‘The Amazing Race’ Season 33 Winners Kim and Penn Holderness Reveal What Helped Them Score $1 Million Prize

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First to cross the finish line! Spoiler alert: Kim and Penn Holderness were crowned the winning team during The Amazing Race season 33 finale, which aired on Wednesday, March 2.Their million-dollar success was a big secret that the Raleigh, North Carolina, couple had been keeping quiet for the past six months.“It feels real for the first time,” Kim, 45, told Us Weekly exclusively after watching the finale with her family and other teams at a viewing party at Daer Nightclub in Hollywood, Florida. “It did happen six months ago, but we’ve not been able to tell anybody about it, including our kids [Lola, 15, and Penn Charles, 12], so to see it on the big screen for the first time, it finally feels real and it’s amazing.”The internet personalities crossed the finish line at Dignity Health Sports Park in California before runners-up Raquel Moore and Cayla Platt.

Best friends Ryan Ferguson and Dusty Harris placed third, and father-daughter duo Arun Kumar and Natalia Kumar landed in fourth during the last episode of the season.“We won because she took notes,” Penn, 47, told Us at The Amazing Race party hosted by Lulu and Lala Gonzalez and Celebrity Sports Entertainment. “We got there by working together, but in the end, I mean she was crazy about [taking notes].

Every night we went to bed, we didn’t have much else to do, so we studied what we did the day before.”From the beginning, Kim believed she and her husband had a chance at making it to the finale. “I have to say, I thought we would do well because we were so prepared,” she confessed. “I knew we wouldn’t win the physical challenges necessarily, but we held our own there.