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TAR CANADA 2 Contestants - Laura Takahashi and Jackie Skinner (Married)
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Laura Takahashi and Jackie Skinner (Married)
Laura Takahashi
Twitter: @laura_tak
Age: 28
Occupation: Media Development
Current City: Toronto
Hometown: Barrie, Ont.
Strengths: Determined, logical, creative
Fears/Phobias: Bugs
Favourite Travel Destination: Railay, Thailand
Pet Peeve about Teammate: “She vacuums before she eats breakfast.”
Jackie Skinner
Twitter: @JackieSkinz
Age: 31
Occupation: Musician
Current City: Toronto
Hometown: Oshawa, Ont.
Strengths: Understanding, willpower, communication
Fears/Phobias: “Birds flying near my head!”
Favourite Travel Destination: “I love the whole world.”
Pet Peeve about Teammate: “She leaves dried up daily contacts all over the house.”
TEAM BIO
Laura and Jackie met 15 years ago as camp counselors, quickly became close friends, and before long they began dating. Recently, after an elaborate proposal that Jackie sprung on Laura while they were travelling in Vietnam, the couple decided to take the final leap and get married.
The pair are dedicated humanitarians who enjoy travelling the world to embrace and discover breathtaking scenes in the landscapes around them, and find peace in helping others. They volunteer for many different causes and consider themselves planners and doers, always completing a task close to their hearts. However, no matter how often they explore the world, not being able to predict every scenario and being in unknown situations tends to bring a level of stress between the two of them.
“We may struggle as a team with problem solving challenges,” said Laura. “But Jackie will do well with anything thrilling – the bigger the better!” “Laura will be good at memory challenges,” adds Jackie.
Winning 'The Amazing Race Canada' would affirm their belief that they can accomplish anything together as women. They have many helpful mentors in their lives and would like to now be role models themselves.
Motto: “No hesitation.”
Team they most associate with from Season 1: Vanessa and Celina.
Leafsfan.:
Laura and Jackie say being used to spending 24 hours a day together will give them the edge on 'The Amazing Race Canada'
Laura Takahashi and Jackie Skinner already live together, work together and travel together and they’re excited to spend even more time together running “The Amazing Race Canada.” In fact, this married couple from Toronto thinks it’s exactly what’s going to give them the edge.
“We literally probably are with each 24 hours a day most days. We really know each other’s strengths and weaknesses and really just rely on each other . . . I’m pretty stoked. I think it’s going to be pretty exciting,” says Jackie, 31, a musician.
“We’ll have the opportunity to take leadership roles at different times because we know what each other’s strengths are and we’ll be able to really feel each other and make sure we’re on the same page all the time,” adds Laura, 28, who works in media development.
The couple met while working as camp counsellors 15 years ago and soon became best friends. It wasn’t long before they started dating and were married last August.
“It’s been wonderful ever since,” says Jackie.
Read More: Laura and Jackie's Bio
They also own a start-up media company together, something they say will also benefit them while on the “Race.”
“We plan things really well but we also tend to trouble shoot really quickly,” says Laura.
The team hopes it all works to their advantage.
“I think we are a pretty unassuming team. We’re pretty small girls, we’re not the big strong looking team.
Laura’s a very humble person and extremely smart. Her memory is incredible,” says Jackie.
“I hope people underestimate (us),” says Laura.
The couple also pride themselves on being humanitarians and say winning “The Amazing Race Canada” would help them give back to communities in some of the developing countries they visited.
“We’d really like to give back to a lot of the people we have met across the world while travelling. We met some amazing people who don’t have the means we do here. Any little thing can help them out huge,” says Jackie.
“We’d also love to be able to adopt some children and start a family with the money. It’s expensive. We’d like to go across the world and adopt some children. It would be a really cool thing.”
Source:http://www.ctv.ca/TheAmazingRaceCanada/Articles/Season-Two/amazing_race_canada_season_2_Laura_Jackie_24_hours.aspx
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