{"id":169376,"date":"2025-05-20T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/amazing-race-winners-reveal-what-was-edited-in-the-finale-how-things-actually-happened-in-real-life\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:58:00","slug":"amazing-race-winners-reveal-what-was-edited-in-the-finale-how-things-actually-happened-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/amazing-race-winners-reveal-what-was-edited-in-the-finale-how-things-actually-happened-in-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Amazing Race\u2019 Winners Reveal What Was Edited in the Finale &#038; How Things Actually Happened in Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p>The winners of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/the-amazing-race\/\" title=\"The Amazing Race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Amazing Race<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u2018s latest season have revealed that producers edited the finale to make the episode appear more competitive than it really was.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast hosts and gamers <strong>Carson McCalley<\/strong> and <strong>Jack Dodge<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2112478\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey edited it to be really close. I think we had at least an hour on them,\u201d <strong>Jack <\/strong>told <a href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/interviews\/the-amazing-race-season-37-winners-carson-jack-interview-1235450741\/?taid=68278dc1023ae300018e73b6&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/tvline.com\/interviews\/the-amazing-race-season-37-winners-carson-jack-interview-1235450741\/?taid=68278dc1023ae300018e73b6&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TVLine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Carson <\/strong>added, \u201cMajor props to <strong>Jack <\/strong>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 <strong>Han <\/strong>and <strong>Holden <\/strong>again at the boating, but it took us\u2026 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\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack <\/strong>chimed in, \u201cIt didn\u2019t look like anyone really caught any beautiful gusts. So we were pretty comfortably ahead, but we were like, \u2018Anything can change.\u2019 And also, I think <strong>Han <\/strong>and <strong>Holden<\/strong> got doubly messed up by the car accident, so that probably also played a hand in that time gap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, <strong>Jack <\/strong>said that he\u2019d love to be on <em>Survivor<\/em>, <em>The Traitors<\/em>, or <em>The Challenge<\/em> next while <strong>Carson <\/strong>wants to be on <em>Big Brother<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Did you know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/05\/16\/the-surprising-truth-about-the-amazing-race-free-vacation-prizes-why-some-contestants-dont-go-on-the-trips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the surprising truth about the free vacation prizes<\/a> that contestants win on <em>Amazing Race<\/em>?!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/05\/20\/amazing-race-winners-reveal-what-was-edited-in-the-finale-how-things-actually-happened-in-real-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of The Amazing Race\u2018s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}