Tuesday’s “Biggest Loser” started off with Sami Brady telling the contestants that not only would there be that annoying yellow line in the middle of the board, but there would also be a red line at the bottom. That means two people would be going home. Gasp!

Then the future skinnies are faced with their first temptation. If they accept the challenge, they have to torture/treat themselves by eating cupcakes while trying to find the ONE that has  a one-pound advantage. Sami throws in another incentive. Whoever wins the one-pound advantage can hold on to it for as long as they want and for every week they keep it, another pound is added to it.

So people eat cupcakes and Adam wins. Then Brendan, who thinks he’s on “Big Brother,” gets snarky and says Adam has a target on his back and will do everything he can to get him out of the house. What is up with this season? There are obvious alliances, backstabbing and threats. That never happens on this show. I’m almost intrigued by it.

Curtis Stone, who is basically becoming a show staple, shows up and shows everyone how to make a 100 calorie cupcake. Sami even had a bite of one of Curtis’ cupcakes. But then she went off screen where she probably spit it out. And per usual, there are female contestants fawning over Curtis.

Bob and Jillian show up and reveal that they’ve either been replaced with pod people or are just tired of doing this show. Because they don’t even care when they hear how many cupcakes everyone ate during the temptation.

Then there’s some of that sweaty, whiny gym stuff followed by the weigh-in.

More girls fall below the yellow line. Frado wins the weigh-in. Sophia loses the least percentage of weight and goes home immediately.

So next, the almost- losers have to do a challenge to not be up for elimination. But first, Bob does something insane and invites them to his house for dinner. Like, his real house. I get excited because I expect to see Bob’s “special roommate” or pets or servants. All we got was a quick shot of a dog and a disgustingly good shot of his view from the Hollywood hills. They eat vegan food and yada yada.

Later, Creepy Biggest Loser Doctor tells Burgundy she won’t be able to compete because of a leg thing, which leads to her automatically being up for elimination.

The challenge, which is unrolling giant rugs, is pretty easy looking and Elizabeth loses, so she and Burgundy will be up for elimination. Burgundy goes home, dashing my hopes that she’d end up being a fantastic villain. But the show isn’t over yet. Remember how two people went home tonight? Yeah, you guessed it. It was because they are going to bring somebody else into the show. It’s going to be one of the people who never made it past the original challenge to make the show. Should be interesting.

The Sophia and Burgundy updates were inspiring. Both women have done well at home and look fantastic.

BONUS: Find Curtis Stone dessert recipes (including a similar cupcake recipe) and keep an eye out for the recipe showcased on Tuesday’s episode here.

Monday’s “Hoarders” started out kind of disappointing for me. There was no Dr. Robin Zasio. No Standolyn Robertson. No Geralin Thomas.

Then I realized that the two hoarders this week are so insane that I didn’t even need my favorite doctors and organizers. And Matt, the organizer is there and I love him around the really crazy hoarders. He gets frustrated and tells them exactly what they need to hear. So things are looking up. Majorly.

Dawn

So Dawn’s big issue is collecting 9/11 memorabilia. You know, that stuff they sell on TV at 3 am or in the back of a TV Guide. There’s usually a tacky plate with an American flag and an eagle flying over ghost images of the World Trade Center. Those things are geared at vulnerable hoarders. And Dawn has responded as such.

Her obsession stems from a legitimate source. She lost a cousin in the twin towers. He was a firefighter and lost his life that day along with too many others. So she’s memorializing him and everyone else who lost their lives that day.

And per usual, there’s more than just those collectibles. There’s garbage. Rotten food. The whole works. And as I mentioned earlier, it started out slower than even a typical episode. But then someone threw away a Mr. Potato Head. And all hell broke loose.

Seriously. A Mr. Potato Head. Granted, it was a Darth Vader Mr. Potato Head, but a Mr. Potato Head nonetheless. Nothing to really freak out over, right? Well try telling Dawn that. Out of control. And just when you think it can’t get any worse, someone accidentally throws away a fake plant! Dawn cusses like a sailor and basically throws a fit that would make a 4-year-old in a toy aisle look weak.

She pulls the typical, “just take it all!” and “I can’t have anything!” crying game and manipulation that every hoarder does. But I think Dawn realizes her kids will eventually hate her and if her marriage is going to fail, she’d rather it fail in a clean house. So she cooperates.

But just as her segment is over and I was ready to breathe again, she discovers someone broke a cheesy glass sculpture of the twin towers. And of course it was like 9/11 all over again. Luckily even the producers had had enough and didn’t spend much time on the final meltdown.

Linda

Dawn’s story could be called a complete success when compared to Linda’s. First of all, Linda was a tricky, sneaky little one. I thought, “aww,” she’s quiet and sweet. She’s here to clean up her house and her life so her poor sick husband doesn’t die upstairs like a prisoner. But then she reveals herself. She might not be as much as a baby as Dawn, but she’s just as intense. Because her emotions fall on the opposite side of the spectrum as Dawn’s. Meaning there are none.

