I’m excited for a new season of The Amazing Race. Today, CBS announced the 11 new teams for the 21st installment of the race—and it looks like a great mix of personalities and for the most part really strong teams! Check out the list below and let us know who you’ll be rooting for. The new season begins on this year’s most packed premiere night (and my birthday!) Sunday, September 30 at 8pm.
CBS ANNOUNCES THE CAST FOR THE 21ST INSTALLMENT OF THE EIGHT-TIME EMMY AWARD-WINNING SERIES “THE AMAZING RACE”
This Season’s Cast Includes a Heavy Metal Rocker, a Double Amputee Professional Snowboarder, a World Champion Lumberjack, “The Fabulous Beekman Boys” and Chippendales Dancers
In a Series First, This Season’s Teams Have the Opportunity to Win the Largest Grand Prize Ever, $2 Million Dollars
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CBS announced today the 11 teams that will travel the world on a global adventure for the new season of THE AMAZING RACE, premiering Sunday, Sept. 30 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Emmy Award nominee Phil Keoghan is the host.
THE AMAZING RACE has won the Emmy Award for “Outstanding Reality-Competition Program” eight times in the past nine years.
This season, which marks the 21st race around the world for the series, will introduce a new twist to the game that will raise the stakes for the entire season. If the Team that wins the first leg of the season can outrace the other 10 Teams and win the final leg of the Race, they will double their money and win a $2 million grand prize instead of $1 million.
Teams will travel through three continents, nine countries and cover more than 25,000 miles, where they’ll be faced with a 10-story rappel in Los Angeles, frying an egg on their heads in Indonesia, working as “rat collectors” in Bangladesh and revisiting one of the Race’s most infamous Roadblocks in the Netherlands in this season’s “Switchback.”
This season’s cast includes a pair of Chippendales dancers, married monster truckers, a world champion lumberjack, a double amputee professional snowboarder and Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge (“The Fabulous Beekman Boys”).
Following are the 11 teams, listed in no particular order:
Name: Natalie Anderson
Age: 26
Hometown: Edgewater, N.J.
Current occupation: Physical Therapy StudentName: Nadiya Anderson
Age: 26
Hometown: Edgewater, N.J.
Current occupation: Project Coordinator at Bridge2PeaceConnection: Twin Sisters
Name: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Age: 43
Hometown: Sharon Springs, N.Y.
Current occupation: Goat Farmer/Advertising Executive/AuthorName: Brent Ridge
Age: 38
Hometown: Sharon Springs, N.Y.
Current occupation: Chief Executive Officer of Beekman 1802Connection: Goat Farmers/Life Partners
Name: Rob French
Age: 46
Hometown: Boston, Ga.
Current occupation: Professional Monster Truck DriverName: Kelley Carrington-French
Age: 50
Hometown: Boston, Ga.
Current occupation: Professional Monster Truck DriverConnection: Married Monster Truckers
Name: Trey Wier
Age: 23
Hometown: Austin, Texas
Current occupation: Land Consultant/Former College AthleteName: Alexis “Lexi” Beerman
Age: 22
Hometown: Dripping Springs, Texas
Current occupation: Clothing DesignerConnection: Dating
Name: James LoMenzo
Age: 53
Hometown: Burbank, Calif.
Current occupation: Professional Musician/
Former Band Member of White Lion and MegadethName: Mark “Abba” Abbattista
Age: 45
Hometown: Denver, Colo.
Current occupation: Entertainment LawyerConnection: Friends
Name: Abbie Ginsberg
Age: 31
Hometown: Encinitas, Calif.
Current occupation: Dance Instructor/ChoreographerName: Ryan Danz
Age: 35
Hometown: San Diego, Calif.
Current occupation: Financial Service Company OwnerConnection: Dating Divorcees
Name: Jaymes Vaughan
Age: 30
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev.
Current occupation: Chippendales MCName: James Davis
Age: 27
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev.
Current occupation: Chippendales DancerConnection: Chippendales Dancers/Best Friends
Name: Rob Scheer
Age: 52
Hometown: Ketchikan, Alaska
Current occupation: Lumberjack and EntrepreneurName: Sheila Castle
Age: 44
Hometown: Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
Current occupation: Retail ManagerConnection: Engaged
Name: Caitlin King
Age: 24
Hometown: St. Louis, Mo.
Current occupation: Special Ed TeacherName: Brittany Fletcher
Age: 25
Hometown: Chicago, Ill.
Current occupation: Medical Device SalesConnection: Best Friends
Name: Gary Wojnar
Age: 52
Hometown: Livonia, Mich.
Current occupation: Substitute TeacherName: Will Chiola
Age: 53
Hometown: Dearborn Heights, Mich.
Current occupation: Substitute TeacherConnection: Best Friends/Substitute Teachers
Name: Amy Purdy
Age: 32
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev.
Current occupation: Motivational Speaker/Snowboarder
(Amy is a double amputee)Name: Daniel Gale
Age: 36
Hometown: Crested Butte, Colo.
Current occupation: Executive DirectorConnection: Dating On and Off
THE AMAZING RACE sends 11 teams on a trek around the world. Each Team is comprised of two people who have a pre-existing relationship with one another. At every destination, each Team competes in a series of challenges — some mental and some physical — and when the tasks have been completed, they learn their next destination. Teams who are farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning at least $1 million.
Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri and Mark Vertullo are the executive producers for Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Earthview Inc. in association with ABC Studios and Amazing Race Productions. THE AMAZING RACE was created by Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri.