Amazing Race’s Bernie and Carrigain React to Driver’s Seat Choice

The Superb Race’s Bernie Gutierrez and Carrigain Scadden weren’t thrilled with the selection Jonathan and Ana Cities made through the Driver’s Seat twist.

“When you’re making an attempt to kick us down as a result of we’re already on the backside and also you don’t wanna make extra enemies, that’s sensible. I get it,” Gutierrez, 31, solely informed Us Weekly on Thursday, March 27, following her and Scadden’s elimination. “When you’re gonna give it to us since you actually do suppose we’re a menace, say that. I get it. However don’t say it was an accident as a result of now you’re insulting.”

On the Wednesday, March 26, episode of the competitors sequence, which passed off in Bali, Jonathan, 42, and Ana, 35, have been the primary to reach on the Driver’s Seat, which was a brand new twist launched this season. The couple assigned weight values for groups for the Roadblock problem. Jonathan and Ana got the restricted choices of 15 kilos, 20 kilos and 25 kilos for the rice threshing problem.

Once they first organized the values, Jonathan and Ana forgot to assign a measurement for themselves. Clearly, the duo needed to provide themselves a decrease quantity. Many of the remaining groups obtained 25 kilos together with Gutierrez and Scadden, 33, who have been in final place.

Whereas Jonathan and Ana claimed it was finally a mix-up giving Gutierrez and Scadden the more durable possibility, the chums weren’t shopping for the excuse.

“I really feel like for Jonathan it actually issues to him that he’s in first place [and] that he does his finest. So it’s onerous for me to suppose that these two folks with a lot on the road — they’ve the Driver’s Seat, they’ve the Specific Cross,” Scadden solely informed Us. “In the event that they didn’t take the time to essentially suppose this by means of, it might have actually labored out for them very well of their favor.”

Not solely did Jonathan and Ana take a decrease weight for themselves, however they bypassed the whole problem through the use of the Specific Cross they received within the earlier leg. The transfer not solely upset Gutierrez and Scadden however a majority of the remaining groups. Scadden added that with the specter of a U-Flip doubtless — which was teased for subsequent week’s episode — the gameplay was “not a wise one.”

“It’s onerous to suppose it’s an accident, but additionally it doesn’t seem like it was very effectively thought by means of,” she stated.

Gutierrez teased that if she and Scadden remained within the race, she was able to “backstab” Jonathan and Ana at any given second.

“In the event that they requested me for assist, I might need helped them and despatched them within the unsuitable route, form of like what [brothers] Nick and Mike [Fiorito] did to all people,” she quipped. “I might do one thing like that, I might’ve tousled their recreation ultimately, form or type. I might’ve obtained different folks to hate them. I don’t know. However I might’ve discovered a option to get again at them.”

Whereas Gutierrez and Scadden’s Superb Race journey is finished, the chums are grateful they obtained to spend time collectively — regardless that they didn’t see eye to eye on a regular basis.

“It was an excellent expertise. We’re mates, we’re like sisters, we’re gonna argue, we’re gonna bicker. Not all the pieces is ideal, however we freaking love one another to demise. And this simply made us actually stronger,” Gutierrez mirrored. “Like, we’re simply stronger collectively. We be taught extra about one another. We’re in a position to perceive higher how every must do what we have to do to one another and assist one another extra — particularly throughout very hectic conditions.”

The Superb Race airs on CBS Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET and is accessible to stream on Paramount+ the following day.