Eric Tai and Maggie Wilson join the latest The Amazing Race Asia season

Maureen Marie Belmonte

<p class='MsoNormal'><img src='' alt='073016-EricTai1_Push.jpg' width='400' height='290' align='left' border='0'>Former <i><a href='showtime.abs-cbn.com'>It’s Showtime</a> </i>host Eric Tai and his wifeRowena, as well as beauty queens Parul Shah and Maggie Wilson, are taking partin the upcoming The Amazing Race Asia season.</p><p class='MsoNormal'>According to AngHui Keng, senior vice president and general manager of Sony Pictures TelevisionNetworks Asia, the casting call for this season’s participants was filled withwitty, creative, and surprising audition videos.</p><p class='MsoNormal'>Eric and hiswife took their excitement to their Instagram accounts.</p><iframe class='instagram-media instagram-media-rendered' id='instagram-embed-0' src='https://www.instagram.com/p/BIZ0KjCjrNS/embed/captioned/?v=7' allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' height='1035' data-instgrm-payload-id='instagram-media-payload-0' scrolling='no' style='border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);'></iframe> <script async='' defer='' src='//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'></script><p class='MsoNormal'><o:p> </o:p></p><iframe class='instagram-media instagram-media-rendered' id='instagram-embed-1' src='https://www.instagram.com/p/BIZyRbRg5qy/embed/captioned/?v=7' allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' height='1035' data-instgrm-payload-id='instagram-media-payload-1' scrolling='no' style='border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);'></iframe><p class='MsoNormal'>According to theTais, their decision to join the show was more than just to represent thePhilippines in the famous competition.</p><p class='MsoNormal'>“We want to showthat we all have inner strength that is far more stronger than our physicalappearance and capabilities,” they wrote.</p><p class='MsoNormal'>Moreover, thetwo hope to inspire others to feel good about the bodies that they have.</p><p class='MsoNormal'>“To encourageeach and everyone to go for what your heart desires and not to give in to thenegative voices that may continue to put you down on a daily basis,” theywrote.</p><p class='MsoNormal'>Maggie andParul, meanwhile, also posted about how they are feeling that they arerepresenting the Philippines anew but in a different international competition.</p><iframe class='instagram-media instagram-media-rendered' id='instagram-embed-2' src='https://www.instagram.com/p/BIZsSjChV0k/embed/captioned/?v=7' allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' height='899' data-instgrm-payload-id='instagram-media-payload-2' scrolling='no' style='border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);'></iframe> <script async='' defer='' src='//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'></script><br/><br/><iframe class='instagram-media instagram-media-rendered' id='instagram-embed-3' src='https://www.instagram.com/p/BIZzoOYjFpa/embed/captioned/?v=7' allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' height='899' data-instgrm-payload-id='instagram-media-payload-3' scrolling='no' style='border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);'></iframe> <script async='' defer='' src='//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'></script><br/><p class='MsoNormal'>The famedreality adventure competition has 11 chosen teams for its fifth season fromseven countries across Asia. The competition is staled to premiere in October.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class='MsoNormal'><img src='' alt='073016-EricTai1_Push.jpg' width='400' height='290' align='left' border='0'>Former <i><a href='showtime.abs-cbn.com'>It’s Showtime</a> </i>host Eric Tai and his wifeRowena, as well as beauty queens Parul Shah and Maggie Wilson, are taking partin the upcoming The Amazing Race Asia season.<p class='MsoNormal'>According to AngHui Keng, senior vice president and general manager of Sony Pictures TelevisionNetworks Asia, the casting call for this season’s participants was filled withwitty, creative, and surprising audition videos.<p class='MsoNormal'>Eric and hiswife took their excitement to their Instagram accounts.

Four celebrities are set to join the fifth season of The Amazing Race Asia.

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