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TARAsia Fan:
Well, I did like the gong every time he did that kick. :lol:

puddin:
Amazing Race's Lance and Keri Did Decapitate a Snowman

    * Oct 19, 2009 04:49 PM ET
    * by Joyce Eng

Self-professed "directionally challenged" couple Lance Layne, 41, and Kerri Morrione, 33, not only got lost in the desert, but all over Dubai, too, causing them to be the fifth team to get the boot on The Amazing Race. "In this day and age, you normally rely on a GPS," Lance tells TVGuide.com. "But Dubai was tricky. They definitely had a lot of highways intersected and there weren't a lot of clear signs. We knew it wasn't going to happen for us." What did happen was a kick to a snowman's head. Get the full story on the beheading, why the duo wouldn't have helped out other teams and more.

TVGuide.com: So this was the episode where you just got lost. Are you normally "directionally challenged" or was it just in Dubai?
Keri: It was a combination of Dubai highways and exhaustion. I normally am directionally challenged and Lance normally isn't.
Lance: We made a bad move in the beginning [not following the other teams to find the cars], but I just felt like since there were four teams ahead of us, we needed an advantage because the 15-minute advantage [for the first four teams] turned out to be a little more. It's hard to say how much time we lost and how far behind Mika and Canaan we were. We screwed up the directions when we left the desert too. Once you U-turned on the highway, it was, like, 10 miles to the next exit to turn around. We knew we were screwed going to the snowmen.


TVGuide.com: Is that why you were a lot more calm here than you were in Vietnam, where you had a bunch of mistakes too?
Keri: I think we were more calm this time because we went through different stages of frustration. We also pulled together better as a team by this leg. We just felt like we were working together well and whatever happens, happens.

TVGuide.com: Lance, you destroyed the urn and said you wanted to kick the snowman. Did you ever kick the snowman?
Lance: I actually did decapitate the snowman with a kick. I don't know why they didn't show that. I wanted to kick it again and that's why the clue-giver was a little freaked out. The lady wouldn't clear us a bunch of times, so I kicked the snowman's head off. [We were going to switch Detours], but decided not to and fixed the head. We were just trying to get through it. We knew logically the only way we were going to be saved was if it's a non-elimination. Or we were hoping it would be a two-part leg. There was a big difference in getting in that first group. For whatever reason, the other three teams just gifted the Fast Forward to Meghan and Cheyne and that was a walk in the park. I give them credit for either intimidating the other teams to not go for it or to the other teams for just playing good guys.


TVGuide.com: If you were in the first group, would you have challenged them for the Fast Forward?
Lance: One-hundred percent. We really genuinely like all the teams outside the game, but during the game, I hated all the teams. We were here to win. Some teams continued this lovefest into the game. Now the only one I did like inside the game was Canaan. But we weren't going to give people our cab or be Mr. Courteous.

TVGuide.com: Or wait for Maria and Tiffany to get a new car after they destroyed theirs.
Lance: [Laughs] It's funny how Maria and Tiffany got Sam and Dan hypnotized. They waited with them! Sam and Dan are great guys. Maria and Tiffany — I love them. They knew they needed help throughout the race and they managed to get help as much as they could. We wouldn't have waited. I don't get it. Just like how I don't get no one challenged Meghan and Cheyne on the Fast Forward other than the fact that if two teams went, one wasn't going to get it. I understand that, but not even challenging them?
Keri: Sam and Dan couldn't do anything and still waited for Maria and Tiffany. I think it's because they have so much respect for Tiffany helping them fill their thing with water that they felt bad. They're genuinely nice people.

TVGuide.com: Maria and Tiffany called you, Lance, a "meathead," and said they couldn't imagine you being in a courtroom. What did you think about that?
Lance: I laughed. Those girls are interesting. As a viewer, you [appreciate someone who's] got the cojones to go out and say something about somebody. Too many people wouldn't stand up or say anything. They took the time to mention me. I was on their mind in some respect. You could look at it that way.


TVGuide.com: A lot of the blogs have called you a villain and say you're a bickering couple. Do you pay attention to that?
Keri: I really don't. ... but it's funny to listen what people have to say. You have to think about if you were thrown into this situation where you never functioned with someone as a teammate competitively and how that's going to play out. We don't play competitive games together. When I get stressed, I go to a super-calm place. Lance goes to a more high-strung place. We had to work within that and however that came across for people, so be it.
Lance: Plus, we didn't have the touching story going in. We weren't the brothers coming out, we weren't the interracial couple, we weren't the only girl team, or Big Easy and Flight Time, who had some serious friends and family losses this past year, which is sad. There wasn't much for the public to grab on for us, other than the fact that we wanted to win. We tried to keep it real.

