The Amazing Race: Season 07 (2005)

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Season seven of The Amazing Race finds a team of celebrities competing in the series' traditional round-the-world challenge race: Amber Brkich and Rob Mariano, both alumni of another popular reality show, Survivor. Seeing as how Amber had already won that show's grand prize of a million dollars through an alliance with Rob, they were not a popular team on The Amazing Race, to say the least. Rob's overconfidence, rudeness, and frequent insistance on bending the rules almost to their breaking point also added to other teams' comtempt for them. Without saying any more, though, it can be noted that Amber and Rob do not walk away with Amazing Race's million-dollar prize. That honor goes to another of the 11 teams competing this season, which include Uchenna & Joyce Agu, Ron Young & Kelly McCorkle, Gretchen & Meredith Smith, Lynn Warren & Alex Ali, Greg & Brian Smith, Deana Shane & Ray Housteau, Susan & Patrick Vaughn, Debbie Cloyd & Bianca Smith, Megan Baker & Heidi Heidel, and Ryan Phillips & Chuck Horton. Also noteworthy is the fact that elderly couple Gretchen & Meredith Smith were the oldest team to ever make it to the final four, surpassing the record of Don and Mary Jean St. Claire from the previous season. The season-seven stopovers include such exotic locales as Peru, Chile, Argentina, South Africa (Johannesburg), India, Turkey, Jamaica, and even Abbey Road in London (and not a barefooted Beatle in sight!). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide