Speaker 1: Welcome back to TV Reload.
Speaker 2: This is another bonus episode featuring a quick chat with
Speaker 2: the host of Channel ten's Amazing Race, Bo Ryan. Australia
Speaker 2: fell in love with Bo through his sporting career.
Speaker 1: However, there was always.
Speaker 2: More to this Aussie legend than being a former professional
Speaker 2: rugby league footballer. His personality and likability led him to
Speaker 2: a fantastic run with the footy show, proving his worth
Speaker 2: in front of the camera and making him one of
Speaker 2: the country's most likable TV personalities.
Speaker 1: He is somewhat of a bloke's bloke.
Speaker 2: And certainly has a fan base with the ladies, but
Speaker 2: with two adoring kids and a gorgeous wife, it's fair
Speaker 2: to say he's living the Aussie dream. Amazing Race is
Speaker 2: the perfect gig for Bo Ryan, and we're about to
Speaker 2: find out why. This year's Amazing Race is winning the
Speaker 2: ratings and proving its place in the TV Guide as
Speaker 2: must watch viewing.
Speaker 1: I'd like to welcome to.
Speaker 2: The show Australia's most charming TV host, Bo Ryan.
Speaker 3: I think the casting is key.
Speaker 1: He always puts his four on the line for the
Speaker 1: sake of entertainment.
Speaker 3: It's a massive show, it's a massive production.
Speaker 1: This week. It's bas been.
Speaker 3: The show just keeps getting better and better and I'm
Speaker 3: super proud of it. Right visions of it blight in
Speaker 3: one of the people's foots off. This is the amazing
Speaker 3: race because you're only really as strong as your weakest lip.
Speaker 1: You know, mate, how are you good?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: The series is increasing in popularity as it goes along.
Speaker 2: Do you think the success in this series is the
Speaker 2: casting or the fact that it's filmed here in Australia
Speaker 2: or maybe you know, is it your great legs?
Speaker 3: But well, the first two I don't agree about the
Speaker 3: third one. I've got skinny legs, which I'd rather big,
Speaker 3: strong legs. But the casting sensational. I said it about
Speaker 3: last year. Our casting last year was brilliant, but even
Speaker 3: better this season. But I think this is shining a
Speaker 3: light even though we're still in Queensland. We're about to
Speaker 3: get down and dirty and hit the top end and
Speaker 3: shine a light on a lot of places people don't
Speaker 3: know a lot about, especially living down here on the
Speaker 3: southern part of the country. The landscapes are amazing in
Speaker 3: The show is getting better up, especially when we get
Speaker 3: to the middle of the country and then down to
Speaker 3: Port Lincoln and to Tasmania. It just goes to another level.
Speaker 3: Plenty of drama. But to answer your question, mate, I
Speaker 3: think the casting is Kenya.
Speaker 2: Can we talk about how beautiful Australia looks in this
Speaker 2: season of Amazing Race. It looks like you're watching the
Speaker 2: national geographics. I mean, have we come a long way
Speaker 2: with the way in which we shoot these shows?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, I mean I guess people many many years ago,
Speaker 3: we just when reality TV started to take off in
Speaker 3: Australia and everyone was just happy to watch people. You've
Speaker 3: got to add a little bit more. You've got to Obviously,
Speaker 3: our show is massive. You know, it's a massive show.
Speaker 3: It's a massive production. But yeah, we didn't spare any
Speaker 3: expense filming it. We had, you know, hundreds of camera
Speaker 3: crew and audio people. Our drone goist Scottie who is
Speaker 3: Jackie O's brother, made the shots look as good as
Speaker 3: a tourism ad. And I've seen the Tourism mat. I'm
Speaker 3: actually in the Tourism mat. So the shots on our
Speaker 3: show as good as the Tourism Australia campaign. And again
Speaker 3: when we get to the middle of the country, man,
Speaker 3: it only gets better. You got to remember we're just that.
Speaker 3: We're just on the coast at the moment, at the
Speaker 3: top of the Queensland with Sundays which are beautiful. But
Speaker 3: the show just keeps getting better and better and I'm
Speaker 3: super proud of it.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Dar with everyone. Queensland holiday is over and
Speaker 4: the race goes into one for drive in the ante,
Speaker 4: but with a surprise twist.
Speaker 3: The curveball none of us expected.
Speaker 4: And the kitchen nightmare horned spelled me in for a race, baby,
Speaker 4: try it.
