Well, I was really enjoying Lake and Michelle, before this week. I thought they were entertaining, and I thought the talk of him being "verbally abusive" was overplayed.
But then he said "shut up, bitch" and there is no excuse for that.
I can only hope that either MOJO or Ray and Yolanda win. Yes, Ray and Yolanda are boring, but I would probably be boring on the race too. I'd rather have that, then the hippies, who think they are funny, but really are not.
http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/04/19/1540125.html
Catching up with 'Amazing Race' jerk
By TARA MERRIN - Calgary Sun
Lake Garner wants to apologize. Not to viewers of The Amazing Race, who likely loved watching him lose his temper over and over again on the popular reality series, but to his wife, Michelle.
In fact, the Mississippi dentist is doing what all good husbands should do when they wrong their wives -- he's buying her a new car.
"The other day, when it aired, he again said, 'I really want to apologize for the way I acted,'" says Michelle.
"He truly is not that volatile in real life," she says in reference to last week's episode in which Lake swore at her.
"He really is a great guy -- he just doesn't handle stress as well as other people."
After spending more time battling each other than their opponents, married parents Lake and Michelle got lost in Greece and were eliminated from the race.
"We had a map that had two choices... we chose the wrong one. We headed down to the coastline and the coastline was about two-and-a-half hours out of the way," says Michelle.
"We stopped probably every three minutes, but nobody ever heard of where we were trying to get to. It was just not meant to be."
While getting lost was annoying, the biggest disappointment for the couple was learning it was not a non-elimination leg.
"We were pretty surprised. Lake handled it really well, but I didn't," says Michelle. "I was really heartbroken -- I wasn't finished racing."
Since returning home to Hattiesburg, a town of 5,000, Lake says he and Michelle have been treated like mini- celebrities.
And despite his explosive episodes on the show, people have been very kind to him.
"It's been real positive, which is good because I might not react too good if it wasn't," he jokes.
While Lake is embarrassed by some of his behaviour on the Race, he says it made him one of the most popular contestants this season.
This, he says, could help him get another shot at the game and its $1 million US top prize.
"I hope they have an all-stars (season) because we feel we'd have a really good chance at being on that.
"We feel like we are one of the more popular teams, so maybe they would ask us," he says. "That would be great."
The Amazing Race 9 airs tonight at 9 p.m. on CTV and CBS.