Race Across the World was 'exhausting' say winners

The winners of the latest bid of Celebrity Race Across the World person described the acquisition arsenic "exhilarating, inspiring and exhausting".

BBC Radio 2 big Scott Mills and his hubby Sam were the archetypal to scope the last checkpoint astatine Osorno Volcano successful Frutillar, Chile.

The occurrence was watched by an mean assemblage of 3.7 million, according to overnight viewing figures.

Actor Kola Bokinni and his relative Mary Ellen Moriarty finished successful 2nd place, reaching the checkpoint 2hrs 20min later.

The remaining 2 pairs - TV presenter Jeff Brazier and his lad Freddy, and exemplary Kelly Brook and her hubby Jeremy Parisi - made it to Osorno Volcano the pursuing time and finished 3rd and 4th respectively.

Reaching the checkpoint, Book said it meant "everything to finish".

"Jeremy wanted to win, I conscionable wanted to finish. To beryllium honorable we came past truthful I consciousness similar we should person had a jolly from time one, it wouldn’t person made immoderate difference!”

Speaking connected Radio 2 connected Thursday morning, Mills said helium felt "a spot bittersweet it's each done now".

He added that it "really felt similar anyone could person won" arsenic determination were conscionable 39 minutes betwixt each the teams erstwhile they started the last leg.

Despite starting the past limb successful 3rd place, the mates tossed a coin to find which way they would instrumentality from Tilcara to Frutillar.

They decided to question done Argentina to San Salvador and onwards to Mendoza.

After opening the impermanent publication to observe they were the winners, the brace jumped up and down shouting "oh my God, we did it", earlier embracing each other, flooded with emotion.

In an interrogation reflecting connected the journey that took him 12,500km crossed southbound America, Mills said: "When we were connected the apical of the volcano, we had a hug and a small cry.

"People were telling america repeatedly that we had won, but I inactive could not compute it. I could not get it successful my head."

The DJ said helium had assumed they were the past to scope the checkpoint.

"I bash really retrieve saying to him, ‘There's nary constituent successful running, Sam, we’ve lost."

The 51-year-old who has presented the day amusement connected Radio 2 since September 2022, said the acquisition had changed the mode helium present travels.

"There person already been weekends since we filmed the amusement wherever I person near my telephone and I'll conscionable enactment it distant successful a drawer.

"We’re going distant successful October for our belated honeymoon and I've already told radical similar my agent, my mum, and radical that I talk to regularly that I volition not beryllium connected the telephone each week.

"I did it for 5 weeks, and it was superb - we didn't adjacent privation our phones backmost erstwhile we were allowed to."

Over the past fewer weeks helium has received "so galore messages from listeners saying it’s inspired them to spell connected a roadworthy travel of their own".

"This amusement has opened up the satellite of question to people."

The couple, who joined successful June, said the acquisition made their "relationship adjacent stronger".

"I knew that Sam was the 1 but this full acquisition made maine perfectly realise without a shadiness of a uncertainty that helium was the one.

"We mightiness ne'er person this magnitude of clip again erstwhile we are perfectly disconnected from the world."

Reflecting connected the acquisition arsenic a whole, Mills said: "I thought I knew a batch astir the world, but I didn’t cognize arsenic overmuch arsenic I thought I did. It was exhilarating, inspiring and exhausting."

Filling successful for Zoe Ball connected the Radio 2, Mills told listeners connected Thursday that his favourite locations were Uruguay and Chile.

"I loved Uruguay and the extremity constituent successful Chile which looked similar an Austrian skis edifice which was conscionable truthful antithetic to wherever we started successful the Amazon."