A double amputee professional snowboarder, a lumberjack, a heavy metal musician, a pair of married monster truckers, a couple of Chippendale dancers and “The Fabulous Beekman Boys” are among the 11 teams on “The Amazing Race” this season, CBS announced.
There’s also a twist that could bring the winner $2 million instead of the standard $1 million.
The race begins in Los Angeles with a 10-story rappel Sept. 30 and will include stops in Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Netherlands.
While there are no players this time from other CBS reality shows, Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, the goat farmers and life partners from Sharon Springs, N.Y., who had their own reality show, “The Fabulous Beekman Boys,” will be one of the teams. The show played on Planet Green for two seasons before moving to the Cooking Channel for the third.
The other 10 teams are listed on the jump:
- Rob French, and Kelley Carrington-French, 46 and 50, of Boston, Ga., professional monster truck drivers
- Natalie and Nadiya Anderson, 26, of Edgewater, N.J., twin sisters.
- Tracy Wier, 23, and Alexis Beerman, 22, of Texas, a dating couple.
- James LoMenzo, 43,of Burbank, Calif., a former band member of White Lion and Megadeth, and his friend entertainment lawyer Mark “Abba” Abbattista, 45, of Denver.
- Abbie Ginsberg, 31, of Encitas, Calif., and Ryan Danz, 35, of San Diego, identified as “dating divorcees.”
- Chippendale dancers Jaymes Vaughan, 30, and James Davis, 27, of Las Vegas.
- Lumberjack Rob Scheer, 52, of Ketchikan, Alaska, and his fiancée, Sheila Castle, 44, of Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
- Caitlin Kinga, 24, of St. Louis and Brittany Fletcher, 25, of Chicago, friends.
- Gary Wojnar, 52, Livonia, Mich., and Will Chiola, 53, Dearborn Heights, Mich., best friends and substitute teachers.
- Double amputee snowboarder Amy Purdy, 32, of Las Vegas and Daniel Gale, 36, of crested Butte, Colo., with whom she has been dating “on and off.”
Phil Koeghan returns as host for the 21st season, which begins Sept. 30.