Week 9 Wrap Up

Last week's eviction drove home the fact that the series is drawing to a close and the celebs time on the island is almost over. After Justin's eviction, Gabby reveals her annoyance to the girls that she wasn't kept in the loop and discussion follows between all survivors. Gabby vows to change her attitude from now on and play to win! David is left as the only guy on the island and immediately assumes he will always win immunity against the girls.

Gabby, David & Imogen go hunting for food, finding a banana tree with ripe, yellow banana's on it. It's Nicole's wedding anniversary today and she's missing her family and husband terribly, so she stays back at camp to do some cleaning up! The girls shovel their 'nanas into their mouths as quickly as possible, collecting more to take to the camp for later. Its the sweetest thing they have tasted in a while, so they are a little more excited than a banana would normally make them.

The first challenge is called a Tam Tam Smash, where each team mate has a totem pole dressed like them. There are 3 knots in a rope on each, all 3 have to be cut for it to fall over. When it falls over, the player is eliminated. The last remaining player wins immunity. But before anyone can take a shot, they have to earn the right!

This bit requires a little brutal honesty! Dicko asks a question such as this first one, "Who is the least clever in the group?" Each housemate who gets an answer right gets to take a shot. The least clever is apparently Nicole, The messiest is Gabby who also wins the title of most likely to backstab. Hmmmm who decided these answers?!

To make the challenge even sweeter, the 4 remaining survivors are surprised by a visiting helicopter holding Nicole's husband, Gabby's best friend, David's wife and Imogen's dear friend, Sara-Marie. The reward is a beach front villa for a night with their loved one, a giant feast and a full night's sleep in a king sized bed.

David starts by knocking out one of Gabby's knots, followed by Gabby knocking out Imogen, Nicole knocking out Gabby, Imogen knocking out David and so on until its down to David & Nicole. David opts to knock out his own rope so Nicole can spend her 16th wedding anniversary with her husband. Their reunion is romantic as it is corny, as you'd expect, but its topped off with a video message from Nicole's kids & tear ducts around the country got a work out.

The immunity challenge requires swimming, but I was too distracted to listen to the rest of the instructions because I thought a sea creature had lodged itself on one of the contestants heads. Alas, it was the loved ones coming to help with the challenge, and the new fashion for this season is bathing caps!

Anyway, David swam the fastest and won immunity, Gabby got voted out, and then there were 3!

You know what that means? Only 3