Jezebel: the amazing race

New Amazing Race Couple, Justin & Zev, Has Bizarre Bond

Tracie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:40:00 EDT

From their bios: "Zev has Asperger's Syndrome, but they don't let it affect their relationship...Outside of the occasional trip to Vegas (where Justin took Zev to lose his virginity), neither has traveled extensively, particularly with one another." [CBS]

Writer/Actor Mike White & Dad Join Amazing Race

Tracie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:00:00 EST

The School of Rock screenwriter will be competing on the Amazing Race with his father, a former Evangelical who was a speechwriter for Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson before he came out of the closet.The weird thing is that the new season of Amazing Race — which premieres on February 15 on CBS — isn't a celebrity edition. Mike and Mel White are just "huge fans" of the show. They also happen to be an incredibly interesting family, not only because both men are prolific writers, but because of their openness about their respective sexual preferences, especially given their Right background. Mel is a clergyman and author who used to write speeches, in addition to several books, for Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. (According to his Wikipedia page, he never condemned homosexuality in those writings.) He got married and had two kids, but confessed to his wife that he was into dudes. He tried a bunch of "cures," like "pray the gay away," psychotherapy, electroshock therapy, and even exorcism. When none of those worked, he and his wife divorced amicably. He officially came out in 1994, and he's currently married to his partner he's been with for 27 years. He's now a gay activist and full-time minister for LGBT Christians. Mike wrote and acted in movies like Chuck & Buck, Orange County, and The Good Girl. He's openly bisexual. On the Amazing Race website, Mike describes himself as, "entertaining, thoughtful and ridiculously pale." We hope the pair make it far, because he's probably gonna say the best shit.

Foot Fetish

Maria — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:20:00 EDT

Have you seen those cheesetastic and nasty commercials for PedEgg on TV? Apparently an actor-couple (also featured on the Amazing Race) featured in the commercial are super-pissed (and suing PedEgg's manufacturer) at the "cheap, low quality" of the ads and the fact they are being played worldwide on television. (The actors would have never agreed to appear in a commercial with "horror make up" on their feet if they knew they would be grossing out people worldwide.) Listen: if you are an unrecognizable contestant from a reality TV show you are not too good to appear in an infomercial, no matter how cringe-worthy it ends up being. [The Smoking Gun]