April's Fit Club Highlights

April in the Afternoon's Fit Club segment proved so popular that Sky have put together a highlights package of the diet and exercise regime.

The Fit Club follows the highs and lows of the weight-loss journey for April Ieremia, Rebecca and Michael.

The trio may be different shapes and sizes, but they are united in their goal to take control of their bodies, lose weight and keep the weight off once and for all.

Watch The Fit Club on the Living Channel, Tuesdays from 17 June, 8.30pm.


Photos: Sky TV

April in the Afternoon Inspired by Oprah

This week reality television regular April Ieremia told the gossip mags that she was inspired by a visit to the set of Oprah’s show and believes she’s found her niche on April in the Afternoon. The bonus? She’s losing weight too, with her fourteen week fitness and healthy eating challenge and she reckons she’s full of energy after making lifestyle changes.

The daily dose of cooking, chats and fitness has been popular with viewers and Sky Living plans to put together a highlights package of the weight loss segment that follows April and two mates learning about healthy eating and exercise.

This is a welcome return to a presenting role for April. She was a warm and engaging presenter on TV One’s sports segment and on April’s Angels, but appeared to be stuck in reality show purgatory on the likes of Treasure Island, Top of the Class, and Dancing with the Stars.

April In The Afternoon airs 5:30pm weekdays on Sky’s Living Channel and repeats in the mornings.

Photos: Sky TV, TVNZ

April In The Afternoon

Just when you thought April Ieremia had been forever lost to reality television shows and writing about her weight loss efforts, April breaks out of the mould – at least in part - with a new television show on Sky’s Living Channel.

Part chat show, and part information, April In The Afternoon promises to celebrate the ‘can do’ spirit and helps viewers discover for themselves how to live life better. The show starts with a cooking segment by an in-house chef and ends by following April and two friends as they undertake a 13-week weight-loss and fitness challenge. They may need it if April is tasting any of the delights being whipped up in the first segment.

In between times April will be on the couch chatting to international and local guests.

April In The Afternoon airs 5:30pm weekdays on Sky’s Living Channel.

Photos: Sky Television

This week's DWTS Gossip

Brendan Cole and Camilla Dallerup

Brendan Cole would like to have a nose op!
Brendan Cole swears he's really a nice lad. He says he's had his heart broken by women, and maybe broken a heart or two along the way but he promises he's never cheated on a woman and that he wanted his ex (dancing and romantic partner) Camilla Dallerup to keep the diamond engagement ring he bought for her. What a guy!

Brendan Cole and Camilla Dallerup

Despite his many affairs of the heart and loins he reckons he hasn't told any women he loves them for many years (unless you count his Mum). Turns out the poor lad is self conscious about his nasally voice and would consider getting a nose job. Nice guy Brendan also supports the Bubble Foundation.


Hayley Holt doesn't know her All Blacks
How celebrities get a date: When All Black captain Richie McCaw asked Holt's agent if Hayley Holt would like to go to the premiere of Oceans 13 on Wednesday night with him, Hayley said she had no idea who he was! We're still waiting to hear whether she accepted or declined the date...

In other news Hayley is one of the coaches at Snow Girls, A new extended programme of residential female-specific snowboard and ski camps at Snow Park NZ.


Why Megan Alatini supports Youthline
You have to wonder what's wrong with the Megan Alatini publicity machine that we only find out after DWTS has ended that her chosen Dancing with the Stars charity, Youthline, was chosen after she lost a cousin to youth suicide. Now that sort of news could have won her support from text voters, but instead some bright spark in publicity chose to promote Megan wearing fringed bikinis, lusting after her much younger and happily in love dance partner Jonny Williams, and pawing her hubby in the middle of photo shoots. In the end she came across as trashy, cheap and desperate.

The news that Megan has a personal interest in Youthline and the tragedy that prompted her interest in the charity could have altered viewers' perceptions. Instead we were given the plucky older Suzanne battling injury and past tragedy against the cheap trashy upstart in skimpy clothes. Is it any wonder that Suzanne Paul won the vote?

