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Episode 17: Wednesday 2nd December
There’s a snake in the camp and the experts come in to try and catch it but they have problems getting it. We aren’t shown if they do eventually get it or not. As this is happening the hosts have entered camp to tell them that Sabrina has been eliminated.

Today’s bush tucker trial is called Off Your Trolley and is done by Justin and Gino. Gino rides inside a shopping trolley and Justin pushes him around. They must find stars hidden in rotten food. Gino gets very messy during the trial with all kinds of rotten fruit and veg and bugs poured over him. They do OK getting 3 out of 5 stars.

Later in the day the contestants are given a task where they have to make a promotional video about camp.

The Celebrity Chest today was done by Kim and Jimmy. They had to find golden eggs hidden in a large cage of feathers. They get the chest, take it to camp and they finally get the question right and win a cream tea. When the cream tea arrives it is just 3 scones to share between 5 of them. The celebs are furious at this as they insist that cream tea for 5 people does not consist of 3 scones. They start a revolt and remove their microphones (although Kim is such a loud mouth that it makes no difference). In the end the producers back down and give them what they asked for.

Next the celebs weight themselves to see how much weight they have lost during the last 2.5 weeks. Stuart has lost 16 pounds, Gino 18 pounds, Justin and Kim both lost 21 pounds and Jimmy lost 22 pounds. They then have a conversation about if their penis will have shrunk because of the weight loss. Gino is concerned and goes off to the toilet to check it out.

Justin is then chosen by the producers to do an overnight challenge to win a luxury breakfast for camp. He had to spend the night alone in a cage. Just as he was about to fall asleep thousands of cockroaches were put in the cage with him. He makes it through the night and wins the prize for the group.

It’s elimination time. Jimmy and Stuart get the least public votes but it is Stuart who has to leave. In his interview he says he wants Gino to win.

Episode 18: Thursday 3rd December
The episode starts with them eating their luxury breakfast that Justin won in yesterdays episode. We are then shown their reaction to Stuarts eviction and Kim says she is shocked to still be there.

Today’s bush tucker trial is called Hell Hill Extreme. It’s basically the same trial they do every year when they are down to the final 4. All 4 celebs should do it, but Kim is ruled out on medical grounds (ie shes too old). They have to carry a star up a hill and reach a pole. They must remain there until all three are touching their poles. Jimmy goes first and reaches his pole with easy as does Justin who is next. Finally Gino climbs they hill. Just as he is almost at his pole a huge torrent of water rushes down the hill and washes him to the bottom. He quickly makes his way back up the hill and they win 4 out of 4 stars. The hosts said they did it in a record time, although that’s not surprising as there are usually 4 celebs doing this trial.

When they get back to camp they are told that there are 4 ice creams hidden in camp and they must find them before they melt. Kim has a strop saying she doesn’t want to do it as it is childish. But it didn’t stop her from eating an ice cream when the others had found them.

Kim and Justin do today’s Celebrity Chest. They have to milk goats to get a key. They complete it and again get the question wrong.

Next we are shown a compilation of each of the 4 semi-finalists time on the show and after that the celebs play a guess the newspaper headlines game.

Kim is given a secret mission where she has to have a conversation with each of the others using the word discombobulate. She is successful and wins them a bottle of champagne.

The celebs talk about how they hope that they will all remain friends forever. The hosts arrive to reveal the result of the public vote.

Gino and Kim are through to the final.
Jimmy and Justin are in the bottom two.
Justin is bottom and is eliminated, so Jimmy is in the final.

The final will take place today (Friday) and Gino, Kim or Jimmy will win the show. I think it’s safe to say that Jimmy will be 3rd place as he has been in the bottom 2 a number of times. I think that Gino will emerge as the winner.

