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Deborah Vance, DJ First Out on Celebrity Amazing Race

5/1/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Deborah Vance and DJ join a celebrity Amazing Race and become the first eliminated team.
Host Phil Keoghan appears and gives notes.
The leg was filmed in Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, Riverside and Ontario, Canada and featured guest teams including Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott, Jordan Firstman and Trisha Paytas.
Creators Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky arranged the crossover aired on HBO Max Thursday, May 30.

History

Historical Context

Survivor premiered May 31 2000 on CBS, adapting Charlie Parsons’s 1997 Swedish Expedition Robinson, and became the first reality competition to rank in the top ten ratings through 2005-06, earning 63 Emmy nominations. Its ad-rich success showed networks that reality formats could draw large advertising, prompting HBO Max to produce a celebrity Amazing Race special starring Deborah Vance and hosted by Phil Keoghan.

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Story summary

Deborah Vance and DJ join a celebrity Amazing Race and become the first eliminated team.
Host Phil Keoghan appears and gives notes.
The leg was filmed in Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, Riverside and Ontario, Canada and featured guest teams including Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott, Jordan Firstman and Trisha Paytas.
Creators Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky arranged the crossover aired on HBO Max Thursday, May 30.

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