Phil Keoghan on doing 'the right thing' by halting TheAmazingRace at the start of the pandemic
said the decision to stop the show midstream, which had never happened before, was disheartening at the time — but it quickly became clear they made the right decision.
CBS still has a season of “The Amazing Race,” shot in 2018, that will finally air this fall. But after that, it may still be a while before shooting can resume on the next edition. “It is going to take a sense of everybody seeing the idea that we are in this together,” Keoghan says of tackling the pandemic. “We could learn a lot from the World War II generation as far as sacrifice for others, sacrifice for the country.
“My mother is probably the toughest person I know,” Keoghan said. “My dad’s a big burly ex-rugby player, very strong. For his 78th birthday, he did 430 push ups. But if you want to talk about somebody who will never give in, who will literally work themselves until they fall over… that’s my mother. What we wanted to do with ‘Tough as Nails’ was to say, yes, if you play in the NFL and you you fight in the MMA, you’re tough.
“I’ve always been frustrated with the idea that you spent all these months looking for these incredible people,” Keoghan said, “and then they get knocked out episode after episode and you lose all that work that you’ve done to find these people.”
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