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On Sunday’s The Amazing Race, the father-son team of Mel and Mike White were eliminated after being removed from the competition during the Detour challenge because they were suffering from hypothermia. Yet even after being treated, putting on fresh clothes, and being driven to the pit stop to be eliminated, they still beat Jaime and Cara to the pit stop. Mel told Reality TV World that “when we got out — when we got treated, and then we got clothed, and then they took us by SUV to the Pit Stop — it was pretty late. It was raining, and we were just about to get out of the SUV to go up to see [Phil Keoghan] when Cara and Jaime arrived.” He says that means that “if we’d found that frog within 30 minutes or 40 minutes, because they had such a hard time finding the Pit Stop, we could have beat them! So, there’s a little bit of sadness there, like, ‘We could have done it! We could have been in there!’” In another interview, Mel told TV Guide that Mike (who didn’t participate in post-elim...

At long last, I watched the second episode of The Amazing Race 18. (I spent the weekend with a former Survivor contestant for an upcoming story and have been playing catch-up ever since.) I wasn’t all that fond of the first episode and its momentum-destroying twists , including a cliffhanger ending. This episode had an ending, though it was predictable—Kris and Amanda’s U-Turn penalty made it pretty difficult for them to catch up, especially after a mid-episode equalizer that erased other teams’ errors—but managed to deliver a lot of good moments. Here were the highlights for me: When we saw Kent and Vixsyn at the faux pit stop, I thought we’d get to see him slap the hot surfer greeter’s ass again, but the editors left that out.Talking about their alliance with Cara and Jaime, Luke did air quotes and said, “both of them are my ‘Race girlfriends,’” emphasis on the scare quotes . Not that there’s anything wrong with that.Mike said, “physically, it sure feels like the race is more diffi...

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