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TARAsia Fan:
Here's a quick transcription of the interview with Regis and Kelly in case you don't have time to watch that clip:

Reege: So today, we get to talk to the winners of The uh ... American Race, Nancy & Starr.
Kelly: That's The Amazing Race, Reege. And the winners are Nick & Starr.
Reege: Oh, she changed her name to Nick?
Kelly: No, Nick is a he and never was a Nancy.
Reege: What are you talking about? Weren't these two sisters? Gelman!
Kelly: Reege, they're brother and sister!
Reege: Oh whatever. Here are the winners, bring them out!
Kelly: Oh boy.
Reege: Hi, is it Nick?
Nick: Yes.
Reege: And from these notes that Gelman gave me, you perform on Broadway.
Nick: Yes.
Reege: Have you ever heard me sing Francis Albert Sinatra?
Nick: Um no.
Starr: I'm over here.
Reege: We'll get to you, sister! I'm talking Sinatra here!
Kelly: Oh boy. That's all the time we have for today. Once again, Reege is living in the past.
Starr: This was a waste of time.
Kelly: This whole show is a waste.
Reege: What?

apskip:
Ken, your transcript of the Nick/Starr visit to Regis and Kelly seems to bear no similarity to the actual visit. Those who wish to hear about this are advised that Ken's summary is an inventive satire of a bumbling Regis. No such character was seen in the YouTube footage above it, which I urge all to see.

marigold:
An interview with Nick and Starr:

The Amazing Race's Nick and Starr Make Winning A Million Dollars Look Easy

When they won the first leg of The Amazing Race, Nick and Starr established themselves as a force to be reckoned with. Then they kept winning. Having already won enough Travelocity vacations to last a life time along with Dallas's heart, the camouflage loving brother and sister breezed through the final leg to collect a million dollars. These two may just be The Amazing Race's answer to Michael Phelps. They shared the secrets of their success with fancast.

Congratulations! What was it like watching yourselves win a million dollars last night?
Nick: It was crazy. I kept trying to keep a straight face or even a fake morose face. We were sitting with our parents and with my girlfriend and I really wanted to draw it out until the last minute because that episode was so neck and neck and back and forth. I didn't want them to know too early.
Starr: It was really neat. Watching that last challenge with the memory board and all of the clue boxes was intense. I was getting stressed out just watching it and I knew the outcome.

You two dominated the race like few teams in race history. What was the secret to your success?
Starr: We worked so well together. Nick and I know each other better than most teams because we grew up together. We knew when the other one was tired or stressed. We knew when and how to back off. Other teams push each other's buttons or they're not sure how their going to react in stressful situations. That little tear in the relationship really can effect how you're going to race. Nick and I never argued. We never fought during the race. We really were able to keep focused on winning the million dollars and coming in first.
Nick: In every race it's just a matter of having everything culminate in your victory. It's luck. It's physical strength. It's mental endurance. So many things come into play. It just so happened that on our race everything came together for me and Starr. Every other team was lacking in just one area of it. Somebody was a little less lucky than us and that put them out of the game. Or they made one faulty decision.

What are you going to do with your winnings?
Starr: Nick and I plan on saving it and investing it and hoping to make more money, especially because the economy is so bad right now.
Nick: We're both looking at possibly buying apartments or putting a down payment on an apartment because we're both kind of sick of paying rent.

Did you realize how close you were to Ken and Tina at the end of the race?
Nick: We knew it the entire time. We had them in eyesight for 90% of that leg.
Starr: We knew that we had distanced ourselves when we'd gotten to downtown Portland after we had gotten the clue at the dinosaur. It was a lot of running to the food court then running to Voodoo Donuts. At some points Nick and I had to walk. we knew that Ken and Tina couldn't run as fast as we could or as long as we could. So at that point we knew that we were ahead of them. But it wasn't until we were running onto that finish line and saw Phil standing by himself that we knew we were first.

Over the entire race, which teams did you consider to be your biggest rivals?
Nick: Definitely Terrance and Sarah. Right before Phil even said go Starr and I sized up Terrance and Sarah and we knew they were going to be competitors. And they proved us right. They were a great, strong consistent team. That's what the race takes, consistency. Our season they were definitely the most consistent team until their one fatal moment. It just happens that Terrance is a vegetarian and that one challenge they tried to do had to do with eating meat. We always knew Ken and Tina were a strong team. Even if they were a half step ahead of us they made the race more fun, whereas other teams it was more negative.
Starr: We loved Toni and Dallas, too. Had it not been for their passport situation, they would have been in the final three. They were a strong team.
Nick: The leg that Toni and Dallas came in first, Starr and I came in third and we were miserable because we had the longest, toughest day. But we were like, "Toni and Dallas came in first? That's awesome!"

Starr, speaking of Dallas, I know the two of you are dating. How did the two of you manage to get to know each other while competing?
Starr: When we were racing, we were very focused. But once we were at the pit stop, or when we were at an airport, and 90% of the race was spent in airports, it was during that time. When we were on a thirteen hour flight, or waiting three hours for a flight, Dallas and I had the time to get to know each other. The more we got to know each other, the more we saw that we had a lot of things in common. We grew up in the same areas. We went to rival high schools. We graduated the same year, knew all the same people. I don't think either one of us went into the race looking for a relationship, but stuff happens and that's how life goes. It was absolutely incredible meeting someone like Dallas. It's been great dating him.
Nick: She never strayed form the race. I wouldn't let her.