I suggest Megan sacks her agent and gets someone who knows how to brand and position her to wide appeal. Fellow TrueBliss member Keri Harper insists that Megan is a fun and sweet person. However, there was nothing to suggest this in her publicity. Instead she was portrayed as smug, over-confident and sexy. I'm not saying sexy is bad - but there's trashy sexy and classy sexy. Suzanne had the classy sexy sewn up with her leggy dancing display.

April's cancer link
April Ieremia's mum has been battling breast cancer for several years leading April to choose the Breast Cancer Foundation as her chosen charity for DWTS.


Suzanne celebrates with an early night
After her Dancing with the Stars win and celebrated by heading to bed early with a hot water bottle and a cup of tea. She has put forward two ideas for television shows staring her fine self and is waiting to hear back. Our advice to TVNZ - get Hayley Holt to front your next television show. Right now she's the hottest thing in lycra.

Candy Lane's column
There was nothing from Candy Lane this week. Perhaps she stepped on a few too many toes last week when she revealed that one DWTS celeb has to fortify themselves with a drinkie or two before the show and two sets of couples are rumoured to be doing the horizontal Rhumba.

Related Stories:
Best and Worst of Dancing with The Stars NZ
Brendan Cole and Candy Lane Jive
Holmes confirms horizontal tango
Why Megan Alatini should be this year's DWTS champion
Elimination Interview with Keri Harper
Hayley Holt voted NZ's Sexiest Woman

Images: TVNZ, Himawari, Igor Timoshenko
Sources: NZ Herald Sideswipe 8/6/07, Star celebrity magazine, New Idea, NZ Women's Weekly

Best and Worst of Dancing with The Stars NZ

Drum roll please. Here are our awards for this season’s Dancing With The Stars best and worst moments

Sizzle award
New Zealand’s sexiest woman, Hayley Holt, for that Rhumba.

Best judge’s quote
Craig Revel-Horwood: It’s enough to turn a gay man straight
(about Hayley Holt wrapping herself around Brendon Pongia during their Rhumba)

Cheek(s) award
Michael Laws for looking unaccountably hot wiggling his butt during the Jive

Best mascara award

• Runner up: Frank it’s not macho to wear makeup Bunce
• Winner: Michael Laws. What were the make-up gals thinking?

Best Tango
Brendan Cole and Craig Revel-Horwood sniping at each other throughout the competition

The Rodney Hide memorial ‘you call that dancing’ award

• Runner up: Paul Holmes’ Thriller Paso Doble
• Winner: Suzanne Paul’s freestyle dance. Since when does spending half the dance being twirled by your partner followed by manic running around the floor qualify as dancing?

To quote Michael Laws

Stefano Olivieri carried Suzanne for most of her final dance. If I had known you could score `10s' for looking decorous rather than dancing, I would have piggy-backed my partner Lauren for the entire 90 seconds. It may have launched a thousand fetish fantasies but, gee, it might have worked.

Best costume award
This was a toughy. So many gorgeous costumes but in the end the Paso Doble won it.

• 3rd place: Krystal Stuart’s gorgeous Paso Doble dress
• 2nd place: Greer Robson and Aaron Gilmore punk rock Paso Doble
• 1st place: Suzanne Paul and Stefano Olivieri for their PVC Paso Doble

April & Csaba

Tackiest costume

• Runner up: Megan Alatini’s fruity bikini in the Samba
• Winner: April Ieremia’s “naff” High School musical costume

Best necklace
Where to begin? Joint first equal Carol-Ann Hickmore and Krystal Stuart

Taking one for the team award

• Special Merit award: Rebecca Nicholson for dancing with both Tim Shadbolt and Paul Holmes
• Runner up: Michael Laws for dancing with a broken toe. Well he moaned about that a bit, so really the award is for being savvy enough to auction off the funny metal thing he stubbed his toe on and earn an extra $800 for his charity.
• Winner: Krystal Stuart for dancing the Paso Doble with a broken toe and never uttering a word about the injury. Also ongoing bravery for dancing with Rodney Hide and taking the blame for the famous spear tackle fall.

