Phil Keoghan has hosted The Superb Race for 35 seasons after initially getting handed over because the emcee of Survivor.
“Properly, by the point I obtained the decision that I obtained the [The Amazing Race] job, I’d been via a lot stress main as much as that time as a result of I’d missed out on a bunch of jobs and I had been up for Survivor and it was between Jeff [Probst] and I for that job,” Keoghan, 56, completely informed Us Weekly on Wednesday, September 27. “I assumed that present sounded actually cool … the place these folks go to an island [and] they’re making an attempt to outlive. It gave the impression of enjoyable.”
Probst, now 61, was employed to helm CBS’ survivalist competitors sequence, which premiered in 2000, earlier than Keoghan obtained the decision to host The Superb Race the next yr. The New Zealand native additional teased to Us that the 2 TV presenters nonetheless joke about going up for a similar job.
“We have been calling one another throughout that point [too and asking,] ‘Have you ever heard something?’” Keoghan mentioned. “And we’re each at CBS [now], in fact, and we’re, I feel, in the best place.”
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Keoghan and Probst first crossed paths means earlier than the Survivor auditions.
“[Our friendship] truly goes again to New York Metropolis virtually 30 years in the past, again to 1994 once we have been each working at FX in Madison Sq. Park, the place there was a residing respiration house studio,” he reminisced on Wednesday. “And Tom Bergeron was internet hosting a present referred to as Breakfast Time and I used to be engaged on that present and Jeff labored on a present referred to as Again Chat and he would learn letters from folks. Now we have a longstanding historical past of following one another via the business.”
Whereas Keoghan narrowly missed out on internet hosting Survivor, he isn’t fairly certain how he would have fared within the island surroundings.
Phil Keoghan and Jeff Probst David Livingston/Getty Photos; Wealthy Polk/Getty Photos
“Properly, after 45 seasons they’ve achieved now, I’m unsure how I might’ve achieved with that,” he jokingly informed Us. “I really like Superb Race for the truth that we’re transferring … [and] simply to have the ability to have that change and only a variation of surroundings. I find it irresistible.”
Now that Keoghan and Probst have landed the place they’re meant to, they’re “teaming as much as personal Wednesday nights,” he added. The most recent seasons of Survivor and The Superb Race, which each premiered on Wednesday, air back-to-back on CBS.
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The Superb Race — at present on its thirty fifth season — options loads of new twists from a “supersized” episode size of 90 minutes, a bigger forged of contestants (beginning with 13 groups) and new journey locations.
“We’re beginning in Los Angeles below the Hollywood signal, which is celebrating 100 years,” Keoghan teased to Us. “We fly [from there] to Bangkok, we get to India, we journey extensively via Asia. We get to Europe, we’ll get to Eire and a spot that we’ve by no means been to earlier than is Slovenia, [which is] subsequent to Italy. … [It’s a] lovely spot.”
For the CBS persona, Slovenia was his “favourite place” of season 35. “I’d by no means been there earlier than. I’ve been to 140 international locations, [but] I had not been to Slovenia,” he gushed.
New episodes of The Superb Race airs on CBS Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
