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TAR 19: Ernie Halvorsen & Cindy Chiang (Engaged)
Squall16:
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Amazing-Race-Winners-Ernie-Cindy-1040747.aspx
http://ernie-cindy.com
Squall16:
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Amazing-Race-Winners-Ernie-Cindy-1040747.aspx
http://ernie-cindy.com
Not to sound rude, or pretentious or anything, but if this is the future site for ernie & cindy's philanthropy. They should stop with the modeling and film resume. It looks bad in my opinion.
Aussie:
--- Quote from: Squall16 on December 12, 2011, 01:49:25 PM ---http://www.tvguide.com/News/Amazing-Race-Winners-Ernie-Cindy-1040747.aspx
http://ernie-cindy.com
Not to sound rude, or pretentious or anything, but if this is the future site for ernie & cindy's philanthropy. They should stop with the modeling and film resume. It looks bad in my opinion.
--- End quote ---
Totally agree.
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“I’m So Glad Cindy Was Such a Planner” – Reality News Online’s Exclusive Interview with The Amazing Race 19’s Winners, Ernie & Cindy
by David Bloomberg -- 12/12/2011
Ernie & Cindy were perhaps the most prepared duo to ever enter The Amazing Race – and it paid off! Why do they think they did so well? How “Type A” is Cindy and did her parents really expect her to win? How did they blow through the final leg so quickly? What are their plans for the prize and their wedding, and what else is going on in their personal lives right now? Find out all of this and more right here!
Reality News Online: Hello, Ernie & Cindy, and thanks for taking the time on what I’m sure is a very busy day to talk to us here at Reality News Online! First and foremost, congratulations on winning The Amazing Race!
Ernie: Thank you!
RNO: You prepared and prepared and prepared – I think it’s safe to say that you believe it was all worth it?
Cindy: (Laughs.)
Ernie: Yes, the amount of preparation that we went into seemed like it panned out at the end. I’m so glad Cindy was such a planner and made me do everything to get on the show and then win the show.
RNO: Is Cindy like that in everyday life as well? And Ernie, does it ever drive you crazy?
Ernie: Cindy is very much our relationship planner. She’s always got something going on, she has an internal drive – I’m always just keeping up. Where I can, I balance her out. It gets into some high-stress situations and I mellow her out.
Cindy: (Laughs.) I’m not that intense 100% of the time. We’re being filmed 24 hours a day, and it’s easy to take a five-minute clip. We like to have fun and laugh and joke around. I’m definitely Type A, but not 100% of the time.
RNO: Cindy, when you said your parents expected you to win, how much were you exaggerating?
Cindy: When we told my parents, we shared the results before last night. My mom was like, “We expected it.” I know them so well, they’re proud of us but they definitely have this expectation that you’ll do your best and it will be good enough to win. We watched the show with our families and other racers last night, and when I made that comment [on the show], my dad made the comment, “Yeah that’s right.”
Ernie: They really expect a lot out of Cindy. I understand the stress that’s putting on her. It’s viewed negatively but they have high goals for their children. I was raised a little more relaxed (laughs).
RNO: You’re both on Twitter and have been active participants in discussions about the Race. How difficult has it been to keep the big secret throughout this whole time?
Cindy: It was actually more difficult to not tell people we’d been on the show until the announcement. When people asked, they understood we couldn’t tell them.
Ernie: Once people knew, we just said you’ve got to watch – just getting people excited to view the show.
Cindy: [Before the show was on,] people wondered where we’d been for a month. They were like, “Is she pregnant and hiding out?” We just had to keep our mouths shut and say, “No, we were just doing our thing.”
RNO: Cindy said that the Race is great premarital counseling – but 18 previous seasons of the show have indicated otherwise. Why do you think it worked well for you two but caused so many other couples to fight incessantly?
Cindy: (Laughs.) Ernie and I did a lot of preparing before the Race. We know how to avoid any blowups. We generally don’t fight at all. We talk things through rationally. If I need a minute, I’ll take a minute and leave the room and not say anything. He’s such a great guy, it’s easy to not fight with him.