Courage under fire:
Michael Laws for consistently smiling while being systematically taken apart by judge Craig Revel-Horwood

Charity we heard the most about:
The Suzanne Paul help me resurrect my career charity


The ego has landed award:

• Runner up: Paul Holmes for thinking his Paso Doble was good
• Winner: Megan Alatini for failure to accept constructive criticism from the judges without backchat

Most improved award
Jonny Williams – yes I know this is about the celebs but that boy can move and compared to last year he has improved in leaps and bounds.

Best dancer
Stefano Olivieri. How could you fail to win with that set of legs swivelling beside you? Expert, elegant and expressive Stefano Olivieri is one of the best dancers I have had the pleasure of watching. And who couldn’t love that gorgeous big smile?

WTF moment

• Special Merit Award: Megan Alatini for telling the woman’s magazine how she has a ‘secret’ crush on dance partner the week after sharing her passionate bedroom secrets with another woman’s magazine the previous week
• Runner up: Megan Alatini for telling partner Jonny Williams she couldn’t afford to pay him for ongoing dancing lessons. Say what? Didn’t she just get paid to do DWTS? Isn’t her husband on a lucrative playing contract in Japan? She’s not exactly destitute.
• Winner: Suzanne Paul for telling Brendan Cole to “get over himself” and “go have a word for himself” because he dared to do his job and judge her.

Best pins

• Runner up: Suzanne Paul
• Winner: Candy Lane

These women are both similar ages, and wowser, would you take a look at those legs!

Best clanger
Candy Lane for continually muffing her scripted comedy. But we have to give credit (a) to Candy Lane for improving from season 1 and (b) to the script writers for reducing all that scripted nonsense

Smut award
Can only go to the ditzy Alison Leonard who has never heard a word she can’t imbue with some sexual meaning including telling Brendon Pongia women used to dial him for a good time, now they can dial him for good timing

The Forever Friends award for flirtation

• Brendon Pongia and Hayley Holt
• Greer Robson and Aaron Gilmore
• Frank Bunce and Krystal Stuart
• Megan Alatini and Jonny Williams

Dirty Dancing award
Brendan Cole and … anyone! But hey, who wouldn’t line up to dance with a man who can dance like that?

Related Stories:
DWTS Biggest Necklace Competition
Suzanne Crowned Dancing Queen
Brendan Cole: Suzanne not my #1
Brendan Cole and Candy Lane Jive
DWTS Aftermath

Holmes confirms horizontal tango

In his Herald on Sunday column, Paul Holmes commented on the public’s constant speculation about couples taking their dance floor magic into the bedroom.

There is no doubt some who have taken part have found themselves engaged horizontally with their dance partners, such is the power of what Candy Lane, with her ruthless exacting wit, calls ‘the dancing fanny’

However spoilsport that he is he refuses to name names, which leaves Miss Prozac with the task of analysing each of the couples. Oh how she hates to gossip. We have also heard rumours that some of the judges, namely Bad Boy Brendan Cole, have been engaging in a bit of extra dance tuition. There is also gossip that two of the professional dancers are exchanging bodily fluids.

Brendan Cole
We reported earlier that Brendan Cole has been seen dirty dancing with April Ieremia. Of course, that’s hardly news. Brendan has been seen dancing with nearly all the celebrity gals in the show as well as those from Shortland Street, and various celebrity functions.

Verdict
There have been no recent sightings of this pairing so we’re guessing that little romance has bitten the dust.

April Ieremia and Csaba Szirmai
Csaba Szirmai has said that he has a girlfriend but he has also been seen giving April some “extra tuition”. Meanwhile April has been telling all the woman’s gossip magazines that she’s blissfully happy as a single gal. Hmmm maybe she just likes one night stands.

Verdict
Give that gal a few drinks and she’s anyones. We think it would be quicker to ask who April hasn’t slept with.

