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“I’m a meat and two veg kinda fella,” says Kenneth Branagh. “I love my fish and chips, and my English breakfast, and I like my football and horse racing – my dad loved the horses.” His tastes, he admits, such as his signature dessert recipe for melted Mars bar over vanilla ice cream, were formed in his working-class childhood.

For the past four decades, this son of a joiner from Belfast has been living cheek by jowl with that other great scion of the lower classes – William Shakespeare. Ever since Branagh became a stage and film star playing Henry V in the Eighties, he’s been directing Shakespeare’s works, adapting them, playing many of his great characters. Now, at 58, he is assuming the bald pate, sharp nose and very pointed beard of the playwright himself, in the self-directed All Is True.

It’s an unexpectedly moving portrait. Branagh’s Will is entering his 50s, and retiring from London to Stratford-upon-Avon, where he had long owned a house, and where at 18, he had married Anne Hathaway, a 26-year-old already pregnant with their child. It’s 1613, the Globe Theatre has burned down, and the playwright is still grieving the death of his only son, Hamnet, many years earlier.

“For me, it was a sort of time travel,” says Branagh, whose enduring boyishness hides the fact that he is eight years older than the Shakespeare we meet in the film. (The playwright died in 1616, at the age of 52.) Branagh’s Shakespeare is stiff of bearing; Branagh isn’t. He’s playful while having his photograph taken in the London hotel where we meet, and his comfortable clothes – knitwear – mirror a softness in his tone and manner. It masks a seriousness that shows itself often when he speaks.

After all these years exploring Shakespeare’s work, does the think he has a feel for the man? “I have a sense of preoccupations that repeat themselves,” he says. “They came together when I played Leontes in The Winter’s Tale a couple of years ago, because it did feel like a play from a man at the end of his professional life, maybe in the evening of his life – there was such a longing in it for this lost child, such an ache for the reunification of a family, that it seemed to add up with all sorts of longings in the plays, even in the comedies.”

The grief for Hamnet in All Is True is so acute that, set against the way Will yearns for a male heir, and his complicated relationship with his daughters, Susanna and Judith (Hamnet’s twin), it makes you wonder whether Branagh has been contemplating his own mortality. Does he wish that he had had children?

“Didn’t happen,” he shrugs. “It doesn’t seem to me to be valuable to be wishing and hoping for things that don’t appear to have been on your dance card. I go with what we have. I start with, are you healthy, do you have some family, do you have some friends? Anything north of that’s terrific.”

Since 2003, Branagh has been married to art director Lindsay Brunnock. Before that, of course, he was married to Emma Thompson – a celebrity coupling that was so ubiquitous between 1989 and 1994 that they were referred to simply as “Ken and Em”. They acted in a series of Branagh’s films together, such as the history-repeats-itself thriller Dead Again (1991), the rather precious paean to privilege, Peter’s Friends (1992), and a very winning Much Ado About Nothing (1993), before the partnership ended with Branagh’s affair with Helena Bonham Carter. Does he think he and Thompson will ever work together again? “I don’t know,” he says. Would he like to? “She’s a terrific talent, so who knows?”

Branagh is clearly not keen to talk about his personal life, however much of it is already in the public arena. Yet so little is known of Shakespeare’s life that All Is True must make a series of guesses to fill the void. (The script is written by Ben Elton, who has already treated the subject as comedy in Upstart Crow.) But the element most likely to raise eyebrows is the casting of Judi Dench as Hathaway. Dench is 84. It’s very unusual to cast a woman 26 years older than her leading man, isn’t it? “Is she 26 years [older]?” says Branagh, surprised. “Really?” I nod – does he think audiences will balk at that?

“I don’t think so. I was aware that for the past 100 years of cinema that age gap has usually been the other way round. If it felt it was going to kill the story, I would have been terrified; for some maybe it will, but for me, not at all. She’s unique and to have that chance with one of the greatest living actors, the age thing didn’t come into it.”

Is it an example of “age-blind casting”? “Yeah, I guess so. She was the right person for the role.” The film seems to suggest that Hathaway and Shakespeare reunite sexually, too. I wonder if, as a director, he considered having a physical scene between them? “No, it didn’t seem appropriate for this. I wouldn’t have balked at it if it had seemed right, very much not.”

He also shares a seven-minute scene with Ian McKellen, who plays the Earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare famously dedicated two poems. It evolves into a duel between heavyweight Shakespeareans when both recite Sonnet 29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”). “I practised for that scene as I’ve never practised before,” Branagh admits, explaining that he went to see McKellen perform as Lear last year, and rehearsed with him backstage. “I found that pretty intimidating… You’ve got to be up pretty early in the morning to keep up with Dench, but with him…”

It’s one of the pivotal moments of the film, which clearly suggests that the Bard was in love with a man. Is that an unavoidable conclusion from the Sonnets, four-fifths of which are addressed to a “fair youth”? “I think it’s certainly unavoidable not to consider it very strongly,” Branagh says. Is there room for doubt that Shakespeare preferred men? He laughs. He’s weighing his words carefully. “I think it’s a strong possibility.”

Branagh does this a lot, studiedly avoiding sound-bites. Asked if he believes Shakespeare was indeed the author of the plays, he decides: “The other theories are brilliant speculations, but there has been no winning piece of evidence. In the current state of knowledge, I would follow the man from Stratford.”