Speaker 2: We just cut it. Had you competed in the show,
Speaker 2: who would you have picked as your partner because I
Speaker 2: was thinking about it, or would you go in? Would
Speaker 2: you have competed with your wife? Or would car have been?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Your best friend Bruno? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, Bruno would be good because you
Speaker 3: got to pick someone with opposite strengths and we are
Speaker 3: very similar, but we are so different.
Speaker 2: Just to give everyone a little bit of context, your
Speaker 2: best mate is Bruno Brochet, most famous for being Carl
Speaker 2: Sanderland's manager, but also for being the list king. You know,
Speaker 2: he creates some controversial top ten lists.
Speaker 1: But you and Bruno, oh.
Speaker 3: He is super intelligent. He can speak many languages. French
Speaker 3: I think is his first language. That's why I can't
Speaker 3: Understandhi most of the time, or anyone he speaks. But
Speaker 3: he's super educated. Big problem solver. I'd probably look after
Speaker 3: the athletic stuff, you know what I mean, the strength
Speaker 3: and the swimming and all the running, because you're only
Speaker 3: really as strong as your weakest thing. But the thing
Speaker 3: about roadblocks is you pick one one team member to partake,
Speaker 3: so I think it'd be a perfect mix. The problem
Speaker 3: for us is probably we both get very We wouldn't
Speaker 3: I don't think we'd argue. I don't think we'd argue.
Speaker 3: We might clash. The only time we'd clash is he's
Speaker 3: probably working with other teams. I reckon he's actually borderline
Speaker 3: psycho because he's too smart. Bruno, same as me. I'm
Speaker 3: not that smart at a borderline psycho, but he is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's too smart for his own goods. So he'd probably
Speaker 3: get too far ahead of the other races. You know,
Speaker 3: he's already always a step ahead of me, But he'd
Speaker 3: probably get too far ahead of the races and probably
Speaker 3: lead us off.
Speaker 2: A cliff, which isn't going to help you win the show.
Speaker 2: You know, sabotage and salvage is really quite different, and
Speaker 2: I really like this element. I feel like it would
Speaker 2: be a bit of a struggle to ask you who
Speaker 2: you would allocate, you know, those two things too out
Speaker 2: of the current cast. But if we talked about someone
Speaker 2: that everyone knows, like maybe the Australian state premiers, like
Speaker 2: Anastasia Paliche or Daniel Andrews or Gladys Buragically, and who
Speaker 2: would you offer to offer the sabotage and the salvage too?
Speaker 3: And you will issue a salvage which will give a
Speaker 3: team a massive advantage, or a sabotage which will clearly
Speaker 3: slow a team down. Ond salvage Gladys, you know, that's
Speaker 3: our local she's our local girl. I love Gladys, big fan.
Speaker 3: I'm actually a big fan of Palachet too. Actually, i'd
Speaker 3: probably sabotage. Who's the dub you away premier.
Speaker 1: That would be Mark McGowan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's who I'd hit with him with that because
Speaker 3: we couldn't get in there for the show, so they're
Speaker 3: not hit him with that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing, And then maybe even who gets the first
Speaker 2: class pass, well.
Speaker 3: First class pass, who ever finishes first. Gladys Man, I'm
Speaker 3: a staunch Gladys guy. I love Gladys love New South Wales,
Speaker 3: got my wife's and queenslanda so she would have gone Palichet.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'll go first class pass with Gladys. I'd
Speaker 3: probably go. I'd probably go with her. We'd probably go
Speaker 3: to a nice seafood restaurant, followed by maybe a long black,
Speaker 3: some nice coffee, maybe a long walk after it.
Speaker 1: And then is this an invitation?
Speaker 3: No, no, this is just what I do. Yeah, full married.
Speaker 2: I'm still recovering from Brendan and Jackson's unfortunate underwater experience.
Speaker 2: I'm still holding my breath.
Speaker 3: The first five minutes as good as go, but pretty
Speaker 3: quickly started getting really really contified. And then just hit me,
Speaker 3: I mean I do again, Like you said, I do
Speaker 3: all the challenges. So I did that one, and I
Speaker 3: was down there. We had all these you know, Japanese
Speaker 3: divers who were like elite divers, probably about half a dozen.
Speaker 3: I haven't told the story. Actually I was under deep.
