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Pete beats Denise, tying things up again, so it’s down to one last round between Malcolm and Michael. However, this time it is Michael’s turn to flip the wrong drum and red team win reward. “Carter, you might want to try a pedicure," Probst suggests. Carter shakes his fingers and says “I need one," so Probst has to clarify that a pedicure is for the feet. Oh Probst, you unashamed metrosexual.

We see the reward winners being taken to their spa day. They all arrive on the beach and high five each other. Malcolm, in interview wearing a robe, holding a cocktail and wearing a yellow towel on his head that really should be featured in a speech made by his future best man, describes the set-up. Blah blah, it’s a spa. Then he gets everyone to agree that as they are all young people, they not talk strategy and just take the day off. Spa day! Yay!

Malcolm interviews that he didn’t want to talk strategy because the people he wants to play with are all back at camp. Pete, however, is feeling good about Malcolm’s “let’s not talk strategy” plan. Dummy. “No old people! I love it!” says Abi.

We also see some spa day hedonism where Malcolm is lounging in a tub while Carter feeds him grapes. Another one for the best man speech. Meanwhile, Abi is talking about the food – I don’t think she has been on reward before – and eating far too much. Also, she feels like “a princess… a queen."

We don’t even see what the reward losers were talking about back at camp – they must have been taking it stoically – because next thing you know the winners are arriving back at camp. “Look at their hair,” exclaims Lisa. She’s obviously talking about Malcolm, who has hair not dissimilar to Lisa when she was on The Facts of Life. I think Lisa would give up immunity for a curling wand and some hairspray.

Abi’s stomach is playing up and according to her it feels like a “three-month baby cooking inside." Does this mean she once ate a baby? Because I’ll believe a lot of mean stuff about Abi, but that may be too far. Anyway, once she’s back from the bushes, she talks about how great the food was. In interview, Michael moans about how Abi flaunted the reward and how “downright cruel” she was. Lisa, desperate to hear from someone other than Abi, ask Carter what his favorite part was. But the slow-talker gets in about three words before Abi decides "the salsas were amazing" message is not getting out fast enough.

Abi felt that she was “like a peasant here, and then a fairy came along and *ping* I became Cinderella." “Yeah, the rewards are cool,” says Jonathan, who cannot give a crap.

Malcolm interviews that Abi has “All the social grace of a Mack truck." The old people are all sitting together, with Lisa saying “No holding back for her” and Denise agreeing “No social skills. Zero." Abi overhears. “Whoa, me? What’s up with me? Did I hear my name?” No, not at all, the others protest. “Maybe I’m deaf,” says Abi, who lies back down. Yes, in a manner of speaking.

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