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Leafsfan:
Extra: ‘Amazing Race Canada’: Episode 8: Extended Mat Chats: Pierre and Michel
What you didn’t see on the show from the twin brothers in Paris.

http://www.ctv.ca/TheAmazingRaceCanada/video.aspx?vid=425415

Leafsfan:
Twins on CP24 Breakfast:

http://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=425920

Leafsfan:
Forgetting 'Amazing Race Canada's' Michel and Pierre
Quebec solidarity? Not on The Amazing Race Canada.

During the show’s leg in Paris Tuesday, viewers saw an epic double-cross between teams from La Belle Province. Bad-boy twins Pierre and Michel Forget agreed not to place a U Turn in front of Alain Chanoine and his fiancé Audrey Tousignant-Maurice, saying they’d never betray fellow Quebecois.

And then they did.

But in what some might have seen as karmic justice, the Forgets cut short their own Amazing Race at a Road Block when Michel was unable to replicate a piece of modern art made entirely of Mentos candies (!). He spent eight frustrating hours on the challenge, as team after team completed it – including Alain and Audrey (who became an engaged couple in the episode after Alain proposed).

“Michel has had therapy and he now eats Mentos every five minutes,” Pierre joked in a phone interview the day after a nation saw them eliminated.

But he scoffed at the idea of a Team Quebec.



“It’s ridiculous,” the former freestyle ski champ said. “This is not a province competition, it’s not a political game. It’s a half a million dollars on the table. It’s Amazing Race Canada and we are racers.”

There were also hard feelings in play. “The thing the show doesn’t show is that Alain and Audrey had built an alliance – that Nicole and Cormac, Rex and Bob would be aiming for us at any time. It was managed by Audrey.”

So after their accomplices were eliminated, “it was funny to see them come and be nice to us, to make it all better.

“In my head, with all due respect, the only thing you can do with liars and hypocrites is to become like them. Y’know, I lied to them, but it was a strategic lie. We decided you’re either being hunted or you hunt. And that’s what we did. It didn’t work out the way we planned, and that’s okay.”

Forget allowed that Alain and Audrey are strong contenders to win, adding yet another snark, “I think you either U Turn a strong team or a team you don’t like. And Alain and Audrey were both of them.”

But ultimately, he said the favourites remain Olympic gold-medal hockey players Meaghan and Natalie (who won Tuesday for the sixth time this season).

“For me, it’s the brunettes, Natalie and Meaghan. They’re so smart, so strong, very competitive and very lucky at the same time.

“They’re very charming people, which everybody was. No bashing on anyone. We came in not expecting to help anyone and not expecting anyone to help us.”

He said The Amazing Race experience has hardly caused a ripple in their hometown, just outside Montreal. “In Quebec, the show doesn’t register as much as English Canada. In our hometown, I think we were recognized twice from the show.” The brothers are back to their normal life, running the family meatpacking business.

As for their status as The Amazing Race’s resident bad guys, Forget said, “It’s reality TV and you’re only as charming as they edit you. They needed a bad guy and we realized that. There’s always two sides to every story.”

Source:http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/27/forgetting-amazing-race-canadas-michel-and-pierre

Leafsfan:
USING THE U-TURN COULDN’T SAVE PIERRE AND MICHEL FROM ELIMINATION ON ‘AMAZING RACE CANADA’
Pierre and Michel Forget made a strategic game move by U-turning another team in Paris but a difficult Roadblock derailed their plan and sent them packing instead.
 
The twin brothers from Terrebonne, Que., have no regrets about using the U-turn on fellow Quebec team Alain and Audrey, even though the brothers promised the dating couple earlier in the leg they wouldn’t do so.
 
“At the beginning of the show we asked Alain and Audrey, (we said), ‘We are from Quebec so we are going to help each other? We’re going to kind of work together?’ and they never answered the question,” says Pierre.
 
The twins, who co-own a meatpacking business outside of Montreal, say they never ended up working with the dating couple and when an opportunity came up to U-turn them they took it.
 
“It’s a tool of the game. It’s like playing a chess match . . . Alain and Audrey were a really strong team. Alain is really physical and Audrey is a smart girl . . . and we heard they wanted to take us down, we wanted to take them (down), too,” says Michel.
 
“But it didn’t work.”


 
Even though Pierre and Michel arrived at the Roadblock challenge before many of the other teams, Michel struggled to reproduce a piece of art using only Mentos candy and attempted the challenge for almost eight hours before finally completing it. 


(Michel works on the Roadblock challenge)
 
Michel says he had difficulty distinguishing the colours used in the original artwork, which is why it took so long to get it right.
 
“In my mind I was not seeing the same colour. I was looking too much at the Mentos, not at the picture, so I saw a different shade in the Mentos. Some were red and some were less red than the other ones so I was trying too much to make perfection and I lost it there.”
 
Pierre says it was just as difficult waiting on the sidelines and watching all the teams come and go.

(Pierre waits for his brother as Alain looks on in the background)
 
“I think Michel over thought this thing way too much. It was terrible (to watch him struggle).”
 
But despite being eliminated, both brothers say running the “Race” with each other made the experience a memorable one.
 
“I’d do it 100 times with him again. But I would not let him do a Mentos challenge,” says Pierre with a laugh. 

