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More On Season 3 of The Amazing Race Asia (SPOILER ALERT)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

And the winner of TARA Season 3 is…Team Hong Kong, Sam (Singaporean) & Vince (Canadian).

A word about TARA’s host, Allan Wu, who apparently is an American (and a graduate of UC Berkeley): he is simply awful at anything scripted, like location introductions or explanations of tasks (“In this roadblock, a team member must sacrifice an infant to the god Molek…”). He’s unnatural, forced, and not very dramatic. On the other hand, he excels at unscripted banter with the contestants when they reach the finishing mat, achieving an easy rapport. Kind of the opposite of Phil Keoghan, the host of the American version of TAR. Keoghan’s suitably intense and dramatic at the introductions, but is stiffer than a corpse when he has to chat up the contestants.

That is all.