Preparation is essential. Huge Brother 23 alums Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss, who Us Weekly completely revealed had been courting just a few months after their stint on the CBS actuality collection final summer time, had been severe about getting ready earlier than they headed off to compete on The Wonderful Race.
Though the product supervisor, 24, and the AI engineer, 25, had been each fan favorites on their first actuality competitors present, they are saying they “misplaced it” and “had been in tears” after they truly bought solid for the Phil Keoghan-hosted race all over the world.
“Her mother and father gave us, like, an entire Wonderful Race bootcamp,” Derek completely tells Us Weekly about what they did to prep. “They taught us the best way to drive stick shift. We had a rented automobile. They’d actually blindfold us, put us behind their truck, drive us off to a random location, after which give us a map and be like, ‘OK, now you guys have to make your manner again residence.’”
Derek had been chosen to compete on The Problem: USA, a CBS spinoff of the long-running MTV collection, so he wasn’t positive he may do each. Finally, he did – however that reduce into their prep time for the race.
“I had such bold plans,” he explains. “I’m a really studious particular person so The Wonderful Race, this can be a recreation that nearly is absolutely in your arms. Aside from, like, a taxi now and again, you are able to do tangible issues to review for it. There’s no home vote. There’s no politick-ing. It’s actually, like, are you able to communicate among the languages?”
Claire chimes in, “Are you able to learn a map? Can you utilize a compass?” with Derek including, “Are you able to drive stick shift? There are plenty of issues. I had an entire recreation plan. I used to be like, ‘I’m gonna study Arabic.’”
She says she “made a really lengthy prep listing after which Derek was like, ‘Oh, truly I’m occurring this different present.’”
Fortunately, all of it labored out for the pair, who now reside collectively in Los Angeles, as they spent the one month they did have between reveals as “an entire crash course.” Actually, Derek was attempting to observe even whereas he was in Argentina filming The Problem: USA. “I used to be like, ‘I actually need to study Spanish,’” he says. “Any time I used to be speaking to an area manufacturing particular person, I used to be like, ‘So I do know that is the way you say it in English, however would you thoughts simply, like, translating that in Spanish? I’m simply curious for myself.’ And I’d all the time write down the interpretation.”
Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss on ‘The Wonderful Race.’ Equipment Karzen/CBS
As for a way they’ll fare on The Wonderful Race, the couple “complement one another” and went into it acknowledging each their strengths and weaknesses. “The joke I all the time make was me and Claire solely had one bag and I carried it,” Derek says. “So I all the time informed folks, ‘I carried the bag, however Claire carried me.’ I believe it was my bodily endurance on among the challenges. However then Claire has probably the greatest recollections of anybody I do know. She has nice consideration to element and there are such a lot of challenges the place it actually is simply consideration to element.”
Claire provides, “Derek’s weirdly good at plenty of issues. For those who watch Huge Brother, he can be superb at random challenges. … I do suppose that we complement one another fairly effectively.”
The Wonderful Race premieres on CBS Wednesday, September 21, at 10 p.m. ET.
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