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Our Geeks wake up brimming with confidence with their brand new looks following their mega makeovers. It’s set to be a huge day.

with the Beauty and the Geek competition nearing an end, they have their final exam ahead of them. Here the Geeks enter the Beauties’ world and go speed dating while the Beauties become trivia masters.

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Teams will put everything they’ve learned from the experience to the ultimate test before the top three pairs are announced.

“You’ll need to draw on everything you’ve learned about each others’ worlds to thrive in this challenge. You’ll be competing as a couple, but working separately,” Sophie tells the contestants.

For the Geeks, Sophie has staged a real-life speed dating event. The top performing Geeks will be those that best impress the single ladies. While the Beauties need to tap into their inner Geek and host their own trivia night. Here they have to write their own questions based on their partner’s passion.

The winning team will be safe from elimination and go straight through to the Grand Finale.

The first Geek to try his hand at speed dating is Aaron. It’s a big moment for the Geek who is feeling the pressure about making small talk.

But going into the situation armed with Karly’s advice, Aaron walks into his first date confidently and strikes up a conversation.

There’s one lady in particular who takes him by surprise.

“It actually did feel like I was lost at the moment,” he says.

The really pair hit it off as Aaron re-enacts a scene from titanica with her.

“The old me would have never had the confidence, but it’s now time for the new me to carry on forever,” he beams.

Next up is Chris, and the Yu-Gi-Oh! fanatic comfortably makes small talk with the women at the event. He gets complimented on him for his great eye-contact, which is something he struggled with in the past.

He even builds up the courage to get one of their numbers for a second date.

“That’s something I would have never considered or risked doing once upon a time,” he says.

The final Geek to try his hand at speed dating is Michael, and he has the challenge of dealing with being hit on by some of the women.

The compliments are flowing for the Geek who looks visibly uncomfortable with the situation after recently making his relationship with Tara official. But he handles it like a gentleman and tells the woman that he’s taken.

Over at the Beauties’ trivia night, the girls are judged on their knowledge and if they can pass as convincing trivia nerds.

Karly hosts train-themed trivia and does really well at impressing the crowd. While Tara asks a bunch of questions based on superheroes and does well at keeping her cool.

Tegan has written some questions on Harry Potter, and despite some minor microphone issues, she transcends the room into a wizarding world of magic.

Sophie announces the best performing couple is Aaron and Karly, which means they are safe from elimination and straight through to the Grand Finale.

But before we find out who the bottom two couples are, the contestants head out on their final dates.

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It’s a particularly important moment for Michael, who wants to put his heart on the line and confesses his feelings to Tara.

He organizes a romantic picnic in the park and feels like it’s the perfect opportunity to drop the L-bomb on the Beauty.

“I have definitely fallen for you and I can see myself falling in love with you,” he tells her.

Without any hesitation, Tara confesses she feels the same way before the pair share a kiss.

“He is very easy to fall in love with. I didn’t think I could ever meet someone that could actually make me believe in love again,” Tara tells the camera.

For Bri and Chris, the Beauty opens up about how much the Geek has helped her grow during the experience.

“He’s made me feel safe, he’s opened his ears when I needed him to listen to me and I feel like he’s really helping me get my zest for life back,” she reveals.

The Beauty gets emotional while opening up about her past relationship and going through hardships, before admitting she feels like he’s helped her get the “old Bri back”.

But the time has come for another elimination and Sophie reveals that Michael and Tara and Tegan and Anthony will battle it out for the remaining Grand Finale spot.

It’s the most nail-biting elimination challenge yet, but in the final round of the quiz Anthony and Tegan manage to take the win, sending Michael and Tara home.

While it is an emotional farewell, the couple are excited to take their relationship out into the real world.

“I definitely feel like I’ve won in so many ways, I’ve had such an amazing time and losing now doesn’t take any of it away,” Michael says.

“I think we have so many more amazing experiences to come, and now we get to go live them,” Tara adds.

And just like that our final three couples are revealed, with just one challenge left until the winner of Beauty and the Geek 2022 is crowned.

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A spokesperson for Taylor Swift has denied that the US pop star is responsible for “most or all” of the trips taken on her private jet after she was alleged to be the highest-use celebrity by sustainability marketing firm Yard, calling the claim “blatantly incorrect”.

Yard’s survey found that Swift’s plane has taken 170 flights between 1 January and 29 July 2022, clocking up 15.9 days in the air with an average flight time of 80 minutes and 139.36 miles per flight. The total flight emissions for 2022 were calculated at 8,293.54 tonnes – 1,184.8 times more than the average person’s total annual emissions.

“Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals,” the spokesperson told the Guardian, declining further comment.

Yard compiled data from the Celebrity Jets Twitter accountwhich automatically tracks certain aircraft, to highlight “the damaging impact of private jet usage” after fans called out celebrities such as Drake, Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner for taking strikingly short flights at a time of profound climate crisis.

In July, Jenner, who is in a relationship with Scott, posted a photo of their respective jets to Instagram with the caption: “you wanna take mine or yours?” The Celebrity Jets Twitter account found that Jenner’s flight later that day lasted just 17 minutes.

Drake attempted to defend his use of a vast private plane – a $185m Boeing 767 that typically seats hundreds of people, modified to his tastes – for a series of sub-20-minute flights by saying that the aircraft was being moved to a storage location and had no passengers on board. One fan responded: “OK but that’s worse, you don’t see how that’s worse?”

While Scott clocked in at No 10 in Yard’s survey, neither Drake nor Jenner featured in the 10 worst offenders list. Swift was closely followed by boxer Floyd Mayweather, with emissions of 7,076.8 tonnes of CO2, and Jay-Z, with 6,981.3 tonnes.

Former baseball player Alex Rodriguez ranked at No 4, country singer Blake Shelton at No 5, director Steven Spielberg at No 6, Kim Kardashian at No 7, Mark Wahlberg at No 8, Oprah Winfrey at No 9 and Scott at No 10.

Private jets emit more than 33m tonnes of greenhouse gases each year – more than the country of Denmark. Their slight passenger loads mean that they are five to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes per passenger, and 50 times more polluting than trains. Just 1% of the global population is responsible for half of the emissions associated with flying.

The CelebJets Twitter and Instagram accounts are run by Jack Sweeney, a student coder at the University of Central Florida who has previously tracked the movements of Russian oligarchs and tech mogul Elon Musk, who reportedly offered him $5,000 to stop tracking his movements. “The amount of time and dedication I have put into it is cool,” Sweeney told Bloomberg. “$5k isn’t enough to drop it.”

Yard digital sustainability director Chris Butterworth said: “It’s easy to get lost in the dazzling lives of the rich and famous, but, unfortunately, they’re a massive part of the CO2e problem we have with the aviation industry. Aviation is responsible for 2.4% of human-produced CO2e every year, and research shows a vast divide between the super-rich and the rest of us regarding flights, travel, and even general emissions.”

Yard stated that its research was “not conclusive to the biggest offenders, but the biggest offenders according to the data as presented on the Celebrity Jets Twitter page” and said it was not clear whether the planes’ respective owners were on each flight.