The Complete Oral History of The Amazing Race

Although time for socializing was in limited supply with conversations with opponents off-digicam forbidden (“They are even now executing a present,” Major Quick notes. “So it’d be challenging to reveal why this staff won’t like this team”), competition continue to discovered times to bond. 

Flight Time: I’d say that we designed way much more pals together the race than we did enemies. Zev [Glassenberg] and Justin [Kanew] had been definitely excellent buddies of ours. Mallory [Ervin] and her father [Gary Ervin] from the 2nd season that we did. Kisha [Hoffman] and Jen [Hoffman], I signify all people. Even Brian [Kleinschmidt] and Ericka [Dunlap], we are continue to close friends with Brian to this working day. (Kleinschmidt and Dunlap divorced in 2011.)

Kilmer-Purcell: Everyone is definitely pleasant. The Twinnies [sisters Natalie and Nadiya Anderson] are some of the most aggressive, strongest youthful ladies we have ever achieved to this day. And, you know, they proved it, going on to Survivor. They arrived to our marriage ceremony!

Victor Jih: It’s like we created this friendship in the middle of a traumatic situation that each and every time I see them, it can be just about as if I’ve in no way been apart from them. I have been to two of their weddings, [The White Lotus creator] Mike White place me in his HBO present, Enlightened. I haven’t talked to some of them for months or even several years, but when you do, you can find this kind of a popular bond.

Tammy Jih: I recognized that I now do the job with another Amazing Race winner and a Survivor winner and we are all Asian American. Pre-pandemic we had prepared to discuss to the Asian-American affinity team at our firm about our expertise in it. Since, traditionally, Asians have not been represented a lot in television or even on reality television.

DeJong: We noticed Bertram and Elise out on the course also. It was enjoyable to have the artistic workforce proper there with us filming us, earning exciting of none of us becoming ready to see these hunting boats. So it just felt like you might be portion of a household from the get-go.