Ernie: It speaks a lot for the relationships on the show. Marcus & Amani were great role models, and Bill & Cathi. these were great couples that didn’t fight, worked well together, and we did the same – better than I thought we would. I thought there would be more bickering. But it was kind of cool to see it come together the way it did.
RNO: Cindy discussed some of your plans for the prize money – can you more fully explain what you plan to do?
Cindy: Ernie and I were traveling around the world – we wanted to figure out if we could work together in a business and that’s an emphatic yes. As we were traveling, we know education is so key and vital to the success of a lot of people. We take for granted free public education, but in a place like Cambodia, it costs $25 per year, which many can’t afford. It’s easier for families to put them to work. We’re trying to help out the community from the grassroots [by helping kids go to school] – it’s a cycle we hope to continue. We’re trying to go with the saying, “Give a man a fish he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.” We want to be able to share that experience and the opportunity with those who want to go to school but can’t afford it.
We’re also passionate about fitness and health – we’re trying to combine that with childhood obesity and synergize it. We’re going to be developing it more on our website, ernie-cindy.com. Hopefully more people can follow it there and give thoughts on building this business.
RNO: Ernie, from what I’ve seen on Twitter, it seems this is a tough time for you in your professional life – what happened with your job?
Ernie: My company in Germany is a printing press manufacturer – it’s been on the decline. They went bankrupt and I was placed on furlough – nonpaid work. They’re going to decide if I’m going to come back early next year. It doesn’t look good. It’s time for a change to do something different to start up this organization together with Cindy.
RNO: When’s the wedding?
Cindy: In march in Chicago. We’re looking forward to it.
Ernie: Yeah! It’s probably the one thing we’re going to give ourselves from this Race. It will be a great wedding we can share with everybody.
Cindy: We’re excited to have some Amazing Racers there to be part of our big day.
RNO: Looking at the last leg, how quickly did you go through the final map challenge, and were you worried when you saw you wouldn’t be able to use notes?
Cindy: I forgot about the not using notes! I think it ended up taking 10 to 15 minutes. Throughout the course of our flying around, we would use the magazine on the plane and draw our routes and Ernie would be like, “What are you doing?” I was like, “It might be important.” I noticed in the clue they had put a picture of the country in the clue, which I’d never seen before.
Ernie: Ironically enough, I’m with a map we just drew [on the flight to Atlanta] with a red line. It was basically in the bag for Cindy when she went up there.
Cindy: I was like, thankfully it’s not “remember every host,” but something we could actually prepare for while on the Race and still be ready.
RNO: How long did you circle with the GPS annoyingly saying, “Recalculating”?
Cindy: (Laughs) It must’ve been maybe two minutes – but that’s very suspenseful on a TV show when they show the whole thing. We found it pretty quickly.
RNO: How far ahead of Jeremy & Sandy did you finish?
Cindy: We believe we were about an hour and a half ahead and Marcus & Amani came about an hour later. We were really lucky our taxi driver knew the freeway was crowded so he took the back roads I think Jeremy & Sandy said they sat in traffic for a solid hour.
RNO: Who did you call to find out what Margaret Mitchell’s house was called?
Ernie: Before we were in Atlanta, we found a little boy in panama and we asked him to use his computer. We got the phone number for the Atlanta tourism board. The woman on the line was very helpful and knew what the Dump was. That combined with texting Google for info – it was a cinch.
Cindy: We also met a lady on the plane who lived in Atlanta her whole life and we asked what are the historical sites. She was like, “You should see the Margarent Mitchell House and Turner Field. As soon as the woman said that, we were like bingo, it’s like the Race to pick something important in history.
RNO: I’m being told we’re unfortunately out of time – is there anything else you’d like to tell our readers and your fans about your time on the Race?
Cindy: We just appreciate everyone watching and hope they enjoyed the season as much as we did!
RNO: Thanks and congratulations once again! See you on Twitter!
Katarzyna:
Wait, what?! Cindy is modeling! And was acting?
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