‘The Amazing Race’ Season 34 Cast Revealed: Big Brother’s Derek and Claire, Former NFL Coach Rex Ryan and More Competing
usmagazine.comFrom being stuck in a house together to racing around the world! Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss, who met on Big Brother and started dating after the show, are set to compete on the upcoming season of The Amazing Race.The product manager, 24, and AI engineer, 25, will be racing for the $1 million prize among 11 other pairs, including former NFL coach Rex Ryan and his friend Tim Mann, who are described as “golf buddies” from Tennessee.
The cast also includes ballroom dancers, newlyweds and even long-lost twins.The Emmy-winning series hosted by Phil Keoghan kicks off season 34 outside the United States, traveling to Munich, Germany, for the starting line.
The teams will also venture to Petra, Jordan, where they’ll ride a train and experience “a scene reminiscent of the 1963 Oscar-winning film Lawrence of Arabia,” according to a CBS press release, and “perform a Jordanian folk dance and learn the Arabic alphabet.”And for the first time in the long-running show’s history, there will be no non-elimination legs this season.
Other filming locations will include Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Iceland and finally Nashville, where the winning team will cross the finish line.As for Derek and Claire, they recently moved cross-country from New York City to Los Angeles together. “We’re moving out to L.A.,” Derek exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month after his elimination from another CBS series, The Challenge: USA.
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