: Sam 334 /320 lost 14 pounds. Koli 353 / 341 lost 12 pounds. 26 pounds team total. 3.78%
Orange Team:Cheryl 203 / 197 lost 6 pounds. / Daris 301/ 295 lost 6 pounds. 12 pounds team total. 2.38%
Pink Team: Ashley 333 / 326 lost 7 pounds. / Sherry 190/ 186 lost 4 pounds. 11 pounds team total. 2.10%
Brown Team: John: 437 / 427 lost 10 pounds. 2.29%
Purple Team: Stephanie 236 / 230 lost 6 pounds. 2.54%
Green Team: Migdalia 237 / 233 lost 4 pounds. Miggy 212 / 211 lost 1 pound. 5 pounds team total. .67%
Once the Green Team walked off the scael Melissa from The Red Team said that the 2 pound disadvantage did not matter and then Migdalia told Melissa to “shut up”. Jillian put her head in her hands. It was a rough portion of the weigh in. Miggy told her daughter to not let them see you cry. Jillian then stressed out because of the way the mother told Migdalia to never show emotion. Jillian yelled at Bob that that was the problem. It was obvious that Miggy and Migdalia have anger issues wrapped up with the lack to show emotions.
When the time started to plead their case, Migdalia said “I want to go home, That’s it!” Melissa told the house that the drama of the house was coming from Miggy. The vote then started and it went as follows:
Red Team:Voted to send home Miggy
Orange Team: Voted to send home Migdalia
Pink Team:Voted to send home Migdalia
Purple Team:Stephanie voted to send home Migdalia
Gray Team: Voted to send home Miggy
Brown Team:John voted to send home Miggy
Black Team:Voted to send home Migdalia
The player voted off of The Biggest Loser on Jan 26 2010 and was sent home was Migdalia.
The Biggest Loser Transformation Moment started with Migdalia telling America that she was happy with herself. She said she did not leave a pat on the shoulder and told America the next time we saw her see would weigh 140 pounds. The next moment we saw her and she weighed 219 pounds. She told America how hard it was for her husband to be away while she was home. She was shown exercising and how she loved herself again and how she no longer was ashamed to see herself in the mirror. It ended with the caption that she plans on running a marathon with her husband.
The show then ended.