Source:http://www.ctv.ca/TheAmazingRaceCanada/Articles/Season-Two/amazing_race_canada_S2_pierre_michel_eliminated.asp4

Leafsfan:
The Amazing Race Canada: Five questions with Pierre and Michel
Quebec natives Pierre and Michel Forget were eliminated from The Amazing Race Canada after a dramatic episode filled with betrayal and karmic irony. The pair made a deal with Alain and Audrey that they wouldn't U-Turn each other, only to break it and U-Turn the couple later on. You could say Audrey got her own back, though, when she teamed up with Pete during a challenge after the U-Turn and finished before the twins. Michel was stumped by the task, finally re-creating a piece of art with Mentos eight hours after he started.
 
We sat down with the Forget brothers when they stopped by The Social for a few web-exclusive questions about what they learned, what they'd change, and whether they'll ever eat Mentos again.
 
Q: What did you learn about each other from this experience?
 
Pierre Forget: I learned that my name was not only “Pierre,” it was also, “Pierre, Pierre,” “Pierre, Pierre, Pierre,” “Pierre! Pierre! Pierre! Pierre! Pierre!” We work together all the time, it's communicating without talking, without words. We know. We didn't race the race in terms of strategizing, of who's going to take the challenge. For all the roadblocks, it was just, “You did the last one, now it's my turn.” We only played strategically with Alain and Audrey because they wanted to kick us out for many legs, and it didn't happen. We found out and it was bulls--t. Other than that, I think my brother doesn't like Mentos.

I don't blame you. Are you sworn off Mentos now?
 
Michel Forget: Nope, I'm in therapy. [pulls packet of Mentos from his pocket.]
 
No!
 
MF: Yeah, it's true.
 
Q: Let's talk about the Mentos challenge. You guys broke an alliance with Alain and Audrey when you U-turned them. Pete and Audrey went on to team up during the challenge and finished sooner. Would you change anything about the way you dealt with other teams?
 
PF: No. We signed up for a show called Amazing Race Canada, and I felt that when you looked at the way some of the other teams played, it should have been called Amazing Help Canada. We're strong competitors, we're highly competitive; we were not expecting to be helped and we were not expecting to help anyone. Half a million dollars is a lot of money. It's a race, and that's what we signed up for. I would not do anything differently at all. The way we've been portrayed is reality TV. We did a lot of funny things that they didn't show. You can only be as funny as the producers will show. They saw us as racers, they need to have one. But there are always two sides to a story. I would not do anything differently at all.

MF: The way I see the race, a lot of teams were working together. Our plan was just to focus on ourselves.
 
PF: Get the Express Pass, which we did. We honoured our alliance with Natalie and Meaghan and our promise to them. We even had a discussion about what would happen if we got U-Turned, and the only team we could bring with us is Natalie and Meaghan, which was unlikely to happen. I said, “Well, I'm sinking with the ship, then, because we haven't discussed that, and that's what we promised.” The fact with Alain and Audrey is that the only way you can deal liars and hypocrites is to become like them. We had to be like that because otherwise –
 
MF: You don't say your strategy in front of them.
 
PF: We knew they wanted to kick us out.
 
MF: That's why they came to the back and said, “We're going to work together, we're from Quebec.”
 
PF: We asked them at the beginning of the leg if they wanted to work together –
 
MF: They never answered.
 
PF: It doesn't mean they're bad people, we're not b---hing or bashing anyone. But it was so funny to see that the alliances they built to kick us out collapse show after show.
 
MF: Nicole and Cormack, out. Bob and Rex, out. Ryan and Rob, out. After they started to talk to us, “Are you going to protect us? We're from Quebec?” Yeah, yeah. When you are hunted, you start to hunt.
 
PF: And it's okay. No regrets.
 :umn:
 
Q: The Race has been to China and France now. If you could have picked anywhere in the world to compete next, where would it be?
 
MF: I would love to go to Iceland. I like mountains and I like green countryside.
 
PF: I thought the show, on the way back from France, would hit Great Britain. I would have loved to see that, because I've never been there.
 
Q: What did you miss most about home?
 
MF: My girlfriend.
 
PF: I didn't miss anything. We signed up for a race; it was not the biggest moment of our life. I've been in high-level competitions before. It was something that we were looking to win. There's no place for second place, we were just there to win. I didn't miss anything, it was a full five weeks of focus. I think we were close. I think Natalie and Meaghan saw us coming. “You're the only team we can trust,” that's what they told us.
 
MF: That was a big prize for us, to be respected by those girls.
 
PF: We would honour our alliance to the point that we would've sank with the ship just because of that. We didn't want to pass as the guys with no respect, the only people were Alain and Audrey, and I repeat, the only way to deal with liars is to lie with them.
 
Q: If you could choose a theme song for your journey, what would it be?
 
MF [singing]: We are younggg... “We Are Young” by Fun. We are 42, but feel like we were in shape like we're 30.
 
PF: I would say “It's A Beautiful Day” by U2.
 
Q: Anything else you guys wanted to talk about?
 
PF: I think I said before, you are only as funny as the producers want you to be. We knew what we signed up for, knew that they could do anything with our image. We have a huge circle of friends and they know who we are. If we were that bad, we wouldn't have the friends we have. We're racers, and when it's time to race, it's time to race. It didn't turn out the way we planned, but that's it, that's all, no hard feelings.

Source:http://www.thesocial.ca/culture/television/amazing-race-canada-pierre-and-michel-five-questio

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