Branagh’s family moved from Belfast to Reading to escape the Troubles when he was nine. As a boy from the sticks, who arrived at Rada in the late Seventies, then went on to act, direct and try his hand as a playwright, had he wanted to actually be Shakespeare?

It’s impossible to imagine it, he says. He just felt “so at home and happy telling stories in the theatre to a live audience, the itinerant nature of it. Those that were ahead of me – whether it was Shakespeare or actors of the past or directors – I was inspired by them.”

Branagh’s career began in a blaze of glory. But while his stage reputation continued to grow, in film at least there was a mid-period lull. His Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1995) was panned; his run of big-screen Shakespeare adaptations stuttered with the widely derided song-and-dance version of Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000), and even when he returned with a striking As You Like It (2006) set in 19th-century Japan, around the same time as The Magic Flute (2006) and Sleuth (2007), all three “received a pretty rough time”, he says. Yet he’s sanguine about criticism. “Sometimes people don’t like ’em. It’s as simple as that. I put the same feeling into all of them.”

He has always had a phenomenal approach to work that seems to border on mania. Since he was 29, he has been using meditation to ensure that he doesn’t yo-yo between frantic activity – “I wouldn’t characterise it as manic, but I would say, yes, extremely hectic at times” – and its corresponding depressive state.

“I knew I had to work quite hard at all those things that would try to allow you some peace amid the noise and haste. I like to read about spiritual matters and I’ve developed the meditation since then to try to find the way to turn down the noise. When the engine’s revving really high, I think you have to be careful.”

A decade ago, Branagh made the decision to leave the West End production of Hamlet he had been about to direct, starring Jude Law, to take up the reins of Thor (2011) for Marvel. It was a change of direction that opened the door to a new phase in his career, as a director of blockbuster movies. He won’t accept the charge that comic-book films have killed grown-up cinema – “Well I’ve just made a grown-up film, I’d say” – and mounts a strong defence.

“In the best hands you get stories that involve spectacle and, in some cases, depth or wit or creative imagination that allows for a really cinematic experience, they provide stories that make you want to go to the pictures. They ain’t killing grown-up movies.”

His hit 2015 Cinderella, starring Lily James and Richard Madden, will be followed this summer by a lavish Disney adaptation of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer’s 2001 novel about a boy genius who discovers the fairy world beneath our feet. Blockbusters bring their own set of pressures. Does he fear that if Artemis Fowl bombs, that avenue closes? “No, it doesn’t feel that way, although perhaps it is that way,” Branagh says. “I think if it felt like that it would be quite hard to do the work, but I’ve certainly been in situations where if a movie doesn’t work you’re really aware of the cold winds that blow around you for a while. It’s a commercial business and these are big investments.”

What would he do if an invitation to take on the Bond franchise came his way? “I have absolutely no idea,” he says. “I have Artemis Fowl to finish and I hope we get to make Death on the Nile [the second of his Agatha Christie adaptations, after Murder on the Orient Express, in which he stars as Poirot] towards the end of the year. Ask me the Bond question a picture or so from now.” He leans back.

“I should be so lucky.”

There will be a preview screening of 'All is True' followed by a Q&A with Kenneth Branagh at VUE cinema in Leicester Square on Wednesday 6th February, from 6.30pm.

Tickets are £20 for non-subscribers and £10 for subscribers.

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John Rzeznik Of Goo Goo Dolls On New Christmas Album And Premiere Of Augmented Reality Holiday Movie Musical

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John Rzeznik Of Goo Goo Dolls On New Christmas Album And Premiere Of Augmented Reality Holiday Movie Musical

The first Goo Goo Dolls Christmas album, ‘It’s Christmas All Over,’ is now available via Warner … [] Records

Since forming in 1986, and breaking through to the mainstream nine years later with the album A Boy Named Goo, Buffalo, New York alt pop outfit Goo Goo Dolls have tackled everything from live albums and vinyl reissues to greatest hits sets and more.

But for the first time in their nearly 35 years, 2020 marks the group’s foray into the world of Christmas music.

In a tumultuous year defined by quarantine amidst pandemic, the Christmas spirit may seem fleeting for some.

But the group’s latest album, It’s Christmas All Over, looks back for inspiration, conjuring up the Christmas classics of yore not only in terms of canon cuts revisited but aesthetically too, in everything from the album cover art to the stunning visuals that drive the augmented reality film which accompanies the new seasonal release.

“It was always the best time of year. It was always the time of year where my family would call a ceasefire with each other. We’d have relatives over. There was always a ton of gifts and good food. It was just amazing,” said Goo Goo Dolls singer and guitarist John Rzeznik, recalling what the Christmas holiday means to him. “I went back to the real old stuff – and some very obscure stuff. Louis Prima and Spike Jones and stuff like that. Trying to get some inspiration from stuff like that was a lot of fun.”

With their touring schedule wiped out by the onset of COVID-19, the Christmas album, now available via Warner Records with exclusive holiday-themed merch, quickly became a priority for co-founding Goo Goo Dolls Rzeznik and bassist Robby Takac.

Rzeznik co-produced the record with touring band members Jim McGorman and Brad Fernquist, who helped facilitate elaborate arrangements featuring a horn section and more, capturing the essence of the seasonal standards.

“We were in L.A. and it was kind of like this post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. It felt like there was no one in town but us,” said Rzeznik of recording sessions which took place during the early days of shelter-in-place orders. “We were in this really old recording studio – very hip, very cool. You walked in the door and it felt like it was 1968, you know? And it was just fun,” he continued, noting the impact of L.A. studio Palomino Sound and his continued exploration of recording techniques from a bygone era.

