The Amazing Race 21
| The Amazing Race 21 | |
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| Season Run | September 30 – December 9, 2012 |
| Filming dates | May 26 – June 16, 2012 |
| No. of Episodes | 11 |
| Winning team | Josh Kilmer-Purcell & Brent Ridge |
| All-Stars | Natalie and Nadiya Anderson |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 3 |
| Countries visited | 9 |
| Cities visited | 21 |
| No. of legs | 12 |
| Distance traveled | 25,000 mi (40,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 21 is the twenty-first installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race on CBS. It featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
It premiered on September 30, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and CTV with the two-hour season finale on December 9, 2012. While the prize for winning the Race remains at US$1 million, if the team that came in first in the first leg had won the race, the prize would have been doubled to US$2 million.
The Fabulous Beekman Boys stars and husbands Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge were the winners of The Amazing Race 21.
Season 21 was broadcast during the 2012 fall season on CBS. It spanned a little over 25,000 miles (40,000 km) of travel to three continents and nine countries including China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and the Netherlands, which hosted a Switchback task.
This season introduced the "Double Your Money" prize for the team who won the first leg, making them eligible to win a total of $2 million if they also won the final leg; only six teams in the previous twenty seasons of the race have ever won both the first and final legs. Elise Doganieri, co-executive producer for the show, called the larger potential prize "a real game-changer". While teams reacted with excitement at the larger prize, Doganieri hoped that if it was won, the additional prize money would be used for "something wonderful" such as supporting charitable medical research. Abbie Ginsberg and Ryan Danz, winners of the Double Your Money prize for its inaugural season, were eliminated from the competition at the conclusion of the Race's ninth leg, after being U-Turned by Jaymes and James.
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