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The Biggest Loser Season 7
RealityFreakWill:
YAAY for Dane to win immunity...I miss Blaine!
Anyhow...here's the specifics of numbers at the weigh-in....
TEAM STARTING WGT LAST WEEK THIS WEEK LBS LOST TOTAL LBS LOST %
BLACK
Dane 412 329 325 4 87 1.22
PURPLE
Kristin 360 301 289 12 71
Cathy 293 264 263 1 30 2.30
BLUE
Filipe 364 298 291 7 73
Sione 372 305 296 9 76 2.65
GREEN
Tara 294 229 222 7 72
Laura 285 249 241 8 44 3.14
YELLOW
Mandi 263 215 210 5 53
Aubrey 249 223 216 7 33 2.74
PINK
Helen 257 211 205 6 52
Shanon 283 241 238 3 45 1.99
BROWN
Ron 430 361 354 7 76
Michael 388 317 307 10 81 2.51
Pink team falls below the yellow line and at the elimination room the votes were revealed...
GREEN...voted out Shanon
BLUE.....voted out Shanon
BROWN..voted out Shanon
PURPLE..voted out Shanon
YELLOW & BLACK was not indicated as four votes were enough to send Shanon home
At to this date, Shanon has lost 85 pounds and currently weighs at 198!
RealityFreakWill:
From etonline.com
Did the Biggest Loser 'F' Up?
Did a contestant on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" sneak in an F-bomb on national broadcast television last night?
Reality TV has its share of potty mouths, but the FCC mandates that certain swearwords be bleeped before they make it to the air. However, on Tuesday night's episode of "The Biggest Loser," it seems like one got past the censors.
Former model Tara Costa was running up a hill where she had to choose one key from a wall of keys in order to win a challenge. While looking at the wall of keys, she said, "I don't f***ing know," and somehow the swearword made it on the air.
There is no word yet on whether the FCC will take steps to reprimand the show.
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/02/70898/index.html
Texan:
I think Shannon wanted to stay but she was doing what her mom wanted. You saw the look on her face. Plus soon it is going to come down to the game and not the pleads of please do this. Shoudl be interesting soon when it goes to an individual game.
RealityFreakWill:
From Reality TV World...
Shanon Thomas talks about her time on 'The Biggest Loser: Couples'
Similar to Blaine Cotter before her, Shanon Thomas told her fellow The Biggest Loser: Couples contestants that she wanted to be the Pink team member voted out of the competition after she and her mother finished last at the show's seventh elimination weigh-in.
However, the 29-year-old massage therapist from Centerline, MI admits that despite Cotter's experience one week earlier, she still was uncertain that her wish to go home would be granted.
"I actually had doubts in the back of my mind. I mean, I wasn't sure that they were going to listen to me," Thomas told Reality TV World during a media conference call the day after her elimination aired on NBC's Tuesday night broadcast of The Biggest Loser: Couples.
"[A lot] of them thought that I had to be there just as bad as [my mom Helen Phillips], and [they also wanted to keep me] with me being the younger Pink team member. I wasn't confident that they were going to go through with it. I really was unsure until that last [vote] plate was opened."
Thomas -- who arrived at The Biggest Loser: Couples ranch weighing 283 lbs and lost much of her weight when she spent 30 days working out at home as part of the season's initial twist -- added later that while her mother, a 47-year-old retired retail manager from Sterling Heights, MI, was more than willing to go home, that she saw no reason to break from a formula that had already proven to work.
"She's my mom so of course she wants what's best for me and would sacrifice anything for me. I just kept telling her why would we mess with this when I already went home and pulled great amounts of weight loss... and we're trying to get her off of those cigarettes for good for the rest of her life," Thomas told reporters.
Thomas also clarified the Tuesday night broadcast's comments in which she was shown saying that she was going to complete the episode's Pop Challenge competition at her own pace.
Although the broadcast made it appear as though Thomas made the comments at the beginning of the challenge, Thomas said she actually made them partway through after she began thinking about the upside to not winning the challenge and being forced to stay away from The Biggest Loser ranch's gym for the week.
"I did jog, and then I said to my mom probably on my fourth of fifth lap, I said 'I wouldn't mind getting out of the gym for a week," because me and my mom love to go up north, we love to go walking, we love to be outside," Thomas told Reality TV World. "My mom and I were climbing that mountain for fun every day and we loved getting out there... I [said] that because I would love to be outside for the week."
"But I got the key anyway, didn't I?" she added with a laugh.
However, Thomas also said that while winning the challenge and having the gym almost all to yourself would sound like an ideal situation in a weight-loss competition, she quickly grew to miss the camaraderie and motivation of the other contestants.
"In order to have an awesome gym you've gotta have people in there, because you feed off those people," Thomas told reporters. "It felt so empty in that gym without everybody."
Thomas said that the Pink team's prize of sharing the gym with only the Brown team for the week also got interrupted when some nearby wildfires kept the gym out of service to everyone for a couple of days.
"We weren't even allowed in the gym for two days! They didn't show that," Thomas told reporters. "It was a crazy, turned upside down week, but we got over it."
As far as the makeshift lounge she and her mother created on trainer Jillian Michaels' side of the gym, Thomas said the decision had been her mom's attempt at a "good laugh."
"It was after we had done all of our homework the night before, and my mom said 'Let's just do this, it'll be funny, it'll be cute,'" she told reporters.
Thomas added that although trainer Bob Harper had initially been somewhat taken aback by the lounge, he had grown to accept it by the end of the week.
"At first [Harper] was like 'What'd you girls do?' But then one morning he's like 'Well you girls got all those snacks over there, so go over there and get lunch... and then get back on the treadmill.' So it actually ended up coming in handy, our little lounge," she told reporters.
Thomas also told reporters that it had been her mother's idea that they audition for The Biggest Loser and she had made the suggestion while Thomas was cooking Easter dinner.
"I didn't even know there were auditions! It was Easter weekend and I was having Easter dinner and I called her because I bought the wrong ham -- how ironic right?" Thomas told reporters. "I heard all the noise in the background and [asked where she was] and she's like 'I'm at The Biggest Loser auditions, come down here."
After auditioning for last fall's The Biggest Loser: Families edition and failing to make the season's final casting, Thomas said they were subsequently approached to participate in the show's Couples edition instead.
Now at home and weighing 194 lbs., Thomas elaborated on last night's broadcast's post-elimination update video in which she said she's joined a local roller derby team.
"I love roller derby! I used to skate when I was younger and we started skating again and found out about the roller derby. I went on The Biggest Loser and then I came back and was like 'You know, this is perfect, this fits, I'm gonna keep going,'" Thomas told reporters. "It's a tough competitive sport and [all these girls] take it very, very seriously. We work out five-nights-a-week for two-to-three hours a night so it's definitely a great source of exercise for me."
Although she didn't comment on it directly, Thomas also seemed to touch on her January arrest in which she was charged with domestic violence for a December incident in which she allegedly threw flour in the face and eyes of a tenant.
"I just roll with the punches," Thomas told reporters. "Anything can happen to anybody at anytime and you just gotta try to handle everything as gracefully as you can and that's what we're doing."
Thomas also said that similar to Cotter, she isn't focusing her weight-loss goals on winning the $100,000 prize that one of the show's previously eliminated contestants will receive at the season finale's consolation weigh-in in May.
"This is about changing my life, and I feel like I've changed my life. If I win some at-home prize sweet, awesome, great," Thomas told Reality TV World. "I'm just keeping up, I'm making a life change and I wanna see what I can stick to, and I wanna be healthy and happy. That's what I'm focused on."
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/shanon-thomas-talks-about-her-time-on-the-biggest-loser-couples-8474.php
RealityFreakWill:
From The Deadbolt...
The Biggest Loser Couples stepped on the scales for its seventh episode and it was a tough call between Pink Team mother - daughter couple Helen and Shanon from Michigan on who should be the one to leave the Ranch. Not only was it a bit harder for the other players since the teams had to decide whether they should honor a request by 29-year old Shanon to be sent home so her mother could remain in the game for her own well-being, but it was also tough to keep Shanon because of her strength. When the final weigh in was over, Helen and Shanon fell below the yellow line despite having access to the gym for the entire week and it was Shanon who was sent packing. For the Pink Team, it was all about making peace with who was going to leave early.
The next morning we hopped on our weekly Biggest Loser phone scale for a conference call with latest evictee Shanon Thomas to find out how she felt about the keys, the challenges, her outlook on junk food after her time at the Ranch, and what surprised her most about her time on The Biggest Loser Couples.
THE DEADBOLT: You didn’t seem too concerned about winning the challenge and the key to the gym. Did it matter to you to win that key?
SHANON THOMAS: I mean, of course everybody wants to win the challenge and the key and stuff, but ... my mom and I love to be outside. And that mountain there, behind, that we were climbing is an awesome workout. I mean, some days we would spend two hours up there burning close to two-thousand calories. We love being outside. So my mom and I kind of looked at it like, "Do we want to win? Yes, we always want to win. Will we be fine without the key? Yeah, we will be because we love the outside."
THE DEADBOLT: How hard was the rowing challenge?
SHANON: Well, what they did was: We had to keep it above a certain point, like we had to keep it above ninety. And then they raised it, so you had to keep it above a hundred. It’s not miles per hour, but I’m not sure how exactly it works, the watts, or whatever it is. So if you dropped under there - and it was all hooked up to a computer system and the lights would turn - when you got to a certain point range, you know, the yellow, the green, and the red. But yeah, you definitely had to get into your groove. And they had some rowing instructors out there because some of us, like me, I’ve never rowed before. We didn’t have any rowing machines in the gym. So I was just like, "okay." But Dane, he was in the groove, man. He found the groove. Cathy was really in the groove there for awhile, too. But there was definitely a science to it.
THE DEADBOLT: Was there any particular type of junk food you missed and what have you replaced it with?
SHANON: I don’t know if you guys know or not but I used to eat Thai food like it was going out of style, and it had real coconut milk in it. But the only thing was, it was breezing through the calories. The calories were just, like, through the roof. I don’t know. This morning I had eggs and I chop up peppers and onions and then I just spice it with the Mrs. Dash and I try to make it like a little quiche thing. I don’t know. I’m just getting creative. When I get my sweet tooth, I do like a teaspoon of peanut butter with a cut-up apple and that takes care of my sweet tooth in two seconds. I freeze the protein shakes and eat it like a popsicle. I don’t know, you just have to get creative. But it’s worth it.
THE DEADBOLT: What was the biggest thing about the whole process that surprised you the most?
SHANON: The thing that surprised me the most is how it’s so non-stop. When it’s not completely physically draining, it emotionally takes a toll on you. It’s non-stop. You don’t realize how much goes into the show and I didn’t realize how the whole thing worked. I’ve never been on a TV show before, you know? And another thing that surprised me was my mom, man. She’s a rock star. She’s awesome, like a soldier. Only my mom can wear her hair down during a football challenge and look hot [laughs]. Yeah, I think there’s so many things. Everything was a surprise. I didn’t know what to expect, really.
http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/105495/biggestshanon_interview.php
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