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slayton:
Jaime and Cara on Their 'Amazing Race' Unfinished Business
Carla Patton
Writer, BuddyTV

After a grueling double leg in China involving completion of a large dinosaur skeleton, Jaime and Cara were eliminated from The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business. We caught up with them and found out more about their experience the second time around and what they're up to now.

What was it like going into the Race a second time against other returning teams?
Jaime: It was exciting and an honor to be invited back for such an amazing adventure!
Cara: It was really exciting! I was really surprised there were so many from our season, but it was cool to have an opportunity to run against teams that I have watched and admired in their seasons.

It seemed like there were a lot of factors that held you up in that final leg; what do you think slowed you down the most?
Jaime: The stopping for gas was really a killer. It took about an hour and that's about how far we ended behind Justin and Zev at the Pit Stop ... it would have been interesting.
Cara: Ultimately, the dinosaur task was our downfall. We had withstood and overcome a great deal of adversity that day, with the Double U-Turn and our cab driver getting lost and a gas stop, but when all is said and done, we arrived before the other teams and left after them.

What was your favorite part or challenge?
Jaime: I actually loved the yak. I am such an animal lover and I take a lot of comfort from them.
Cara: I loved being in the shark tank and we both enjoyed the skiff sailing in Australia.

We'll miss seeing you on The Amazing Race, but what are you up to now?
Jaime: Since becoming a Playmate my schedule has been non-stop with travel and events, it's been fun!
Cara: Work! Work! Work! I'm carrying a full time job as a government relations consultant and a law student by night. In addition to being a newlywed since last race, I am keeping quite busy!

What's it like at Elimination Station?
Jaime: It's great -- massages on the beach and reading books all day ... can't complain
Cara: Elimination Station is a very special place. Of course each team is disappointed to be eliminated from the Race, but it is very cool to see how all the teams come together and prevail with positive attitudes. It is also a great intermediary between racing and the return to "real" life. Last race, we were racing in Hawaii one day and home the next! It was a far more difficult adjustment last time because we hadn't had an opportunity to "come down" from the Race's energy boost!

Do you still feel like you have Unfinished Business?
Jaime: Given my competitive nature I think anything short of winning will always feel like unfinished business. Third times a charm?
Cara: Definitely! I think any team, but the winners, will undoubtedly feel that they have more to prove out on the course. Jaime and I have never doubted that we could win the Race and until we accomplish it, we'll feel it is unfinished! Maybe they'll give us another chance one day and we can prove that the third time really is a charm!


http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-amazing-race/jaime-and-cara-on-their-amazin-39763.aspx

slayton:
(WARNING: I don't know if the link/pics are safe for work because I didn't check them all.)

Jaime pictures at An Inside Look at Playboy’s All-Star Weekend

slayton:
Tom Jicha asks Jaime Edmonson and Cara Rosenthal of 'The Amazing Race' 5 questions

Ex-Dolphin cheerleaders talk about what makes life amazing.
March 14, 2011|By Tom Jicha, Staff Writer

Jaime Edmondson and Cara Rosenthal have the planes and trains parts of "The Amazing Race" down pretty well. It's the automobiles component that is killing them.

The former Dolphin cheerleaders seemed on their way to the $1 million grand prize on the Emmy-winning CBS series a couple of years ago. Then a confused Hawaiian cabdriver sabotaged their chances by getting lost in the final leg of the race. They still wound up finishing second, at the time the best finish ever for a two-women team.

Edmondson, a former cop and now Playboy Playmate from Fort Lauderdale, and Rosenthal, a law student from Boca Raton, were doing well on the latest "Race" until last week when they got lost again driving in Japan. They barely stayed in the competition, finishing next-to-last, one position away from elimination.

They'll have to pick it up in Sunday's edition (8 p.m., WFOR-Ch. 4, WPEC-Ch. 12) to stay alive in the game.

A movie I never get tired of watching is…

Jaime: "Anchorman." I laugh just as hard as I did the first time I saw it. I have a collection of T-shirts with quotes from the movie

Cara: The "Harry Potter" series. I'm obsessed and convinced my Hogwarts letter is arriving any day now.

If I ruled the world…

Jaime: Bras would be banned and ice cream would be free.

 Cara: My parents would be pretty proud and have bonafide bragging rights.

Something about me people would be surprised to know is...

 Jaime: I am a chubby chaser. I love big boys with extra meat on their bones.

Cara:: In college, I won a hot dog-eating contest.

Calories be darned, my favorite meal is...

Jaime: Rare churrasco steak, black beans, white rice, tostones and tres leches cake.

Cara: Chips. A whole bag (or two) can constitute a meal if you're me. Obviously, hot dogs are high on the list, too.

Seven days, six nights, all expenses paid, my dream vacation destination is...

 Jaime: Somewhere in the sun, with no phones, lots of food and a bikini.