“It was such a learning process. I was putting my two cents in – but I don’t have a musical education. So I relied on two of the guys in my band: Jim McGorman, the keyboard player, and Brad Fernquist, who plays guitar – because they have these very, very deep musical educations. So they were able to take the ideas and run with them and we could work together,” said the singer. “It was challenging at times. But I have a really tight musical relationship with those two guys. So they understand, when I’m like humming something, what I’m looking for.”

Top notch session musicians contribute to the album, offering each of the album’s ten tracks an old school feel. Jon Button, of The Who, chips in with upright bass, while The Union Square 5 lend a jazz feel to the closing instrumental affair “The Christmas Party.” McGorman adds keyboard and mellotron while Fernquist adds additional guitar.

In addition to the group’s take on exemplary holiday cuts like “Let it Snow” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” It’s Christmas All Over also features a pair of original tracks. “It gets harder each year to believe in what’s real, I need Christmas,” sings Rzeznik in the new “This is Christmas.”

“Do as much as you can to help as many people as you can. That’s what that means,” he said of the new lyric. “And I really believe that if you put that challenge out to people, that they’ll accept it and they’ll rise to the occasion. I truly believe in that spirit – maybe not so much of Christmas, but of human beings. That if you ask them to help, they will. And they’ll do it gladly,” he continued. “The other original song on the album is ‘You Ain’t Getting Nothin’.’ That song is about a kid – who’s basically me – who winds up on Santa’s naughty list. We had a really interesting guy from Chile, Juan Urbina, animate a video for that song. And it’s very Chuck Jonesy – an homage to his animation and his slapstick style. It’s really awesome.”

Accompanying the new album is the augmented reality film It’s Christmas All Over, a musical movie set to premiere at 7PM ET on Saturday, December 12, 2020 via FanTracks.

Produced and directed by FanTracks president Barry Summers, the film take’s the album’s vintage tone even further through band interaction in settings like a 1940s speakeasy and even the iconic set of The Ed Sullivan Show.

Auctioning a signed guitar to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s “Music Gives to St. Jude Kids” program, Rzeznik is clear on what the holiday season should mean despite the obvious limitations brought on by COVID-19.

“More than ever, even though we physically can’t touch each other, there are so many deep ways that we can become better as a society,” Rzeznik said. “Being of service, especially in these times – raising money, collecting food – especially protein. Things like that. You’ve got to help your neighbors,” he continued. “Get out of your isolation and help. Socially distance and be safe – but contribute. Being of service completely cures isolation. And you can save your own life by helping someone else with theirs.”

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Biggest Shots in Golf…so far!

Ranking the biggest shot from every PGA Tour event since the restart

Last weekend’s BMW Championship was lucky number 13 for tournaments played since the PGA Tour’s restart, counting the PGA Championship. To cap off a wild final round at Olympia Fields, Jon Rahm buried a 66-foot putt for birdie on the first extra hole, ending the hopes of back-to-back FedEx Cup Playoff wins for Dustin Johnson, who holed a long putt of his own to get to overtime. Rahm’s bomb, no doubt, was one of the great shots of the year. But was it the greatest?

To figure that out, we identified the biggest shot of each tournament since the restart, and then ranked them from 13 down to 1. For our purposes, these are shots that (mostly) combined high skill (or luck) with overall impact on the tournament itself. Almost all of them belong to the eventual winners. Let’s start with the exception and work our way down to the best of them all:

13. Ryan Palmer’s opening tee shot, Charles Schwab Challenge

Don’t call us hokey! At the time, when Palmer hit the first shot of the restart at the Colonial, nobody had a clue whether any of this would work. We had high hopes for an extended run, of course, but it seemed just as likely that a COVID-19 nightmare could strike and send us back into the golf-less abyss. Returning at all was a bold move, symbolized by Palmer’s first strike that Thursday, and not just for golf. In some ways, it symbolically took back some momentum for every sport and served as a blueprint for how this could work.

The sun is rising. The birds are chirping. The opening tee shot is hit. PGA TOUR golf is back after 91 days. pic.twitter.com/SO27ZC70KD

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 11, 2020

The only other really memorable shot of this tournament was Collin Morikawa’s missed putt on 18, and we’re not going negative here. Plus, you might see his name again before we’re done.

12. Dustin Johnson’s putt for 59, The Northern Trust

Oh, did I say we’re not going negative? Welllll … this one comes close. But it’s negative for a positive reason, which is that Dustin Johnson decimated the field to such an insane degree at at TPC Boston that it would be impossible to pinpoint any single shot as critically important. The fact is, what we’ll remember most about this tournament is Johnson’s unbelievable start to Friday’s round, 11 under through 11 holes, inspiring lunatic tweets like this one. At that point, 59 seemed almost like the worstpossible score he could shoot. Unfortunately, the par-fest began on the 12th, and by the 18th, a misplayed hole left him with a very difficult birdie putt to avoid a “disappointing” 60. Check it out at the 5:10 mark:

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11. Webb Simpson’s birdie on 17, RBC Heritage

