Presenter Countryfile star has whisked her father, who’s known as Bal, to the opposite aspect of the globe to take part on this 12 months’s Superstar Race Throughout the World – and followers have shortly taken to the Bradford duo. They’re competing in opposition to Roman Kemp, Dylan Llewellyn, Molly Rainford, and Tyler West, together with their family members, on a 5,900km race throughout Central America.
Forward of the present airing, Anita and her father spoke to Specific.co.uk and different media retailers about their time on the programme and shared some heartbreaking information about her dad. Sharing the touching motive she wished Bal to hitch her on the present, Anita revealed: “I simply thought we had an identical adventurous spirit, and I knew that dad had all the time… He is all the time so excited to listen to about something and simply naturally curious. So I used to be like, ‘Proper, this chance has come our manner, are you up for it, Dad?'”
He initially thought Anita was inviting him on a weekend away earlier than she revealed it might be a six-week journey with a decent funds and no cellphones. He admitted: “I did not realise how powerful it might be.”
Anita was initially satisfied they might be going throughout Africa for the journey, however she obtained it fully mistaken regardless of attempting to study Swahili for the programme and “mapping out a route”.
She additionally mirrored on the heartbreaking motive why she wished Bal to return together with her on the journey, saying he is by no means had an journey earlier than.
She instructed the BBC: “We get on, he makes me snicker, and if I ever need help make a choice, Dad’s the individual I name. Additionally, I need Dad to have the expertise. It is about my dad having an journey – he is by no means had one earlier than.”
Within the first episode, Anita stated: “I’m so conscious of how onerous my dad has labored his total life and by no means ever had a possibility to only do what he desires to do.”
Bal, 69, is a semi-retired businessman who was born in India however immigrated to the UK on the age of 4. Anita has described Bal as a “Yorkshireman by and thru”.
Superstar Race Throughout the World is out there to observe on BBC iPlayer.
