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Amazing Race contestant’s toddler’s “suspicious death”: system “failed to protect an innocent child”

The Amazing Race 6 contestant Hera McLeod’s 15-month-old son died during an unsupervised visit with his father, and police are now investigating the 2003 murder of the man’s former girlfriend and 2008 suicide of his mother. Prince McLeod Rams died in late October, one day after he was discovered unresponsive at his father’s home; he …

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FCC finds pixilated Surreal Life 2 scene to be “explicit and graphic”; clears Amazing Race graffiti

On Wednesday, the tight-asses at the FCC fined a number of shows, including CBS for allowing Janet Jackson’s breast to horrify the nation. But besides the $3.6 million they fined CBS for an orgy scene on Without a Trace, breaking the previous record set by Married by America’s fine, they also decided to fine one …

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a conversation with The Amazing Race 6’s Jonathan Baker and Victoria Fuller.

A few weeks ago, I heard from The Amazing Race 6‘s Victoria and Jonathan, who I certainly haven’t been shy about criticizing. They offered an interview; I accepted. There were questions I wanted to ask that other interviews avoided, and while I don’t shy away from my past criticism of what we saw on TV, …

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