‘Amazing Race’ Season 26 Cast: Jeff Doesn’t Think It’s A ‘Bad Thing’ That He Didn’t Meet His Blind Date Jackie Until Starting Line [VIDEO]
While the concept of running The Amazing Race while being on a blind date might make some people cringe and feel like an underdog, new contestant Jeff Weldon doesn't see it that way.
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Weldon, a 26-year-old sales account executive from Tampa, is one of the ten people comprising five teams of blind date couples on the new season of the show-and though he didn't meet blind date Jackie Ibarra, a dancer, until the starting line, he admitted in a pre-race interview with CBS that it doesn't have to be a bad thing.
""My thoughts on my partner, obviously I haven't met her, I don't think it's going to necessarily be a bad thing that we haven't met," he said in the interview. "I'm pretty easy to get to adapt to different types of people, from different walks of life, I'm pretty easy to get along with. She could be an absolute nightmare, and I'm going to make it work."
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However, he does admit that he does have a deal breaker when it comes to who he was set up with.
"You know, a deal breaker would just be like...a stale personality, and what I mean by that, is just somebody that doesn't have a good sense of humor," he said. "You know, can't take a joke, that's just too cut and dry. Someone that I guess is just too stuffy if you will."
However, he also admits that there is something with him that could cause trouble-not only with his partner, but possibly others along the race as well.
"...I don't have much of a filter," he said. "So I kind of say whatever comes across my mind and can it get me in trouble? Yeah, yeah it can definitely get me in trouble."
The Amazing Race season 26 premieres Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 9:30 p.m. on CBS.