I was on hand to witness Simpson’s Sunday putting clinic at Hilton Head, when he holed putts of 10, 22, and 14 feet on the back nine alone before he even reached the 17th hole. It was an impressive display, and also necessary—without the spring winds to defend the course, Harbour Town had been a putting contest from the beginning. The man who got hot last was likely going to win, and Simpson was that man. On 17, with Abraham Ancer just a short distance away and threatening to stage a late rally, Simpson lined up a last 17-footer to take a two-shot lead and put Ancer away:

CLUTCH!@WebbSimpson1 birdies the 71st hole to take a 2-shot lead. He's birdied 5 of the past 6 holes. 🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦#QuickHits pic.twitter.com/E2s51MOXwq

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 22, 2020

10. Jim Herman’s approach on 18, Wyndham Championship

Herman took the lead with a perfect tee shot to three feet on the par-3 17th, but with a charging Billy Horschel behind him, the pressure was arguably greater—and the shot most definitely harder—when he found himself 214 yards away on the 18th at Sedgefield C.C. (Not to mention the fact that the final hole is one of the few true challenges on a course that played very easy.) Herman took a shockingly bold line, and it paid off. At that point, it almost didn’t matter that he missed the birdie putt—he put all the pressure on Horschel. Watch the shot that made Jim Nantz exclaim, “what a daring shot this is!” at the 7:26 mark:

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9. Bryson’s drives, Rocket Mortgage Classic

It became clear very early in the final round at Detroit C.C. that it was not going to be Matthew Wolff’s day, despite his three-shot lead, and that Bryson DeChambeau had something special in store. Rather than pick out a single shot—such as his important 30-foot birdie at 16—we’ll break the rules and focus on what has been one of the biggest stories of the season. We’re talking about his power bulk, of course. The tour’s Twitter account summed up his efforts on that important Sunday better than anyone: massive drive after massive drive after massive drive. On his way to a 65 and a three-shot win, the length made the man.

8. Michael Thompson’s sand brilliance, 3M Open

Seeking his second PGA Tour win in a long journeyman’s career, Thompson faced a tough second shot from the greenside bunker on the drivable par-4 16th at TPC Twin Cities. He was tied for the lead at the time, and an up-and-down would put him ahead of Adam Long and the rest of the chase pack. He was a long way from the hole with an “ugly visual” and water lurking, but none of that mattered:

What a shot from the bunker for Michael Thompson 👀 📺 | CBS pic.twitter.com/Fa7OKpPcQv

— GOLFonCBS (@GOLFonCBS) July 26, 2020

7. Dustin Johnson’s final drive, Travelers Championship

One of the few golf shots I’ll never forget was Dustin Johnson’s drive over the water in the playoff against Jordan Spieth at the Northern Trust in 2017. It was the most overt display of physical dominance in a head-to-head situation I’ve ever seen in golf, and let me preface this by saying that I am definitely not putting what happened at the Travelers in 2020 on the same level. However … there were at least echoes of that moment. With a one-shot lead heading into the 72nd hole, DJ knew a par would secure the win. Would he play it safe? NOPE. Instead, he picked that moment to unleash the longest drive of the week on the hole, by anyone. Watch at the 13:55 mark:

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6. Richy Werenski’s eagle surge, Barracuda Championship

In the modified Stableford scoring used at the Barracuda, an eagle is worth five points (compared to two for a birdie). That makes it even more valuable than it would be using normal scoring, and when Werenski came to the 16th hole at Tahoe Mountain Club trailing Troy Merritt by six shots, he needed the five-pointer to have a faint prayer of winning. Unfortunately, he failed to reach the green in two. Fortunately … roll to the 35-second mark:

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Werenski went on to win, and if this wasn’t an opposite-field event, it would have to be ranked even higher.

5. Justin Thomas’ fluke off the 15th tee, WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

There are tournaments that turn into routs, as we saw at The Northern Trust, but beyond those exceptions, most winners on tour need some good luck along the way. One of the most jaw-dropping pieces of fortune went to Justin Thomas at the par-4 15th hole in Memphis, when an errant tee shot somehow flew through the trees and over a creek and maybe even hit a cart path to end up 51 yards from the hole—closer by far than anyone had hit it all day. The video doesn’t quite do it justice:

"Looked like a 3 the whole way." 😂 A wild hole for @JustinThomas34. It ends with him tied for the lead.#QuickHits pic.twitter.com/VJJWwBOtmR

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 2, 2020

Instead of a disaster, Thomas had a birdie, and he was off to the races.

4. Jon Rahm’s chip-in, Memorial

Muirfield Village, the second time around. Rahm dominated under a much tougher setup than players had seen a week earlier when the course hosted the one-off Workday Charity Open, and seemed poised to coast to victory on Sunday. Then everything went sideways on the back nine. Unexpectedly, there was at least the possibility of drama. Stuck in the thick rough at 16, Rahm was already four over since the turn, and really needed to turn things around. That’s when he did this:

UNBELIEVABLE!@JonRahmPGA holes out for birdie on 16. The lead is now 4 with 2 to play.#QuickHits pic.twitter.com/jsqB9wK6HB

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 19, 2020

Oddly, he was later assessed a penalty since his ball moved before the shot. Didn’t matter—the confidence from that make fueled him to a couple of closing pars, a victory anyway and the No. 1 spot in the World Ranking. It was the best shot he’d make all season, not to be equaled by him again.

Or was it?

