In your recent Ask Matt ...
Rob and Amber Mariano, The Amazing Race
Question: In your recent Ask Matt
column, you said that
The Amazing Race still blows a lot of us away. I definitely agree with you on that one! The show is nothing short of amazing in all aspects, and it definitely deserves another Emmy nod. The upcoming all-star
Amazing Race stars some of my favorite past racers: Joyce and Uchenna, Charla and Mirna, etc. But I am not happy about Rob and Amber — is it really necessary for them to be on a second race when they've already been on
Survivor (and won!) what seems to be 10 billion times? Enough with those two already! Like they really need more money? And they have another reality show about Rob becoming a poker pro. As the staff at Seattle Grace would say, "Seriously!" I am from Boston myself and do not sound like Rob — he embarrasses us with his uneducated, overly thick accent. It's torturous to see him on the
Race again, or anywhere on TV for that matter. Normally I would root for a fellow Bostonian, but in this case, I hope he falls in some "Dirty Water"!
Answer: I certainly agree, as you can see in my recent
Dispatch on the all-star
Race casting. But now that I think about it and see more comments like this, maybe it's precisely because Romber inflames such passions (some of them quite positive, as I've previously published) that the producers still look at them as the equivalent of good box-office draws. As I also noted, at least it gives us nonfans a team to root against.
