Ben and Sean were always the most vulnerable couple going into last night’s elimination. The brothers, Nathan and Andrew, are strategy players and despite their speech about struggling with whether to vote with their hearts or their heads there was only one way this elimination could go and that was ‘heads’ – send home the team mates, Ben and Sean.
But as Sean said, it’s almost an honour to be sent home as a threat, and if anyone can do it on the outside those two can.
Sean’s final words have helped me put a different spin on the way the game is heading. Although I’ve expressed in this blog that I’m a little uncomfortable with all the ‘game play’ that’s going on, Sean’s tribute to Nathan and Andrew made me see the positive side of competition – a good component helps you lift your game. They make you be the best you can be.
I am sorry for Sean that he won’t get to see his name on the honour board – it’s bittersweet to be the Biggest Loser and be sent home that week. But as he said on his departure: no regrets! He has transformed himself from the ‘fat bastard’ he was to the ‘almost dead sexy’, confident, happy, thin and fit person he now is.
I understood Sean’s mixed emotions about leaving his ‘new’ family to go home to his ‘old’ family. When you’re on Loser, you don’t expect to gain a family but you do. The Series 3 contestants will always be my family. What hurts, however, is that the longer you stay in the game, the more family members you have to say goodbye to.
Each week after elimination, even if you disliked the person who was going home, you still feel a sense of loss, an emptiness. Secretly, you’re elated to have survived yet another week but you can’t help noticing that the dinner table is getting smaller and smaller…
Emotions like these (which I call the elimination blues) are just one of the barriers you have to push through to continue the game. Ben was right when he said that just because a barrier has been put in front of you, doesn’t mean that you can’t get around it or through it. He’s learned a lot from his time in the house.
Those learnings were pretty obvious in the catch-up segment where we saw Ben and Sean working out at home – those boys look amazing! While I’m enjoying each and every episode of this series, I also want Finale to hurry up so I can see how spick everyone ends up being!
But the couples have to get through a biological age test and the Warehouse first. Be sure to tune in tonight at 7PM on TEN and then check your inbox in the morning for my daily update.
If you missed last night's show, you can watch the full episode at The Biggest Loser TV show website.
If you've got time, take a second look at Ben and Sean's parting words – those boys have learned a lot in this game let me tell you!
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Alison Braun is one of the most-loved contestants in Biggest Loser history. Since losing over 55kg during Series 3, she has kept the weight off with the help of The Biggest Loser Club and, more recently, The Biggest Loser Club Meal Replacement Program.