Paul Holmes and Rebecca Nicholson
No no no no no. This would be just plain wrong. Besides, we’re not sure that The Gnome is up to the job. Between his prostate cancer and osteoarthritis he’d need several blue pills (Viagra for the unenlightened) to keep up with the young and energetic dance partner. If his stilted and wooden performance on the dance floor is anything to go by this would be a very uninspiring way to spend an evening. The lovely and patient Rebecca is dating hunky Blair Strang who was ambulance officer Rangi in Shortland Street. The Gnome is married to

Verdict
Why would Rebecca Nicholson slip between The Gnome’s sheets when she has Blair Strang waiting for her at home. ‘Nuff said.

Michael Laws and Lauren de Boeck
Leggy Lauren de Boeck has shown that she is more than a match for Mayor Michael’s stubborn ways, keeping him on task with dancing, if not in time. We have heard no rumours of any hanky panky with this pairing.

Verdict
After a few hours with Mayor Michael we think Lauren de Boeck is far more likely to be found burying her snout in a bottle of gin than engaging in any horizontal tango.

Megan Alatini and Jonny Williams
Megan is married with three children and the much younger Jonny has a girlfriend. Not that this has ever stopped anyone in the past. No rumours have surfaced about this pairing although hubby Pita was initially apprehensive about the steamy body coupling on the dance floor. And no wonder, rumours were flying that Jonny broke up with his girlfriend during DWTS.

Verdict
Rumours are HOT where this couple are concerned.

Frank Bunce and Krystal Stuart
There have been persistent rumours and gossip about these two, to the point that some newspapers speculated there would be an official announcement that they are a couple. Both Frank and Krystal have publicly denied any romantic involvement. Frank insists he’s happily partnered to Carla Rawson and Krystal Stuart says the slutty dancing is an attempt to win votes. She even went so far as to tell Herald on Sunday that Frank is old enough to be her father! Instead she says they will be friends forever.

Verdict
Friends forever is code for we did it but now we’ve been caught so we had to call it off. Of course they did it!

Greer Robson and Aaron Gilmore
Yet another couple that have promised to be friends forever. In the last show Aaron was seen kissing Greer on the end and showing extreme affection. Both are married. Greer has two children and plans to add a third to the brood. Let’s hope he has husband Scott’s features.

Verdict
Friends forever… Of course they did it!

Suzanne Paul and Stefano Olivieri
The matching star tattoos is suggestive (of idiocy and masochism) but Stefano Olivieri has told GayNZ that he is looking for a man.

Verdict
We think this an unlikely horizontal coupling

Brendon Pongia and Hayley Holt
The two bodies of the competition. How could they resist each other? Both have made public denials of any romance and as they are both single there is no reason for them to be coy. However we have already seen that Hayley Holt is good at keeping secrets. Treasure Island the Pirates of the Pacific was filmed many months ago and Hayley managed to keep mum about her winnings prompting partner Brendon Pongia to say that he didn’t find out she’d won until the show aired.

Verdict
Hayley Holt could keep secrets from the KGB. Anything is possible and let’s just say we wouldn’t be surprised if there is something extra going on.

Treasure Island The Final!

Two pairs must fight it out to make it to the final leg of Treasure Island the chance to win $50,000 on the final of Treasure Island Pirates of the Pacific.

The show opens with Hayley Holt
doing yoga while Wendell Sailor wandered around in skimpy red speedos that showed more than even Miss Prozac wanted to see.

In a turn-about Hayley Holt now has respect for banned rugby player Wendell and the two are in high spirits at the outset of the competition. On the other side of the island April Ieremia and Doug Thompson are feeling fatigued and unsure who they will be going up against. When they find out they are up against Hayley and Wendell, Doug and April are increasingly nervous about their chances in the final.

The two pairs must go up against each other in a competition that promises to find out who is fit, fast and fearless. Each pair must memorise a document containing the legend of the island in 15 minutes, as it contains vital clues that will help them win the game.

The teams must search for the remains of the pirates on the island after performing skill tests. Each time they claim a pirate the teams must leave behind a black spot to show they were first and bring back the remains to the Jolly Roger flags. If you fail a skill test you incur a one hour time penalty. The team with the most pirate remains will win and go to the final.

