The Amazing Race Canada will kick off its 11th season at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium, returning to the same spot where season 10 ended with hometown winners Taylor and Katie being crowned champions.
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Three teams from Alberta will join this season’s lineup, including Edmonton’s Blair Gladue and his wife Skylene. Gladue, widely recognized as Superfan Magoo, is a familiar face at Oilers games where he’s known for energizing the crowd.
Jon Montgomery, the show’s host and former Olympic gold medallist, believes the “dynamite couple” will bring even more excitement to the series.
Anytime you get a husband and a wife team that are as deeply connected as these two are, that’s compelling television for me because you know that they’re probably going to have come-aparts,
he told CTV News Edmonton in an interview on Tuesday morning.
Then watching them come back together, as good couples do, is the secret sauce.
This season will also spotlight Jesse from Sherwood Park, along with Calgary-based brothers Osas and Esosa. In the premiere episode, the racers will journey from Edmonton to Red Deer.
The locals are maybe going to have a little bit of home province advantage,
Montgomery teased about Tuesday’s episode, noting that he had lived in Alberta for 14 years.
I was tickled pink to come back and reminisce about old times, but also capture something and showcase it and present it to the rest of the country (and) to show what it is that I love so much about an area.
The Amazing Race Canada will welcome fresh faces this season, including its first-ever grandmother, and explore exciting new destinations — finally venturing north of the Arctic Circle and reaching the Arctic Ocean, marking the show’s arrival at the third Canadian coastline.
We’ve always said ‘coast to coast to coast,’ but I guess until this year we’ve been lying because we haven’t technically been to the Arctic Ocean yet, We will now.
Montgomery said.
Filmed in April, Season 11 offers an impressive grand prize: $250,000 in cash, a trip for two around the world, and two brand-new Chevrolet Blazer EV SS vehicles.
The 11th season of the CTV reality competition series aired on Tuesday, July 8.
Source: CTV