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Biggest Loser Couples: I Want the Treadmill to Be Smokin’ - Ranking The Remaining 15
Rankings and Commentary by RTVC Senior Staff Writer Donna Emery
February 4, 2010
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This week on the Biggest Loser, I was convinced Miggy was on an express train home – right until the minute when she proved she wasn’t.
Nice fake there, producers.
In this game, there are often patterns. After last week, I thought I’d caught this season’s pattern: if a person or team gets a lot of screen time, they are probably doomed to being under the line (or near the line) in the next episode.
Not this week. Following this pattern, I’d have predicted Miggy or one of the Reds were going to be eliminated, this week. When Miggy began the episode by saying how she couldn’t imagine being without her daughter, and then ended up having emergency surgery, I couldn’t imagine what would happen. We’ve seen other contestants go to the hospital (Mo, Tracy and “the Ronfather” come to mind) and they usually end up with some excess water weight – and then, land firmly under the line.
Not Miggy.
When she acted as if losing her teammate was the most heinous challenge a contestant had had to face; and then said she didn’t know if she even wanted to be there, I figured she was doomed. When Dr. Huizenga warned her about the excess IV fluid they’d had to give her, I was sure it would happen.
And then, good old John decided to step up his workout routine (usually a GOOD thing; to jump start weight loss) and ended up under the line.
You coulda knocked me over with a (green) feather.
Miggy didn’t exactly endear herself to me, in these first five episodes. She certainly alienated the Red team; she clearly made enough enemies that when Melissa reminded the group that “the drama in the house” had emanated from Miggy (rather than from Migdalia) she didn’t have any arguments.
But, clearly – she has some unexpected support – at least, from Michael. Has she become his surrogate mother? I can’t imagine it, but I’m not at the Ranch. Stranger things have happened.
I have to sincerely take my hat off, to Miggy. Who would have predicted that the lady who snarled her way through last week’s episode, and who didn’t know if she wanted to stay when her daughter left could get herself together – less than a week after surgery – and lose 5 pounds. Just incredible. Even if Miggy was the least likeable contestant on the Ranch (and I don’t think she is), I’d definitely have to give her admiration and credit for doing something not many could do.
This week, the gang was faced with a curveball: they had to accept two more contestants onto the Ranch. They handled it pretty well; thankfully, the show sent them back before the ranks had been too thinned out. And, although it was good to see the Blue team has made progress, and intends to continue on their journey, I was glad to see the Yellow team win the right to come back. Sunshine is a beautiful woman, and her personality seems to match. O’Neal has a great attitude, a great sense of humor, and it will be great to watch his transformation.
I am also glad the show gave the Yellow team immunity. Having just weighed in, and needed to adjust from home routine to Ranch routine, they couldn’t really be expected to compete at the same level as the others. I’m sure Nicole, (from the Red team, two seasons ago) would dearly have loved to have had the same courtesy bestowed on her.
The workouts seemed.....
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