The gay father/son team
of Mel and Mike White were axed from
The Amazing Race
's 14th season in an episode that aired Sunday night on
CBS.
Mel White -- a gay
former evangelist and the current president of the LGBT
interfaith social justice organization
Soulforce
-- was competing in the round-the-world game show with his
38-year-old bisexual screenwriter-actor son, Mike White. The
Whites were the last team to arrive at the game's sixth pit
stop in Phuket, Thailand, and were therefore eliminated from
the race.
"We've been
father and son my whole life, but I don't ever really think
we've been teammates, and being teammates brings a whole
different kind of camaraderie than you get in normal life, so
that was a great gift that the
Race
gave us," Mike White, the writer of films like
Chuck and Buck
and
The Good Girl
, told
Race
host Phil Keoghan after being eliminated.
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