Test: Balance
The teams must cross rope rigging without touching the ground and then find the pirate remains. Hayley Holt and Wendell Sailor try this test first. If they fail then they have to sit out for an hour, giving April and Doug a chance. They are on their way across the challenge when Wendell falls off so they decide to take their chances at another challenge.

Test: Accuracy
April and Doug have 12 chances to get a flaming coconut bomb into each of the three barrels. After completing the skill test they must look for the skeleton within 30 metres of the end of the challenge. Host Matthew Ridge tells them they must stay together. They find a skeleton and return first with a skeleton so they’re feeling optimistic.

April and Doug head off for the next challenge and get told off again for separating which results in an hour’s penalty for separating. Meanwhile Wendell and Hayley get to start their next skill test.

Test: Water Skills
Hayley Holt feels confident that they will do well in the water, however they must remember the number combination contained in the legend they read at the beginning. They swim out and then have to dive down to a cage and find the lock and undo the combination to find the skeleton. It’s now 1 skeleton each.

Test: Memory
April and Doug have to prove they can remember the legend of the island as well as things about places they have been on the island. They have to answer five out of six questions correctly.

1. What significant site sits between the 2 highest points of the island?
2. How many ships did the pirates pillage before they were shipwrecked on the island?
3. How many pirates survived the shipwreck?
4. By what four means did most of the pirates die?
5. What time of day did the final two pirates fight their duel?

They got the first five correct and move on to finding the skeleton. They now have two skeletons compared with Hayley and Wendell’s one skeleton

Test: Endurance
Wendell and Hayley have 40 minutes to run and swim without stopping around the rock. They complete the challenge and Hayley Holt earns Wendell’s respect for not complaining when she slipped. Pretty good for a girl he reckoned.

They now have two skeletonseach.

Test: Fire-lighting
Doug and April have 50 minutes to light a fire and boil some water. Doug is pleased with this challenge as he has been starting fires for three weeks. They quickly get a fire started and put a pot of water on it to boil. Next they search for the hidden pirate remains.
Three skeletons to April and Doug.

Test: Calculation
Hayley and Wendell must solve a simple problem. They are given a series of numbers 7-9-16-25-41 and must work out the next in the sequence. The result: 25+41 = 66. They solve it and find the skeleton. Ironically Hayley Holt, last week saying Wendell wasn’t very bright, is now saying he’s pretty smart. Bit of a love-fest going on in this happy team.

Test: Fearlessness

April and Doug have to face a giant pot of crabs and hold their heads in there for a minute without letting any of the crabs escape. Doug pulled his T-shirt over his head and wrapped it over the bucket to keep the crabs contained. One more challenge completed. But Hayley and Wendell turn up while they were hunting and have to decide whether to commit to the challenge or try to find another one. Meanwhile Doug spots the skeleton and decides to wait until Hayley and Wendell start the challenge before claiming the skeleton. Hayley does the challenge because Wendell reckons he’s not a good swimmer and can’t hold his breath for a minute. Hayley fails the challenge and jumps up a tree and cries in frustration. They now have a 1 hour penalty and feels she has blown the game for both of them.

Doug and April have four skeletons while Hayley and Wendell have only three and are sitting out with a one hour time penalty. Wendell tells her she’s a straight shooter and not to change who he is.

Final Test: Balance
April and Doug are at the Balance challenge and have decided to wait it out. There is one hour and two minutes to do the challenge and get back to the Jolly Roger before sunset. They figure if they try and fail then they will have to sit it out and won’t make it back. They figure they’re in the lead right now so they will play it safe.

Wendell is feeling positive and tells Hayley not to give up as they still have time. They get back to the Balance challenge with 20 minutes to go. They get back up on the ropes and take one last shot at the challenge but find it harder this time as they are exhausted from the other challenges. They need to win if they are to have a chance in the finals. Wendell reckons Hayley is so tough that she’s like a guy (in a good way of course). In the final section they must hold hands while they cross 2 parallel ropes, which is the section they failed last time. They work together to win the challenge and have five minutes to find the skeleton and get back to the Jolly Roger with their skeleton but it’s hidden beneath the sand. Wendell sees a hand and they dig out the skeleton and have two minutes to get back.

