I’ve heard that too, but I’ve also heard it dismissed as baseless rumor, so who knows.
The happy couple in question are Amber Brkich & Rob Mariano, the winner and runner up of Survivor All Stars. He asked her to marry him during the finale/reunion show.
They strike me as relentless famewhores, so their appearance on another reality show certainly isn’t outside the realm of possibility. Regarding the Amazing Race however, I think this is just a rumor. I guess we’ll see soon. 
Well, I found a copy of the Boston Rob/Amber (Ambah) rumor here.
It could be worse. They could be casting someone from Big Brother… Oh… That’s right, they already casted that Alison cow before.
Hi. My name is Lib, and I like Boston Rob.
[…lowering head and shuffling feet tentatively…]
I agree with complaints about the bottlenecks this season. What’s the point of breaking your neck to reach a closed business first, just to go through a gate four seconds ahead of someone else the next morning?
I think it will be interesting to see Boston Rob and Amber on TAR just to see if Boston Rob is a Colin, *, or an Adam. I think TAR would shows their real personalities better than Survivor ever did.
That said, I’m sick of * and Victimia. I hope they lose next week. If I were playing a drinking game based on that team, I would still be suffering from a hangover now.
Boston Rob is very interesting. I think he’d make a good racer cuz he’s got all the physical capabilities. And he’s very manipulative. Amber is pretty much a tool, but she was smart enough to latch onto Rob and be the “nice” member of the duo, so there was no way she could lose SURVIVOR ALLSTARS. I’d much rather see these two, knowing what their personalities are like, than more skinny, snipey, nasty models.
Oh, God I hate Boston Rob. Not in a good way either. Jonathan & Victoria I actually like watching each week to see how ridiculous they get. But Rob? No. I won’t watch the show. I can’t stand even looking at him. Absolutely can’t stand listening to his voice.
Please, please let this be a rumor!
they’ve had their 15 minutes, let someone else have a crack. And I do agreee with the ‘no more snipey models’ sentiment also.
I hate to be Captain Bringdown, but it’s true. They (Romber) were sighted at LAX leaving for one leg of the race, and cancelled an appearance on a show (or live chat) called “The Fishbowl” because it conflicted with TAR scheduling. This has been old news for a few weeks on several spoiler sites.
Now I hate * even more - I don’t really care about Victimia that much any more, but the bastard made a dog cry! That’s just wrong!!
By which I mean, first Jonathan, and now this:
(BTW, Fenris, that’s about the right way to phrase that – “something called ‘Boston Rob.’” Something, indeed.)
Can someone please tell me – what the holy flying FUCK? Pardon my French, but seriously, is CBS trying to make my head explode? I hate Rob-and-Amber. Hate, hate, hateilly-hate-hate-HATE! Gaa! I’m with levdrakon on this one – I will REFUSE to watch until I know they have been eliminated. God. It’s true. The world is run by assholes. Even TV. Christ. And people wonder why I don’t go to church.
Sigh … hey, Colin? Sweetie? I take it all back, I swear. Every. Single. Word. Know what? In an instant, you’ve become a paragon. Just think of how much better the world would be if you were the worst person in it …
If I’m recalling correctly, Boston Rob was publicly calling The Amazing Race his favorite show right around the time when Survivor All-Stars was on, and TAR was in danger of being discontinued. So Boston Rob might have, in some small way, contributed to TAR’s lease on life. For that alone, he gets a pass from me.
And let me say that, although I disapprove of cross-casting in principle, if CBS does it then Boston Rob seems about the best available person. He’s already said he really enjoys the show, and not just the chance to be on TV. He’s more of a regular guy (a carpenter, as I recall), and not some model/actor wannabe who’s first priority is to Get Noticed. [Quick Quiz: would you rather watch someone like, say, Kendra, who’s clearly on TAR to enhance her modeling career, or someone like Rob who likes the game? Even if he’s already had his chance in the spotlight?] He seems to work well with other people, specifically Amber – I personally like teammates that work well with each other and don’t resort to intra-team histrionics. And, in an objective sense, Rob and Ambers “previous relationship” is interesting – not all couples meet on a high-stakes televised reality show.
I admit that, like Lib, I rather like Rob (Amber seems like she has less of a personality, so I’m more neutral toward her). So despite my misgivings that, given enough time, the entire cast of Survivor will make their way onto TAR, I’m mildly anticipating a season with Rob in it. I understand some people not liking him based on his earlier Survivor exposure – I got a different impression, but that’s fine – but if you’re undecided, give 'em a chance for a couple episodes.
