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Though time for mingling remained in brief supply with discussions with rivals off-camera prohibited (“They’re still doing a show,” Big Easy notes. “So it’d be hard to explain why this team doesn’t like this team”), rivals still discovered minutes to bond.
Flight Time: I’d state that we gave way more good friends along the race than we did opponents. Zev [Glassenberg] and Justin [Kanew] were actually buddies of ours. Mallory [Ervin] and her papa [Gary Ervin] from the 2nd season that we did. Kisha [Hoffman] and Jen [Hoffman], I suggest everyone. Even Brian [Kleinschmidt] and Ericka [Dunlap], we’re still good friends with Brian to this day. (Kleinschmidt and Dunlap separated in 2011.)
Kilmer-Purcell: Everyone is actually good. The Twinnies [sisters Natalie and Nadiya Anderson] are a few of the most competitive, greatest girls we have actually ever satisfied to this day. And, you understand, they showed it, going on to Survivor They pertained to our wedding event!
Victor Jih: It’s like we made this relationship in the middle of a terrible circumstance that each time I see them, it’s practically as if I’ve never ever been apart from them. I’ve been to 2 of their wedding events, [The White Lotus creator] Mike White put me in his HBO program, Enlightened I have not talked with a few of them for months and even years, however when you do, there’s such a typical bond.
Tammy Jih: I understood that I presently deal with another Amazing Race winner and a Survivor winner and we are all AsianAmerican Pre- pandemic we had actually prepared to talk to the Asian-American affinity group at our business about our experience in it. Because, traditionally, Asians have actually not been represented a lot in tv and even on truth tv.
DeJong: We saw Bertram and Elise out on the course too. It was enjoyable to have the imaginative group right there with us recording us, teasing none people having the ability to see these searching boats. So it simply seemed like you belong to a household from the outset.
