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The Amazing Race 32
Season 32
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Region 1 DVD cover
Presented by Phil Keoghan
No. of teams11
WinnerWill Jardell & James Wallington
No. of legs11
Distance traveled33,000 mi (53,000 km)
No. of episodes12
Release
Original network CBS
Original releaseOctober 14 (2020-10-14) 
December 16, 2020 (2020-12-16)
Additional information
Filming datesNovember 10 (2018-11-10) 
December 3, 2018 (2018-12-03)
Season chronology
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The Amazing Race 32 is the thirty-second season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race . Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race around the world in order to win US$1,000,000. This season visited four continents and eleven countries and traveled over 33,000 miles (53,000 km). Starting in Los Angeles, racers traveled through Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, India, Cambodia, and the Philippines before returning to the United States and finishing in New Orleans. New twists introduced in this season include an elimination during a no-rest leg, a Double Switchback, and the City Sprint. Elements of the show that returned for this season were the Yield and double-length legs, which were renamed Mega Legs. The season premiered on CBS on October 14, 2020, [1] and the season finale aired on December 16, 2020.

Boyfriends Will Jardell and James Wallington were the winners of this season, while married parents Hung Nguyen and Chee Lee finished in second place, and professional volleyball players Riley McKibbin and Maddison McKibbin finished in third place.

Production

Development and filming

The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles hosted the starting line of the thirty-second season of The Amazing Race. Hollywood Bowl - panoramio.jpg
The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles hosted the starting line of the thirty-second season of The Amazing Race.

During the airing of season 30 in January 2018, Phil Keoghan suggested that the show could return to filming two seasons a year after two years of only filming one. [2] After season 31 completed filming in July 2018, The Amazing Race 32 began on November 10, 2018 with filming of first leg reported on the island of Tobago, marking the first time The Amazing Race visited Trinidad and Tobago. [3] The season concluded filming on December 3, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. [4]

According to Phil Keoghan, this season was the most physically demanding to film since The Amazing Race 3 . [5] This season also saw The Amazing Race reach a milestone of traveling one million cumulative miles. [6]

This season was the first to eliminate the last place team during a no-rest leg. [7] It also saw the first appearance of the Yield since the first All-Stars edition back in 2007, making this the first season to feature both the Yield and the U-Turn. [8] [9] The mechanics of the Yield were changed such that teams had to find an hourglass during Leg 2 that they could use later in the season to Yield another team. [10]

Two new twists were introduced this season: the Mega Leg and City Sprint. Leg 8 featured a Mega Leg: a rebranding of the double-length leg last seen on The Amazing Race 14 , which featured two Detours and two Roadblocks over the course of one leg. [11] Leg 10 featured the City Sprint, where teams did not have to complete any Detours or Roadblocks, but rather a series of tasks that they had to complete as quickly as possible. [12]

Casting

Unlike five of the past six seasons, which had particular themes, Phil Keoghan referred to this season as taking a "back to basics" approach with the cast and the show going back to core elements. [13]

Release

Broadcast

At twenty-two months, The Amazing Race 32 has the longest gap between its filming completion and its premiere. [14] This is primarily attributed to the filming of the season prior to season 31's broadcast and the delays on the 2019–20 television season as television production was suspended following the COVID-19 pandemic. CBS first announced on April 13, 2020, that the season would originally premiere with a two-hour special on May 20, 2020, taking over the Wednesday slot of Survivor: Winners at War part of the 2019–20 TV season. Following this, the show would have returned to the standard one-hour episode format. [15] However, on April 29, 2020, CBS announced that it was postponing the premiere until later in 2020, and the freshman game show Game On! would assume Survivor's former timeslot. [16] The postponement was designed to allow The Amazing Race to replace shows scheduled in the 2020–21 television season whose production has not begun as a result of suspended television production following the COVID-19 pandemic. [17]

Outside of a message from Keoghan at the start of the first episode describing the timing of filming of this season relative to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season made no other changes or mention of the pandemic. Keoghan explained this choice was made by production to keep the show evergreen. [18]

Cast

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From left to right: Kellie Wells-Brinkley, DeAngelo Williams, Gary Barnidge, and Riley McKibbin

This cast included former Carolina Panthers players DeAngelo Williams and Gary Barnidge, Olympic hurdlers Kellie Wells-Brinkley and LaVonne Idlette, professional volleyball player Riley McKibbin, [19] college basketball coach Jerry Eaves, [20] and America's Next Top Model cycle 21 runner-up Will Jardell. [21]

After Phil Keoghan announced to Will & James that they had won The Amazing Race, Will proposed to James, who accepted. [22] Will & James were married on December 3, 2021: the three year anniversary of their Amazing Race win and their engagement. [23] [24]

