The Biggest Loser: Couples (1/29/08)

After last week's surprising twists and turns the campus seems to be in a bit of chaos. The pink team is gone (Ali said they were the 1st team to be unjustly voted out...she must have forgotten there is a game going on). Now the purple team is pi$$ed! At the voting table Paul & Kelly essentially said, "We'll keep you but you better show us that you can do better." Jenn & Maggie think that they were calling them lazy and insinuating that they aren't working hard enough.
The big news, there are no more teams. From here on out, only one person will be going home every week. That should add an interesting touch. I'm betting that as more teams are split up the philosophy will change to one of breaking up the remaining teams no matter what. If you are alone, you don't stand a chance against a ready-made alliance. So you have to break up the duos at some point (before it's too late).
Allison announced before the challenge that from now on, it's blue vs black again (ah, Jillian vs Bob, all is well in the universe again) The challenge was tough, you knew that the minute you saw the escalators. The deal? Only two people will compete, and the winner will get to pick the team they'll be working with. After all these seasons, the one thing I've been begging for has finally happened! The two people competing were Bob and Jillian; trainer vs. trainer! The winning trainer gets to pick who represents their team. The challenge was to run up and down the escalator 10 times. Bob (who has an advantage w/ his longer legs) won and picked his team (hurting some feelings in the process).
The new teams: Bob's Blue Team= Mark, Jay, Trent, Roger, Dan & Jackie. Jillian's Black Team= Bernie, Brittany, Paul, Kim, Jenn & Maggie.
Of course the teams couldn't walk away without having to participate in a challenge! The endless escalator strikes again. Most of the Black Team went out fairly quickly. Brittany was at the top followed by Maggie and Bernie. Bernie and Maggie went out and Brittany was alone keeping pace with Mark, Dan and Jay. That girl worked her butt off, she was so determined to prove to Bob that he made a mistake in not choosing her! Unfortunately, she didn't hold out and the Blue Team earned a $10,000 prize.
At the weigh-in Brittany voiced her feelings about Bob not choosing her and Bernie. They had picked Bob on Day 1 (remember when all the other teams ran to Jillian??), they had been the "blue team" all along and had been doing well. Ouch! The look on Bob's face said it all. She has a point but Bob also has to be able to pick the team he thinks can do the job.
The Blue Team had an amazing 50 pound weight loss. Blue had to average 6 pounds per person to win. Jenn lost 6, Maggie lost 7 (yay, going strong), Bernie lost 5 (that's OK, still in range, Brittany may make up the difference...) Brittany lost 2 (yikes, not good, but still not impossible, we still have the yellow team), Kelly lost 0 pounds (uh-oh), and Paul gained 3 pounds (ugh!). Paul stood right there on the scale and admitted that he had cut his calories by 400-500 to try and get ahead. Poor strategy!
So...who do we send home? Strategically they need Paul and Bernie to pull bigger numbers (in theory!). Maggie and Jenn did good this week but have had so many weeks with low numbers (uh, but Maggie lost the most this week). Brittany typically does well. Hmmm...sorry Jenn! I think she was really would have hit a good stride had she stayed.
Can Jillian pull another underdog team into the finals??