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Celebrity Race Across the World returns with four new teams
Four celebrity pairs are taking on the 2026 series of Celebrity Race Across the World, which returns to BBC One and iPlayer on 28 October.
The teams are singer Ella Eyre and her friend Nana, broadcaster Jeff Stelling and his son Matt, siblings Princess and Junior Andre, and singer Sam Ryder with his friend Kaz.
They are racing from Kuching in Malaysian Borneo to Melbourne, Australia, across five checkpoints in three countries and two continents.
The 7,500-kilometre journey must be completed without flights or phones, using local transport, maps and help from people they meet.
Each person has £26 a day to spend, and the teams must find their own way forward.
The race tests their planning and relationships as they travel without the comforts and tools they normally rely on.
Celebrity Race Across the World returns on 28 October 2026 with four new celebrity teams.
The teams travel from Kuching in Malaysian Borneo to Melbourne, Australia, across 7,500 kilometres.
They must reach five checkpoints across three countries and two continents.
The contestants are Ella Eyre and Nana Pepera, Jeff Stelling and his son Matt, Princess and Junior Andre, and Sam Ryder and Kaz Coles.
The teams travel without phones or credit cards and rely on local transport, maps and help from strangers.
- Who
- Four celebrity duos: Ella Eyre and Nana Pepera, Jeff Stelling and Matt Stelling, Princess and Junior Andre, and Sam Ryder and Kaz Coles.
- What
- They compete in Celebrity Race Across the World, travelling to reach the finish line first.
- When
- The series returns on Wednesday 28 October 2026, from 8pm.
- Where
- The route runs from Kuching, Malaysia, to Melbourne, Australia.
- Why
- They are taking on a race across the region; the teams aim to reach the finish line first.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The teams set off from Kuching and travel across Borneo and South East Asia.
The route ends at the finish line in Melbourne.
The series returns to BBC One and iPlayer from 8pm.
- Teams
- Four celebrity duos
- Route distance
- 7,500 km
- Starting point
- Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
- Finish line
- Melbourne, Australia
- Checkpoints
- Five across three countries and two continents
- Broadcast return
- 28 October 2026, from 8pm
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What people are saying
We met at school over 20 years ago. We never got to do a gap year.
My experience, your youth - what better combination could you have?
I didn’t really know what I was letting myself in for, but I think Princess needed a bit more convincing.
I don’t think I realised just how challenging it would be.