Race Across the World season six reaches its finish tonight, with one pair set to be crowned winners after an eight-week race that took five pairs across Europe and Asia in search of northern Mongolia. The finale caps a run that has already turned Jo and Kush into the favourites, with the youngest pairing now on the brink of a £20,000 prize fund.
Jo and Kush, who were 19 at the time of filming, have stayed front and centre as the televised race moved toward its conclusion. Since filming ended last year, Kush has been working on music and plans to release the song Blue very soon, while Jo travelled to Gambia earlier this year. The pair also appeared on a number of TV shows discussing their experience and joined the rest of the cast at a launch party in April.
That final-night spotlight has also fallen on the rest of the field as viewers wait to see where the leaderboard lands. Andrew and Molly are in second place heading into the finale and met up in Manchester a few weeks ago, after Molly went to a JLS concert and explored Ireland and the pair appeared on Morning Live at the start of May. Katie and Harrison are third and have kept busy with a trip to Croatia and Slovenia in May, including Plitvice Lakes National Park, Zagreb and Lake Bled, after celebrating Easter with family in Wales and watching Harrison run the Manchester marathon in April. Mark and Margo are fourth, with Margo marking her 60th birthday since filming ended.
The race itself was decided months ago when filming wrapped last year, and tonight’s broadcast is about the reveal rather than the journey. Puja and Roshni were eliminated in episode three after being the last to reach the checkpoint, after beginning their own travel around Vietnam in April and taking a quick trip to Amsterdam. By the time the winner is announced, the only question left is whether the favourites can hold on to the lead they have carried into the finale.
The answer is the one viewers will get tonight: one pair wins season six and takes home £20,000.