ContestantsAgeRelationshipHometownStatus
Nathan Worthington39Best Friends Dayton, Tennessee Eliminated 1st
(in Buccoo, Trinidad and Tobago)
Cody Buell33 Paint Lick, Kentucky
Kellie Wells-Brinkley 37Former Olympic Hurdlers Richmond, Virginia Eliminated 2nd
(in Bogotá, Colombia)
LaVonne Idlette 34 Hampton, Virginia
Jerry Eaves 61Father & Son Louisville, Kentucky Eliminated 3rd
(in Rio Negro, Brazil)
Frank Eaves25
Michelle Newland34Sisters Lafayette, Louisiana Eliminated 4th
(in Paris, France)
Victoria Newland33
Leo Brown31Dating Somerville, Massachusetts Eliminated 5th
(in Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Alana Folsom29
Kaylynn Williams30Sisters Bluffton, South Carolina Eliminated 6th
(in Hyderabad, India)
Haley Williams31
Eswar Dhinakaran24Siblings Fremont, California Eliminated 7th
(in Siem Reap, Cambodia)
Aparna Dhinakaran26 Berkeley, California
DeAngelo Williams 36Former NFL Stars Charlotte, North Carolina Eliminated 8th
(in Manila, Philippines)
Gary Barnidge 34 Middleburg, Florida
Riley McKibbin31Pro Volleyball Brothers Honolulu, Hawaii Third place
Maddison McKibbin29
Hung Nguyen39Married Parents Houston, Texas Runners-up
Chee Lee38
Will Jardell30Boyfriends Nederland, Texas Winners
James Wallington31 Grand Rapids, Michigan
Future appearances

In 2022, James Wallington competed on the first season of The Challenge: USA . [25]

Results

The following teams are listed with their placements in each leg. Placements are listed in finishing order.

Team placement (by leg)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8a [lower-alpha 1] 8b 9 10 11
Will & James4th6th1st [lower-alpha 2] 1st4th4th1st3rd> [lower-alpha 3] 2nd2nd2nd1st
Hung & Chee1st1st2nd6th2nd3rd3rd4th4th3rd3rd2nd
Riley & Maddison3rd3rd4th4th1st2nd2nd1st1st> [lower-alpha 4] 1st1st3rd
DeAngelo & Gary10th2nd5th7th5th1st4th2nd3rd4th [lower-alpha 5] 4th
Eswar & Aparna7th4th6th5th6th5th6th5th5th5th [lower-alpha 5]
Kaylynn & Haley8th8th3rd [lower-alpha 6] 8th7th7th5th> [lower-alpha 7] 6th< [lower-alpha 3] 6th< [lower-alpha 4]
Leo & Alana6th7th8th [lower-alpha 2] 3rd3rd6th7th< [lower-alpha 7]
Michelle & Victoria2nd5th7th2nd8th
Jerry & Frank5th9th9th [lower-alpha 6]
Kellie & LaVonne9th10th
Nathan & Cody11th
Notes
  1. Leg 8 was a Mega Leg with two Detours, two Roadblocks, and two Yields shown over two episodes. The placements listed for the first half are the order of the teams' completion of the first Roadblock.
  2. 1 2 Will & James chose to use the U-Turn on Leo & Alana.
  3. 1 2 Will & James chose to Yield Kaylynn & Haley during the first half of the Mega Leg.
  4. 1 2 Riley & Maddison chose to Yield Kaylynn & Haley during the second half of the Mega Leg.
  5. 1 2 DeAngelo & Gary chose to use the U-Turn on Eswar & Aparna.
  6. 1 2 Kaylynn & Haley chose to use the U-Turn on Jerry & Frank.
  7. 1 2 Kaylynn & Haley chose to Yield Leo & Alana.

Race summary

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The route of The Amazing Race 32.
Destinations Legenda lotnisko.svg Air travel    Legenda kolej.svg Rail travel    BSicon BOOT.svg Water travel    Bus-logo.svg Bus travel
Maki-heliport-15.svg Helicopter travel    Maki-bicycle-15.svg Bicycle travel    Maki-aerialway-15.svg Gondola travel
Route Markers Detour icon.svg Detour    Roadblock icon.svg Roadblock    Yield icon.svg Yield    U-Turn icon.svg U-Turn    Speed Bump icon.svg Speed Bump    TAR-pitstop-icon.png Pit Stop

Leg 1 (United States → Trinidad and Tobago)

At Pigeon Point on the island of Tobago, one team member had to learn how to play the steelpan. Pigeon Point beach.jpg
At Pigeon Point on the island of Tobago, one team member had to learn how to play the steelpan.
Locations
Episode summary
Additional note

Leg 2 (Trinidad and Tobago → Colombia)

