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Amazing Race 13 cast revealed: Yeah!

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) on Aug 24th 2008 at 1:00PM

Joy! Rapture! A bit of excitement is heading to Sunday night TV on September 28 at 8 PM on CBS. Yes, folks. The Amazing Race returns. This round is season 13.

The cast has been revealed and is now up at the Amazing Race website. Thanks to Jaunted for giving me the heads up when I received my daily Jaunted missive yesterday.

There's a link in the Jaunted post to the L.A. Times travel blog, "Daily Travel and Deal." Here, editor Maret Orliss, senior programming manager for Los Angeles Times Events presents her impressions of each couple after chatting with them in person.

As usual, there are the team combos that we've come to know and count on for good TV:

The blondes
The parent/child where someone wants to bond more with the other
The incredibly competent couple who gets along so well that you're left wondering what the hell is wrong with your own life
The couple whose non-stop squabbling is something you recognize, or if you're lucky, leaves you feeling like the couple in the above example.
The older couple who is too sweet for words and have a snowball's chance in hell of ever winning
The sibling pair who think that each of them are the best thing since sliced bread
The pair who is sure they will win because of they are so much better qualified than any others. Duh.

I'll miss seeing two of the couples from last season when I tune in. They are:

Kynt and Vyxsin, the Goth pair who I consistently rooted for, and Donald and Nick, the grandfather/grandson team who came in second. Don was the oldest contestant to do so well and watching the two of them was TV worth watching.

Here are the countries the teams hoped to see by being Season 13 contestants, according to Orliss's reporting. As we watch this season, let's see if any of them get to go to the country of their dreams.

Latvia
Argentina
Italy
Greece
New Zealand
Egypt or another African country
Tibet
Nepal
Mongolia
Fiji
Israel

Click here for the video clip of "Meet the Cast." As Phil Keoghan, the host of the show says, one reason to tune in week after week is that this is a chance to see "Ordinary people doing extraordinary things."

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