BBC’s Race Across the World fans rage as show’s return is announced – but with a twist

RACE Across the World fans have been left raging as the show’s return was announced – but with a twist.

The hit BBC One programme will be back for another instalment, but this time bosses are changing things up.

It sees contestants take on the challenge of completely a journey through multiple countries, with the first team there declared the winners.

They’re not able to have their smartphones and have to ditch their credit cards for the race.

At the end of the final episode Cathie Rowe and Tricia Sail bet their rivals as they most easterly point of the North American continent.

They were elated with the win, saying: “I haven’t got any words, got no words.”

And as the episode came to a close producers revealed a celebrity version is on the way.

It follows reports earlier this year that the Beeb was planning on putting famous faces through their paces.

But the news hasn’t gone down too well with fans, who fumed how they didn’t need celebrities and it would ‘ruin’ the show.

One said: “Bored with #celebrities. Time to get with real people.”

A second said: “What we don’t need is a celeb version. Having regular folk do it is a much better watch.”

Please don’t do celebrity versions. It will ruin it,” said a third viewer.

While a fourth commented: “Then we see a trailer for a celeb version…. Why? Do we really need another original reality format ruined with z-listers?”

Despite this, it seems fans just can’t get enough of Race Across the World, with one posting: “#RaceAcrossTheWorld is brilliant: humanising, tender, wholesome, #RealityTV made right. And always good to expose the myth that we have to travel by air.”

A second said: “Love this programme, not as exotic as previous years (guess covid had a part in it taking place solely in Canada) but still a worthy watch, well done to the winners.”