The 35th season of The Amazing Race had taken its 13 teams of two through Thailand, Vietnam, India, Germany, Slovenia, Sweden and Ireland, before finally sending the top three scrambling back to Washington in the US for the final leg.
As the winners, brothers and computer scientists Greg and John Franklin, sprinted to the finish line after travelling over 23,000 miles, the show’s host, New Zealander Phil Keoghan, delivered the kicker: “You are the official winners of The Amazing Race! You’ve just won $1 million!”
Phil Keoghan and Mark Leishman met on the set of 80s TV show ‘That’s Fairly Interesting’. Photo: NZ On Screen
Born in Christchurch, television juggernaut Keoghan began on New Zealand screens as a presenter on Spot On in the mid-1980s, followed by That’s Fairly Interesting.
