THUNDER BAY — Competitors in the British reality TV show Race Across the World got a taste of life in Northwestern Ontario when their cross-Canada journey took some of them to Kenora and Thunder Bay.
Pepe added that the washroom scene "doesn't thrill me too much" but noted that the same part of the five-minute-long Thunder Bay segment also demonstrated the importance of hockey in the community.The program has five couples make their way across the country from the west coast to the east coast using any means of transportation except air travel.
"Given the nature of these shows, they keep the details very, very close to the chest. We weren't aware of how it was going to look or exactly what they were going to be doing," he said.