On a conference call earlier this week for NBC’s “The Biggest Loser: Couples,” the eliminated silver team of Joelle Gwynn and Carla Triplett spoke to the media about their time on the ranch and mostly about their troubled friendship.

Look, if you watch this show, you know that Carla was giving 150% while Joelle was giving something like 70%. And even now, as media members questioned Joelle about her drive, she gave a mountain of excuses just very strange reasoning as to why she acted the way she did at the ranch, and why her fellow contestants turned on her. Also, apparently Joelle didn’t like the way trainer Bob Harper had yelled at her in Week 2, but she knew she couldn’t say anything and as a result is still bitter about it.

Here is an excerpt of Joelle’s warped reasoning..

“I was at an all-point, filled up to the brim. My strategy was trying to be quiet and block things out. Man, after Bob did that tyrant when he, in my eyes, lost control but in everyone else’s eyes it was love, it was received like that for me. I think it kind of opened the door for everyone to very much heckle me and belittle me. Carla wasn’t there to see all of that. And I had to be quiet, you know, to stay on the – in an effort to stay on the show.”

Um, what is an “all-point?”

She also admitted that she and Carla were never “best friends” as the show lableled them….

“Yeah, Carla and I were actually more acquaintances; we have known each other for two years. She did suggest for the marketing purposes that we put best friends. But we are still interacting in the same way that we did before and we’re still working on achieving our goals. We’re just doing it separately.”

As for Carla, she still is in this for the right reasons, and while Joelle is also making progress at home, Carla just seems a bit more grounded…

“….And since I have been home for 30 days nothing for me. And just so that you know, before I even tried out for the show I had already started working out and, you know, losing weight. So I was already in that mode that I needed to lose weight. But it wasn’t hard at all, you know, just changing a few things that you have in your pantry and your refrigerator and just burning more calories; counting more calories out than you put in.”

Being that it’s actually been a few months since the duo was sent back to Detroit, at the end of Tuesday’s episode they showed Joelle and Carla having lost 57 and 87 pounds, respectively. Granted, Carla had much more to lose at the start, but she seems to be making a bit more progress.

And really, here’s the bottom line….Joelle does not set a good example for fellow Americans, especially when she is given an opportunity like this and could not confirm that she wanted to stay, and more than once made reference to money being more important than losing weight.
Carla, meanwhile, at least in my eyes, has an excellent chance of winning the $100K challenge for eliminated contestants. And if she did, wouldn’t that be ironic?

Quotes from this conference call courtesy of NBC Publicity Department