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♥TAR13 Anita Jones & Arthur Jones *Married beekeepers*
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Some Anita and Arthur love :<3
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Great Interview from Reality Heaven:
--- Quote ---Reality Heaven: Were your decisions to tryout for Amazing Race 13, spur of the moment, or did you mull this idea over for a time, before submitting for the competition?
A: It was pretty much a spur of the moment thing. Anita saw an ad soliciting applicants for TAR and turned to me saying “Let’s do a video.” We are sweeties. Arthur said yes, and we spent 2 hours Sunday afternoon filming at our blueberry farm. Arthur edited it on the computer that evening, and we sent it off Monday morning. It was a lot of fun. (We never dreamed.)
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--- Quote ---Reality Heaven: What was your main motivation? The prize? The experience? The competition? All of these?
A: We went on the race for the experience of it. The fun factor is just incredible!
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--- Quote ---Reality Heaven: In your own words, could you tell me how your Amazing Race adventure changed you; if at all? What did this experience give to you, that you were able to take home inside of you?
A: Other than drawing a lot of attention to us, we can’t say that it has changed our lives. We still feel we are the same folks that sent in the video. Arthur has noticed a bit of shameless self-promotion in himself that he hadn’t seen before. We now have a joy and mindfulness of what a wonderful world is out there. We knew it instinctively, but now have it in our hearts. A memory to look back on an smile.
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You can read the rest here:
http://realityheaven.com/?p=345
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They are going to be fun to watch for as long as they're in the race.
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Some Anita & Arthur love :hearts:
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EUGENE COUPLE ALL ABUZZ ABOUT ‘RACE’ By Mark Baker
The Register-Guard
Published: September 28, 2008
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Take a gander at the thumbnail images on CBS’s Web site for the new season of “The Amazing Race” and try to guess which pair is from Eugene.
Could it be … the couple in tie-dye?
Bingo.
Arthur and Anita Jones are not only the oldest contestants on the 13th edition of the hit reality-TV show, they are perhaps the most colorful — figuratively and literally.
“You don’t think you’re going to get on (the show),” Arthur Jones, 61, who works in playground maintenance for the city of Eugene, says of the application process. “It’s like buying a lottery ticket.”
Spend some time with the energetic quintessential Eugene hippies with the infectious zest for life, though, and you quickly realize why they were selected. Who could resist them?
The Joneses applied last November and were selected in February for “The Amazing Race 13” that was filmed on five continents between April 17 and May 15. The season premiere airs at 8 p.m. today on CBS. Whether you’ll see them in the second episode next week, or in subsequent episodes, well, they can’t say. All contestants sign confidentiality contracts punishable by a $10 million penalty, says Arthur Jones, sitting with his wife in the backyard of their Eugene home on the northwest edge of the Whitaker neighborhood. In fact, they are not even allowed to say where in the world the show took them, although its already been reported that the first episode begins in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the first clue whisks the 12 teams off to Brazil. Subsequent episodes were shot in Bolivia, Russia, India and Kazakhstan, the former Soviet state best known now as the fictional home of “Borat,” the absurd character created by comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen.
Maybe the Joneses won the 30,000-mile, 23-day race and will soon receive their $1 million check? You’ll have to watch to find out.
The couple is the third pair with a Eugene connection to be on “The Amazing Race.” In 2004, twins Kami and Karli French, then living in Eugene, were on the show’s fifth season. They finished fifth out of 11 teams. In 2005, former University of Oregon track and field athlete Uchenna Agu, and his wife, Joyce, of Houston won the whole thing and the $1 million first-place prize in the seventh version of the show.
“We just did it on a whim,” says Anita Jones, 63. “It’s my favorite show.” She began watching when the French twins were on and got hooked.
To apply, potential contestants mail in a video of themselves. The Joneses sent in a humorous three-minute tape shot in their beekeeper outfits, mimicking the show by ripping open an envelope for a clue, tossing some compost into the air and playing up their aging hippie image.
Then they waited. For more than a month.
Sometime after Christmas, someone from the show — which has won six straight “Outstanding Reality-Competition Program” Emmy Awards — called wanting more information. Then they requested a second videotape that would demonstrate why a couple in their 60s could compete in an around-the-world race against 20-somethings. And the tape had to be sent within three days.
The next day, the Joneses drove to Willamette Pass and filmed each other skiing and clowning around on the slopes. Then they shot footage of themselves climbing an old growth fir and splitting wood in their backyard. They sent that tape off, and then they waited once again.
The call to pack their bags and come to Hollywood came in February. Once there, the couple went through more screening and were selected as one of 12 twosomes for the show, along with a cast that includes a former professional football player and his wife, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and her actor brother, and pretty best-friend blondes from South Carolina in their matching pink sweat suits.
Whether they’re only in one or all episodes, you’ll always see the grandparents of two in their trademark tie-dye representing the hometown.
But will we see Joneses trying to keep up with everyone else, or will everyone else be trying to keep up with the Joneses? The couple won’t say because they can’t say.
They will only say that it was the experience of a lifetime, and that they prepared by going to Emerald Park and swimming laps and running.
“Anybody who’s even thinking about doing it, should,” says Anita Jones, a retired paralegal who spends her days in the couple’s lush garden, or donning her beekeeper outfit and packaging honey to sell at Saturday Market, or working on the blueberry farm.
The most difficult part of being on the show is trying to keep mum about it all, the couple says. Until Aug. 19, when promotions began for the new season, they couldn’t even reveal what reality show they were on, except to their three grown children, who also had to sign confidentiality contracts.
The Joneses plan to watch at home tonight with their children and grandchildren. Even if they only last one episode, even if they didn’t come in first or make the final three-team episode, the couple says they won just by participating. And they say they would do it all over again given the chance.
“It was the most fun we’ve ever had standing up,” Arthur Jones says.
http://www.registerguard.com/web/news/story.csp?cid=131256&sid=105&fid=35
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