Focus, Believe, Achieve.. just not on this Race.
Determined competitors and Reality TV villains Joey and Richard have been sent packing from The Amazing Race Australia.
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Their mantra had been “Focus, Believe, Achieve” but last night Joey and Richard failed to achieve a safe place in The Amazing Race Australia and were sent packing.
The Married Entrepreneurs had proven a volatile pair on the Race, with an unwavering determination and frosty relationship with teammates. But such teams become targets by their competitors and last night they were U-turned by another team after leaving Macau and heading to South Africa.
While their defeat may have generated cheers amongst the show’s fans, it is a blow to the conflict within the Race, given they were early villains. It follows favourites, Tracy and Anne-Marie being eliminated last week.
Once again Mos and Mo barely scraped into the last remaining place on the Race.
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47 Responses
Yay! their gone!
I knew they would get out sooner or later….
@roaringdave, john and anyone else with braincells : How’s about this as a compromise? Instead of those insightful fun little polls David has in the sidebar, how’s about he has a ‘permission poll’ to discuss reality shows.
eg: ‘Do I have permission to write about last night’s Masterchef elimination?”
As soon as the poll reaches at least 50% ‘Yes’s, then he can say whatever he likes on his own site.
There we have it – a sensible solution for a very real problem!
@roaringdave i agree, does PD and otehr complainers need to communicate to David to let him know they have finally watch the show so he can publish a story, if you do not want to know about the result stay away from a site like this stay away from twitter and rss feeds to.
I don’t mean to harp on about the “spolier” issue, but I just need to ask PD (and other complainers)….when do you actually get around to watching The Amazing Race? I mean when does it not become a spoiler? I go out every Monday night but I watch it as soon as I get home…I really look forward to it. And I certainly don’t read TV Tonight before I have watched it.
Well said David. You are a very patient man, and I admire you for your consistency and the general excellence of this site. Keep up the good work
This is the best series on television at the moment. Everything else has either already aired months ago in the States, or is a piece of generic crap.
While I am happy to see Richard and Joey go, I also wondered how they were caught up in South Africa? There are frequent flights between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth, so even with a long stopover in Bangkok, the couple could have still made it into Port Elizabeth before other teams.
@Geoff – I’m not talking about any of those websites, and I’d argue that the Herald Sun’s headline is more ambiguous than David’s headline, and once again that is my only issue.
David can spoil as many shows as he wants in the articles themselves, my problem is that he spoils them in the headlines.
Gee there’s a few trolls here nowadays. Spoilers schmoilers….pfft. Just don’t go anywhere near blogs or news sites till after you’ve watched something you don’t want spoiled. Intelligence people – it comes from the thing between your ears.
PD: I trust you accept that your opinion has been aired, debated and answered as per the usual tone of this site (including publishing many critical comments from those who seemingly know better how to run this blog than me). But it’s time to move on. If you want a more detailed discussion on why “just change the headline” policy doesn’t work I’ll discuss via email rather than bore people stupid here. Meanwhile it sounds like you should unfollow me in Twitter as there are no plans to curtail discussion of content that has been widely broadcast for broad consumption, regardless of genre. It’s what makes this site tick. Thanks.
I checked Twitter and the tweet was at 4:51am this morning. 7th June. The show had already aired, so complaining that the show had been “spoiled” is a load of baloney. As with other sites, once a show has been aired, then it’s fair game. If you live by the immediacy of sites like Twitter, you die by them as well.
Anyhow, if being “spoiled” the evictees of an early round of TAR is your greatest problem in life I envy you.
Are the ratings still dropping for this show? I watched the first couple of episodes but just found it too boring. Crap challenges, an obviously detestable couple and no other couples I gave a rats about.
Survivor: Redemption Island was fantastic and for mine when it comes to shows like this the yanks do them so much better. Anyone remember the aussie version of Survivor? Just terrible.
I dont have an issue with people who are strongly motivated and believe in themselves but I hate it when people talk about themsleves in the 3rd person and Joey did that last night. Also they did themselves no favours by not socialising with the others.
I know in past amazing races there is always a couple some other teams dont like but every team hated Richard and Joey so Im guessing off camera they werent very social. Which is a mistake because then no one helps them. Like last night they wre just laughed at when they got bogged. The the boys u turned them even though they were 8 places behind them.
Richard and Joey were on sunrise this morning and dint seem to bad but they were wearing there focus believe achieve shirts.
@ PD,
There’s the article from The Herald Sun website spoiling it:
heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/amazing-race-turns-sour-for-ruthless-couple/story-e6frf96x-1226070496262
Or how about Jack Reiwoldt (AFL Footballer for the Richmond Tigers) tweet on twitter at 9:51pm last night:
“#focusbelieveachieve it wasn’t meant to be Richard + Joey!! We will miss you ;)”
Or did you watch Sunrise or The Morning Show this morning, which both had it mentioned. Or the numerous radio stations that told the story on radio today?
I really think you don’t understand the word “Spoiler” in TV land terms and the use of a relevant headline required to look back to this article in the future.
@Mr. Do Bee – to be fair to David, his policy is “don’t report leaked names”. Only report if it’s aired. And I applaud him for that, but I still find his habit of posting who was eliminated in the headline baffling.
@robbie – why is it pointless to complain? All I’m asking is that David refrain from putting who was eliminated in the headline. I was following him on Twitter, and all you need is a headline to ruin it – I didn’t even need to come to the site.
Geoff, they’d have been the couple the producers would most want to stay apart from the models. Why would they possibly want them gone? Now the show has no hate-worthy people left, and ratings will probably suffer a bit because of it.
About the flights, they stupidly flew from Macau to Bangkok, then flew to South Africa. All the other teams quickly took the ferry back to HK and flew straight to South Africa, which is clearly going to be much faster than having a stop-over in Bangkok. I’m more surprised they weren’t on a later domestic flight than everyone else, forget about any chance of an earlier one.
@”Spoiler complanants” : Get over yourselves, princesses! It’s a TV blog!
Thank gawd for Joey and Smoey getting eliminated! This show is absolutely the best Aussie adaptation of a franchise show ever. It’s a show Channel 7 should be very proud of.
@Elizabeth – I follow TV Tonight on my Twitter, and it was ruined there, if the headline had been “Another shock Amazing Race elimination” it wouldn’t have happened.
He’s still “spoiling” MasterChef, but that shows gets over 1.5 million viewers, and airs six nights a week, so it could be deemed “newsworthy”.
@NJK – Yes, it’s a TV news website, I’m not that stupid, I figured that part out but David can still post the exact same article and not include spoilers in the headline.
If you record a show and don’t watch it for a couple of days, it is your own fault going onto a TV website and getting the result spoiled.
Same with sports, I don’t go on a sports website when I haven’t watched a match yet….same with TV.
And by the way, very hapy to see these nutters eliminated.
This has been one of the best TAR series ever! Much better than some of the US versions recently. Well done on the producers off this. Clearly keeping Seven’s involvement to a minimum to have this quality produced.
David, after reading your site I purposefully went to The Age, News.com.au, even Channel 7 to see if I could actually find the Amazing Race spoilers in the same way. I couldn’t.
Hiding behind the defense of ‘but all the other kids are doing it’, isn’t really good enough. If I want to complain to those places, I will, but all I’m asking is you consider taking the spoilers out of the headline. I’m not saying “don’t post spoilers” I’m just saying “don’t post them in the headlines”.
Presumably this article exists to prompt discussion of the Amazing Race, you can achieve the exact same thing & not spoil the show.
@PD, I think its basic common sense not to click the article in the first place when you don’t want to know, especially when it supposedly happens every week….