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"The Amazing Race" History & Behind The Scenes Moments
The Amazing Race is back—but 1 of your favourite twists isn't.
Longtime big Phil Keoghan has revealed wherefore the CBS question contention has made the determination to chopped non-elimination legs from play 34, saying that their removal is an effort to marque this chapter "different and much cutthroat."
Referencing play 33's father-daughter pair Arun and Natalia Kumar, who were saved by 2 non-elimination legs and the show's suspension owed to COVID, Keoghan said the show won't beryllium offering immoderate much 2nd shots astatine the $1 cardinal prize. "It's conscionable different mode to springiness radical different crushed to tune in," helium said. "New locations, and besides conscionable highly competitive, and nary 2nd chances."
Also caller this season? The race is beginning extracurricular the United States for the archetypal clip ever, with the contention starting successful Munich, Germany. This is due to the fact that the contestants are inactive traveling connected a charter level betwixt countries, a signifier the amusement archetypal implemented in play 33 to debar COVID exposures as overmuch arsenic possible.
"This was different, due to the fact that we're inactive moving with the charter plane," Keoghan explained. "And truthful everybody got transported to the starting line, and close retired of the gate, being successful a antithetic place, it conscionable had a wholly antithetic feel. It felt precise caller and different."
Keoghan teased that there's adjacent "a chaotic thrust to the commencement line" successful Munich during the season's premiere. Contestants volition past travel to countries similar Iceland, Spain, and, for the archetypal clip ever on The Amazing Race, Jordan.
"There's 1 country that was acceptable up that looks similar thing retired of a movie," Keoghan hinted of the travel to the country. "I won't springiness it away, different than to accidental it involves a batch of large moving pieces and has precise overmuch a Lawrence of Arabia consciousness to it."
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Season 34 contestants see erstwhile New York Jets coach Rex Ryan and play buddy Tim Mann, arsenic good arsenic Big Brother and The Challenge: USA alums Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss.
The competition begins when The Amazing Race premieres Sept. 21 connected CBS.
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