TK and Rachel, Amazing Race 12
A few days after America saw them finish first on The Amazing Race 12, $1 million winners TK and Rachel still had no clue when they would get their cashable grand prize check, whether taxes would be taken out of said check first or if it would be divided equally in two. They knew nothing. And much like they were last July when they raced 30,000 sweltering miles through eight countries and four continents, the Zen masters didn't really seem to care. "We got the big [mock] check," said Rachel who recently quit her job at her parents' flower shop. "But the real check, we don't know." But, TK added, "We should be hearing something soon."
TVGuide.com: You were pretty mellow until the very end when you two actually seemed to get agitated in the last cab ride.TK: Well, we got really lost. It wasn't particularly portrayed that way, but our cab driver didn't really know where he was going. We got turned
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Phil Keoghan greets winning team members TK and Rachel at the finish line by Monty Brinton/CBS
It’s so rare in the world of reality TV when everything ends just how I want it to. Cheers all around to the latest cycle of The Amazing Race, one of the most enjoyable runnings of the around-the-world competition in a long while. Rare for this or any show, in Sunday’s finale we were left with three teams you could easily root for instead of against. That said, my favorite team won, and the runners-up each walked away chagrined but hardly bitter, given the family bonding (between father and daughter, grandfather and grandson) that occurred along the way.Sunday’s satisfying finale came on the heels of last week’s thrilling penultimate episode, an exhilarating nail-biter that found Zen couple TK and Rachel coming from behind (having survived a last-place finish the week before on a non-elimination leg, which forced them to perform an extra “speed bump” challenge) and squeaking into the final three. This bumped the annoying and constantly squabbling Nate a...
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T.K. Erwin, Rachel Rosales, Nicolas Fulks and Donald Jerousek, Amazing Race 12
After nine cities, four continents, nearly 30,000 miles and one giant bowl of camel milk, it all comes down to this: Three of the original 11 teams are left running in The Amazing Race 12, and only one will win the $1 million prize in the Jan. 20 season finale on CBS (8 pm/ET). The finalists took a quick time-out to talk with TV Guide about what to expect, and veteran Racer Mirna Hindoyan offered her odds on who would come out on top.
Nicolas and DonBiggest weakness: "It's our lack of a killer instinct," Nicolas admits. "For much of the game, we've been playing to not be eliminated rather than to win."
Greatest strength: That has to be "our cooperation," Nicolas says. For 95 percent of the race, he figures he's been the clear leader of their team. But for the other five percent, whether it was changing a flat tire in Ireland or mining for gold in Burkina Faso,
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Jen and Nate, The Amazing Race
When they weren't fighting each other, Jennifer Parker and Nathan Hagstrom fought hard to stay in The Amazing Race 12. But, alas, luck would not have it and Taiwan was their last stop. They were eliminated after they took a local resident's advice that taking a subway would be faster than dealing with traffic in a cab. That decision dropped like a nail in the coffin of their nearly three-year relationship. Why? Read on. (Amazing Race's season finale airs Sunday at 8 pm/ET on CBS.)
TVGuide.com: Ousted on your birthday. Ouch. Did you get to celebrate in any way?Jen: Once we got back we went out with family. But being in Taipei, Taiwan, that was enough for me.
TVGuide.com: Speaking of Taipei, you two know Taiwan and Thailand are two differ
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Kynt Cothron and Vyxsin Fiala, The Amazing Race
As Amazing Race fans know, no team was eliminated this week. But to tide you over till the next episode, here's an interview with America's favorite ousted racing Goths, Kynt Cothron and Vyxsin Fiala. Alternately called the Pinks, Team Goth or "the Freaks," the heavily eyelinered pair gave us a bright glimpse of the Goth side — until they got lost in Italy and were forced to face a new race penalty (the speed bump) in India. But like the "Goth Energizer Bunnies" they like to call themselves, Kynt and Vyxsin kept going and going. And just when it looked like they might pull off one mother of a comeback, they U-turned the wrong team, then forgot to grab all their gas-delivery receipts. Like Kynt would say, "Oh my Goth," that sucks.