3. Collin Morikawa’s playoff-extending putt, Workday Charity Open

At Muirfield Village, the first time around, Morikawa seemed to be drawing dead in the playoff against Justin Thomas. JT had just buried a 50-foot putt (and added quite a war cry, for good measure), and now Morikawa, who moments earlier thought he held the advantage, needed to make his own 24-footer just to reach the second playoff hole. The result:

WOW.@Collin_Morikawa with a MUST-MAKE putt to extend the playoff.#QuickHits pic.twitter.com/RSYdWRI1sA

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 12, 2020

After that survival act, Morikawa went on to win two holes later. It was the greatest shot of his season, not to be equaled by him again.

Or was it?

2. Jon Rahm’s birdie bomb, BMW Championship

Watch it again, love it again:

66 FEET for the WIN! 🏆 UNBELIEVABLE putt from @JonRahmPGA to claim @BMWChamps in a playoff! #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/DktJRjZLoj

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 30, 2020

1. Collin Morikawa’s drive on 16, PGA Championship

It immediately became one of the most memorable, if not greatest, shots in the history of the PGA Championship. You can read a fuller breakdown here, but you already know the story: It was a brilliant fade into the green at the drivable par-4 16th, setting up a monumental eagle. With it, Morikawa seized control of a crowded tournament and won the first major of his very young career. When you consider the stakes, it’s one of the most stunning pressure shots we’ll ever see. As jaw-dropping as Rahm’s putt on Sunday was, the magnitude of Morikawa’s drive made this one an easy choice.

As the leader in a major with all the pressure, Collin Morikawa dials up this drive? Unreal. pic.twitter.com/dy7VUdCwAc

— GOLFonCBS (@GOLFonCBS) August 10, 2020

SOURCE: golfdigest.com

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Divorces, Infants and Most cancers Scares: Checking In With The Wonderful Race’s Most Memorable Successful Groups

