Who will win Celebrity Race Across The World 2024?

Celebrity Race Across The World has officially crossed the starting line and already the bookies have their eyes firmly set on the famous couple most likely to win.

A spin-off of the regular series of the same, this special celebrity edition has gathered TV presenter Jeff Brazier, radio DJ Scott Mills, former model and TV presenter Kelly Brook, and Ted Lasso star Kola Bokinni and sent them on a 12,500 km trek from Northern Brazil to the Andes.

Travelling in couples, each duo must make the trip entirely by land or boat. However, despite the show starting on BBC One and iPlayer earlier this week, gambling chain William Hill has spotted the couple that they think will complete the journey in record time.

Who is going to win Celebrity Race Across The World?

“TV presenter Jeff Brazier is no stranger to extreme reality TV, having taken part in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins and presented I’m A Celebrity in the past,” explained a spokesperson for the betting chain. “He’ll be racing alongside his son Freddy, and we make the duo our favourites at 6/4.”

The company then went on to list who it thinks the show’s runners-up might be, based on their own calculated odds.

“Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills and partner Sam Vaughan are next in the market at 2/1,” continued the spokesperson, “followed by the remaining two pairs — model Kelly Brook and her husband Jeremy Parisi, and actor Kola Bokinni and his cousin Mary Ellen, both at 3/1.”

Full Celebrity Race Across the World betting odds

• Jeff and Freddy 6/4

• Scott and Sam 2/1

• Kelly and Jeremy 3/1

• Kola and Mary 3/1

Despite offering these early predictions, any long-time Race Across The World fan will tell you that the show is very much an unpredictable journey and at this stage, anything could happen.

Race Across The World invites contestants to make perilous and lengthy trips from one area of the world to the next, all without using air travel. Instead, they get the monetary equivalent of their airfare costs and must rely on their wits and communication skills to make the journey by land — either by train, bus or car — or by hitching a ride with friendly locals.

Before all six episodes of this year’s Celebrity Race Across The World have aired, the show’s well-known contestants will have traversed their way from the gateway of the Amazon rainforest to the heart of southern Chile. No small feat.

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The frontrunners on this series tend to change episode-by-episode so while William Hill has identified its early winners, it’s worth remembering that fortunes can flip in an instant.

The civilian edition of Race Across The World came to a close earlier this year, with the show crowning its youngest-ever winning duo — 20-year-old Alfie Watts and 21-year-old Owen Woods. Together the pair beat their fellow travellers on a nail-biting trip from central Japan to Lombok in Indonesia.

Celebrity Race Across The World started on Wednesday 14 August at 9pm, with new episodes airing in the same time slot every Wednesday.