Darren McMullen and Tristan Dougan are a team of Uncle and Nephew and the Official Co-Winners of The Amazing Race Australia Celebrity Edition (2023)
Profile[]
Retrieved from 10play.com.au
Darren McMullen is a much-loved television presenter and actor who has spent nearly two decades working across prime-time networks in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Darren spent the first half of his life in Scotland and immigrated to Australia at age 12. Always having a propensity for acting, he would quite often fake illnesses to avoid school, however one class he would never miss was Drama.
His career started at MTV and since then, Darren has hosted The Voice and The Voice Kids, Minute To Win It, The Magicians (BBC1), Love in the Wild (NBC), The Big Music Quiz and The Real Love Boat.
In addition to his hosting abilities, Darren has built up his acting resume by starring in three Logie Award winning series', House Husbands, Doctor Doctor and SeaChange, a well as the lead actor in the 2021 Stan Original film Christmas on the Farm. In 2022, McMullen also competed on the sixth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia, finishing second.
Darren will be racing alongside his nephew, Tristan Dougan. Don't be fooled, these Glasgow boys are in it to win it.
This super close duo love sports. Tristan hates losing and is known to get emotional when they aren't winning. Darren calls it "The Kyrgios meltdown". But while Tristan is happy to slum it, Uncle Darren isn't looking forward to travelling "Cattle Class".
Darren plans on sitting down, eating pasta, drinking lots of red wine and telling his nephew what to do. "If there's any kind of eating weird foods, he's going to be doing that. If there's anything that requires a lot of fitness and exertion, he's going to be doing that. And I'll just be here for the brains".
Not surprisingly, Tristan disagrees with his uncle's sentiments.[1]
The Amazing Race Australia[]
Race History[]
| Darren & Tristan's Race History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode | Leg | Destination(s) | Detour Choice (underlined) |
Roadblock Performer |
Placement | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | India | Chicken Dish / Wedding Wish | No Roadblock | 1 of 11 | |
| 2 | 2 | India | Make It Slick / Make It Stick | No Roadblock | 5 of 10 | |
| 3 | 3 | India | Stripe It / Strike It | Used Fast Forward | 1 of 9► | |
| 4 | 4 | India → Malaysia | Eagle Eye / Mai Tai | Darren | 1 of 9 | |
| 5 | 5 | Malaysia | Piles of Tiles / Burn Your Boat | No Roadblock | 5 of 8 | |
| 6 | 6 | Malaysia | Treats / Eats | Tristan | 4 of 7 | |
| 7 | 7 | Malaysia → Cambodia | Protect Your House / Protect Your Empire | Tristan | 1 of 6 | |
| 8 | 8 | Cambodia | Fish / Farm | Darren | 4 of 5 | |
| 9 | 9 | Cambodia | Start the Giggles / Stop the Wobbles | No Roadblock | 3 of 5 | |
| 10 | 10 | Cambodia → Malaysia | Save the Mangroves / Save the Reef | Darren | 1 of 4 | |
| 11 | 11 | Malaysia | No Detour | Tristan | 2 of 4 | |
| 12 | 12 | Malaysia | No Detour | No Roadblock | 1 of 3 | |
| Average | 2.42 | |||||
Legend:
| ||||||
Post Race[]
Trivia[]
- Darren & Tristan are the second uncle/nephew team in the whole The Amazing Race franchise after Dennis & Durrell.
- Darren & Tristan are the first finalists ever to cross the Finish Line together with another team.
- However, due to a tie, it is banned starting from The Amazing Race 5 on the US version, hence making their season the first with multiple Official Winners. Third overall after "If I Were in Town, I'd Ask for Your Number (Part 2)" in The Amazing Race: All-Stars and "Clamageddon Continues" in The Amazing Race Canada 7.
- Darren is the second racer with ADHD to win the Race after Penn Holderness in The Amazing Race 33.
External links[]
Darren's Wikipedia page: Darren McMullen
- Darren's Website: http://www.darrenmcmullen.tv/
Social Media[]
- Darren's Facebook: /DarrenMcMullen.tv
- Darren's Instagram: /darrenmcmullen
- Darren's X profile: @darrenmcmullen/
- Tristan's Instagram: /tristandougan
References[]
| The Amazing Race Australia Celebrity Edition (2023) Teams | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||
|
| The Amazing Race Winners | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States (flagship) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||||
|
|
| |||||||||||||
| Asia |
|
|
|
|
| |||||||||
| Australia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||
|
|
|
| ||||||||||||
| Brazil |
| |||||||||||||
| Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||
|
|
|
| ||||||||||||
| China |
|
|
|
| ||||||||||
| China Rush |
|
|
| |||||||||||
| Finland |
|
| ||||||||||||
| France |
| |||||||||||||
| Israel |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||
|
|
| |||||||||||||
| Latin America |
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||||
| Norway |
|
| ||||||||||||
| The Philippines |
|
| ||||||||||||
| Ukraine |
| |||||||||||||
| Vietnam |
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||||