Final elimination
What a cliffhanger – each team has four skeletons so the game is a draw and a race off will be completed tomorrow morning to decide which pair complete for $50,000.

The pairs must first work out who is missing from the ship by remembering the legend. The captain and nine crew survived.

Clue “Eyes have no mercy”
Wendell and Hayley work out that it must be where the red flag no mercy challenge is held and go there to hunt for the next clue or skeleton. Doug and April arrive next and think it must be to do with the eyes being cut out from the red Jolly Roger flag. April finds the hat first and calls Doug over. The words are in the form of a scrambled clue which must be solved.


They go to the graveyard and April takes over and tells Doug to dig every grave. They are frantic and dig up every graveyard. Meanwhile Hayley and Wendell are stumped until Hayley figures it is between the farthest two X’s on yesterday’s map. They go into the water and start looking around. Doug and April figure they must be in the wrong spot and go back to check the clue. They race off to the spot where they hope to find the skeleton but at that moment Hayley finds the cage with the skeleton underwater and they dig it out and return to camp first.

The Final Race
Wendell and Hayley are through to the final and must now compete against each other.
Matthew Ridge says “Their secret is safe unless you can break the code that binds these men”

The clues are all written backwards and it seems like Hayley Holt the puzzle solver might have an advantage. Wendell Sailor decides his best bet is to tail Hayley and go where she goes. She decides to dig up Rebecca Loos’ grave. She gets annoyed that Wendell is following her and tries to block him from digging in the grave and tries to hold her position. Matthew Ridge steps in to say that there can not be any contact and that they have to share the grave. Hayley keeps challenging him and asking how he solved the clue. He laughs it off and refuses to tell her.

According to host Matthew whoever touches the treasure first with their spade wins the money. Wendell digs a skeleton out of the grave and then Hayley suggests they lift the coffin because she remembers that the clue suggested they bury people on top of each other. Then they argue over who won the money, but Matthew says Hayley Holt won because she hit the treasure chest first. Wendell helps her get the last of the money out. Awww that’s sweet.

Treasure Island Final

Tonight is the final of Treasure Island. Naturally, Miss Prozac is fortifying herself with a few nips of brandy before suffering err the pleasure of an evening of television "entertainment".

The formula? Take one washed up rugby star or three, a builder most of us have never heard of (as Cocksy and Handy Andy have already been on earlier versions of the show) and several gals with big boobs and svelte figures who like wearing bikinis, plus April Ieremia, and throw together with a sexist sadistic host and promises of a large financial incentive and stir. Voila! Scintillating entertainment. And when all else fails bring back Rebecca D Cup Loos for another go at the competition.

Hot Hayley Holt in one of her many bikinis

Luckily TVNZ have recognised that most people would rather poke out their eyes with hot pokers and have thrown in an incentive: Watch the final of Treasure Island and you could win a trip for two to Tokyo for the premiere of the new Pirates of the Caribbean film. Another few nips of brandy and Miss Prozac will be ready.

Treasure Island Tantrums & Backstabbing

Tonight two people will be sent home leaving four places in next week’s final. If there was any more suspense Miss Prozac would have to lie down and take a nap!


Soft Wendell still wants off the island. What is wrong with that guy? Miss Prozac discreetly offers him her pills…

The first challenge is to memorise a route and then repeat it blindfolded through a minefield. Each mine struck adds 30 seconds to the time.

Hayley Holt drew the longest straw and went first. Honest Ozzie (Glen Osbourne) is disappointed at the backstabbing and doesn’t have a lot of time for Hayley when she wouldn’t help him through the maze.