I’ll admit that I also kind of like Rob and “Ambuh”. Rob played both of his Survivors in a cut-throat way, but he was never nasty-nasty like * is. Or even like Colin was.
Then again, I’m one of the ones who looks at the people every season of Survivor who are “shocked! Shocked I say!” that their tribemates lie, mislead and stab them in the back and think, “Have you NEVER seen this show before you came on it?”
I liked Boston Rob too, though I missed the original Survivor series that he was on. I think he and Amber might make excellent racers.
I can’t wait for them to trot Rupert out with his poor wife in tow. Think of all those great promos of him grunting and growling across the globe! :rolleyes:
Much as I love the Rupester, I don’t think he and the Mrs. are cut out for Racing Amazingly. 
I’m incredibly (or is that amazingly?) late to this party, having just had a chance to watch Tuesday’s tape. An incredibly lackluster episode. One finds onesself finding diverse diversions, such as forgetting about which of these (mostly) losers are ahead, and firguring out just who is a bigger asshole than whom.
From The Leaderboard:
(Numbers after team members names reflect their current rankings on the Asshole Meter (aka the Jonathonatron)
Adam(10)/Rebecca(9): Wouldn’t it be GREAT if Adam’s follicle horns were somehow the reason he couldn’t reach the valve release with his head? They score low this week due to smart racing, overcoming their anxieties, and more or less getting along, which was apparently quite a feat in this leg.
Freddy(6)/Kendra(3): Kendra’s still going on African afterburners, and her initial staunch defense of, and subsequent complete abandonment of the supposed “Model Alliance” (…and just when did this appear? I’m having a “Bewitched New Darren” moment with this one…) keeps her ranking high. Freddy scores a bit lower for not being so much a pro-active asshole, but rather more of a tool.
Lori(7)/Bolo(8): These two are also cruising on past assholish behavior. I’m just basically sick of them.
Kris(12)/Jon(11): Jon had to get huffy at the airport (hey, someone had to), so he slightly edges out Kris in their battle for the least asshole rank. Again, something within me wants to dislike them, but goddammit, they just keep winning me over.
*(1)/Victimia(4): His rank is obvious, hers is due to her voice-over at the beginning of the episode, justifying her continued dealings with him. Plus her general unpleasantness. She stands up for herself a little in recent episodes, but it just shows off her own ugly personality, and to give her a lot of props for it in any case would be like congratulating someone on finding a less painful way to hit themselves in the head with a hammer.
Hayden(2)/Aaron(5): Hayden has Jonathan in her sights as far as the ranking, but don’t worry, Jonathan always seems to have a few more heads up his ass that we didn’t know about before. Aaron was quite put upon this time around, but he DID seem to be a bit casual about making any real progress, and that’s intensely annoying. Was it Jon Vito and Jill who had this same dysfunction.
I agree with much of what has been said about the watchability of the show this season, but I think it will fall on deaf ears at CBS. I would have to assume this is their highest rated season ever, and of course, someone at the home office is patting themselves on the back for finally hitting on the right “formula” and wondering where they can find another Jonathan for AR8.
As for AR7, Here is the cast list so far: Rob and Amber. The IMDB is updated by users, but their pretty good about checking facts before stuff ends up on line. Of course, as we saw with Alison and Donny, there’s a big difference between running a globetrotting race and sitting around in paradise backstabbing one another.
Boston Rob? <glerk?>
On second thought, BR could be a dull, dull competitor. On Survivor they have nothing to do but talk about themselves all day while stuck on a tropical island. On TAR they have to drive around, navigate, get on planes, and push themselves to exhaustion.
Is it wrong of me to hope that he gets electrocuted? Like, for real? Not like Charla, but, like, for really real. It is? Damn.
So, for the Anti-Rob crowd out there, what kind of misbehavior can we expect? Tantrums? Abuse? Arrogance?
Since the two shows are so completely different, this bit of stunt casting doesn’t bother me too much. As long as they don’t make it Celebrity Amazing Race, and keep the same rules, format…everything, that we’ve come to love – it doesn’t matter who the racers are.
Rob’s biggest faults (among the anti-Rob crowd) are that
To put it in The Amazing Race terms, if Rupert had an opportunity to Yield another team, he might say “We’re ahead by eight hours, no reason to use the yield.” Rob would say “Let’s screw the best racers out of the race.”