It was a easy premise. 11 groups of two would race around the globe, competing in legs that may require them to navigate picturesque overseas locales whereas performing bodily and psychological challenges. Leg after leg, one workforce can be despatched residence till one made it to the ultimate mat, incomes themselves a grand prize of $1 million {dollars}. When The Wonderful Race premiered on CBS in 2001, it was an prompt hit with each viewers captivated by each the gorgeous visuals and entertaining sport play and business heavyhitters, who’ve awarded it 10 Emmys for Excellent Competitors Program because the class was launched in 2003, leaving it in a league of its personal. (Solely The Voice comes remotely near its report, with 4 wins.) And simply final night time, venerable host Phil Keoghan—who, like Jeff Probst, Julie Chen and Ryan Seacrest, has been round since day one and turn into actually an irreplaceable a part of the present’s DNA—handed over the present’s 31st verify for $1 million to winners Colin Guinn and Christie Woods after a season that noticed groups of returning gamers, in addition to groups from Huge Brother and Survivor, race across the globe. The finale received us pondering: What have the opposite groups who have been fortunate sufficient to separate a cool million bucks between the 2 of them been as much as since their globetrotting days? Not like winners on exhibits like American Idol or America’s Received Expertise or Survivor, even, winners on The Wonderful Race are typically heard from much less typically, so we thought we would observe them down. And actually, it proved tougher that we ever imagined. However we did it for you as a result of we care. And earlier than you panic about not each successful workforce being function, simply know that we tried our greatest. Typically, some folks simply do not need to be discovered. Kevin Winter/ImageDirect Rob Frisbee and Brennan Swain, Season 1 These finest mates who met whereas working on the identical regulation agency in Los Angeles maintain the excellence of being The Wonderful Race‘s first million-dollar prize winners. And whereas they do not nonetheless work collectively all these years later—Brennan is a accomplice at a Los Angeles movie specializing in patent, trademark, and copyright regulation, whereas Rob works as an legal professional at a distinct agency within the space and writes for TV and movie in his spare time—they’ve remained as shut as ever. In keeping with Brennan’s Instagram, the 2 spent Thanksgiving 2018 collectively. Because the Race, Brennan has used his celeb to assist elevate cash for St. Jude’s whereas touring the world, hitting 39 of 50 international locations on his bucket listing, as he advised host Phil Keoghan in an episode of his podcast in April 2019 recorded alongside Rob. The Wonderful Race CBS Chris Luca and Alex Boylan, Season 2 These lifelong BFFs, who met on the varsity bus heading to their first day of kindergarten, have been sure that competing collectively on TAR would don’t have any damaging have an effect on on their brotherly relationship. And it seems they have been proper, as Alex’s Insta account is peppered with pictures of the 2 spending time collectively. A number of years after successful, Chris, who has no social media presence that we might discover, married his long-time girlfriend in 2004 and settled down in Florida, whereas Alex used his platform to carve out a profession within the leisure business. After internet hosting exhibits like On the Chef’s Desk and What’s Cooking with Alex for manufacturing firm Pineridge Movie and Tv, he partnered with Survivor contestant Burton Roberts to create manufacturing firm Round The World Productions, which has produced exhibits like Across the World For Free, Jeff and Jordan Do America, and Rach to the Rescue for The Rachael Ray Present. He is labored as a correspondent for CBS This Morning, in addition to visitor host for VH1’s Huge Morning Buzz. He is since launched the web site DreamJobbing.com alongside Burton and Lisa Hennessy, which he describes as “a subsequent technology profession platform matching candidates and firms by way of video know-how” on his LinkedIn web page. The Wonderful Race CBS Flo Pesenti and Zach Behr, Season 3 These two good mates with a mutual attraction to 1 one other that they’d by no means pursued since assembly in school squeaked out a win in season three whereas Flo was busy flirting with competitor Drew Riker. Following the Race, Flo dated Drew for seven years earlier than breaking apart in 2009. Zach, however, married longtime girlfriend and documentary movie director and producer Elyse Steinberg in 2008 earlier than welcoming a toddler in 2012. After beginning a manufacturing profession of his personal at NBC Sports activities in 2004, he labored his means by way of the business and has been the Vice President at The Historical past Channel since July 2018, in response to his LinkedIn. In 2009, he opened as much as National Geographic on what he did along with his half of the million greenback prize, telling the publication he purchased “some new computer systems and an iPod, which on the time was the most recent know-how” and put the remainder away, investing and saving whereas taking his spouse on “some nice journeys.” Flo, however, is at present the vice chairman of PR at enterprise capital agency MacAndrews & Forbes. In 2010, she started relationship TV anchor, authorized commentator, and present Reside P.D. host Dan Abrams and, in 2012, gave delivery to their son Everett Floyd Abrams. Nevertheless, they hold mentions of the opposite to such a minimal that it is unclear whether or not they’re nonetheless collectively or not. Article continues under Tony Esparza/CBS Photograph Archive/Getty Photos Reichen Lehmkuhl and Chip Arndt, Season 4 These two made historical past as turning into the primary dedicated homosexual couple to win The Wonderful Race. Sadly, they cut up up six months after competing. Following their cut up, pilot and mannequin Reichen made headlines for briefly relationship Lance Bass as he dipped his toe within the leisure business, visitor starring on Frasier, The Younger and the Stressed and Days of Our Lives, whereas touchdown a spot within the solid of Emblem’s former actuality collection The A-Checklist. In 2013, he went to regulation faculty and has labored because the CEO of LeaseLock since 2012. Chip, in the meantime, has labored because the EVP of Flimp Communications, a human sources and worker advantages digital communications firm, since 2013. Tony Esparza/CBS Photograph Archive/Getty Photos Chip and Kim McAllister, Season 5 Earlier than this married couple residing in Coto de Caza, Calif (aka the land of The Actual Housewives of Orange County) went on The Wonderful Race, they’d watched at their info know-how firm was taken over by their companions, leaving them ousted. After operating the race, they started touring as motivational audio system obtainable to “energize and encourage your organization to win collectively as a workforce,” per their LinkedIn web page. They based PeopleStar FilmWorks alongside their son CJ to “carry their experience in tv and movie to what you are promoting by way of company video manufacturing. They’ve additionally shaped The McAllister Actual Property Group by way of Coldwell Banker, working as realtors in Orange County. TONY ESPARZA/CBS Freddy Holliday and Kendra Bentley, Season 6 These two engaged fashions weren’t precisely fan favorites after Kendra’s insensitive feedback concerning the Senegalese folks, however they