Ozzie guides April Ieremia through the challenge when it comes to her turn giving her an advantage. April in turn helps Wendell Sailor who ends up with the fastest time. Competitive Hayley couldn’t understand why the others were helping each other through the challenge. It’s a game, she says, and there’s only one winner. Sounds like she should stick to dancing. Hayley’s facial expressions were priceless. She was angry and bewildered that the others helped each other in an individual game.

Finally she decides to help Doug Thompson through the challenge, but Doug wasn’t impressed with her dodgy instructions. Hmmm hope she’s not in charge of piloting the plane home.

After the competition host Matthew Ridge announces that it is no longer an individual competition – everyone is to pair up. Somehow I don’t think Hayley will be in demand.

Sad sack Wendell is hacked off as he wanted to lose the game and get off the island. Now he has to pair up with someone to get through to the next round. He knows they’re ultra competitive and he’ll have to put in a big effort. Ironically Wendell won the challenge and threw a temper tantrum because he didn’t want to choose anyone. He wants to go home, and he’s stamping his size 13 feet. In the end he chose Hayley who doesn’t rate him for intelligence, fitness or drive to win. Glen Ozzie Osbourne chose Monty Betham as his partner leaving Doug and April to pair off.

Each pair gets to choose a camp. As the winner, Wendell gets first choice and gets the only camp with a fire. April Ieremia tries to put a happy face on it but she’s concerned that the other teams are all athletes and that her and Doug won’t have a chance.

The next challenge is to go out to a pontoon and collect coconuts and bring them back to shore. The coconuts have to be cracked and emptied into a bucket. First to fill the bucket with coconut juice and scull it wins mercy (immunity) and the first place in the finals.

Ozzie and Monty were first to the pontoon. Monty played a strategic game and held up the rest of the players while Ozzie fills up on coconuts. Most team members struggled with breaking the coconuts, but Doug Thompson had the technique down pat and also knew that the smaller green coconuts have the most juice. Doug and April soon moved to a handy lead but the others started catching up. Wendell Sailor tried to hold April up with her return coconuts so Doug went out to help her bring in the coconuts. He cracked them and they were in the lead. Next they had to drink the juice but Doug spat some out, so host Matthew made them put more juice in. April sculled most of it and left to Doug to finish it.

First into the final are April and Doug.

In the next game there are 13 barrels with either a letter or a food prize. You have to swing from ropes from a tree to see the letters. When you have all 9 letters you unscramble them to work out where to go to next. You also have to remember the food prizes. First to pick up those food prizes and return with them wins a place in the final and a chance at $50,000.

The letters: O, W, S, C, S, N, R, E, T
The food: chocolate biscuits, eggs, melon, and bananas.

No one can solve it but Wendell Sailor reckoned it was at the top of the hill. Hayley Holt wasn’t prepared to risk it. She finally worked out that it was Crow’s Nest and got there first to claim the food and a place in the final. Surprisingly Wendell is excited about being in the final. He has more mood swings than Miss Prozac without her lithium.

The final four are April Ieremia, Doug Thompson, Wendell Sailor and Hayley Holt and they each have a chance at the $50,000 prize.

Gossip from Vote for the Worst & Suzanne Paul

Found this interesting gossip on Michael Laws' website and figured it was interesting enough to repeat

Next time you watch DWTS, look very closely, because a source very close to the show told me that THREE of the couples were hooking up OFF the dance floor!! Can u guess who?

Waaaah! Brendon you're supposed to be saving yourself for moi!

Well, no one will tell me who is doing the horizontal dance although Candy Lane confirms some couples are very close...

So, who are your top picks for the bedroom jive?
There are plenty of rumours flying about Amorous April, the rest we'll have to leave to the imagination. Please, no rumours about Michael Laws or The Gnome doing the wild thing - Miss Prozac has a delicate constitution.