Cara: Anywhere my husband allows me to navigate.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-03-14/entertainment/fl-ppl-5qs-amazing-racers-031311-20110314_1_cara-rosenthal-dolphin-cheerleaders-jaime-edmondson

slayton:
Audio interview:
http://insidepulse.com/2011/03/24/reality-dish-interview-wjaime-edmondson-cara-rosenthal-the-amazing-race-unfinished-business-podcast/

slayton:
The Amazing Race: U-Turn Elimination with Jaime and Cara
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by Reg Seeton

This week on The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, Jaime Edmondson and Cara Rosenthal of Season 14 saw their time on The Amazing Race come to an end after being U-turned by goths Kent and Vyxsin. Although Jaime and Cara were almost eliminated in Japan when the two former NFL cheerleaders were involved in a minor car accident, Jaime and Cara worked hard to make good on unfinished business as The Amazing Race hit China. In a strange twist of ironic Amazing Race fate, Jaime and Cara were also forced to the elimination mat by a slow cab driver like they encountered in Season 14.

Following their elimination from The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, Jaime and Cara retraced their season steps with TheDeadbolt to shed more light on their luck with cabs, what it was like to get U-turned at such a crucial time, their car mishap in Japan, and running The Amazing Race for a second time.

THE DEADBOLT: So what was worse, the cab ride this season or the other season?

JAIME EDMONDSON: Oh, the other season for me. The test to basically lose a million dollars over a cab ride is a hard pill to swallow, because then you’re left with the "what ifs?" What if we took a different taxi? What if you hadn’t got lost? What if you hadn’t stopped for gas? That’s a lot harder to live with when you’re that close to it. Cara and I are out fairly early this season, so we got to go to elimination. We had ten days until the rest of the race was over to come to terms with it. It was harder last time to come in second place because of something like that.

THE DEADBOLT: Can you both understand why Kent and Vyxsin gave you the U-turn?

JAIME: Cara and I are not mad about the U-turn at all. We are a very vocal team, competitive and aggressive, and we’ve always played a very honest game, and have never had a problem saying that. We completely understand that in this race you’re given certain tools to advance yourself. We have always expected that if we need to use it, we would. And we’ve always expected that it could happen to us at any time. I have never agreed with these teams that you see boo-hooing and whining and are shocked, saying, “I can not believe they would do that to us.” You can not believe someone would do this to you for a million dollars? Are you crazy? Why shouldn’t they do this? So yeah, we had no personal issue with being U-turned in the race.

CARA ROSENTHAL: That’s exactly right. I think the only thing Jaime and I did take issue with was that Kent was just taking forever to put our picture up there. Once he realized what he was going to do, we were like, “Just do it already, because you’re wasting our time and we need this time.”

THE DEADBOLT: Were you planning on U-turning the Globetrotters, or were you going to use it at all?

JAIME: Well, at that point we were U-turned and obviously we were left with no choice but to U-turn someone. The only team we knew for a fact that was behind us, because we saw them at the challenge, was the Globetrotters. We would normally not choose to U-turn almost seven foot tall athletes, a dominant male team. We’re not stupid, we’re a very smart team. If we had any inkling that there were three other teams behind them, we would’ve obviously chosen to U-turn one of those teams. They’re not as big and athletic as the Globetrotters, and they were even further behind the Globetrotters, so let’s make them further behind. But had we even known we were towards the top and got there before Kent and Vyxsin, we wouldn’t be U-turned at all.

THE DEADBOLT: Cara, how did it feel watching Jaime putting together the dinosaur? Was it tough?

CARA: Yeah, it was very tough. I mean, she was obviously struggling and kind of at her wits and physical end. We hadn’t eaten in four days, we had barely slept, and we hadn’t seen a shower or anything close to it for days. It’s no great wonder after we lifted those solar panels, overcame a double U-turn, dealt with the fact our cab driver stopped for gas for an hour, that Jaime was a little frazzled and how the task didn’t go that well, or as well as we would’ve liked.

I think that it was very hard. When you’re at these road blocks, a lot of responsibility falls on the person performing the task and the other person is rendered helpless. There’s nothing you can do. You can’t guide them in any way and it’s her task to complete. I’m just happy she did ultimately complete it and we were able to show up at the mat as the competitive girls we are and not as quitters. I’m very proud of her for that.

THE DEADBOLT: After the car incident in Japan, did you guys feel like it was over at that point?

CARA: Yes, we did. We thought it might’ve been over at that point. But we were pretty juiced when we showed up at the roadblock and a good chunk of the teams were still there. We thought, “Wow! We know why we were detoured for two hours, but what happened to all of you?” So, it got us through the rest of the leg. It just goes to show anything really can happen on the race.

THE DEADBOLT: What was the most challenging thing for both of you this time, as compared to Season 14?

JAIME: I’d say the way the course was designed this time was very different from our race and from every other season. This race was designed to wear you out mentally and physically before you actually got to a task. Before, the tasks were fast paced, you had a little bit of time to research, get to them, do them, and move on. This time it was really draining to spend days traveling. It's seven hours until the train leaves before a fifteen hour train ride. Then you have to take a taxi and then you finally get to a task.

For Cara and I, being so competitive and aggressive and really loving the nature of the game, doing the tasks is what motivates us and pumps us up. It’s a little blah when you’re two days in between finally doing something. We’re active and we want to do this and keep going. So the way it was designed, the actual course, as far as getting to the challenges, it wasn’t like it was the first time. I think it was one of the harder thing with this race.

THE DEADBOLT: Well, at least you didn’t have to carry a pig on a stick this time.

JAIME: [laughs] That’s true.

http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/110483/jaime_cara_the_amazing_race_unfinished_business.php

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