![]() ![]() South Londoners Shuntelle and Michael met on Tinder three years ago - though they have yet to move in together. Jo and Sam had to drop out of the competition after the seventh leg when they ran out of money. He’s come such a long way and I would love to see him achieve his dreams."ĥ4-year-old Jo works as a physiotherapist and Sam is a landscape gardener. "To watch him experience this will be fantastic. I want the trip to help him grow, and see how the world works. "My son and I get on so well and he is desperate to travel, but I’m nervous of him going off on his own. Liverpool's Beat the Chasers £60k winner says 'northern girls are the best'.ITV confirm Emmerdale and Coronation Street episodes will run out very soon.Of her reasons for taking part in the competition, Jo said: "Adventure and travel with my son, to be able to challenge myself again and regain my zest for life. The mum said she wanted to teach her 19-year-old son Sam, who has ADHD, how to explore the world while supporting him before he decides to take on adventures of his own. Jo first went backpacking over 30 years ago but said it was her dream to travel with her son. Mum and son team Jo and Sam are from Manchester. Jo and Sam in Peru (Image: BBC/Studio Lambert) Outside of the show, Emon is an entreprenur and business owner - he runs Ezy Care car parts in Bradford and Jamiul is an architecture graduate. They were the winning pair by just 20 seconds and bagged the £20,000 prize. ITV Beat the Chasers fans beg for show to be made permanent.Ross Kemp shares 'cruel' reality of coronavirus after patient who asked to be filmed dies. ![]() I also want to do this before starting my own family." Read More Related Articles "I was a very active explorer back in my twenties, but I've recently become lazy in my lifestyle. Speaking to the BBC, Emon said of his reasons for joining the show: "My nephew motivated me to do this challenge - since we have rekindled our relationship, it would be a fantastic journey to go on with him and I wouldn't do this challenge with anyone else. The pair had been estranged after Emon left the family when he refused to partake in an arranged marriage. Uncle and nephew team Emon and Jamiul were the winners on the show.ģ5-year-old Emon spent 10 years apart from Jamiul, 25, before reuniting at a family wedding three months before the race. The uncle and nephew team were the winners (Image: BBC) So who are this year's contestants and what do they do when they're not jet-setting across the globe? Emon and Jamiul The contestants started their endeavour in Mexico City with the aim of reaching the most southerly city in the world – Ushuaia in Argentina.ĭue to the show's popularity, the BBC have confirmed a celebrity series will follow - though filming of the spin-off has been postponed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The countries were Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Guatemala, Uruguay, Belize, Bolivia and Argentina. The Liverpool Echo has a free app and here's how to download it.You can get our best stories sent straight to your inbox with our newsletter.The new series kicked off on March 8 with a fresh line-up of hopeful travellers and viewers were keen to find out all they could about the budding travellers.Īmong the chosen hopefuls were a chalet host, a landscape gardener and a businessman.īBC filmed the new series back in September 2019, before current lockdown measures were introduced, and had contestants embark on a journey of sixteen countries in order to complete the Race Across the World 2020 route. The show has contestants competing in pairs on a race through a series of countries, using only land-based modes of transport, with no phones and a shoestring budget to get by. BBC's popular Race Across the world returned to our screens in March, delighting fans of the hit travel show. ![]()
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