What were your best and worst moments during the race?
Starr: Hands down, my worst moment was the first leg in Russia when we were in that cab. I knew I had complained too much, but in my defense, I did this race with a torn ACL. The cab that we were in, the window wouldn't go down, the door wouldn't open and the trunk wouldn't open. Nick and I had our packs on our lap. Our knees were up to our chest. The guy was chainsmoking and this was a two hour cab ride. Because if my injury it was so painful to have knee up to my chest like that. I should have been a little bit more calm.
Nick: The most vivid memory I have is in the first leg when we got to that cargo net and we ran out to that elevator and we knew we were in first place. We scaled that net by ourselves. That was pretty incredible.
Starr: We had helicopters going around us. It was really cool.
Nick: The second leg in Moscow we were coming from behind. We were in third place. We just said let;s buckle down and have a good day.

What inspired the two of you to try out?
Starr; We wanted to race since we were in high school. We knew we would be a great team. I had randomly gone on the website one morning and I saw that applications were sue in a week. and I knew that Nick's show was ending and I was going to be graduating college. I thought, "There's no better time than now. I'm 21. We're qualified by age. Now we can race. I booked a ticket to go see Nick. Then I called him up. I said, "I'm coming to see you. We're making a video and we're doing this. It's now or never." I don't think in a million years Nick thought that we were actually going to get on the race. It was a big surprise for him, but for me it wasn't. I knew that we were going to be a strong team and that CBS was going to be interested in us.

Kynt and Vyxsin are fancast's celebrity Amazing Race bloggers. They have this question for you: Guys! We were lucky enough to meet your parents at the Amazing Race Fancast Party in San Francisco ------ and they were absolutely adorable and seemed to have quite the senses of humor! Did they get to watch the Finale episode WITH you guys last night? Tell us how THEY reacted when they saw you two win the Million Dollars.
Nick: They loved it. They were with us and all the other teams. We all watched it together with out family and friends. My Dad was gripping his seat in crazy anxiety. He didn't know who was going to win until the very end. He looked over at us in shock and disbelief.
Starr: Our parents always believed we could cross it first, but you don't know it until you see it. They were so proud of us. My Mom was screaming. My Dad was crying which was very typical of the two of them.

Link: http://thebiz.fancast.com/2008/12/the_amzing_races_nick_and_star.html

marigold:
An interesting article:

Off-Broadway star and sis win $1M 'Race' grand prize

Growing up, Nick and Starr Spangler experienced their share of sibling rivalry, but on Sunday, they got to enjoy sibling revelry as they celebrated taking the $1 million-dollar prize in the 13th edition of CBS' "The Amazing Race."

As the first brother-and-sister duo ever to win the popular reality competition series, they beat 10 other teams as they traveled nearly 40,000 miles and raced through five continents, with stops in Bolivia, Cambodia and New Zealand. Their weekly challenges included being pelted with dye in New Delhi and navigating the subway system in Moscow.

Nick, a New York actor and NYU grad, and Starr, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, finished at the front of the pack seven times, but one early stratagem during the first leg bit them in the rear.

"I didn't want any of the teams to know I'm an actor," Nick Spangler told the Daily News. "I didn't want them to see me as someone who could easily put on a facade and lie. But it completely backfired. When [fellow "Racers"] Bill [Yturralde] and Mark [Hahler] asked what I did, I said 'I'm a funeral director,' and our family does run a mortuary. But Bill and Mark Googled me and told all the other teams I lied. We didn't know everyone else knew, so we were the ones who looked stupid."

However, one team that they really got to know were the mother-and-son duo of Toni and Dallas Imbimbo.

"Dallas and I have been dating for six months now," Starr Spangler said yesterday. "It's crazy. We grew up at rival high schools [in Northern California] 10 minutes away and it took the race to bring us together. He's been great, and it's neat and very special to share this with him."

Nick said one of the "pretty weird" tasks was "gulping down huge bowls [of sheep's buttocks] in Kazakhstan. We didn't want to know what we were eating until we got to the pit stop. I told [host] Phil [Keoghan], 'If you tell us, I'm probably gonna ralph on your shoes. Starr threw up a little.'"

What's next? Starr, 22, works at a medical research center for children with autism but would still "love to be in the entertainment industry." And Nick, 23, will return to Off-Broadway, playing Matt in "The Fantasticks," where he's racked up over 800 shows.

Coincidentally, his character also travels the world, visiting exotic places, like India. "I love 'The Fantasticks' and 'The Amazing Race,' but the difference is that Matt gets the crap beat out of him, and I won a million dollars," Nick said.

Even with all his adventures abroad, nothing beats New York, he said.

"New Yorkers are a different breed, and we've all had tough experiences, like moving and carrying things up to a fourth-floor walkup," Nick said. "No task you could do on 'The Amazing Race' is harder than living in New York."

Link: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/12/09/2008-12-09_offbroadway_star_and_sis_win_1m_race_gra.html

TARAsia Fan:

--- Quote from: apskip on December 09, 2008, 12:17:39 PM ---Ken, your transcript of the Nick/Starr visit to Regis and Kelly seems to bear no similarity to the actual visit. Those who wish to hear about this are advised that Ken's summary is an inventive satire of a bumbling Regis. No such character was seen in the YouTube footage above it, which I urge all to see.
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