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Survivor Africa winner and The Amazing Race 19 contestant Ethan Zohn’s cancer has returned after going into remission in 2010. That was discovered Sept. 14. “It’s localized in my lung area. But it’s good that it’s not all over my body,” he told People. He was first diagnosed in May 2009 with stage two Hodgkin’s …

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In post-elimination interviews yesterday, Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca discussed details of The Amazing Race leg that eliminated them and one other team–and the manipulative editing. Most significantly, they talk about how their clue contradicted the sign that most teams missed, and discuss how their elimination was due not to the sign or the clue …

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Some relationships are hard to end. You’ve been friends for, say, 10 years, and during that time, things change. Some of it’s so similar and familiar that holding on to only those things that were once good and hoping the bad will go away. But why cling to something that just isn’t working? I’ve spent …

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Perhaps the most surprising and interesting part of last night’s The Amazing Race 19‘s premiere was when Kaylani Paliotta’s passport was returned to her with the help of Twitter. Here’s the full story of how that went down. Kaylani lost her passport at a gas station, and though the camera operator noticed–teams never seem to …

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