“Amazing Race: All Stars” Cast Revealed
CBS announced the 11 returning teams for the next season of The Amazing Race on Tuesday morning, a group that includes only a single former winner: Joyce and Uchenna Agu, who took the million dollars home after Season 7. Among the interesting twists is the mixed team of Eric Sanchez and Danielle “Dee” Turner. Although they competed on separate teams in Season 9 (he finished second, while she was in seventh), they met and have been dating since soon after. The show debuts Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. ET.
How did Race challenge contestants who knew the drill? “We had to throw them curveball after curveball, because they all thought they knew what we were doing again,” Van Munster says. So the 45,000-mile, 28-day race, which ended Dec. 19, sent them “from extreme cold to extreme heat,” a desert in northern Chile to “borderline South Pole” in Antarctica. Despite producers’ all-star “reservations,” Van Munster says the season resulted in “a lot of friction right off the bat. … I’m confident we laid something on the table that will be very unexpected, and story-wise, there were plenty of fireworks.”
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11 TEAMS WILL BE:
Names: Dustin Seltzer and Kandice Pelletier
Ages: both 25
Occupations: Former beauty queens, current students
Relationship: Best friends
Previous results: Season 10, 4th place
Names: Joe Baldassare and Bill Bartek (”Team Guido”)
Ages: 56, 53
Occupations: Owns Mineral Trading Company, Realtor
Relationship: Life Partners
Previous results: Season 1, 3rd place
Names: Kevin O’Connor and Drew Feinberg
Ages: 40, 41
Occupations: Forensic Accountant, Senior Court Officer
Relationship: Lifelong friends
Previous results: Season 1, 4th Place
Names: Ozwald Mendez and Danilo Jimenez (“Team Cha-Cha-Cha”)
Ages: 36, 41
Occupations: Advertising, Paralegal
Relationship: Best friends
Previous results: Season 2, 4th Place
Names: John Vito Pietanza and Jill Aquilino
Ages: 32, 29
Occupations: Trader, Product Controller
Relationship: Formerly dating
Previous results: Season 3, 5th Place
Names: Uchenna Agu and Joyce Agu
Ages: 42, 46
Occupations: Land Developer, Sales
Relationship: Married
Previous results: Season 7 winners
Names: David Conley, Jr. and Mary Conley
Ages: 33, 32
Occupations: Coal Miner, Homemaker
Relationship: Married
Previous results: Season 10, 6th Place
Names: Charla Baklayan Faddoul and Mirna Hindoyan
Ages: both 30
Occupations: Real Estate Investor, Attorney
Relationship: Cousins
Previous results: Season 5, 6th Place
Names: Rob Mariano and Amber Mariano
Ages: 30, 28
Occupations: TV Personalities
Relationship: Married
Previous results: Season 7, 2nd Place
Names: Teri Pollack and Ian Pollack
Ages: 53, 54
Occupations: Homemaker, Private Investigator
Relationship: Married parents
Previous results: Season 3, 2nd Place
Names: Eric Sanchez and Danielle Turner
Ages: 28, 23
Occupations: Waiter, Bartender
Relationship: Dating
Previous results: Season 9, 2nd Place and 7th Place
January 16th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Rob and Amber?? Again??
*groan*
January 16th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Dustin and Kandice?? Gag me.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I have to combine both of the above comments: Rob and Amber and the blondes are set to make this season of Amazing Race unbearable. Why do Rob and Amber list their occupation as “TV personalities”? Reality tv trash is more like it. I hope they get booted first…
January 16th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I actually really like the “blondes” and Rob and Amber both. They both make amazing teams. THey are both competative and smart. People let their I’m excited to see them all. I am dissapointed that the hippies are not coming back. Would love to see them.
January 16th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
I LOVE this show! Oh good! Team Guido is back…I hope that Rob and Amber DO NOT win it…I prefer the coalminers.
January 16th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Don’t hate me…but I was hoping Rob and Amber would be back. They are nothing if not entertaining! I loved that Joyce and her man won that season because they really needed the money, but the producers stepped in and had them hold the plane for them…Rob and Amber should have won. I’ve always thought that was fixed.
February 15th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I have to agree with the first two commenters. Rob & Amber again? Ugh. The Blondies from last season’s Race? I never wanted to see them again. They were hyper-competitive, bordering on mean, when they ran the Race in Season 10. However, it would be nice to see if the coalminers from Season 10 can make as much headway this time as they did when they were part of the “Six-Pack” alliance”.