Inside the Unorthodox Team of Yin and Gaz
If you think reality TV travel shows are just about picture-perfect duos and unbreakable family ties, you haven’t met Yin and Gaz. Competing on BBC One’s Race Across the World 2025, these two are turning heads—not for their similarities, but for their remarkable differences. After three years of divorce, they still live together, call each other best mates, and have decided that the intense pressure of a 14,000km race from the Great Wall of China to southern India is just the thing to do together.
What makes their story striking isn’t just the fact they’re exes teaming up. Shortly after their split, tragedy hit: Yin’s new partner passed away unexpectedly. Instead of growing apart, Yin and Gaz leaned into their friendship, with Gaz providing a pillar of emotional support through Yin’s grief. That experience solidified a unique bond most people don’t find even in the closest relationships.
Now, as they pack their bags and eye an ambitious journey on a shoestring budget, Yin and Gaz are ready to put their history—and hopefully, their communication skills—to the test. In a competition where nerves fray and tempers often flare, these two bring years of resilience, honesty, and deep understanding to the mix. Gaz says it simply: he wouldn’t face this kind of wild challenge with anyone else. Theirs is a partnership built on more than just habit; it’s a genuine friendship that’s weathered storms both big and small.
How Yin and Gaz Stand Out From the Crowd
Take a quick look at the other teams slated for Race Across the World this year. You’ve got siblings, teenagers in love, and family duos—a mother and son, a pair of brothers, two sisters. Each time we see a pair bickering or breaking down in past seasons, it’s usually that close family bond or romantic spark that pulls them through. But no one else can claim the exact blend of Yin and Gaz’s story: ex-spouses who choose to stick together, even under the most trying circumstances.
The show’s punishing format—racing halfway across the continent with hardly any money—tends to create or magnify cracks in any partnership. For Yin and Gaz, their edge may come from already knowing how to get through moments when everything falls apart. The trust they’ve rebuilt post-divorce gives them a level of honesty and loyalty hard to manufacture under pressure.
- Elizabeth and Letitia are the classic tight-knit sisters.
- Fin and Sioned, both just 18, are navigating new romance and adventure.
- Brian and Melvyn—brothers who share the sibling rivalry seen on countless reality shows.
- Caroline and Tom, the mother-and-son duo, add another angle to the family dynamics.
But it’s Yin and Gaz who are breaking the mold, showing that sometimes the strongest partnerships don’t follow a typical path. You get the sense that they’re here not just for the money or the adventure, but to show what real, hard-earned friendship looks like when you put two people through one of TV’s toughest tests.