After landing in Bogota, teams searched the Nemocon salt mine for an hourglass. Mina de sal de Nemocon (11).JPG
After landing in Bogotá, teams searched the Nemocón salt mine for an hourglass.
Locations
Episode summary

Leg 3 (Colombia → Brazil)

One of the Detour choices in the Amazon rainforest required teams to assemble a roof section of an indigenous Dessana house. Casa da tribo Dessana.jpg
One of the Detour choices in the Amazon rainforest required teams to assemble a roof section of an indigenous Dessana house.
Locations
Episode summary
Additional note

Leg 4 (Brazil → Paraguay)

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The Detour in Asunción was a Double Switchback to the watermelon stacking and bottle dance tasks from season 20.
Locations
Episode summary
Additional notes

Leg 5 (Paraguay → France)

The first Roadblock in France had racers match a guest with one of the pieces of art inside the Chateau de Chantilly. Schloss Chantilly.jpg
The first Roadblock in France had racers match a guest with one of the pieces of art inside the Château de Chantilly.
Locations
Episode summary

Leg 6 (France → Germany)

Once in Germany, teams searched for a clue along a section of the Berlin Wall. East Side Gallery, Berlin (2015) - 08.JPG
Once in Germany, teams searched for a clue along a section of the Berlin Wall.
Locations
Episode summary
Additional note

Leg 7 (Germany → Kazakhstan)

While in Kazakhstan, teams had to furnish the interior of a yurt. Yurt in Tekeli.JPG
While in Kazakhstan, teams had to furnish the interior of a yurt.
Locations
Episode summary
Additional note

Leg 8 (Kazakhstan → India)

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During the Mega Leg in Hyderabad, teams found their first Roadblock at Qutb Shahi tombs and completed the final task at Taj Falaknuma Palace.
Locations
Episode summary (Episode 8)
Episode summary (Episode 9)
Additional notes

Leg 9 (India → Cambodia)

Teams found the Pit Stop in Cambodia near the eastern gate of Angkor Thom. Gateway to Angkor Thom (4278135790).jpg
Teams found the Pit Stop in Cambodia near the eastern gate of Angkor Thom.
Locations
Episode summary
Additional note

Leg 10 (Cambodia → Philippines)

The final task in the City Sprint across Manila was set at Mehan Garden. 22Mehan Garden Ermita Manila Alexander Pushkin 29.jpg
The final task in the City Sprint across Manila was set at Mehan Garden.
Locations
Episode summary
LegFlagMusic
1Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago "Day-O"
2Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia "Entrance of the Gladiators"
4Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay "Pájaro Campana"
5Flag of France.svg  France French Renaissance music
Additional note

Leg 11 (Philippines → United States)

In their final destination city, teams visited the historic Bourbon Street of New Orleans. Bourbon NOLA quiet.jpg
In their final destination city, teams visited the historic Bourbon Street of New Orleans.
Locations
Episode summary

Reception

Critical response

The Amazing Race 32 received mixed reviews. Andy Dehnart of reality blurred wrote that the season was "imperfect but thoroughly enjoyable" and that the biggest letdown of the season was the Mine Five alliance. [30] Justin Fedich of Screen Rant called the season a "standout" and praised the diversity in casting and the gameplay and engagement of winners Will & James. [31] Mack Rawden of CinemaBlend criticized seeing "an entire season controlled and ultimately ruined by an alliance". [32] Matt Roush of TV Insider criticized the answer-sharing among the "Mine Five" alliance saying that it felt like "cheating on a test" and that it "soured" the season. [33] [34] In response to criticism from critics and fans about answer-sharing among alliance members, Amazing Race co-creator and executive producer Elise Doganieri stated in an interview after the season that the show was considering challenge-specific rules to limit answer-sharing. [35] In 2024, Rhenn Taguiam of Game Rant placed this season within the bottom 13 out of 36. [36]

Ratings

U.S. Nielsen ratings
Viewership and ratings per episode of The Amazing Race 32
No.TitleAir date Rating
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)
Ref.
1"One Million Miles"October 14, 2020 (2020-10-14)0.73.58 [37]
2"Red Lipstick is Not My Color"October 21, 2020 (2020-10-21)0.73.300.41.631.14.93 [38] [39]
3"We're Makin' Big Moves"October 28, 2020 (2020-10-28)0.74.170.41.361.15.53 [40] [41] [42]
4"Olé, Olé!"November 4, 2020 (2020-11-04)0.74.030.41.401.15.43 [43] [44]
5"You Don't Strike Me as a Renaissance Man"November 11, 2020 (2020-11-11)0.73.720.31.101.04.83 [45] [46]
6"I'm Not Even Walking, I'm Falling"November 18, 2020 (2020-11-18)0.73.900.31.541.05.44 [47] [48]
7"Give Me a Beard Bump"November 18, 2020 (2020-11-18)0.63.180.41.671.04.86 [47] [48]
8"Are You a Rickshaw?"November 25, 2020 (2020-11-25)0.64.20 [49]
9"This is Not Payback, This is Karma"November 25, 2020 (2020-11-25)0.63.80 [49]
10"Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty"December 2, 2020 (2020-12-02)0.74.300.41.301.15.60 [50] [51]
11"Run on Your Tippy Toes"December 9, 2020 (2020-12-09)0.74.150.41.391.15.54 [52] [53]
12"Now It's About Winning"December 16, 2020 (2020-12-16)0.84.46 [54]
Canadian ratings