TVGuide.com: You guys got married after filming. Congratulations!
Keri: Thank you. It was a beautiful wedding. And then we moved in together. We hadn't even lived together before. We already had the date set before we even got cast. There were a lot of big changes in our lives for us. For us, going on the show, it was great, but we have so much else going on in our lives. The show made us stronger. It gave us a new perspective on each other and how we handle situations. It actually helped us as a couple.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Amazing-Races-Lance-1011010.aspx

puddin:
'Amazing Race' Exit Interview: Lance and Kerri
Our weekly chat with the eliminated team from "The Amazing Race"
Posted by MSN TV on Monday, October 19, 2009 2:48 PM

Lance Layne and Keri Morrione were on the cusp of pulling off a major "Amazing Race" upset -- namely, Lance's character rehabilitation -- when a disastrous series of miscalculations and a seemingly chronic inability to grasp directions led to a loss. We spoke with the pair, who married two weeks after returning from the show, about the team’s villain edit, the toughest experience producers didn’t share, and their top choice for a honeymoon destination.


MSN TV: That was an aggressive race you ran.

 

Lance: The show has had a lot of goody-goody types . We didn't have a heart-wrenching story that was going to win the hearts of America. We were placed more in the villain category than the hero category.

 

It must be frustrating to get negative feedback from people you've never met.

 

Keri: All the people who've met us in person have liked us a lot. How can you hate somebody you don't even know?

 

Did you feel like you were the victim of the "villain" edit?

 

Lance: Anyone who goes on a reality show and then complains about the editing shouldn't be on the show. Frankly, I enjoyed it. A year from now, people may not remember who won the show -- but I think they might remember us.

 

The shame of the loss was that you were finally starting to come together as a team.

 

Lance: Our communication got much better. I'd never had a female teammate before. I knew I was a one-man-band going into the show. I realized that I had to trust Keri more.

 

Keri: By Cambodia, we were getting a feel for how we processed things. We really started to gel.

 

Before that, it wasn't always pretty.

 

Keri: What can I say? Opposites attract. He's of an aggressive nature, and I have a more gentle nature, and sometimes it was difficult to figure out how to get on the same page. Lance has said this, and it's true: It's really like being thrown into a five-year marriage.

 

Did you ever wish you had done the race with someone else -- someone who wasn't your significant other?

 

Keri: If you run it with a sibling, you've shared a common space, and maybe you know how each other thinks, but once you get going on the race, everything is so unexpected that it doesn't matter. You can’t prepare for it.

 

How did you decide to do the race together?

 

Lance: I must have applied to "Survivor" 10 times, and I was in discussions [with the casting staff] about this current season. But "Race" was always one of my favorite shows. Of course, if you don't have a partner it's not going to work. I started talking to them about Keri, and they loved her.

 

Did you ever get to the point where you just wanted to quit?

 

Lance: There was nothing they could have thrown at us that would have gotten us to that point, and there were plenty of rough moments, ones they didn't show. Like when we were in Vietnam, we all had to sleep on the dock, eight hours in metal chairs with soaking-wet sneakers. I don't think anyone got any sleep.

 

What was the first thing you did when you got home?

 

Keri: Finished planning our wedding.

 

Lance: There was more stress in those two weeks than anytime during the show.

 

Keri: I hadn't even had a first fitting. We were close to finalizing the flowers, but we didn't have a cake. The bridesmaids were checking off what meals people wanted from the invitations.

 

Lance: There was no time to think of anything else.

 

I would think at that point you'd be ready to have a honeymoon at home.

 

Keri: For our one-year anniversary we're going to do Greece and Italy -- or maybe go somewhere off the beaten path, which maybe we wouldn't have considered before. It would be awesome if everyday could be as exciting as the race.


http://social.entertainment.msn.com/tv/blogs/tv-buzz-blogpost.aspx?post=1326936

puddin:
I really really like Lance more so than ever now and Keri was always a give me. Rock on Lance and Keri  :jumpy: :jumpy:

puddin:
Lance Layne, Keri Morrione ('Amazing Race')

Monday, October 19 2009, 5:34pm EDT

By Tim Parks, Entertainment Reporter
Lance Layne, Keri Morrione ('Amazing Race')

CBS
Lance Layne and Keri Morrione could have used a global positioning system during last night's episode of The Amazing Race. The engaged couple seemed to spend much of their time lost while they tried to reach their appointed destinations in Dubai. Lance did his best to keep cool during the 'Build A Snowman' competition, before kicking it over. He had plenty of reason to feel frustrated though, as the team from Massachusetts were the fifth contestants eliminated from the race. DS chatted with them about their time on the show.

