The Amazing Race 32 | |
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Season 32 | |
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Presented by | Phil Keoghan |
No. of teams | 11 |
Winner | Will Jardell & James Wallington |
No. of legs | 11 |
Distance traveled | 33,000 mi (53,000 km) |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | October 14 – December 16, 2020 |
Additional information | |
Filming dates | November 10 – December 3, 2018 |
Season chronology | |
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) during eleven legs. 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.
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 10 , 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]
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]
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]
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]
Contestants | Age | Relationship | Hometown | Status |
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Nathan Worthington | 39 | Best Friends | Dayton, Tennessee | Eliminated 1st (in Buccoo, Trinidad and Tobago) |
Cody Buell | 33 | Paint Lick, Kentucky | ||
Kellie Wells-Brinkley | 37 | Former Olympic Hurdlers | Richmond, Virginia | Eliminated 2nd (in Bogotá, Colombia) |
LaVonne Idlette | 34 | Hampton, Virginia | ||
Jerry Eaves | 61 | Father & Son | Louisville, Kentucky | Eliminated 3rd (in Rio Negro, Brazil) |
Frank Eaves | 25 | |||
Michelle Newland | 34 | Sisters | Lafayette, Louisiana | Eliminated 4th (in Paris, France) |
Victoria Newland | 33 | |||
Leo Brown | 31 | Dating | Somerville, Massachusetts | Eliminated 5th (in Almaty, Kazakhstan) |
Alana Folsom | 29 | |||
Kaylynn Williams | 30 | Sisters | Bluffton, South Carolina | Eliminated 6th (in Hyderabad, India) |
Haley Williams | 31 | |||
Eswar Dhinakaran | 24 | Siblings | Fremont, California | Eliminated 7th (in Siem Reap, Cambodia) |
Aparna Dhinakaran | 26 | Berkeley, California | ||
DeAngelo Williams | 36 | Former NFL Stars | Charlotte, North Carolina | Eliminated 8th (in Manila, Philippines) |
Gary Barnidge | 34 | Middleburg, Florida | ||
Riley McKibbin | 31 | Pro Volleyball Brothers | Honolulu, Hawaii | Third place |
Maddison McKibbin | 29 | |||
Hung Nguyen | 39 | Married Parents | Houston, Texas | Runners-up |
Chee Lee | 38 | |||
Will Jardell | 30 | Boyfriends | Nederland, Texas | Winners |
James Wallington | 31 | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
In 2022, James Wallington competed on the first season of The Challenge: USA . [25]
The following teams are listed with their placements in each leg. Placements are listed in finishing order.
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8a [a] | 8b | 9 | 10 | 11 |
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Will & James | 4th | 6th | 1st⊃ [b] | 1st | 4th | 4th | 1st | 3rd> [c] | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st |
Hung & Chee | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 6th | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd |
Riley & Maddison | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st> [d] | 1st | 1st | 3rd |
DeAngelo & Gary | 10th | 2nd | 5th | 7th | 5th | 1st | 4th | 2nd | 3rd | 4th⊃ [e] | 4th† | |
Eswar & Aparna | 7th | 4th | 6th | 5th | 6th | 5th | 6th | 5th | 5th | 5th†⊂ [e] | ||
Kaylynn & Haley | 8th | 8th | 3rd⊃ [f] | 8th‡ | 7th | 7th‡ | 5th> [g] | 6th< [c] | 6th†< [d] | |||
Leo & Alana | 6th | 7th | 8th⊂ [b] | 3rd | 3rd | 6th | 7th†< [g] | |||||
Michelle & Victoria | 2nd | 5th | 7th | 2nd | 8th† | |||||||
Jerry & Frank | 5th | 9th | 9th†⊂ [f] | |||||||||
Kellie & LaVonne | 9th | 10th† | ||||||||||
Nathan & Cody | 11th† |
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Leg | Flag | Music |
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1 | ![]() | "Day-O" |
2 | ![]() | "Entrance of the Gladiators" |
4 | ![]() | "Pájaro Campana" |
5 | ![]() | French Renaissance music |
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]
No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) | Ref. |
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1 | "One Million Miles" | October 14, 2020 | 0.7 | 3.58 | — | — | — | — | [37] |
2 | "Red Lipstick is Not My Color" | October 21, 2020 | 0.7 | 3.30 | 0.4 | 1.63 | 1.1 | 4.93 | [38] [39] |
3 | "We're Makin' Big Moves" | October 28, 2020 | 0.7 | 4.17 | 0.4 | 1.36 | 1.1 | 5.53 | [40] [41] [42] |
4 | "Olé, Olé!" | November 4, 2020 | 0.7 | 4.03 | 0.4 | 1.40 | 1.1 | 5.43 | [43] [44] |
5 | "You Don't Strike Me as a Renaissance Man" | November 11, 2020 | 0.7 | 3.72 | 0.3 | 1.10 | 1.0 | 4.83 | [45] [46] |
6 | "I'm Not Even Walking, I'm Falling" | November 18, 2020 | 0.7 | 3.90 | 0.3 | 1.54 | 1.0 | 5.44 | [47] [48] |
7 | "Give Me a Beard Bump" | November 18, 2020 | 0.6 | 3.18 | 0.4 | 1.67 | 1.0 | 4.86 | [47] [48] |
8 | "Are You a Rickshaw?" | November 25, 2020 | 0.6 | 4.20 | — | — | — | — | [49] |
9 | "This is Not Payback, This is Karma" | November 25, 2020 | 0.6 | 3.80 | — | — | — | — | [49] |
10 | "Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty" | December 2, 2020 | 0.7 | 4.30 | 0.4 | 1.30 | 1.1 | 5.60 | [50] [51] |
11 | "Run on Your Tippy Toes" | December 9, 2020 | 0.7 | 4.15 | 0.4 | 1.39 | 1.1 | 5.54 | [52] [53] |
12 | "Now It's About Winning" | December 16, 2020 | 0.8 | 4.46 | — | — | — | — | [54] |
Canadian broadcaster CTV also aired The Amazing Race on Wednesdays. [55]
Canadian DVR ratings are included in Numeris's count.
No. | Air date | Episode | Viewers (millions) | Rank (Week) | Ref |
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1 | October 14, 2020 | "One Million Miles" | 1.72 | 2 | [56] |
2 | October 21, 2020 | "Red Lipstick is Not My Color" | 1.50 | 1 | [57] |
3 | October 28, 2020 | "We're Makin' Big Moves" | 1.46 | 5 | [58] |
4 | November 4, 2020 | "Olé, Olé!" | 1.30 | 8 | [59] |
5 | November 11, 2020 | "You Don't Strike Me as a Renaissance Man" | 1.25 | 10 | [60] |
6 | November 18, 2020 | "I'm Not Even Walking, I'm Falling" | 1.37 | 12 | [61] |
7 | November 18, 2020 | "Give Me a Beard Bump" | 0.83 | 29 | [62] |
8 | November 25, 2020 | "Are You a Rickshaw?" | 1.57 | 6 | |
9 | November 25, 2020 | "This is Not Payback, This is Karma" | |||
10 | December 2, 2020 | "Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty" | 1.22 | 12 | [63] |
11 | December 9, 2020 | "Run on Your Tippy Toes" | 1.33 | 12 | [64] |
12 | December 16, 2020 | "Now It's About Winning" | 1.44 | 9 | [65] |