The new season was revealed earlier this year and auditions both on ground and online has been done over the past few months. The last season was already 6 years ago so it is just high time that the new season airs.
The 11 new teams are as follows:
> Rachel and Vicky, travel hosts from Indonesia
> Louisa and Treasuri, childhood friends from Indonesia
> Alex and Will, brothers from Malaysia
> Brandon and Alphaeus, old schoolmates from Malaysia
> Chloe and Yvonne, beauty queens from Malaysia
> Eric and Rona, married couple from the Philippines
> Parul and Maggie, beauty queens from the Philippines
> JK and Mike, radio DJ's from Singapore
> Rei and Kenji, siblings from Singapore
> Tom and Anita, dating couple from Thailand
> Lisa and Nicole, life partners from Vietnam
Looking at the teams, this is an exciting group of racers. We have siblings, friends, colleagues and couples in the mix. I was hoping for a parent and child team, after a strong showing from Malaysia's Hussein and Natasha from Season 5. It is also good to note that we have the first team from Vietnam to compete in the show.
I also think that 3 teams from the same country is too much. There are other countries in the region - India, Sri Lanka and Japan has been represented before. We still have Myanmar or Mongolia as well. So picking 3 teams from one country is I think too much.
Let me focus now on the teams from the defending champions - after the Season 4 victory of Richard and Richard - the Philippines.
The first team in the list is married couple Eric Tai and Rona Samson Tai. Eric, more commonly known as Eruption, is not new to the television scene. He was a former host of the noontime show "It's Showtime" in ABS-CBN. He is also a player of the Philippine national rugby team - the Philippine Volcanoes. He has also endorsed several brands, most notably is Kitkat as the lead endorser in the Have A Break campaign in the past few years. He is married to model Rona Samson, whom he married 3 times. Here is Eric and Rona's online audition for the show as posted in Rona's YouTube account :
The second team from the Philippines is the team of the Beauty Queens Parul Shah and Maggie Wilson. Parul is an Indian - Filipino beauty, who won Binibining Pilipinas Tourism 2014 but was not able to compete in Miss Tourism 2014 as the pageant was not held during that year. She was handpicked in 2015 to represent the country in the Miss Grand International 2015 where she won as 3rd runner up. Her partner, Maggie Wilson-Consunji was crowned Binibining Pilipinas World in 2007. She competed in the Miss World 2007 pageant where she was one of the top 16 semi-finalist. Maggie was already in showbiz even before she won the crown, and continued in that line after the pageant. She married in 2010 and now has a son.
I am really looking forward to the show and the race. I hope to get a glimpse of the race live if it passes here in the Philippines - I really hope it does.
Good luck to the Philippine teams and hope you can retain the title with the Philippines!
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