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Mactors/Recruited Teams
walkingpneumonia:
If you hate mactors and recruited teams, a celebrity edition would be your worst nightmare. I hate to disagree with Phil, but I only see the potential for disaster...
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/08/25/the-amazing-race-time-for-a-celebrity-edition/
--- Quote ---The Amazing Race - Time For A Celebrity Edition?
by Lynette Rice
The Apprentice has made a franchise out of featuring (C-level) celebrities, so why can’t The Amazing Race? Host Phil Keoghan certainly sees a potential.
“I would love to have a celebrity version,” Keoghan told EW. “If every celebrity who has told me they liked the show signed up and was a part of it, that would be huge. I know Sarah Jessica Parker is a big fan of the show, and I heard Drew Barrymore likes the show, and Neil Patrick Harris likes the show. I just don’t know if they realize what [in store]. That would be the thing, whether they could cope. I don’t know, it would be fun.”
Keoghan says there have been talks about featuring a Hollywood edition but the realities of celebrity life make the possibility daunting. Though the show has hosted someone from Tinseltown before – actor-screenwriter-director Mike White (School of Rock) participated last year – its a far different situation when it involves busy actors. “The question that always comes up is would we be able to get them out of their schedule,” explains Keoghan. “They say they want to do it, but the reality is would their schedule allow for it, and would they really be able to put up with the schedule itself. It’s very different than anything else that’s shot, like a movie set. We sort of have to adhere to the rules of the world as opposed to creating our own rules on a set or in a studio. We are beholden to what happens in the real world. That makes it really tough.”
Season 17 of The Amazing Race kicks off Sept. 26. The seven-time Emmy winner will once again vie for the Outstanding Reality prize at this Sunday’s ceremony on NBC. – With reporting from Nicholas White
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georgiapeach:
UGH. If a celebrity wants to apply like Mike did...fine. A WHOLE edition of celebs would spell the end of TAR, for sure, IMO.
Sandra1991:
I don't want a celebrity version of TAR! Here in Portugal we had some reality shows with celebrities (none like TAR, but still) and it was a disaster IMO. It just wasn't "natural". Celebrities always have "priviledges" (like on the celebrity edition of Big Brother one singer got to call her grown up son everyday) and I don't want to see that kind of things on TAR...
Cocoa:
As long as Celebrities include Charla and Mirna, Rob and Russell, Dustin and Kandice, and Omarosa (LOL, Reality-Show-contestants-turned-celebs) is there! :lol: :hearts: Kidding (but actually, I'm not. :lol: )
Hooky:
No. Just no. Sorry, Phil, try again. Let's be more in-tune with what the avid fans want next time. :groan:
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