The title says it all…
I’m trying to imagine celebrities, even celebrities on the “still willing/now willing to do reality TV” level of fame, out in the streets of Kolkata or Vienna or especially in the first and last rounds which are always in the US. I’m trying to picture them not being mobbed when they have a TV crew trailing them, I’m trying to picture them not being beset by people trying to “help” them with their tasks in order to be near them and/or get on TV. I can’t picture it.
Essentially, I think it’s logistics along those lines. It’s bad enough with the Big Brother and Survivor people they allow to Race.
What the hell do celebrities need with a trip around the world? Who cares?!
I was thinking of “b” level celebrities, not Brad and Angelina. I didn’t think about the logistics angle. Hey, it worked for Donald Trump… 
It worked for the occasional B-list reality-show celebrities that have been on the Race, too, like Rob Mariano.
Because we would have to kill Phil and the Amazing Producers. With maybe one or two exceptions, the “celebs” that have been on the show have been less interesting than the non-celebs*.
*I’m counting Victoria as a z-list celeb. She was like a playmate of the month or something.
I’m afraid they would make the tasks so easy that I would smash my TV screen in frustration.
One of the redhead cheerleaders from a few years ago was a Playboy Playmate. Don’t know if it was before or after the Race, though.
And if Boston Rob is what we could expect from an all-celebrity edition, thank God it hasn’t happened.
Oh, god…with Celebrity Jeopardy as the template, I’d kill my TV before the end of Ep 1, too.
If you watched the all-celebrity version of Survivor - “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” you wouldn’t need to ask this question. Celebrities are narcissistic, whiny bitches who don’t do well with any sort of adversity. TAR does fine with a few of such types each season, but an entire Race full of them would be unwatchable.
And B-list? Dancing with the Stars can barely scrape up D-listers, and all they have to do is practice some dance steps.
It was after her first appearance, but before her All-Star appearance.
And don’t forget Mike White! Also, there have been a handful of pro athletes on the Race ( Globetrotters, NFL).
But none of them have been household name sorts of pro athletes. More on the “he looks familiar, did he play ball?” level.
There’s also the issue of them having to be out of pocket for however much time it takes to race (which must be – what? – 3 weeks or something). In Celebrity Apprentice, people are leaving all the time for prior engagements, etc. Even phone calls to agents/managers would probably have to be forbidden, to eliminate any appearances of cheating (“so, while I have you on the phone, can you google Cinderella’s Castle, Germany”?)
Although Mike White did find the time, so these obstacles are clearly not insurmountable.