Even MORE Freakin' Fattest Freakin' Losers... FREAKIN'!

Last night saw the arrival of two new contestants in the game. For those of you trying to keep track of how many contestants have actually been in this second series of Australia’s version of The Biggest Loser, this now makes eighteen.

Last year it was twelve.

But anyway, the more people they can help, the better for everyone. The remaining six contestants in the house last night thought differently, though. They felt cheated and robbed and ripped off and other childish things like that.

Especially the Whinging Red Team Members (which means Courtney, Pati and “Moanalotta” Munnalita – not so much Marty). For the most part, despite the sting of the surprise, Marty, Laura and Damien were welcoming and mature about the whole thing. Damien and Laura gave the new contestants (dubbed ‘The Outsiders’) a tour of the house, and – together with Marty – congratulated them on their weight loss so far (Courtney and some of the others did so as well … but only because Damien and crew had said it first; the difference in their sincerity was stark and obvious).

Another big element to this latest surprise was that The Commando, that much feared ‘bully’ of a personal trainer the contestants had all had to deal with at one time or another, turned out to have been training The Outsiders all along. So that put a bit of fear into the six contestants, who were forced to watch a video montage of The Outsiders’ training regime over the past six weeks or so.

Let’s meet the new players, shall we?






Name: Steve Willis

Role: ‘The Commando’

Points of Interest:

1. Is an ex-SAS officer.

2. Part of his Australian Special Forces background includes him being a Counter Terrorism Team Commander. (That makes him Australia’s answer to Jack Bauer! Or at least Curtis Manning. Or maybe Tom Baker.)

3. Doesn’t actually appear to be a bad guy at all. He seems quite nice – and, despite what the contestants may think, he wants the best for them.

4. Makes me laugh by copping attitude from the contestants when he’s only playing a ‘role’ that he’s been instructed to play. It’s not like he’s actually that heartless in real life, you idiots.

5. Has been training ‘The Outsiders’ since day one; meaning that they’ve had the ‘benefit’ of his extra-charged weight-loss regime the whole time the 'original' contestants have been in the house.


“You’re just full of excuses!”







Name: Chris

Team: N/A. He’s one of ‘The Outsiders’

Age: 23

Height: 198cm

Starting Weight: 149kg

Target Weight: 90kg

Points of Interest:

1. Talks like he has a bubble of phlegm in the back of his throat that he won’t cough up.

2. Seemed quite nervous about coming into the house at this point in the game (and fair enough), despite his apparent bravado.

3. Is a real contender for the prize, weighing in as the 3rd biggest loser (in terms of percentage) out of the now eight remaining contestants.










Name: Kimberlie

Team: N/A. She’s one of ‘The Outsiders’

Age: 32

Height: 173cm

Starting Weight: 141kg

Target Weight: 99kg

Points of Interest:

1. Seemed a bit weak during the first stages of her video training diary with ‘The Commando’.

2. Appears to have ‘come into her own’ over the past sex weeks, showing a real strength and determination that was missing at the beginning.

3. Has a rather unfortunate fat and half-fat body shape, including a fat face with a thin neck and rolls of fat on her stomach that resemble a second pair of breasts (giving her a similar type of appearance to what I call Damien’s “lobster body”). I truly hope she (and Damien) can lose this appearance as their weight continues to drop.







Watching the faces of the six remaining contestants as they were told two ‘new’ contestants would be joining the game was priceless. One in particular was just ridiculous in his immaturity:




But it’s clear from the training The Outsiders have undergone that they’re in it to win and they mean business. Chris is especially capable of taking it out, but they’ll both have a target on their backs as soon as their immunity runs out.

But just look at how well they’ve trained!








Okay, so maybe it doesn’t translate very well into still photographs, but trust me: They’ve put in the hard yards just as much as anybody else!

The fact that Kimberlie and Chris have managed to lose as much weight as they have (20.3kg and 31.3kg respectively – compared to Courtney’s 28kg) while living at home, going to work, training just four hours per day, going to parties, flying to Fiji on holidays - and everything else that comes with living a normal life – is just fantastic.

The producers of the show have decided to show that “even you at home” can do what the Losers are doing. (If you have a Commando handy, presumably.) While it’s true that The Outsiders didn’t have to worry about the mind games and eliminations the other contestants had to endure, the other contestants haven’t had their real lives impacting on their weight loss attempts, so I say they’re both difficult struggles but comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges.

They’re both extremely difficult, but neither one is a walk in the park and neither group has experienced what the other has experienced. But they will.

I so so so so so so hope Damien wins the series. He’s been the most deserving of all 18 contestants since the first day they entered the house. I can’t see it happening, personally, but it doesn’t stop me wishing for it to be so!


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