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Mostly losers star in “Amazing Race: All Stars”

by Marilyn Porter

Rob and Amber MarianoCBS has finally released the contestant list for “Amazing Race 11″, otherwise known as “Amazing Race: All Stars”. Interestingly enough? Only one team is a former winner of the Amazing Race. Executive producer Betram Van Munster explains, “they’re not necessarily the winners, but character-wise, they’re all-stars in our book.â€? One team didn’t even race together as a team during their season. That would be “Amazing Race 9″’s Eric Sanchez (of Eric and Jeremy fame) and Danielle Turner (of Danielle and Dani), who are currently dating. The rest of the contestants are as follows:

  • “Amazing Race 1″ - Kevin O’Connor and Drew Feinberg
  • “Amazing Race 1″ - Joe Baldassare and Bill Bartek
  • “Amazing Race 2″ - Oswald Mendez and Danny Jimenez
  • “Amazing Race 3″ - John Pietazna and Jill Aquilino
  • “Amazing Race 3″ - Teri and Ian Pollack
  • “Amazing Race 5″ - Charla Faddoul and Mirna Hindoyan
  • “Amazing Race 7″ - Uchenna and Joyce
  • “Amazing Race 7″ - Rob and Amber Mariano
  • “Amazing Race 10″ - David and Mary Conley
  • “Amazing Race 10″ - Dustin Seltzer and Kandice Pelletier

Interesting choices here. Some don’t surprise me at all. Some, I wish the producers had reconsidered. I feel like we JUST got rid of Dustin and Kandice, only to have them back on our screens. I’m very glad to see the return of Kevin and Drew. I hope they do well. What are your thoughts? Anyone left off you’d have liked to see? Any of these contestants you detest? (Rob and Amber don’t count.)

Also proving a challenge for the producers: keeping these contestants on their toes! They “had to throw [the teams] curveball after curveball, because they all thought they knew what we were doing again,” Van Munster told USA TODAY. The teams traveled 45,000 miles and the race spanned 28 days. Locations included a desert in northern Chile clear to Antarctica!

The show debuts Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. ET.

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Posted in Amazing Race, Contestants on January 16th, 2007

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