You've said that you joined the show to test your relationship - what has been the outcome of that?
Keri: "We're married!"
Lance: "It definitely was equivalent to five years of marital stress, I would say."
Keri: "So we don't need therapy - we can just watch the show."

What were some of the things you were surprised to learn about one another from the experience?
Keri: "We learned a lot. You can see that during the last leg that we grew so much together as a team. I don't think that you'd ever be able to cram all of that in, about wanting to learn that much about somebody. At the same time, it was an eye-opening experience. And, it gave us both a tremendous kind of respect for how each other processes stress in competition and how we handle adverse situations."

What do you think is the biggest misconception viewers may have about Lance from watching the show?
Lance: "I think they're all right on the money! You know what it is? Here's the thing, it's a reality show. We know what we signed up for, and anyone who gets on one of these shows and then bitches about the edit, shouldn't be on the show. They take a lot of film and there's a lot they don’t show. We didn't have that story that America was going to love. You know, we're not the brothers coming out of the closet, the only girl team, the interracial couple or the father and son. We wanted to win the race and that was our goal and we were aggressive with it. It didn't work out for us and people didn't like the way we did things - what can you do?"
Keri: "And it's definitely a different side of your personality being in a competitive environment than everyday life. There were pieces and clips when Lance was very supportive, like when I did the ducks [from episode one]. Leaving the monkey, he needed to tone it down a bit. But we really grew."
Lance: "It may not have been as bad as it looked – but you know what? I was cool with it; I enjoyed watching us."

Were there any moments not shown on the episodes that you wished had been aired?
Keri: "There were a lot of things that Lance did that were very supportive and we came to mutual agreements in different areas. In Dubai, we really did like Mika and Canaan, and Mika has some real definite fears of heights and water. Lance really had her laughing before we went up in the building. He was really trying to calm her down. He's really a nice guy and he didn't want to see any other team really in pain or upset."
Lance: "There were plenty of moments and what people don't understand is the race is very real, even for being a TV show. There's definitely a lot of downtime in between legs where you're just mentally worn down. And because of that, I think it affects people's judgement and made the legs more difficult."

Keri, you said on last night's episode that you felt no-one in the history of The Amazing Race had ever done so badly. Do you still feel that's the case?
Keri: "It was more of a comedy of errors at that point; we were joking with each other. That last leg was not our most defining moment, but it was our best moment in the sense that we pulled together as a team."

Which team did you get along with the best?
Lance: "We got along with everybody and there was this underlying love-fest that was going on between all of the teams on the race. Everyone respected everybody and got along. When we got into the heat of the race and the heat of the competition, some teams carried that love-fest over and we weren't one of the teams that did that. The only person I was comfortable with, even during competitions, was Canaan. And we just had a lot of laughs."
Keri: "When you're running the race, you're so much into what you're doing that there's not really a lot of time for socialising. In general, I respect everyone who was on the race for getting on and their strategies."

With winter fast approaching - will your view of snowmen be forever changed after last night's challenge?
Keri: "We're going to build a huge one in the front yard this winter! It was just frustrating because they kept saying it was too skinny and he wasn't fat enough. We were going for a leaner snowman."
Lance: "You know what they didn't show was I actually did kick my snowman's head off! That was the second time I asked to kick it off; I actually decapitated him with a side-kick."

Lance, you called being on The Amazing Race a "great time". Aside from not winning - do either of you have any regrets about going on the show?
Keri: "I'm happy that we did it. We had such a good year, getting engaged, so many good things happened to us. I wouldn't have given it up for the world, because it made us stronger as a couple."
Lance: "To be on the show and beat out the thousands of other teams that were trying - it was surreal. So, we have no regrets at all. We were blessed with this experience. I'm a huge reality TV fan; to just be selected was such an awesome thing! A year ago watching the show, we never would have thought we'd be on it."

The Amazing Race continues next Sunday on CBS.


http://www.digitalspy.com/ustv/s66/the-amazing-race/interviews/a182736/lance-layne-keri-morrione-amazing-race.html

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