‘Amazing Race’ Host Phil Keoghan Says Season 33 Has a ‘Very Different Feeling’ After Pausing Production for 20 Months Due to COVID-19
usmagazine.comOnce again, the world is waiting for you. The Amazing Race finally returns nearly two years after production was halted due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.We caught up with host Phil Keoghan before the Wednesday, January 5, premiere to get some insight into the filming of season 33 and what fans can expect.“It was easy to make the decision only because we sort of had a plan in place earlier,” the longtime host, 54, exclusively tells Us Weekly of pausing shooting. “We knew how we were gonna deal with it, but it was also very difficult to stop it just because knowing the sacrifices that people had made to be on The Amazing Race.
It’s a big deal to leave your families. People take breaks from their jobs. And so, to suddenly say, ‘Hey, I’m sorry, all of this is over right now.
Go home,’ It’s not easy.”Still, Keoghan was confident the long-running CBS series, which premiered in 2001, would pick back up when it was safe to do so.“I never worried about the show coming back,” he says. “I just knew, but I did worry about us being away too long because fans losing hope that we wouldn’t come back.
I mean, we’re always gonna come back. It’s just a long time for people to have to wait. And also, we want to restart with the same cast.
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