TVGuide.com: You two rocked the yoga speed bump but then you blew the U-turn. How the heck did you pick Gramps and Nick over Nate and Jen?Kynt: It seems so e
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Azaria and Hendekea Azene, The Amazing Race
Brother and sister engineers Azaria and Hendekea Azene seemed like a final-three team for sure. They won three of the first five legs and often operated like a well-oiled genetically linked machine. But they showed up at an airport gate with a forbidden business-class ticket and it was back to start. Just goes to show you can never get too comfortable on The Amazing Race 12 (Sundays, 8 pm/ET, CBS).
TVGuide.com: Once more for the record: Please explain how you ended up with the wrong type of ticket to Dubrovnik.Hendekea: Luck. The ticketing agent ended up giving us business class even though Azaria said economy.
TVGuide.com: Did you do any "Hey it wasn't our fault" begging that they didn't show on camera? Azaria: No. I don't even know if we remembered that we'd said economy.Hendekea: Everything happened so quickly.Azaria: We got our ticket
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The Amazing Race by Robert Voets/CBS
CBS has greenlit production on a 13th cycle of The Amazing Race, which currently is in the midst of Season 12.... VH1 has ordered new seasons of Celebrity Fit Club and Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show — each of which will have a twist. Per the Reporter, Fit Club will feature former cast members versus new D-listers, while Ego Trip's Miss Rap Supreme (as the follow-up is titled) will search for the next great female MC.... VH1 has also OK'd Viva Hollywood!, in which 12 Latino and Latina contestants aspire to be telenovela stars.
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Shana Wall and Jennifer McCall, The Amazing Race
Their bickering and poor navigation skills may have gotten Shana Wall and Jennifer McCall (aka the Blondes, Part 2) ousted from The Amazing Race 12, but it's their videotaped words that haunt them. On the road, they were full of zippy one-liners and quips they found funny in the moment. But as they've played back in prime time, they've painted the women in an unflattering light, teaching us all a lesson: Be careful what you say when you're on The Race, as your words may be used against you.
TVGuide.com: What do you do in your daily lives that allowed you to take time off for the Race?Jennifer McCall: Neither of us could just take off. I'm a legal assistant. I had to do six weeks worth of work to cover myself so I wouldn't lose my job. I had to work almost 18-hour days to make up for the time that I was gone. And Shana made big sacrifices.Shan
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Jason Clarke and Jason Isaacs in Brotherhood by Jim Fiscus/Showtime
This Sunday, it sure didn't feel as if the sweeps month had already ended. Major pivotal episodes of ABC's hit series, a movie special on CBS (one of the better Hallmark Hall of Fames to air in a while) and, somewhat lost in the shuffle, a season finale of one of TV's more underappreciated dramas. That's a lot to digest.First off, the watercooler show of the night was unquestionably Desperate Housewives, capping an above-par season with the long-awaited arrival of a devastating twister. The circumstances were just about as far-fetched as most things that happen in this diverting comedic soap, but that final shot of a flattened Wisteria Lane was truly apocalyptic. Lynnette’s banshee screech would have been justified even if she hadn’t just realized the house where her family had hunkered down in the basement was buried in rubble. Outstanding.(For the record, I side with those who think that Ida, the owner of the wayward cat, is probably the “friend” referred to in...
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Lorena Segura and Jason Widener, The Amazing Race
In the fourth leg of The Amazing Race 12 (Sundays, 8 pm/ET, CBS), the powers-that-be replaced the dreaded Yield with a new surprise — the U-Turn, a tool that allows one team to send a trailing team back to do the other half of the detour they intentionally chose not to do. It's evil. And when the Blondes used it, actors Lorena Segura and Jason Widener became its first victims even though they technically did nothing wrong. Talk about bad luck.
TVGuide.com: What did you think when you saw last night's episode and realized that the Blondes had a case of mistaken identity when they activated your U-Turn?Jason: It was just bad luck. [Laughs] They saw T.K. and Rachel but they thought it was Lorena and I. If they'd have known that was T.K. and Rachel…Lorena: … they wouldn't have used it.
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