gained however. They tied the knot on Might 27, 2005 and had two youngsters collectively earlier than divorcing. Freddy’s since remarried, to a girl named Ginger in 2015. Kendra’s appeared to have moved on as effectively, as her Instagram web page is stuffed with date night time pictures with an unidentified male who appears to be the daddy of her youthful youngsters. She nonetheless fashions. Article continues under The Wonderful Race CBS Uchenna and Joyce Agu, Season 7 After successful TAR and returning for All-Stars, the place they positioned fifth, this married couple known as it quits, as Joyce revealed in a 2011 interview, although they’re “nonetheless nice mates.” As Joyce defined, previous to the Race, they weren’t certain in the event that they have been going to stay married, however the expertise introduced them again collectively for a couple of extra years. Earlier than splitting, they based a charitable youngsters’s group in Houston. In 2014, Entertainment Weekly reported that Joyce was engaged on a memoir, whereas Uchenna’s LinkedIn highlights his present work as a motivational speaker and managing accomplice at a Houston-area enterprise improvement consulting agency. Robert Voets/CBS Photograph Archive/Getty Photos The Linz Household, Season 8 This workforce of siblings, Nick, Alex, Megan and Tommy, gained The Wonderful Race’s first-ever Household Version (which additionally featured a pre-Vanderpump Guidelines fame Stassi Schroeder) and have half their prize cash to their dad and mom. In 2015, their mom gave updates on every of her youngsters to Cincinnati Public Radio WVXU. Nick is married with youngsters and had spent eight years residing in Manhattan Seashore, Calif. earlier than shifting again to Cincinnatti. On the time, he was accomplice at Tripack, a producing firm, however was made president in January 2018. Alex can also be married and a younger father and was working in gross sales at a meals packing firm till March of this 12 months, when he joined Nick at Tripack. Megan can also be married with a handful of youngsters, together with her mother reporting in 2015 that she was a stay-at-home mother. Youngest son Tommy seems to nonetheless be single residing in Orange County, Calif. and is at present working as an Aviation Gross sales Advisor. The Wonderful Race CBS B.J. Averell and Tyler MacNiven, Season 9 These finest mates generally known as “The Hippies” have been some of the widespread groups to ever compete on TAR. Following the race, Tyler dabbled in movie, touchdown a small position within the film The Pursuit of Happyness, whereas opening eating places within the Bay Space along with his brother. After assembly girlfriend Kelly Hennigan in 2012 at a pal’s wedding ceremony, he popped the query on their two-year anniversary and so they tied the knot on Sept. 26, 2015 after going viral with an epic Save the Date video. They’ve since welcomed a toddler. BJ, in the meantime, is quite energetic on Instagram and has carved out an leisure profession, making visitor appearances on CSI and Weeds, in addition to starring in a handful of indie movies. Article continues under The Wonderful Race CBS Tyler Denk and James Branaman, Season 10 When these two fashions who met throughout a Semester at Sea program gained TAR, they have been recovering addicts who have been rebuilding their lives. Now, James is working as a photographer and is married to artwork director and mannequin Elaina Bellis. The couple welcomed a pair of similar twin ladies, Quincy and Rowe, somewhat over a 12 months after their first youngster, Lincoln, was stillborn. Tyler, however, continued modeling after the race. Nevertheless, he has zero web presence following his time on the present, so what he is as much as nowadays is anyone’s guess. obert Voets/CBS Photograph Archive by way of Getty Photos Eric Sanchez and Danielle Turner, Season 11 These two initially competed on separate groups in season 9, started relationship, and have been invited again for All-Stars two seasons later, which they went on to win. Nevertheless, they shortly broke up, citing the space between them as the principle purpose. Years later, Eric would admit they’d solely been relationship for 2 months and have been just about damaged up by the point the race started. Danielle has since married contractor Christopher Stout, given delivery to some cute infants, and is working as a licensed actual property agent on Staten Island, New York. Eric, however, is at present residing in Deerfield Seashore, Fla. In keeping with a Twitter account that hasn’t been up to date since 2014, he is labored because the director of gross sales for Southern Jet. Monty Brinton/CBS by way of Getty Photos Nick and Starr Spangler, Season 13 This brother and sister workforce have been already residing their goals once they gained TAR, with Nick performing off-Broadway and Starr cheering for the Dallas Cowboys. Because the race, Nick received married in 2013 and welcomed a son, Nathan, in 2015, adopted by Skye in 2017. Most lately, Nick has been showing within the musical Tootsie on Broadway. As for Starr, she dated fellow season contestant Dallas Imbimbo as soon as the present ended, although the lengthy distance proved to be an excessive amount of and so they separated. After overcoming a 2010 lymphoma prognosis, she married Tyler Rey in 2013. In keeping with her LinkedIn web page, she’s at present residing within the San Francisco space, working because the Senior Supervisor of Fb’s Change Administration and World Recruiting Operations. Article continues under Sonja Flemming/CBS by way of Getty Photos Tammy and Victor Jih, Season 14 It was one other brother/sister duo who gained the million in season 14, with these two attorneys popping out on high. As they advised People after successful, they deliberate to do the accountable factor with their prize cash and repay scholar loans and contours of credit score. After the race, Tammy started working at Google, first as Senior Litigation Counsel earlier than working her means as much as her present place, Director, Privateness Authorized. She is married to her fellow Harvard Regulation classmate Mark John Murray. They’ve two youngsters. Victor, however, has been working as accomplice at Los Angeles agency Irell & Manella LLP since Might 2015 and co-teaches the Ninth Circuit Appellate Follow Clinic at UCLA. An avid marathon runner, he seems to be single. Cliff Lipson/CBS by way of Getty Photos Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney, Season 15 This couple met in elementary faculty and, after 10 years of friendship, started relationship. They’d been collectively for 5 years once they gained season 15 of TAR. In February 2010, they received engaged and received married somewhat over a 12 months later, on Might 7, 2011. Since then, they’ve settled down in San Diego and welcomed two kiddos, daughter Rumi Holland Whitney in September 2016 and son Mays Rhone Whitney in April 2015. Meghan works because the director of operations and vendor relations at True Pictures, whereas Cheyne is the top coach of the Samurai San Diego baseball workforce and a senior supervisor on the Rescue Social Change Group, a conduct change advertising and marketing company that works to enhance well being outcomes for at-risk audiences. Monty Brinton/CBS by way of Getty Photos Dan and Jordan Pious, Season 16 When these brothers snatched a win, Dan was working as a monetary advisor and Jordan was a strategic marketing consultant. As of late, Jordan’s LinkedIn web page notes that he is been working for Ulta Magnificence for