Tony Teasdale, 67, and his wife, Elaine, 67, won season one of Race Across the World in 2019. The show saw them travel across 21 countries on a shoestring budget of £1,329 for the whole journey and beat eight competitors to be the first to reach the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore - and bag £20k. The former PE teachers surprised themselves by winning the competition as the oldest duo on the show and say it gave them the confidence to travel at their age.
We were able to go out onto the peninsula, the wildlife and the glaciers were unbelievable. “Because of Race Across the World we rough it, we stay in youth hostels, we don’t do it plush. If we go somewhere, we go for two or three months and indulge ourselves in the culture, which we couldn’t really do when we were racing across the world.