FIRST LOOK: Amazing Race Season 13 Castmembers
Published on: August 19, 2008 – 6:17 pm by POPHANGOVER 
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The Amazing Race premieres on CBS on Sunday, September 28th. The 12 Teams competing in this year’s race will travel over 30,000 miles, with stops in Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and Moscow. The race will start from the world famous Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of the 1932 and 1984 Olympics.
This year, many of the Amazing Racers are apparently FILTHY RICH. We have an ex-NFL player, the president of a pharmaceutical company, the CFO of Comic Con, and a Wall Street financier, just to name a few. Why the hell would CBS choose these people to go on an amazing race around the world? They can afford their own luxury trips whenever they want. Not like they need the $1 million prize, either.
CBS also chose some crazy looking old dude with a beard who works in “playground maintenance” – what, to balance things out?! How ridiculous!
According to CBS, this season will feature a variety of firsts, including: teams traveling to a real-life water world where its inhabitants live upon a floating city; first time visits for the race to locations such as Cambodia and Kazakhstan; and one team makes an unprecedented mistake on the road that ultimately prohibits them from joining their fellow racers at the finish line.
The cast also features couples in various stages of their lives – married beekeepers who have been together for years, a married but separated couple looking to rebuild their marriage, a newly dating couple still getting to know each other and best friends who are comic book aficionados and describe the race as “the ultimate game on the biggest game board you can imagine.”
Here’s a look at the teams:
1. Terence Gerchberg, running coach, 35; Sarah Leshner, investment analyst, 31 (newly dating)
2. Marisa Axelrod, student, 22; Brooke Jackson, graphic designer, 24 (Southern belle best friends)
3. Andrew Lappitt, student, 22; Dan Honig, hotel manager trainee, 23 (fraternity brothers nicknamed “Team Superbad”)
4. Aja Benton, aspiring actress, 25; Ty White, banker, 25 (dating long distance)
5. Mark Yturralde, Comic-Con treasurer, 41; Bill Hahler, student aid administrator, 42 (best friends)
6. Toni Imbimbo, accounting consultant, 51; Dallas Imbimbo, student, 22 (mother and son)
7. Nick Spangler, actor, 22; Starr Spangler, former NFL cheerleader, 21 (brother and sister)
8. Anita Jones, retired paralegal, 63; Arthur Jones, playground maintenance, 61 (married beekeepers)
9. Kelly Crabb, sales representative, 26; Christy Cook, business developer, 26 (divorcees)
10. Ken Greene, home builder and ex-NFL player, 51; Tina Greene, executive search firm president, 48 (separated)
11. Anthony Marotta, mortgage broker, 32; Stephanie Kacandes, financial saleswoman, 32 (dating)
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[photos: cbs]
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August 19th, 2008
hey that’s a good call, why are so many of the people rich this season? i sure wont root for some people pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not millions) to win this race.
i’m going for the crazy guy with the beard though “playground maintenance” sounds a bit odd.
August 20th, 2008
It will be interesting to see these rich people deal with old fashioned hard work. The kind poor people have to do.