The Red Team botched this week's weight-loss challenge on The Biggest Loser (Tuesdays, 8 pm/ET on NBC) and they were bitter. Thus, Matt Kamont was declared excess baggage and sent packing. While the spirited, openly gay 25-year-old seemed like the life of the party, his teammates claimed he was self-centered and working on their nerves. Here, the Pennsylvania boy tells TV Guide Online his side of the story — especially what he thinks of his teammates' nasty comments.

TV Guide Online: First off, I loved the Elton John-inspired look donned for the oversize pop-star competition.
Matt Kamont: It wasn't supposed to be Elton John. I threw together an outfit and then Caroline Rhea said, "You look like Elton John reincarnated." They actually had to stop production for 20 minutes because she was laughing so hard.

TVGO: You seemed fun, but your team said you're annoying. What's up with that?
Matt: I don't know. I was watching [last week's show] like, "Ohh... They think I'm annoying? Screw them!" I was always just myself. Really, all I ever did was be honest, helpful, and I gave them support. I don't know why they said I wasn't supportive. Whatever. If they want, they can go in the archives and look at the videotapes. But I talked about other people, too — Ryan got annoying sometimes and Lisa got annoying with all the crying. So it wasn't a problem [that they criticized me].

TVGO: You lost 46 pounds on the show. How much have you lost since then?
Matt: As of [Tuesday] night, I weighed myself and I'd lost another two pounds, so I've lost 25 pounds since leaving.

TVGO: Are you sticking to Jillian's rules?
Matt: A little bit. I had a quarter of a quesadilla and I'm not afraid to say it. People are like, "You cheated!" I didn't cheat; I just had a quarter and I'm done and I walked away from it. I just want to enjoy food and taste stuff, which isn't a problem as long as you know when to stop, and I knew when to stop.

TVGO: Jillian seems like a drill sergeant, but you bonded with her!
Matt: She is the person that I miss the most. I loved Jillian. She's pushy when she needs to be. I'd [whine,] "Jillian, I really don't want to." She'd yell, "Get down." She's a tough one but she has a soft spot, especially for me.

TVGO: How hard was it to resist the bake sale's tempting cupcakes?
Matt: Cupcakes don't really do it for me. If it was a macaroni-and-cheese cook-off, things would have been a little different.

TVGO: You had to stop stair-climbing because of Lisa's panic attack halfway up. Think you really could've scaled all 74 flights?
Matt: Yes! I would have won that mission. Unfortunately, both team members had to cross the finish line at the same time.

TVGO: How far did you make it?
Matt: We did 34 flights in, like, 10 minutes. We [had done] running up stairs before — Jillian always liked to time us and I usually could do 10 flights in 42 seconds. I was really quick.

TVGO: Why did Lisa blame you for her freak-out?
Matt: She blamed me entirely for running too fast. But I kept saying, "Lisa, am I running too fast for you? Do you want me to calm down? You're doing great. Come on, Lisa!" I was always supportive. I was blowing on her neck and getting her water. I tried to take care of her as much as possible.

TVGO: Other than the annoyance factor, why do you think the Reds sent you home?
Matt: Unfortunately, I think people were intimidated. I can't believe Dave called me a "foolish, foolish, little boy." That comment p----d me off. But I'm not a foolish little boy anymore. I've learned a lot from that show.

Next Wednesday night, The Bachelor's Byron Velvick awards the final rose to Mary or Tanya. How did the 40-year-old bass fisherman narrow his choice down to these two ladies? Two words, kids: Niceness counts.

"Both of them weren't really malicious toward other people," Velvick says. "They weren't doing a lot of attacking and they weren't caught up in the drama of the house.

"Tanya put it best when she said, 'I'm a schoolteacher for special-ed. children. This is nothing compared to some of the classrooms I've been in.' Both she and Mary are just kindhearted women who showed they could be extremely gracious under difficult conditions. They were more stable."

By now, Bachelor fans hardly need to be reminded of the show's dismal relationship success stats. But just to be wicked, we'll do it anyway! So far, the previous five Bachelor fellas all broke up with their chosen ones, while the two Bachelorette gals have held onto their men. Is Velvick confident of enjoying greater romantic longevity than his predecessors?

"We are officially engaged," he confirms, "so I take [my relationship] seriously. I didn't watch the show before, so I didn't get in this to set or break a record. I don't feel the pressure to be the first to succeed.

"I think I found a great partner," the pragmatic outdoorsman continues. "I hope that I've met the one, but we haven't been a normal couple yet, without the cameras and the media around. I think she absolutely has potential, and this media thing will die soon enough. It's probably 11 or 12 minutes counting down into our 15 minutes. It's all going to fizzle away and then we'll see."

If you haven't heard of SpongeBob SquarePants, you've likely been living under a rock. However, most folks don't know Tom Kenny, the voice behind the cartoon pop-culture phenom. While Kenny's completely absorbed in his character — a walking, talking yellow sea sponge — he's grateful that his normal voice helps keep him anonymous, even as he hits the big screen today in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

"It would be a drag to really be Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock," Kenny says. "I think that would probably make your life fairly irritating. The fact that I don't look like [my] character, hopefully, is a nice level of separation. Because I'm not famous, the character is. It is a comfortable level of fame. I can be Clark Kent when I want to be or I can play the Superman card when I want to be the big man at the kids' birthday party.

"Being SpongeBob seems to be a little more pleasant than being Pauly Shore or Carrot Top, where people just hate you," he continues. "Most people genuinely seem to like the show. There is no one throwing things at me when I walk down the street saying, 'I hate the show!' Even the most Squidward-y of people can usually dig SpongeBob on some level. That is a nice by-product of the job."

(Just an FYI for you surface dwellers: Squidward is SpongeBob's constantly cranky neighbor.)

Although the SpongeBob flick has earned a PG rating for "mild crude humor," Kenny assures us that it's just lighthearted fun without evil intent toward young minds. "If there is anything subversive about SpongeBob, it is that it really makes an effort to not be like other shows," he insists. "[The producers] have no desire to make it Care Bears or Clifford the Big Red Dog or educational or condescending. I watch that stuff with my kid and it's 22 minutes about how it is nice to share. Give me a f----n' break. My kid knows that it is nice to share. Let's have somebody get hit in the head with a mallet."