The Amazing Race Australia celebrity edition has been rocked with controversy after a contestant was disqualified following a verbal altercation with another team.
And one of the players at centre of it – but this time as the hero – was none other than one-time troublemaker Brendan Fevola.
Famous faces for this year’s Network 10 reality adventure competition include Big Brother host Gretel Killeen, MasterChef judge Melissa Leong, Olympian Bronte Campbell, model Lindy Klim and her daughter Stella.
The series has been a smash hit with 13 teams of two jetting around the world facing a series of pit stops and roadblocks as they race against the clock in the hope of winning $100,000 for their chosen charities.
This year the show ran into an early obstacle involving the team of SAS: Who Dares Win instructor Ant Middleton and his brother Dan.
During a break in production Page 13 understands Dan Middleton was a tad worse for wear after a night out and started yelling at fellow contestants, TikTok star brothers Luke and ‘Sassy’ Scott O’Halloran.
Page 13 was told some teammates had already gone to bed when the altercation took place.
Fevola, who has teamed up with his young daughter Leni, was thankfully still up when Middleton started behaving erratically.
Slinging some highly and grossly inappropriate language not fit for publication (even for this column) toward the social media stars, Page 13 understands the former Carlton champion had a gutful, stepping in to stop Middleton’s behaviour and deliver an ultimatum.
So incensed was Fevola by Middleton’s antics he demanded the production team act quickly and boot him from the series immediately, or else Fev would leave.Network 10 on Friday confirmed the show’s management had acted swiftly to ensure the health and safety of the contestants.
“Network 10 takes the health, safety and wellbeing of all contestants seriously,” a Ten spokesperson told Page 13.
“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.”Ant Middleton was the original Chief Instructor on UK’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, before also taking part in an Australian spin off for Channel 7.
He was later dropped due to concerns over his “personal conduct” off-camera, which included controversial comments he made about COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Page 13 is not saying Ant Middleton had any part in the altercation, only his brother Dan.
To say the other teammates were rattled by the experience so early into the show is putting it mildly, with word seeping out about the incident as filming continued to take place.
It will be interesting to see how the situation is handled when the show is aired on Network 10 later this year.
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