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'keeta:
It was amazing that most of them were respectful. Talk about not arguing, Hayden and Aaron got along well. She really chilled out.

 **:)** NO MORE JON AND VIC! _-* __*^

puddin:
JON AND VICKIE OUT OF 'RACE'

By DON KAPLAN

 
 
January 19, 2005 -- JONATHAN Baker, one of the most notorious charac ters in the history of reality TV, was finally bumped out of "Amazing Race" last night.
But Baker — who stirred up a hornets next with his abusive treatment of his wife, Victoria, and other contestants — now says he regrets his bad behavior on the show.

"I'm not this ugly person that I've been made out to be," Baker told The Post after last night's episode ended.

"I took the game too seri ously and I took myself too seriously," he says.

"But most of all I didn't like the person I saw up there. Victoria and I reconciled privately, but I didn't like the person that I portrayed on the screen because I think I'm a better person than that."

Baker insisted that for all the bad behavior that was caught on tape during the around-the-world race last summer, there was an equal amount of kind moments that ended up being edited out.

"I asked CBS, 'Why did you do this?' " Baker says. "You know what they said to me? 'We didn't think it was going to get this out of control.' "

 

Chief among Jonathan's sins was shoving Victoria, a former Playboy model, at the finish line as she was crying about a screw-up that appeared to cost the couple a leg of the race.

Baker says he's received about 300 hate e-mails a day since then — some containing death threats.

Across the Internet, reality show fan sites blast Baker on a daily basis. "If you Google my name [on the Web] all I am is an abuser," he says.

"I had a really good time on the show but I regret that they portrayed us so negatively," Victoria said last night.

"In real life he's not abusive at all and it's disappointing for us that it came out that way when we went into it having so much fun, being so crazy, going all out and it came off so bad," she says.

On last night's episode, Jonathan and Victoria fell behind when Victoria cut herself on a piece of metal.

With Victoria hurt, the couple misread the rules to last night's challenge and ended up traveling 18 miles on foot surrounded by about 100 singing Ethiopian children.

In the end, Baker says he was so moved by the kids and how they helped he and his wife that he gave all his money, possessions and the clothes off his back to the people in the Ethiopian village.  `/~

"This episode was about my redemption," says

Jonathan.
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/38419.htm

Trevor:
I don't buy that article at all. 

You don't just switch gears and become somebody like that ESPECIALLY with people watching on television.  I think Jonathan is just like that all the time when he gets in pressure situations.  Some people are cool as a cucumber like Joe Montana or Michael Jordan, others react by yelling and screaming at everyone.

I can't believe Victoria took it.  Shocking to me (more shocking than her being a Playboy pinup, I guess Hugh was looking for a page-filler in that month).  There's not a girl I've dated that would ever let me berate her like that.  Not a chance.

Texan:
I think the article was to try and get him in a better light. 

I do think the game is stressful ` however the I am portrayed badly...they use the tape of the real people not actors.

puddin:
They are total Media Whores , no surprise there , they were on like EVERY one of those half hour shows ET ,Inside Edition ..etc ..
I'm No Villian

He says he's not a bad guy ... he just played one on TV. The “Amazing Race” contestant whose rough ways with his partner wife earned him a reprimand from the producers says now ... it was all an act. Inside Edition's April Woodard gets his side of the story….
 ..etc ..  B:) B:) B:) B:)
LOL, this face really tells it all

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