CBS announced Monday the 11 new teams for the 14th edition of its Emmy Award-winning The Amazing Race which will premiere at 8 p.m. Feb. 15, 2009.
An air of secrecy surrounds these latest season of multiple Emmy award-winning hit reality series. Even host Phil Keoghan has remained cryptic about the latest season, not revealing much about who the teams are and where they will be setting off to unlike the recent past seasons. With the teams departing from the United States for the 14th time running, the destinations are bound to get more exotic and the challenges more exciting.
The group features stuntmen brothers, flight attendants, a brother and sister who are Harvard-educated lawyers and a feature film writer/producer/actor and his father.
This season the contestants will travel 40,000 miles in just 22 days to earn the cool $1 million. And in a “TAR” first, teams will travel to Romania and Siberia.
Siblings Mark Munoz and Michael Munoz
Mark Munoz:
Age: 48,
Hometown: Los Angeles
Occupation: Stuntman/Jockey
Michael Munoz:
Age: 51
Hometown: Maui, Hawaii
Occupation: Stuntman/Actor
Factoid: They are both 4 feet and 9 inches tall.
Siblings Tammy and Victor Jih
Tammy Jih
Age: 26
Hometown: San Francisco
Occupation: Lawyer
Victor JihAge:
Age: 35
Hometown: Los Angeles
Occupation: Lawyer
Factoid: They both graduated from Harvard
Siblings LaKisha and Jennifer Hoffman
LaKisha Hoffman
Age: 28
Hometown: Bronx, New York
Occupation: Program coordinator
Jennifer Hoffman
Age: 24
Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky
Occupation: Marketing assistant
Factoid: They were both Division I college athletes at the University of Louisville
Former NFL cheerleaders Cara Rosenthal and Jaime Edmondson
Cara Rosenthal
Age: 26
Hometown, Boca Raton, Florida
Occupation: Law student
Jaime Edmondson
Age: 29
Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Occupation: Former police officer
Factoid: They met three years ago while cheerleading for the Miami Dolphins
Friends Christie Volkmer and Jodi Wincheski
Christie Volkmer
Age: 37
Hometown: Choctaw, Oklahoma
Occupation: Flight attendant
Jodie Wincheski
Age: 40
Hometown: Houston
Occupation: Flight attendant
Factoid: Became friends six years ago while working on a Southwest Airlines flight
Father and son Mel and Mike White
Mel White
Age: 68
Hometown: Lynchburg, Virginia
Occupation: Writer/clergyman
Mike White
Age: 38
Hometown: Santa Monica, California
Occupation: Writer, producer and/or actor on such films as “School of Rock” and “Nacho Libre”
Factoid: When Mike turned 11, Mel announced to the family that he was gay
Married couple Linda and Steve Cole
Linda Cole
Age: 52
Hometown: Martinsville, Virginia
Occupation: Customer service supervisor
Steve Cole
Age: 43
Hometown: Martinsville, Virginia
Occupation: Carpenter
Factoid: They have been married 17 years and both have children from previous marriages
Married couple Brad and Victoria Hunt
Brad Hunt
Age: 52
Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Occupation: Distribution dispatcher
Victoria Hunt
Age: 47
Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Occupation: Tax manager
Factoid: They have been married nine years; Victoria was told she could never run again after having major foot surgery. She’s out to prove that she has recovered and anything is possible.
Dating couple Jennifer Hopka and Preston McCamy
Jennifer Hopka
Age: 26
Hometown: Columbia, South Carolina
Occupation: Student
Preston McCamy
Age: 28
Hometown: Columbia, South Carolina
Occupation: Software engineer
Factoid: Dating a year, they have broken up and gotten back together several times
Mother and son Margie and Luke Adams
Margie Adams
Age: 51
Hometown: Denver, Colorado
Occupation: Clinical research associate
Luke Adams
Age: 23
Hometown: Denver, Colorado
Status: College graduate
Factoid: Luke has been deaf since the age of 2 and communicates by sign language
Dating couple Amanda Blackledge and Kris Klicka
Amanda Blackledge
Age: 23
Hometown: San Diego
Occupation: Student
Kris Klicka
Age: 24
Hometown: San Diego
Occupation: Sales representative
Factoid: They met more than three years ago and have never traveled extensively