This episode started off with Shambo talking about how great it was to see Laura voted off, in which she should be thanking John, he’s the one who made that happen, not necessarily her. Then, next, the survivors wake up with tree mail, and they get money, all of them assuming next is an auction. At the auction, we see Natalie buy a peanut butter sandwich, and a nice shower, Shambo buys Sea Noodles, Mick spends all his money on a hamburger with fries & beer, Jaison buys an advantage to the next immunity challenge with his entire $500, and John buys a clue to the hidden immunity idol, and someone bought apple pie, but I forgot who, I think it was either Dave or John.

Back at the camp, John goes searching for the next Hidden Immunity Idol, where after he claims he can’t find it, he assumes that Russell has the next idol. Meanwhile, they have decided to cook Shambo’s friends and allies, the chickens. When Shambo was cooking, Dave commented on how she should cook the chickens, in which this got Shambo really ticked off. At night, Shambo was sleeping in which she’s claims she sees a vision that Dave was being voted off. That, to me, sounds pathetic and delusional. I thought I was watching Survivor, not another TV Show, Medium. So, Shambo tells Russell she wants Dave out next. Russell approves, even though he knows Shambo is just playing with her emotions, and not her brain.

At the immunity challenge, the survivors had to hold onto a log, weighing the same as them, for as long as possible. It was Jaison who used his advantage good enough to win this challenge, so he won immunity. Back at camp, Russell talks to John about voting Mick off, until Russell tells John he has the idol, then Russell says it should be John who goes, to keep his idol a mystery. Russell talks to Dave to insure he can get the votes to take John out, and Dave says he can. At Tribal Council, Jeff Probst owns Shambo, when Shambo says there was no strategies done today, in which Jeff Probst says that can’t be possible. Things at tribal council went according to plan, for Russell, and Mick and Dave got one vote, but John got the other seven, and he was voted off, becoming the fourth blindside in a row.

I’m so happy that John got the boot, especially after he screwed over Laura, maybe he should’ve listened to Monica and take the four votes, instead of the surprise seven votes. I also feel very satisfied that Shambo was taken for a loop, and was betrayed. I hope it just goes to show her. I really wish Brett was in the show more, but he’s just so nowhere, and that has to suck. I really hope that Natalie, Jaison, and Mick pull through and become the final three. Also, props to Dave for outwitting Shambo. I don’t expect Shambo to go back to Galu, I mean, just look, they’ve all scrwed her, she just might as well accept eighth place. I also give props to Russell for executing John’s departure and the betrayal to Shambo, I mean, if Shambo had a logic reason to vote for Dave other than something personal, she might have got Dave out. Other than that, I really hope Shambo’s next and Natalie/Mick/Jaison take final three.

Love: Natalie, Jaison, Mick

Like: Brett, Dave

Neutral: Monica

Meh: Russell

Dislike: Shambo

Yesterday was the final of Expeditie Robinson.  
 
At the previous tribal council, Rita won the second spot in the final, next to Marina. Later today, Jeroen, Dennis and Marcel will battle each other in a final challenge to determine the third finalist. Rita is very happy she reached the final. The men say they never expected her to make it to the finals because she is the weakest and had a lot of trouble with the food. Later, Rita and Marina look back to the start of the show, which started with sixteen women. Marina thinks back of the first challenge she won, with which she won a place in the final and the meeting with the men, while Rita thinks back about the time where the fourteen women lived together on one beach. They are happy that two women made it to the final two.
 
The men are anxious for the final challenge. Jeroen regrets losing the challenge to Rita, he was so close to making the final. Marcel says that winning the final challenge is part of his strategy. He thinks the other men will underestimate him because he is the oldest, but he knows he is stronger than the others think. Before the men go to the challenge, Rita makes a meal for them with loads of snails, salt and rice.
 
Dennis, Jeroen and Marcel go to the final challenge. This consists of many parts. The men have to untie a rope, swim a part, run through a mangrove, do a puzzle, run a bit, collect cubes, build a tower of fifteen cubes, make fire, light a torch and throw this torch into a wok. The first one to throw their torch in the wok wins the challenge and qualifies for the final. When the challenge starts, Jeroen takes an early lead. He unties the rope with no trouble and dives in the water. Marcel is second, followed closely by Dennis. During the swim, Dennis catches Marcel but Marcel overtakes him again. Jeroen keeps his lead and runs to the puzzle. He knows he is not strong at puzzles, which allows Dennis and Marcel to catch up. The men take a long time to do the puzzle, but it is Dennis who is the fastest. Marcel is the second to solve the puzzle while Jeroen keeps having trouble.
 
