High walk, short race
The struggle of walking a tightrope 12 storeys above the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver was real for The Amazing Race Canada contestant Deb on Tuesday’s season 5 premiere. Unfortunately, so was her and son Aaron’s elimination. The daunting sky-walking challenge ultimately put the pair of funeral directors from Grand Forks, B.C., at the end of the pack, and they earned the undesirable title of first team to be sent home. But the two are tighter than ever, says Deb: “Our bond is unbreakable.” Up next: The heat is on as the teams race to Fort McMurray, Alta., where three express passes are up for grabs (Tuesday, CTV).
THERE WILL BE TEARS
“Prepare yourselves to see me breakdown like I never have before,” Rachel Lindsay writes in her People blog, teasing to Monday’s episode of The Bachelorette (City/ABC). Despite last week’s shocking sextet of eliminated bachelors, we apparently ain’t seen nothin’ yet. There are six men left — Dean, Eric, Bryan, Peter, Adam and Matt — but only four of them will be invited to take Lindsay to their hometowns on the July 17 episode. And so, Lindsay reveals, we can expect “two gut-wrenching goodbyes” on location in Geneva. There will be three one- on- one dates and a group date — but no rose ceremony, and, presumably, no shortage of man-crying.
A NON- JUDGY JUDGE
Vanessa Hudgens is no Simon Cowell. “You have to have some bad auditioners and I don’t want to be mean. … I had to figure out a way to let them down easy,” the actress tells Extra of adjusting to her role as judge on So You Think You Can Dance. With one recent contestant — whom fellow panellist Nigel Lythgoe called “the American version of Austin Powers” — Hudgens broke the bad news by dancing circles around him on stage, to make things more fun. Well, for her, anyway.