Superstar Race Across The World got here to a nail-biting finish on Wednesday night time as Scott Mills and his husband Sam have been declared the 2024 winners.
Within the closing episode of the sequence, the 4 groups rushed to the end line as they made their method via Argentina into Chile to get to the seaside city of Frutillar.
Trekking via the beautiful area of Patagonia, crossing via mountains and deserts on a good price range, tensions have been operating excessive because the ending got here close to for the celebrities.
Every crew selecting completely different routes by bus, coach, taxi and even hitch-hiking, Kelly Brook and her husband Jeremy Parisi took an early lead.
Nonetheless, BBC Radio 2 presenter Scott and Sam, plus Ted Lasso‘s Kola Bokinni and cousin Mary-Ellen shortly caught up with the couple in thrilling scenes.
Superstar Race Throughout The World got here to a nail-biting finish on Wednesday night time as Scott Mills and his husband Sam (pictured) have been declared the 2024 winners
Within the closing episode of the sequence, the 4 groups rushed to the end line as they made their method via Argentina into Chile to get to the seaside city of Frutillar; pictured L-R Mary Ellen, Kola, Sam, Scott, Kelly, Jeremy, Jeff & Freddy
As Kola and Mary-Ellen and Scott and Sam arrived in Frutillar, they travelled to a chosen restaurant earlier than heading to the bottom camp of a volcano.
With cash running-short, Kola and Mary-Ellen have been compelled to do the final leg of the race by foot and climbed up the volcano to get to the Chilean flag that marked the tip of the race.
Nonetheless, Scott and Sam have been the primary to signal their identify within the e book signaling the tip of the race and crowning them the winners – beating Kola and Mary-Ellen by two hours.
Scott stated: ‘Speechless. While you open that e book, and there isn’t any different names in it, there isn’t any different feeling prefer it.
‘It has been exhilarating, it has been powerful, it has been so irritating at occasions, nevertheless it simply proves we’re an awesome crew – a successful crew’.
Sam added that successful was the ‘finest feeling ever’.
Arriving almost a day later, Jeff Brazier and son Freddy got here in third adopted by Kelly and Jeremy.
Your entire 12,500km route took 30 days for the teams to finish.
Trekking via the beautiful area of Patagonia, crossing via mountains and deserts on a good price range, tensions have been operating excessive because the ending got here close to for the celebrities
Every crew selecting completely different routes by bus, coach, taxi and even hitch-hiking, Kelly Brook and her husband Jeremy Parisi (pictured) took an early lead
Nonetheless, BBC Radio 2 presenter Scott and Sam, plus Ted Lasso ‘s Kola Bokinni and cousin Mary-Ellen shortly caught up with the couple in thrilling scenes
Discussing successful the present, Scott admitted he was in full shock and he could not ‘course of’ the very fact the couple had received.
He stated: ‘It is ridiculous. It is weird. After we have been on the highest of the volcano, we had a hug and just a little cry.
‘Folks have been telling us repeatedly that we had received, however I nonetheless couldn’t compute it. I couldn’t get it in my head. I could not course of it.’
Sam agreed: ‘Even on the very finish of the race, we nonetheless had it in our heads that we have been going to be in the direction of the underside. In our heads we nonetheless did not suppose we have been in with an opportunity of successful till we opened that e book. It was so bizarre.’
The radio presenter described the BBC present as ‘exhilarating, inspiring and exhausting’ and admitted the expertise made his and Sam’s relationship ‘even stronger’.
Scott gushed: ‘It’s made Sam and I’s relationship even stronger. I knew that Sam was the one however this complete expertise made me completely realise and not using a shadow of a doubt that he was the one.
‘We’d by no means have this period of time once more after we are completely disconnected from the world. I very a lot doubt that it’s going to ever occur once more in our lives. It is going to stay particular eternally.’
Scott and Sam have been the primary to signal their identify within the e book signaling the tip of the race and crowning them the winners – beating Kola and Mary-Ellen by two hours
Arriving almost a day later, Jeff Brazier and son Freddy (pictured) got here in third adopted by Kelly and Jeremy