Dennis manages to collect the cubes and starts building the tower. Marcel catches up to him and collects the cubes, so he can start building as well. In the meantime, it seems that Jeroen has given up on the puzzle. He complains that the puzzle is not fair and it’s silly to lose the final on a puzzle. Marcel starts building the tower at the moment Dennis tower collapse, so they are at equal footing. Finally Jeroen manages to solve the puzzle and runs to Dennis and Marcel, who have a lot of trouble with building the tower. Jeroen manages to build the tower in one go but when he walks away, the tower collapses. Dennis has also build his tower, but his also collapses. Jeroen is quick in rebuilding his tower and is allowed to continue. Dennis rebuilds his tower as well and leaves Marcel, who keeps going and finally manages to build his tower so he can start to make fire. When he arrives with Dennis and Marcel, he sees neither of them has fire so they are at equal footing again. Marcel knows very well how to make fire and catches one. Soon after, Jeroen also gets fire while Dennis has none. The fires of Jeroen and Marcel have to burn through a rope, which Marcel’s fire does first. He can pick up a torch and light it. For the final part of the challenge, he has to throw the torch in a wok on the water. He has ten tries for this. He misses the first try, but since Jeroen’s rope hasn’t burned through he can go for a second time. Again he misses, so he goes for his third try. He throws this against the wok, but not in. He tries to get his fourth torch, but Jeroen has burned through his rope and can throw his first torch.
 
Jeroen misses! So Marcel can throw his fourth torch, but again throws it against the wok instead of into it. Jeroen can throw for a second time and also throws his against the wok instead of into it. Marcel has his fifth go and makes the same mistake again. Jeroen goes for the third time and misses again. Marcel can go for the sixth time, while Dennis still hasn’t made fire. Six turns out to be the lucky number: Marcel throws his torch in the wok and wins the challenge. Marcel will go to the final with Rita and Marina, while Jeroen and Dennis are eliminated. Marcel is in tears, he cannot believe he made it to the finals as oldest contestant. When he arrives back at the camp, Marina and Rita welcome him with open arms. Marcel is happy to spend the last day with two women and no men. They spend their final night with tearing down the camp and burning all their stuff. The next day, the finalists prepare for the final. Marina is sad because she has to leave the island. Marcel is not nervous for the final tribal council, while Rita is happy that she has achieved what she wanted to achieve. But now she made it to the final, she obviously wants to win.
 
The finalists arrive at the final tribal council, where they meet the jury, consisting of Simone, Igor, Marjolein, Kurt, Esmeralda, Dennis and Jeroen. After questions of the hosts, Rita says she is very happy to have made the finals. When the merge happened she was feeling very weak but she didn’t want to quit. She didn’t want to come this far and then quit. She hopes her body will be able to recover. Marina was the outsider of this show because she made it to the final after the first challenge. She is happy to be in the final because it has been enough. She says she is not a quitter. She thinks many people will think she had it easy because she was already a finalist, but mentally it was a big challenge to come this far. Marcel says that he didn’t sleep this night because he kept thinking about the challenge. He is proud because he played the game the way he wanted. He used strategy when he needed to and apologizes to Esmeralda because she hurt him. Esmeralda drops in and asks him if he can live with the idea of being a traitor. Marcel denies that he is a traitor because he thinks it was between Esmeralda and him to be eliminated. For some reason it’s the only question the jury asks, because the jury has to vote now. Igor, Esmeralda, Marjolein, Kurt, Simone, Dennis and Jeroen vote. Without seeing how they voted and what their reasons where, the votes are revealed. Then it is shown that Marina didn’t receive any votes. She finishes in third place. Then it is shown that both Rita and Marcel have two votes. The next one to receive a vote is Marcel. When he also gets a fourth vote, he is revealed to be the winner of Expeditie Robinson 2009! 
 
