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"The drama on The Biggest Loser last week, as the remaining contestants staged a mutiny in protest at a twist involving the eliminated contestants returning, saw Buddy and Mark choose to quit the competition. Now all the eliminees - including last week&amp;#039;s, Jeremy - are back to fight for a place in the finale. Conda&amp;#039;s shocked to see Mike, who was eliminated in the second week: &amp;quot;He looks insane!&amp;quot; Dolvett agrees, telling them all that they look amazing. And Bob says it shows they&amp;#039;re &amp;quot;strong-minded people&amp;quot; - if they put their mind to something, they can do it. Of course, those contestants that quit have not been invited back.  Everyone&amp;#039;s obviously talking about how much they want that spot in the finale, but perhaps none more than Jeremy, who believes that spot belongs to him since he would have been the third finalist without the twist. Naturally, Conda shares that view. &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t give someone else a second chance when they&amp;#039;ve already been out,&amp;quot; she says. The Weigh-In We get straight into the challenge with a weigh-in! Only the eight contestants who have lost the most weight will progress to the next part of the challenge. They&amp;#039;re going to go in reverse order of elimination - we already know Jeremy&amp;#039;s lost 150lbs, so he goes straight on the board with 38.56% weight loss. As the weigh-in progresses, people slowly begin to get knocked out, beginning with Daphne. But she&amp;#039;s fine, saying her journey doesn&amp;#039;t stop now - she&amp;#039;ll still be pushing. She&amp;#039;s followed by Adrian (who&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;really proud&amp;quot; of his achievements), Nancy, Gail (&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve already won&amp;quot;), Roy, Chism (who admits he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;definitely disappointed&amp;quot; and wishes he&amp;#039;d worked harder) and Ben (who was voted off in week one and still managed to lose 99lbs - &amp;quot;My Biggest Loser experience was very short-lived but the impact it had on my life will be for the rest of my life.&amp;quot;) There&amp;#039;s much better news for contestants like &amp;quot;deliriously happy&amp;quot; Cassandra, who&amp;#039;s lost 81lbs - &amp;quot;You shouldn&amp;#039;t have voted me off!&amp;quot; she jokes in confessional. And Mike, who was voted out of the competition in week two, has lost a fantastic 114lbs. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re an inspiration,&amp;quot; Dolvett tells him. So the top eight are, in order: 1. Jeremy - lost 150lbs (38.56%) 2. Cassandra - lost 81lbs (33.89%) 3. Emily - lost 89lbs (33.71%) 4. Mike - lost 114lbs (31.84%) 5. Chris - lost 74lbs (30.83%) 6. Lauren - lost 74lbs (30.08%) 7. Kimmy - lost 65lbs (29.68%) 8. Megan - lost 70lbs (27.03%) Last Chance Workouts So the contestants know they&amp;#039;ll be facing challenges, but Alison&amp;#039;s keeping them quiet for the meantime. Instead, it&amp;#039;s time to do some training! But Jeremy&amp;#039;s feeling down that he wasn&amp;#039;t in the finale immediately. Conda points out that he was top out of all the eliminated contestants and reminds him how well he&amp;#039;s doing. Still, Jeremy&amp;#039;s feeling pretty upset about the whole thing - he feels like he already earned his spot in the finale. Dolvett notices Jeremy&amp;#039;s unhappiness in training, and Jeremy tearfully admits that he is &amp;quot;mad&amp;quot; about the situation. But Dolvett gives him a pep talk - he&amp;#039;s a fighter! Fighters don&amp;#039;t whine or quit or complain, they work hard. The little speech works and Jeremy decides to use his anger to motivate him this week. &amp;quot;I still am the person to beat, and I&amp;#039;m going to prove that,&amp;quot; he says. Elsewhere, we see all the contestants being worked hard by Dolvett and Bob (&amp;quot;Oh my God, I&amp;#039;m going to puke,&amp;quot; Emily groans.) But they all know they have to work hard, because the challenge is just around the corner... &amp;quot;At this point, it&amp;#039;s anybody&amp;#039;s game,&amp;quot; Bob says. &amp;quot;I have no idea who&amp;#039;s going to get that third spot.&amp;quot;  Challenge One: The Sprint Here we go! We&amp;#039;re into the first challenge, but Chris hasn&amp;#039;t been medically cleared and has to leave now. &amp;quot;The decision has been made out of what&amp;#039;s best for my body, so I&amp;#039;m fine with it,&amp;quot; Chris says as she leaves. That&amp;#039;s one less competitor for the others... Alison announces the first task - in a throwback to week one&amp;#039;s 40-yard dash, the contestants will have to take part in a 100-yard run! Only the top five will progress to the next challenge. &amp;quot;I know I can do it,&amp;quot; Cassandra says, confidently. She&amp;#039;s right - she comes in first! She&amp;#039;s followed quickly by Lauren and Megan, and Mike comes in fourth. And just by a nose, Jeremy squeaks into fifth place, beating Kimmy. &amp;quot;Way to come close!