Next up is gossip about Brendan Cole's photoshoot with The Herald on Sunday:
Brendan Cole, is this week's arsy cover model in our VIEW magazine. And by arsy, I mean he of the whingy don't-you-know-I-am-a-star attitude he adopted throughout his photoshoot this week. He turned up, I'm told, with two of his own suits and his own Lancome make-up in tow. He then proceeded to attempt to control the entire shoot, offering only the one facial expression. And at the end of the session he insisted on selecting the five images he thought best (despite no prior arrangement for photo approval) and when this was rejected, he sulked: "Look, I'm doing this as a freebie, ok?" As opposed to a flog-all story. Ahem, Prince Charming? I think not. Even the patient photographer observed: "And he's meant to be a ladies man?"

Finally, Suzanne Paul reveals in this week's NZ Woman's Weekly that her mum is her biggest fan. Awwwwww.

Hayley is Hell on Treasure Island Opposition

After last week’s elimination of Rebecca Loos and Aja Rock, April Ieremia and Hayley Holt are the only two women left on the island among five guys. April thinks the two girls need to stick together to fight the testosterone. Hayley says they have more nouse than the guys.

In the opening scenes Wendell Sailor is packing a sad. He’s sick of sand up his crack and feeling lonely! Captain Monty is supporting him but it’s evident he’s wondering if Wendell is wimping out.

Host Matthew Ridge announces that the teams need to expect the unexpected. It’s now every man for himself with the teams being merged into one group. For each game the individual who wins gets mercy (immunity) and the loser goes into the red flag elimination round.

But first ‘Confession Time’
Each individual has to nominate who they would most like to see leave the island…

• Monty Betham – wants Wendell to go home because everyone else wants to win and is committed to being there and Wendell isn’t.
• Hayley Holt – picks Monty because he’s a strong all-round competitor with the drive to win the competition
• Glen Osbourne – Wendell because he could win if he put his mind to it
• Nick Curnow – Monty because he is one of the biggest threats in the game

Final vote: Monty 4, Wendell 2, Nick 1
This means Monty goes into the final red flag challenge together with two others.

In the first challenge the winner becomes captain and wins freedom from elimination. On top of that they get to nominate someone to go into the red flag challenge.

The game involves swimming out to a pontoon where they have to dive down to Davy Jones’s locker. There is a ladder suspended under the pontoon with six words, which are an anagram for a three word phrase that will tell them where to go to complete the challenge.

The six words on the ladder are tact, slot, vary, keen, raged, and paul. Each pair of words is an anagram for another. For example paul + tact = catapult.

Hayley Holt is first out of the water and immediately solves two of the clues but she can’t put together the last two words (slot and keen) to form the correct word (skeleton). April puts together catapult, graveyard and skeleton and is first to the right spot. She loads the catapult missing the skeleton on her first two shots.

By this stage Doug Thompson has caught up and gets to aim the slingshot at the skeleton. He misses his first shot giving April another chance. This time she hits the target winning the challenge. She is now captain of the merged team and wins immunity from elimination. Doug hits the skeleton on his second try.

Glen Osbourne cracks it next. Nick, Hayley and Wendell are stumped. Monty sits the game out as he is already slated to play in the elimination round. Hayley finally solves the puzzle and hits the skeleton. Wendell also solves it but fails to hit the skeleton on his first two shots. He hits the skeleton on his third try just as Nick arrives.

April is now captain and can not be eliminated while she holds captaincy. Nick Curnow automatically goes through to the red flag elimination challenge.

In the next game there is a board with 20 coded words. Contestants have to work out which word each of the letter code denotes. Each person has 3 pots in front of them. When all the pots are broken you are out of the game. For each word correctly solved each participant is permitted to destroy another person’s pot.

Wendell said he’s not destined to think too much. Hayley solves the first two words and decides to forgo girl power smashing two of April’s pots. She gets the third word and smashes April’s final pot putting her out of the game and at risk of elimination if she loses her captaincy.

Hayley powers through the words eliminating Doug, Wendell and Glen. The guys don’t solve a single word! Hayley wins and is free from elimination. April lost but she has mercy so can not be eliminated unless she loses the leadership vote tomorrow.

April is desperately trying to rally votes to keep her captaincy. Glen Ozzy Osbourne won’t form an allegiance and won’t commit to voting for April, nor will Monty or Wendell. Nick Curnow is putting his nam