The winners of The Amazing Race‘s latest season have revealed that producers edited the finale to make the episode appear more competitive than it really was.
Podcast hosts and gamers Carson McCalley and Jack Dodge won the $1 million prize and they said in a new interview that their lead on the other teams was way bigger than the show made it seem.
The producers of the show made it seem like the final three teams were neck-in-neck to create the illusion like there was the possibility that anyone could win, when in reality, the frontrunners had a huge lead.
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“They edited it to be really close. I think we had at least an hour on them,” Jack told TVLine.
Carson added, “Major props to Jack when he was doing that hoverboard thing. Everything else was so, so, so, so close. After that hoverboard, we felt like we took a huge lead. We saw how many attempts that took for everybody, like 21 attempts, 25 attempts. It was so hard to get that, I imagine. So after that, we knew we had a pretty strong lead, but we did see Han and Holden again at the boating, but it took us… I mean, we were hand-paddling. There was no wind. We were hand-paddling around a whole island. It took an hour-and-a-half maybe. So when we were coming back, we saw them heading out. So we knew we had at least [90 minutes], unless they somehow developed winds…”
Jack chimed in, “It didn’t look like anyone really caught any beautiful gusts. So we were pretty comfortably ahead, but we were like, ‘Anything can change.’ And also, I think Han and Holden got doubly messed up by the car accident, so that probably also played a hand in that time gap.”
In the same interview, Jack said that he’d love to be on Survivor, The Traitors, or The Challenge next while Carson wants to be on Big Brother.
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