Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters TV’s Jeff Brazier , 45, and his son Freddie, 19, had a few fraught moments while filming the challenging travel series Celebrity Race Across the World . In the episode shown on Wednesday 14 August, the pair begin their journey full of smiles in Belem, Brazil, but soon clashed when they end up walking through the countryside for miles. "I don't think Dad's coping well," Freddie notes, and things get more heated at a stop on their long bus ride, when Freddie tells his dad he doesn't think they communicate very well at home.
"I don't think we are open as a family," he says, leading Jeff to reply: "What have I done for the last seven or eight years? You need to take responsibility, that is part of this," he adds to his son. "A part of me came on this race to open up with my dad and already he is storming off and it's hard," Freddie tells the cameras, but when his dad joins him on the bus, Freddie apologises and the pair make up. Viewers took to social media to praise the pair, with some even naming them the show "winners".
One viewer wrote on Twitter, which is now called X,: “Less than half an hour in and it’s Jeff and Freddie to win already #RaceAcrossTheWorld.” Another added: “There is something very beautiful about Jeff Brazier and his family. I can't wait to see the journey he and Freddie go on together.
” Race Across The World sends celebrities out into the world with a small budget of around £36 a day, no phone, no wallet and a tight deadline. In this series, Jeff and Freddie, along with their fellow competitors, spent five weeks travelling 12,500 km across South America, and in an interview with OK! , Jeff revealed it was harder than filming Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins , which he participated in back in 2019. Sign up to OK's TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free “I actually found it harder.
People think I’m being silly by even suggesting that a travel show can be harder than being interrogated, hosed down and screamed at, but it’s the five weeks of constant challenge and pressure,” he said. “The relationship is under scrutiny because throughout Freddie’s childhood, if there’s any stress, Dad takes over. But you can imagine that Fred doesn’t want to be seen as Dad’s plus-one here, so it creates an unnatural reaction sometimes where Fred fights for something that isn’t necessarily important to him.
” “I am 19 but I still need my dad, I admit that,” Freddie says in the show. With checkpoints across Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, the Brazier boys found themselves tussling over the GPS tracker. “A lot of the time, Fred will be using complete guesswork because that’s the way his brain works and I’ll be using logic because I’m 45 years old,” Jeff said.
“You have to find a system that works for you – sometimes we would go with Fred’s unpredictability and it would end up being a quicker or more enjoyable route.” The pair compete against Kelly Brook and her husband Jeremy Parisi, DJ Scott Mills and his husband Sam Vaughan and Ted Lasso’s Kola Bokinni and his cousin Mary Ellen. All of the competitors had to battle the South American heat, with Jeff saying: “The most luxurious shower we had was at a bus garage.
In my football days, we would be at service stations and see truckers going for a shower and think, ‘No way would I ever shower in one of those.’ On Race, it was 10 times worse than that.”.