Votes:
Esmeralda & Simone voted for Rita, all others voted for Marcel.
 
Own opinion: I’m very surprised about Marcel winning. The show was putting Jeroen on a pedestal so I was sure he would win. When he got eliminated, I thought Rita would get the votes, but I had no idea that Marcel would get all these votes.

Episode 15: Monday 30th November
At the start of the show the hosts tell us that George has walked out of the jungle. This means that today’s eviction is cancelled and instead the public vote will be nominations.

The first compilation of highlights shows George telling Kim he’s thinking of leaving. Later, George tells the camp that he will leave that evening after the meal. Everyone says they will miss him a lot. His reasons for leaving are that he likes everyone to leave and doesn’t want to win the show or survive an eviction over someone else.

Today’s bushtucker trial is Buzz Off. Sabrina and Stuart are chosen by the group. Sabrina has to wear a bee costume and walk along an obstacle course. If her helmet touches the rail then Stuart will get an electric shock and something dropped on him. Three shocks in a section of the course means they lose that star.

When Sabrina touches the rail for the first time Stuart gets a shock and yellow liquid falls on him. They lose the first star as Sabrina is not very good at this. They also lose the second star. They get the third star, but by now Stuart has green ants dropped on him and they are biting him. In the end they only manage to get 3 out of 7 stars.

We are taken back to camp and shown clips of George giving the men his wisdom about women and also we are shown some of the crazy things the celebs have been doing.

Today’s Celebrity Chest was done by Justin and Gino. They have to climb a high ladder to get the key. It is made difficult as there are wasps around them and they are both scared of heights, it also starts raining which doesn’t help them. They succeed and take the chest back to camp, but as usual the question is answered wrongly and they don’t get the prize.

The camp mates are given a challenge where they can win a chocolate cake. Each have a question to answer. If they get more than one question wrong then the cake drops into a box full of cockroaches. Everyone except Gino gets their question right so they win the cake.

In the evening, Sabrina sang a farewell song to George. They all say their goodbyes to him and he leaves camp. In his interview with the hosts he says he wants Gino to win.

The hosts then go into camp to tell them that the celebs with the least votes and nominated for eviction are Justin and Sabrina. One will be eliminated tomorrow.

Episode 16: Tuesday 1st December
The celebrities talk about how strange it is without George in camp.

Today’s bush tucker trial is called Memory Misery. The group choose Jimmy and Sabrina to do it as they have done the least number of trials so far.

They have to memorise the pictures behind 16 numbered blocks. The blocks are then turned around and the host asks them what picture is behind a particular number. If they get it right they win half a star, if its wrong then the other celebrity is gunged. Neither of them are any good at this and it ends up with them being gunged a lot and not winning many stars. It was probably the funniest trial so far. They ended up with just 1 out of 6 stars.

Back at camp the celebrities are concerned about the lack of food supplies and only winning one meal in the trial means they will have to skip lunch.

Today’s Celebrity Chest is different to usual. They all take part and have to balance a ball on 2 sticks. They win 2 tokens and can exchange them for a selection of items – they choose beans and salt.

Next it is the letters from home bit that they do every year so we can see them all crying. After that we are shown clips about them showering and keeping clean.

They are then given a quiz. The team of Sabrina, Gino and Stuart win the quiz and can leave camp and have a Karaoke with beers and peanuts.

At the end of the show the hosts reveal that out of Sabrina and Justin, it is Sabrina who the public have eliminated. She leaves camp and says in her interview that she is sad to leave the group but happy to be out of the jungle. She is asked if there is a romance between her and Stuart but she insists they are just friends. When asked who she wants to win she starts to answer Kim, but then changes to all of them.

So only 5 remain – Jimmy, Justin, Gino, Stuart and Kim. Assuming no-one else walks we will have an elimination on Wednesday and Thursday leaving 3 left for the final on Friday.