The Amazing Race Canada will kick-off its 11th season at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, returning to where last season finished and crowned season 10 champions Taylor and Katie in their hometown. Three Alberta teams will be part of this season’s roster, including Edmonton’s Blair Gladue and his wife Skylene. Gladue is better known as Superfan Magoo, who is often seen hyping up fans at Oilers games. Jon Montgomery, the host of the competition and former Olympic gold-medallist, said the “dynamite couple” will add to the appeal of the show. “Anytime you get a husband and a wife team that are as deeply connected as these two are, that’s compelling television for me because you know that they’re probably going to have come-aparts,” he told CTV News Edmonton in an interview on Tuesday morning. “Then watching them come back together, as good couples do, is the secret sauce.” The other Albertans featured this season will be Jesse from Sherwood Park and a pair of brothers, Osas and Esosa, from Calgary. The first episode will see the racers travel from Edmonton to Red Deer. “The locals are maybe going to have a little bit of home province advantage,” Montgomery teased about Tuesday’s episode, adding that he had called Alberta home for 14 years. “I was tickled pink to come back and reminisce about old times, but also capture something and showcase it and present it to the rest of the country (and) to show what it is that I love so much about an area.” The Amazing Race Canada will also feature new racers, like its first grandmother, and new destinations - finally making it north of the Arctic Circle and reaching the third coastline in the Arctic Ocean. “We’ve always said ‘coast to coast to coast,’ but I guess until this year we’ve been lying because we haven’t technically been to the Arctic Ocean yet,” Montgomery said. “We will now.” Season 11 was filmed in April. The winners will receive $250-thousand in cash, a trip for two around the world, and two brand new Chevrolet Blazer EV SS cars. The season premiere will air on CTV July 8 at 9 p.m. local time. With files from CTV News Edmonton’s Destiny Meilleur
