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For the first time in The Amazing Race history, two Survivor champions will compete together, as couple Ethan Zohn (Survivor: Africa) and Jenna Morasca (Survivor: The Amazon) head up the show's 19th cast.
Although the popular international competition, which premieres Sept. 25 on CBS, has previously included various reality-show veterans (Survivor alums Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich have competed twice; former Big Brother residents Jeff Schroeder and Jordan Lloyd, as well as Alison Irwin and her boyfriend Donny), Ethan, 37, and Jenna, 30, are the first team composed of two reality-show winners.
The long-term couple, who've been dating since 2003, told Entertainment Weekly that the competition is "especially sweet" considering his recent medical struggles associated with his Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis.
"Last year I was attached to a pump in complete isolation in a f—ing hospital room, and now I'm out traveling the world with the woman I love. Whatever happens, it's gonna be okay," Zohn told EW.com just before the race began. "But if she screws up, I'm gonna kill her."
Despite her impressive win on Survivor, Morasca says she is definitely the more nervous half of the team. "I'm surprisingly more nervous than Ethan so I told him unless it's a horseback riding, pole dancing, circus, animal, or shopping challenge, that he's doing the first Roadblock."
Other famous globetrotting contestants include Zac Sunderland, who at 16 became the first person under 18 to sail solo around the world, and his father Laurence; retired NFL player Marcus Pollard and his wife Amani; and former Olympic snowboarders Andy Finch and Tommy Czeschin.