Even when Matt (who tells it like it is) asks her if she’d rather save her plants or her husband’s life, she can’t even answer. He also calls her a very good hoarder, a master manipulator. She places the blame on everyone but herself and has her three daughters at war with each other just to get herself of the hook.

Linda spends most of her segment arguing with her daughters over a pile of junk in the back yard. This is after she threatened to leave because the 1-800-Got Junk trucks pull up outside where her neighbors can see. Have I ever mentioned how much a LOVE those trucks? I love that they just spell it out. If the cognitive therapy that goes on inside the house doesn’t do the trick, maybe the embarrassing trucks with all your crap in the back outside will.

It soon becomes clear that Linda’s family probably doesn’t really care that she’s hoarding. They just like to fight. And even though they pretend like they’ve come together, we learn in the follow up at the end that that wasn’t true (see follow up below).

Dawn’s follow up

“Hoarders” tells us that Linda’s relationship with her daughters have improved and they’re enjoying their own rooms. We also learn that her marriage is still under strain. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that when she was asked to compliment her husband, she couldn’t do it without calling him an asshole. Why more people don’t get divorced is beyond me.

Linda’s Follow up

“Hoarders” tells us that Linda’s husband hates that he was moved downstairs (which was the whole point of the episode) because he doesn’t have privacy. Well there you go. What a way to thank all those who helped you. We’re also told that Linda’s daughter says she’s starting hoarding again. Lovely.

It doesn’t look as intense, but tonight’s “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” will showcase Part 2 of the NeNe and Dwight spar. Also in the preview, we learn that new housewife Phaedra’s husband Opollo spent time in prison. I guess that’s supposed to be a shocker? OK.

So it turns out the big cheating scandal on “Project Runway” wasn’t much of a scandal at all. It was just a product of Poison Ivy’s terrible bitchy attitude.

Yes, Poison Ivy returned on Thursday night’s “Project Runway” along with five other eliminated designers. They were brought in to help the remaining designers make three crappy looks to match Heidi’s crappy active wear collection.

Seriously, wasn’t that the worst challenge ever? Heidi’s collection was cheap and ugly (much like Heidi’s general fashion sense) so when the designers began cranking out crap to match, she shouldn’t have been surprised. But she was. She turned into a complete monster in the workroom, attacking Mondo and Gretchen. Of course Gretchen deserves it, but she did have a point when she said she was having trouble working with sweat shirt material. Because that’s what Heidi’s line is made of.

In the sewing room Ivy pretends to be nice to Michael C. only long enough to catch him off guard with an accusation of cheating. We’ve been teased with this for weeks and almost everyone already knew Michael C. would be the one accused. And it’s no surprise Ivy was the one doing the accusing.

Ivy claims Michael C. taped a dress on his model during a previous runway show. I wasn’t aware that was even against the rules, but whatever. Michael C. denies it and Tim Gunn pretty much tells Ivy and the others he doesn’t believe anything happened and if it did it’s too late anyway. So there you go. Not even close to being as dramatic as the teasers made it out to be.

It all boils down to Ivy being a bitter, nasty person. She can sew. I’ll give her that. But her taste is very questionable. She doesn’t know how to style a model or think editorially. She’s clearly jealous that Michael C. is still on the show and she isn’t. I hope that’s the last we see of her.

The runway show is boring because the challenge was terrible. Everything looks like sweat pants and over-sized hoodies. Mondo’s collection is the only one that even looks like anything to me. They recognize that as well and he’s in the Top 3 again. He shares that spot with Andy and April. Christopher, Gretchen and Michael C. are in the bottom.

Andy wins (only because Mondo can’t win everything). Christopher goes home (only because he’s not a bitch like Gretchen or a trainwreck like Michael C).

I don’t think Christopher should’ve gone home. I think it was finally Michael C.’s time. I’m pretty sure Michael C. isn’t as bad as Ivy and many of the others have made him out to be. I don’t think he’s been cheating either. And he clearly can sew. He does, however, need to work on his taste levels. Christopher is the first person Michael C. should’ve gone home before. Not Ivy, not Valerie.

Christopher was among my final 3 picks. Now I guess I’ll go with Mondo, Gretchen and April. Who do you think will make it to fashion week and the finale?

We’ve been seeing a tease for weeks that someone on “Project Runway” this season has been accused of cheating. It looks like from this Episode 11 preview that we find all this out tonight. And there’s a whole lot more. So I’ll warn you now that there’s a pretty big spoiler in this preview.

What do you think? Who do you think will be accused of cheating? And what do you think of the spoiler in the preview?