The Wonderful Race season 34 champions Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss will make a particular look in the course of the season 35 premiere of the fact competitors collection, Us Weekly can completely reveal.
In an unique first have a look at the premiere episode, which airs on CBS Wednesday, September 27, Derek, 26, and Claire, 27, put together to offer clues to Wonderful Race contestants who efficiently traverse a tightrope between two buildings and unscramble a phrase puzzle.
Derek and Claire, who started courting within the fall of 2021 after assembly as contestants on season 23 of Large Brother that summer season, informed Us they have been joyful to be clue givers quite than opponents this time round.
“It was very enjoyable to not be burdened,” Claire mentioned. Derek revealed that the duo determined to check out the premiere episode’s problem themselves only for enjoyable — and located it tougher than they’d anticipated.
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“Me and Claire [were] like, ‘Yeah, let me simply go forward and break this document for you guys.’ After which we go as much as do the problem. I believed we have been going to be there all day,” Derek admitted. “You had to determine a phrase by unscrambling phrases, and I’m taking a look at these [letters] and I’m like, ‘Yeah, I don’t assume that makes a phrase.’”
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Claire didn’t partake within the tightrope facet of the problem as she was already pressured to beat her worry of heights throughout a November 2022 episode of The Wonderful Race.
“[This challenge] was similar to what I needed to do in Ronda [Spain] once I needed to cross the tightrope and I noticed it and simply [had] flashbacks,” she defined. “I used to be like, ‘I’ll keep on the bottom. I’m high-quality.’”
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Along with going through phobias, Derek and Claire’s communication expertise as a pair have been put to the take a look at throughout their time on the present. Claire defined that trusting the opposite individual to take management throughout demanding conditions was tough for the pair as they’re “each assured individuals.”
She continued: “We each wish to do all of it ourselves, however studying the right way to depend on the opposite individual was what was key.”
Derek echoed his girlfriend’s sentiments. “That’s the factor that we needed to overcome and that introduced us nearer collectively: ‘How will we each really feel our opinions, after which in the course of the occasions when there could also be separate opinions, how will we reconcile that to maintain pushing ahead and perceive the place the opposite individual is coming from?’” he defined. “So, I feel the [Amazing] Race was unimaginable. 20 years of relationship remedy.”
The duo have realized so much from one another exterior of their shared actuality TV ventures. Derek informed Us that Claire has proven him the right way to be extra understanding of different individuals’s emotions.
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“She’s a really empathetic individual. She not simply feels [but] internalizes different individuals’s feelings and the way they’re seeing a scenario and she or he empathizes with that,” he shared. “And I really feel like that’s one thing that has hopefully transferred over to me. I’ve been selecting up one p.c of it, which is already one p.c greater than I had.”
Claire, in the meantime, mentioned Derek has helped her see the brilliant aspect of each scenario.
“Derek enters each scenario or surroundings that we’re going into with an optimistic lens. I feel Derek’s far more optimistic than I’m,” she confessed. “I’m a reasonably fear-based individual and an nervousness individual. … He’s made me extra open-minded and extra open to going to [new] environments or hanging out with individuals or doing new issues that usually I’d be like, ‘No, that’s an excessive amount of. I’d quite simply keep house.’”
After proving themselves to be a powerful couple throughout season 34 of The Wonderful Race — and taking house the $1 million prize – Derek and Claire couldn’t assist however discover a number of season 35 duos who gave the impression to be forward of the pack throughout their visitor look. Though she didn’t identify names, Claire mentioned that “there have been two groups that basically stood out which can be going to be powerhouses this season.”
She continued: “It looks as if there’s a variety of Wonderful Race superfans [this season]. It is a actually superb forged that they’ve. Everybody was actually bringing the vitality. I’m certain they have been nervous for his or her first day on the market, however they have been actually tackling it.”
Season 35 of The Wonderful Race premieres on CBS Wednesday, September 27, at 9:30 p.m. ET.