the previous two years within the better Chicago space, entering into the position of Senior Director Merchandising, Technique & Insights in April 2019. Dan, in the meantime, has been working as an operations supervisor at Reebook CrossFit Again Bay in Boston since June 2017. In October 2018, Dan married his spouse Jamie, an occasion that Jordan famous on Instagram “lastly” gave him “the sister I at all times wished.” Article continues under John Paul Filo/CBS by way of Getty Photos Nat Strand and Kat Chang, Season 17 These two physician mates grew to become fan favorites for being presumably the one workforce in season 17 to not get mad at each other or anybody else. Since successful in 2010, Nat received married and welcomed two youngsters. She continued to advocate for the diabetes neighborhood, as she was recognized with Sort 1 at 12, sharing her story to assist others and lift consciousness. Kat can also be married with two kiddos. She and Nat stay mates and supportive of each other on social media. Sonja Flemming/CBS by way of Getty Photos Ernie Halvorsen and Cindy Chiang, Season 19 In March 2012, this couple made it official and at last tied the knot. Two years later, they welcomed son Maverick Zhang Halvorsen into the world. Once they gained TAR, they made a vow to offer sustainable employment alternatives for folks in growing markets, which they made good on by investing in Thread Worldwide, based by Survivor alum Ian Rosenberger, and Piece & Co. Robert Voets/CBS by way of Getty Photos Rachel and Dave Brown, Jr., Season 20 After successful the million {dollars}, this married couple mentioned that they might be returning to Madison, Wisconsin to renew their common programming. “We’ll repay our mortgage and stay life as regular,” Dave advised the Journal Sentinel. Sadly, life had different plans and so they divorced in June 2013. Rachel has since remarried to Chad Weiss. In keeping with Dave’s Twitter, he is welcomed a son, Nixon Ames, into the world simply this 12 months. With whom, nevertheless, stays a thriller. Article continues under Cliff Lipson/CBS by way of Getty Photos Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, Season 21 These two have been already well-known once they competed in season 21 of TAR, having been the celebs of The Fabulous Beekman Boys, which chronicled the couple’s makes an attempt at taking on the Beekman Farm. A 12 months after successful, they received married on their farm and used their incomes to repay the property, in addition to assist different small farmers. In 2015, they launched {a magazine}, The Beekman 1802 Journal. Josh has written a handful of books, whereas each have labored at SUNY Cobleskill, as Brent joined the school as an adjunct advertising and marketing professor. Their lifestlye model, Beekman 1802, now options meals, magnificence, residence decor and attire. Sonja Flemming/CBS by way of Getty Photos Bates and Anthony Battaglia, Season 22 These former NHL gamers and brothers have settled into totally different lives, publish TAR. Bates is the proprietor of Fortunate B’s Bar in Raleigh, North Carolina, whereas Anthony works as a fireman in the identical metropolis who additionally owns and operates Axes and Ales Raleigh with fellow firefighter Ryan Nelson. The corporate presents celebration excursions aboard a fireplace engine. Cliff Lipson/CBS by way of Getty Photos Jason Case and Amy Diaz, Season 23 Successful as mere boyfriend and girlfriend, these two tied the knot in 2015 and shortly welcomed two daughters and a son. Their youngest youngster, Allyson, was born in March 2019. Amy at present works as a motivational speaker and host, whereas Jason stays the president of Case Snow Administration, Inc. Article continues under John Paul Filo/CBS by way of Getty Photos Amy DeJong and Maya Warren, Season 25 These two pal and Ph.D college students have been by no means seen as an actual risk by the opposite groups, permitting them to shock everybody and win season 25. Since then, they’ve each graduated, with Amy happening to be a meals construction scientist at Mars (aka the corporate behind Snickers, Twix, and each different sweet you like) and Maya Warren working as Sr. Director of Worldwide Analysis and Improvement for Chilly Stone Creamery. How candy! CBS Laura Pierson and Tyler Adams, Season 26 These two have been paired collectively as a Blind Courting workforce for season 26 of TAR and one way or the other went on to win the entire thing. They by no means went on to this point each other, regardless of the attention-grabbing premise that introduced them into each other’s orbit. Laura returned to her day job engaged on Hallmark’s Residence & Household, entering into the position of Government Producer, Expertise in 2017. Tyler, in the meantime, as been working as Chief Working Officer at CertifID, a real-time identification platform for actual property, mortgage, and title business professionals to securely switch checking account checking account info, since March 2018. Each seem to nonetheless be single. Sonja Flemming/CBS by way of Getty Photos Kelsey Gerckens and Joey Buttitta, Season 27 When these two competed, they have been relationship colleagues who each labored for information station KEYT NewsChannel Three in Santa Barbara, Calif. The 2 made issues official in 2017, tying the knot on August 25, and introduced they have been anticipating their first youngster in February. “Breaking Information: Child Buttitta coming August 2019!” Kelsey captioned her Instagram publish asserting the excellent news. They each stay of their gigs at KEYT, with Kelsey working as climate anchor whereas Joey is an anchor and reporter. Article continues under Cliff Lipson/CBS by way of Getty Photos Dana Borriello and Matt Steffanina, Season 28 When these YouTubers {and professional} dancers competed in season 28, they have been engaged to be married. Sadly, they known as it quits in 2016. Dana posted concerning the cut up on Instagram, saying she was “devastated” after Matt “left me a number of weeks in the past.” Whereas at present single, the 2 have continued their dance careers at full power. And Matt likes to publish loads of ab-tastic shirtless pictures on Instagram. In the event you’re into that type of factor. John Paul Filo/CBS by way of Getty Photos Cody Nickson and Jessica Graf, Season 30 These two started relationship whereas additionally competing on season 19 of Huge Brother and their reputation led to CBS looking for them out as racers for season 30 of TAR. They started racing simply 11 days after filming on BB wrapped and went on the win your entire factor, making them the primary workforce from one other CBS franchise to win The Wonderful Race. They received engaged on February 13, 2018 and introduced they have been anticipating their first youngster that September. They tied the knot on October 13, 2018 in Malibu, with their daughter Maverick coming into the world 4 weeks untimely on March 2019. The Wonderful Race returns for season 32 on CBS someday in the course of the 2019-20 TV season. https://www.eonline.com/information/1052840/divorces-babies-and-cancer-scares-checking-in-with-the-amazing-race-s-most-memorable-winning-teams?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories The post Divorces, Infants and Most cancers Scares: Checking In With The Wonderful Race’s Most Memorable Successful Groups appeared first on Kartia Velino. https://kartiavelino.com/divorces-babies-and-cancer-scares-checking-in-with-the-amazing-races-most-memorable-winning-teams/

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