Imagining who you’d play The Wonderful Race with is a common viewing expertise for followers of CBS‘s hit actuality competitors sequence. Even host Phil Keoghan thinks about who he’d need to play with. TV Insider caught up with Keoghan at a CBS press occasion in Los Angeles in Might, and he bought emotional when sharing that if he may play The Wonderful Race with anybody on this planet, “it could be my dad,” John Keoghan. However the host reveals that his dad “just isn’t doing so good proper now.”
The Wonderful Race Season 37 finale airs tonight, Might 15, at 9/8c on CBS. John, who’s now in his 80s, has appeared on The Wonderful Race together with his son earlier than. He was a Pit Cease greeter in Season 13 (see under).
“Sadly, my dad just isn’t doing so good proper now,” Keoghan shared with TV Insider, saying, “It’s only a latest factor, and so I treasure the adventures that I’ve had with him all through my life, however after I take into consideration the last word associate, he’s the primary one which involves thoughts. I get to spend time with him.”
He detailed why his dad can be “the last word associate” for The Wonderful Race, sharing childhood recollections of their very own household journey adventures whereas he was at it: “My dad is sort of a strolling encyclopedia, only a wealth of data. He’s well-traveled. He’s a plant scientist. He’s very bodily, however he’s additionally tremendous good and good at puzzles. We’ve traveled on quite a lot of adventures collectively ever since I used to be 3, being on his shoulders strolling right down to the Grand Canyon to retracing the 1928 Tour de France, and he was the assist for me. I rode throughout America elevating cash for M.S. [multiple sclerosis] and he was driving the assist car. Yeah, my dad can be the last word associate.”
.@thetedsaid Take Dad to Work Day @NoOppWasted #AmazingRace @PureNewZealand @FlyAirNZ meet my associates Solar nite pic.twitter.com/nMKd5q7qdf
— Phil Keoghan (@PhilKeoghan) March 1, 2013
Keoghan was grateful to have gotten the possibility so as to add one other father-son journey lately.
“I simply bought again from New Zealand yesterday and I flew right down to spend a while with him and we went on one other journey collectively,” the host shared. “We went driving by way of the South Island in New Zealand, so I’ve been profiting from my time with him.”
John has had an enormous affect on The Wonderful Race. Keoghan instructed TV Insider forward of Season 37 that he used social media reactions throughout varied platforms to compile knowledge evaluation that helped decide The Wonderful Race‘s High 50 greatest moments, in keeping with followers. It was John who taught Keoghan that “science doesn’t lie,” the host mentioned, and that if he can show one thing with knowledge, he ought to at all times take the time to take action.
That “large evaluation” revealed that John’s cameo as a Pit Cease greeter did, in truth, make it into the rating of fan-favorite moments, which was certainly a memorable second for the host himself.
— Reporting by Michael Maloney
The Wonderful Race, Season 37 Finale, Thursday, Might 15, 9/8c, CBS