Mother and Deaf Son in the next The Amazing Race TV Show

Mother and Deaf Son in the next The Amazing Race TV Show

Exciting News to share with you – There will be Deaf contestant for
the show, “The Amazing Race” on TV. His name is Luke and he will be
pairing with his hearing mother. They both will be contesting against
several pairs.

It will premiere on Sunday, February, 15, 2009, on CBS Channel.
Please check the TV guide to be sure. Give support to Luke and Margie
and spread the words to everyone else!

Check the website for more information –
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race

Watch Hearing Mother & Deaf Son Interview on Video:

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race/video/video.php?cid=1008376745&pid=IWdOAZ__tnrm3fv2nrYnQBcj64zcDLz0&category=editorial&play=true

To read full article:

StarTribune.com

New teams on ‘The Amazing Race’ include stuntmen, flight attendants,
deaf college grad

By DERRIK J. LANG , Associated Press

January 26, 2009

LOS ANGELES – Most contestants on “The Amazing Race” must tackle
language barriers during their trek around the world. As the reality
series’ first-ever deaf contestant, Luke Adams had double the trouble.
The 22-year-old recent college grad and his mother Margie are among
the 11 two-person teams racing for the $1 million prize in the
upcoming 14th season.

“I thought it would be easy because my mother and I have always
communicated really well,” the longtime “Amazing Race” fan, who
doesn’t speak or read lips, said through an interpreter. “In the
airports, my mom had to do all of the work because she had to do all
of the talking. It was kind of hard for me to depend on her to do all
of that.”

“In the beginning, I think Luke didn’t have a whole lot of trust that
I was going to communicate all of the information that I was receiving
to him properly,” said Margie. “I would ask a question or for
directions, and it would take five minutes to get the answer, then I’d
give him a 30-second reply. He’d say, ‘No, you didn’t tell me
everything.'”

Other teams this season include pairs of stuntmen, Southwest Airlines
flight attendants, former National Football League cheerleaders and
University of Louisville college athletes. Brother-and-sister team
Victor Jih, 35, and Tammy Jih, 26, both graduated from Stanford
University and Harvard Law School and now work as corporate litigators
in California.

“Having seven years of higher education under our belts, we thought
it would give us a big advantage because we’re good at learning,” said
Tammy. “We went into this race knowing that everything we would face
would be difficult and new and things that we’re not familiar with,
but we were really comfortable in the fact that we’re good learners.”

Beginning at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base near Long
Beach, Calif., the Emmy-winning CBS reality competition (premiering
Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. EST) will follow the teams for 12 episodes as they
travel over 40,000 miles in 22 days to nine countries, including —
for the first time — Romania as well as Switzerland, India and
Russia.

“We shot in the city of Krasnoyarsk and the city of Novosibirsk,”
said “Amazing Race” executive producer Bertram van Munster. “The teams
get from one city to another via the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Of
course, it started off nice, but we got into this Siberian snowstorm
with below-zero temperatures, which we weren’t used to. It was pretty
exciting.”

At 68, Mel White is the season’s oldest contestant. The gay-rights
activist and former speechwriter for Pat Robertson and Billy Graham is
teamed up with his 38-year-old son Mike White, the actor-screenwriter
who penned such films as “School of Rock” and “Nacho Libre.” Despite
the frantic pace of the race, Mike insists he didn’t bicker much with
his dad.

“Compared to some of the other teams, I think we got along like a
Hallmark card,” he said.

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