Speaker 3: It said it was five meters, but I reckon it
Speaker 3: would have got to about eight meters in strong currents. Man,
Speaker 3: and I was delivering a piece to camera and you're
Speaker 3: not really you're meant to You're meant to breed slowly
Speaker 3: under there and stay calm, so obviously speaking, and it
Speaker 3: was a really long piece about the reef and the
Speaker 3: ecosystem made I was tripping and then all I remember
Speaker 3: the second time I went down there, I was doing
Speaker 3: the piece and they said get it out, get it out,
Speaker 3: and I just was sort of blacking out and I
Speaker 3: just got collared by one of the Japanese divers to
Speaker 3: pull me out and we had to start it yain.
Speaker 3: So I was like very close to blacking out.
Speaker 1: So you can kind of understand, you know, that experience
Speaker 1: for Jacko.
Speaker 3: They're all saying to stay calm on boat, but a
Speaker 3: lot of those people aren't under there with you. It's
Speaker 3: just about you know, it was probably half a dozen
Speaker 3: divers and then you're in that suit and it gets
Speaker 3: foggy and you can for yourself getting very lightheaded. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought they'd man just to get in there and
Speaker 3: sept for and jester fully, because I was under there
Speaker 3: for about half an hour, I couldn't find the actual
Speaker 3: coal first when I started, and I know I just
Speaker 3: had to go and grab the clue, but big ups
Speaker 3: them for finishing it.
Speaker 2: Man, I think it's amazing that you've been trying out
Speaker 2: all these challenges. I think that's a testament to who
Speaker 2: you are and why you resonate as the host of
Speaker 2: this show.
Speaker 1: I think that's just funny.
Speaker 3: It's important to give it some context. I got a
Speaker 3: lot of friends and family think they'd kill it, but
Speaker 3: just give it a bit of perspective.
Speaker 2: You know, were you drawn to any of the teams
Speaker 2: straight away? Because, like for me, I think that I'm
Speaker 2: really enjoying sky Blue and Jake, and I think that
Speaker 2: they're great because the chemistry between the siblings, you know,
Speaker 2: and I think that they're sort of right or die attitude.
Speaker 1: Who were you drawn to first?
Speaker 3: Probably Joe Bell and RANI. First, yeah, father and daughter,
Speaker 3: and then Joe Bell said she's a big fan of
Speaker 3: me and spoke about my daughter, which made me obviously
Speaker 3: miss him that I had a lot of love for them.
Speaker 3: If I'm going to be honest.
Speaker 1: What's it like a fun story that you've walked away
Speaker 1: with us? Is how?
Speaker 2: And the interview with everybody is I always ask for something,
Speaker 2: you know, the go to story that you tell around
Speaker 2: the dinner table to entertain people from filming this series,
Speaker 2: what's something that is something that's kind of out of
Speaker 2: this world that's happened that you've told your mates, like, oh,
Speaker 2: you won't believe this, Like it could be something funny
Speaker 2: or something mind blowingly interesting.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's a good question. Then that is a good question. Probably.
Speaker 3: I saw the other day. It was on my Instagram.
Speaker 3: I put it on Facebook, and that where I saw
Speaker 3: a shark. We saw plenty of sharks on Green Island,
Speaker 3: and I filmed the shark undergo underneath the wharf there
Speaker 3: near us. It was only a couple of meters like
Speaker 3: a red shark, but still, you know that can rip
Speaker 3: your calf off. And these swimmers got really close to
Speaker 3: it and weren't really listening. I don't know if they
Speaker 3: were backpack as a wolf, but they just kept circling,
Speaker 3: like going pretty close to the shark and they saw it.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I just had visions of a
Speaker 3: blight in one of the people's foots off and I
Speaker 3: just couldn't shake it. It happened a lot, but I
Speaker 3: just kept saying it in my mind to play over
Speaker 3: and over and again.
Speaker 2: Well, we're halfway through the series and it's doing really
Speaker 2: well and I can't wait to keep watching. Is there
Speaker 2: anything that we can look forward to? Can you give
Speaker 2: us something that's not a spoiler, it's something we can.
Speaker 3: We got a couple of surprises. We got a couple
Speaker 3: of surprise, especially when we get to Darwin and then
Speaker 3: later on in the show inporting some of the teams
Speaker 3: which are going to turn the whole show on its head. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a bit of drama, which is good reality TV without drama.
Speaker 2: I'm just now going to wait for one of these
Speaker 2: sharks to throw a glass of water in someone's face
Speaker 2: like they do on The Housewives.
Speaker 1: You know, good reality TV drama.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well both's got sharks.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.