When you enter The Amazing Race: Celebrity Edition you’re expected to take things seriously, Rob Mills.
But hey, Millsy is one of entertainment’s nice guys. So is Stephen Curry. So is Ed Kavalee. And so are a bunch of other Aussies all in the mood for a little hijinks in foreign countries for the sake of a TV show.
Why wouldn’t they band together when thrown in the deep end in Nepal, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Indonesia? After all we’re a long way from home, strength in numbers and all that…
And when
the challenges are as bizarre as stacking hay or hanging maize a little Aussie humour goes a long way.
So it was for Rob Mills and partner Georgie Tunny, supposedly competing for charity on 10’s latest reality quest, but soaking it all in and having such a ‘Millsy’ Mills time of it all that producers had to keep reminding them.
“We all just got along so well, there were times we were helping each other out. They were like, ‘Stop helping each other, because it’s a competition!'” he tells TV Tonight.
“We can’t help it. We all love each other!”
Not in the spirit of the show, Rob Mills. Didn’t he inject some reality-like Hunger Games aggression for the cameras?
“No mate, no friction at all. Like it was really fun to hang out with Fev (Brendan Fevola), who I’ve known for a little while, and spend some quality time with him. You just get to know what a genuinely lovely human being is. He’s a big kid, but also a really great dad. Not just to (daughter) Leni on the show, but to everyone around him,” he continues.
“The Curry brothers were like having brothers on the race. We got along really well with Luke and Scott, Aisha and Scott were a very funny Kiwi couple we really enjoyed their company as well….. even Ed and Tiff, there’s some good LOLs there. I’ve got to say I thoroughly enjoyed the company of everybody.”
Honestly, who cast this thing? Don’t they know Reality TV requires win-at-all-costs? Divide and conquer? Haven’t they seen MAFS?
Millsy reckons he and Georgie, to whom he his long engaged, had their share of dilemmas. Georgie’s pretty rank at directions, which is kinda crucial on a trek of this scale.
“In normal, everyday life, I’m the navigator, so I should never have taken her advice because there’s so many times throughout this race that Georgie and I go the wrong way. The challenges we do really well. The first few challenges she really carried the team and then I think I took over after that. But I’m really proud of her. She never gave up on one challenge,” he says.
“These challenges are pretty hard. I’ve done half marathons, 100 kilometre walks. I’m not talking about physical strength here at all. It’s the emotional toll of those long, long days that challenges take and the resilience. She can’t even ride a bicycle. I mean, I love her, but she didn’t give up once.
“Our relationship is so much better from doing this. I remember before we left, thinking, ‘This is going to break us or make us 10 times stronger.’ And we’re 10 times stronger.”
Also joining them are Bronte Campbell & Benfield Lainchbury, Dom ‘Tomato’ Di Tommaso & Marx Marsters, Luke O’Halloran & ‘Sassy’ Scott O’Halloran, Melissa Leong & Leah Wilson, Lindy Klim & Stella Klim, Steph Tisdell & Ben Tisdell, Gretel Killeen & Epiphany Mason.
“I got some great advice from Peter Helliar. He and his wife had the best time. He said, ‘Just be yourself.’ And that’s honestly, that’s what they encouraged everyone to do. So I suppose it’s all in the casting,’ he suggests.
“I remember at one stage, Georgie said, ‘Like, who are we? What’s our character? We’re not like villains or anything.’ I go, ‘We’re just the nice nerds.’ But I think that’s okay. We don’t have to be the super-funny people, the overly-sporty people. I think being just ourselves is actually okay.”
But a good Reality show also requires drama right?
Enter SAS Australia‘s Ant Middleton and brother Dan Middleton, who if press articles are to be believed, were booted from the show for misconduct, one night after a little partying.
And here is where things do get a little spicy.
10 Publicity, which has confirmed one couple is removed from production, has not confirmed which pair, …..but then, you do the MAFS.
“Following a breach of the production’s code of conduct by one contestant, on a day off during production, a team from The Amazing Race Australia was disqualified and swiftly sent home,” said 10.
Finally some drama, then?
“I’m not allowed to tell you on the record,” Millsy admits.
Say whaaat?
“I’ll just say one thing….. Georgie and I were both disappointed with the actions of said people. That’s all I’ll say. Very disappointed.”Wow if you manage to offend Millsy Mills you must be pretty poor.
It all plays out from 7:30pm Monday on 10.
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