Dan and Sam -- Amazing Race’s gay siblings -- speak out
’The Gay Team’ has become a staple of reality competition series, though the most recent season of CBS’s The Amazing Race offered a new twist on the formula :: gay brothers competing for the million dollar prize.
In the fifteenth installment, which ended this past weekend, Kansas City natives Sam and Dan may not have come in first place but, in talking to EDGE’s Jim Halterman, the guys clearly have no regrets about being second, any of the more crafty moves during the race or their decision to be out and proud on a popular television series.
Crossing the finish line
EDGE: Sorry you guys didn’t win The Amazing Race. How long has it been since the race actually ended?
Dan: It’s been about four months so it’s been really hard to keep it a secret for that long.
EDGE: Now that the show is over, how do you feel overall about the experience?
Sam: We’re definitely very relieved that everything is out in the open. We’re fine being in second place and it was a great place to finish. We got to run the whole race and that’s all that mattered to us; we got to cross the finish line.
Dan: With a lot of reality shows, like Survivor and Big Brother, second place is related to being a loser, but with this show you get to race around the world on someone else’s credit card; nothing can compare to that.
EDGE: How was it watching your selves on the show as the episodes were airing?
Sam: It was weird.
Dan: Five minutes before each one we’d get so nervous because even though we knew what had gone on we didn’t know how they were going to edit it. story continues on following page.
Watch the volleyball game where CBS blurs the brothers’ crotches.