Canadian broadcaster CTV also aired The Amazing Race on Wednesdays. [55]

Canadian DVR ratings are included in Numeris's count.

No.Air dateEpisodeViewers
(millions)
Rank
(Week)
Ref
1October 14, 2020"One Million Miles"1.722 [56]
2October 21, 2020"Red Lipstick is Not My Color"1.501 [57]
3October 28, 2020"We're Makin' Big Moves"1.465 [58]
4November 4, 2020"Olé, Olé!"1.308 [59]
5November 11, 2020"You Don't Strike Me as a Renaissance Man"1.2510 [60]
6November 18, 2020"I'm Not Even Walking, I'm Falling"1.3712 [61]
7November 18, 2020"Give Me a Beard Bump"0.8329 [62]
8November 25, 2020"Are You a Rickshaw?"1.576
9November 25, 2020"This is Not Payback, This is Karma"
10December 2, 2020"Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty"1.2212 [63]
11December 9, 2020"Run on Your Tippy Toes"1.3312 [64]
12December 16, 2020"Now It's About Winning"1.449 [65]

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<i>The Amazing Race 31</i> Season of television series

The Amazing Race 31 is the thirty-first season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race. Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured eleven teams of two, each consisting of former contestants from CBS's flagship reality shows, Big Brother, Survivor, and The Amazing Race, competing in a race around the world in order to win US$1,000,000. This season visited four continents and ten countries and traveled over 25,000 miles (40,000 km). Starting in Hermosa Beach, California, racers traveled through Japan, Laos, Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates, Uganda, Switzerland, Croatia, the Netherlands, and England before returning to the United States and finishing in Detroit. A new twist introduced in this season was the U-Turn Vote. The season premiered on CBS on April 17, 2019, and the season finale aired on June 26, 2019.

The Amazing Race Canada 7 is the seventh season of The Amazing Race Canada, a Canadian reality competition show based on the American series The Amazing Race. Hosted by Jon Montgomery, it featured nine teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, and one returning team of two given a second chance to compete by fans in a race across Canada. The grand prize included a CA$250,000 cash payout, a trip for two around the world, and two 2019 Chevrolet Blazer SUVs. This season visited six provinces and one territory and travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) during eleven legs. Starting in Toronto, racers travelled through Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Nova Scotia before finishing in Muskoka. New twists introduced in this season include the One Way, which allowed teams to force others to complete one specific side of the Detour, and the Blind Detour, where teams learned about the task that they chose after arriving at its location. The season premiered on CTV on July 2, 2019, with the season finale airing on September 10, 2019.

<i>The Amazing Race 33</i> Season of television series

The Amazing Race 33 is the thirty-third season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race. Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race around Europe to win US$1,000,000. Though filming started in February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused production to be placed on hold for over a year and a half. The race resumed in September 2021 with most of the original teams and a modified route. This season visited two continents and seven countries and traveled over 22,000 miles (35,000 km) during eleven legs. Starting from several cities in the United States, racers traveled through England and Scotland before production was suspended. After reuniting in St. Gallen, racers traveled through Switzerland, France, Greece, and Portugal before returning to the United States and finishing in Greater Los Angeles. An element of the show that returned for this season was having teams start from their homes instead of a centralized location. The season premiered on CBS on January 5, 2022, and the season finale aired on March 2, 2022.

The Amazing Race 35 is the thirty-fifth season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race. Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured thirteen teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race around the world to win US$1,000,000. This season visited three continents and nine countries and traveled over 23,800 miles (38,300 km) during twelve legs. Starting in Los Angeles, racers traveled through Thailand, Vietnam, India, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Sweden, and Ireland before returning to the United States and finishing in Greater Seattle. Elements of the show that returned for this season include the use of commercial flights, the Express Pass, and the U-Turn. In addition, the U-Turn Vote returned with a private vote rather than a public vote, and the U-Turn was a Blind U-Turn. Unlike past seasons, the 35th season featured 90-minute-long episodes. The season aired on Wednesday nights on CBS beginning on September 27, 2023 and concluding on December 13, 2023.

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