&amp;quot; Conda gasps. Still, that means it&amp;#039;s time for Emily and Kimmy to say goodbye. Time for the next round!  Challenge Two: The Nutrition Puzzle The contestants will be facing a puzzle, like they did in the first week, but it&amp;#039;s going to be a bit more complicated. They have to match the weighed blocks with names of foods on them to the amount of calories they contain, in a stack. And only the first three to complete it will get through to the next challenge. Mike&amp;#039;s feeling confident as he&amp;#039;s always cooked, and he&amp;#039;s right to feel good - he&amp;#039;s the first to finish! Jeremy gets frustrated knowing that one space has gone, and frantically swaps all the blocks around in an attempt to get it right. Finally, it works - he wins the second spot in the third challenge.  It&amp;#039;s just down to Cassandra, Lauren and Megan now! There&amp;#039;s a lot of swearing and worried faces as they try to get it done, but eventually Lauren&amp;#039;s the one to win the race. That means we have to say goodbye to Megan and Cassandra, who says: &amp;quot;This has single-handedly been the best, most memorably journey of my life. I couldn&amp;#039;t say thank you enough, ever.&amp;quot;  Challenge Three: Endurance Jeremy&amp;#039;s expecting an endurance challenge, and he vows to &amp;quot;last as long&amp;quot; as he has to in order to win. Jeremy, Lauren and Mike discover that they have to stand on a post holding on to a golden ticket to the final which is suspended above them. The last one standing will win the spot in the final! &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not going to go down without a fight,&amp;quot; Mike promises. Jeremy immediately begins talking to Mike and Lauren, trying to throw them off their game (it seems it might even be affecting Alison, who at one point groans: &amp;quot;Jeremy, you&amp;#039;ve been talking for 50 minutes straight.) It doesn&amp;#039;t work though, as Mike and Lauren are still standing, even though it&amp;#039;s cold and night-time (Conda and Kim are all snuggled up in blankets). At the two-hour mark, Alison announces that they can now only use one hand. And at 2.20, Alison reveals that they must only stand on one foot. Ten minutes later, Lauren frets: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to puke.&amp;quot; She explains later that she felt really nauseous and was trying to tell her body she was OK. But at 2.35, she falls to the mat and is eliminated. &amp;quot;My body decided to give up before my mind,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s heartbreaking.&amp;quot; But she adds that her return was &amp;quot;an awesome experience&amp;quot;.  So it&amp;#039;s down to Jeremy and Mike (who refuses to talk to his competitor). They&amp;#039;re both refusing to quit and the minutes tick by - all the way to three hours! Conda spots that Jeremy&amp;#039;s moving his foot around and isn&amp;#039;t sure how long he&amp;#039;ll last, but at 3.10 Mike&amp;#039;s admirable effort comes to an end as he puts his foot down. Jeremy&amp;#039;s in the final! Conda even begins to cry at the news. &amp;quot;This could easily go down as the most triumphant moment of my life,&amp;quot; Jeremy says. As for Mike, he&amp;#039;s pleased with his second chance on the Ranch - he was originally voted off because he didn&amp;#039;t work hard enough, but now he&amp;#039;s proved everyone wrong. &amp;quot;I fulfilled everything I wanted to fulfil,&amp;quot; he explains. Welcome Home Party! So we have our three finalists! Kim heads back to Roswell, Georgia for her welcome home party and admits that she always imagined this moment. After cheers and hugs from her friends and family - which cause Kim to cry - she says she &amp;quot;fought every day&amp;quot; to come home, see her family, and for them to be proud of her.  Elsewhere, Jeremy and Conda return to Rockford, Michigan and head to their high school, where a crowd has gathered to cheer them on. &amp;quot;Two out of three finalists!&amp;quot; Conda announces. &amp;quot;And one of us is going to be The Biggest Loser.&amp;quot; Will she be right? We&amp;#039;ll have to wait until next week&amp;#039;s live final to find out... The Biggest Loser live finale will air Tuesday, May 1 at 8/7c on NBC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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