Presenter Roman Kemp found himself making history during the penultimate episode of the BBC show Celebrity Race Across the World
Joe Crutchley Screen Time reporter
08:41, 05 Dec 2025
Roman Kemp says ‘wow’ as he makes history on Celebrity Race Across the World(Image: BBC)
Presenter Roman Kemp found himself exclaiming “wow” after creating history on Celebrity Race Across The World.
The BBC programme made its return on Thursday evening (December 4) for the second-to-last episode. Throughout the show, the celebrity contestants were challenged to arrive in Medellín, Colombia’s second-biggest city.
Attempting to be first to the checkpoint, Roman and his sister Harleymoon travelled to the Guna Yala area and explored an incredibly isolated island. Arriving by boat, Harleymoon confessed: “I’ve literally never ever in my life been somewhere this remote.”
The well-known brother and sister duo ended up lodging with a family who had inhabited the island for generations. Roman wasted no time immersing himself in Guna culture.
Roman and Harleymoon were back racing
The next morning, Roman assisted Senor Blas in gathering food provisions from his mainland farm, where banana plantations stretch along the shoreline. Yet Roman wound up creating history, leaving him amazed, reports the Mirror.
“No tourists have entered this part of the jungle before. You are the first,” Senor Blas announced as he ventured into the jungle with Roman. A shocked Roman responded: “We’re the first? ! Wow.”
Roman made history
Whilst Roman threw himself into harvesting food from the jungle, he remarked: “This feels like a proper step into the jungle. This is hard work. These plantains are not light either.”
He then acknowledged: “It’s a really nice feeling. You’re not thinking about anything, and you’ve just got a job to do.”
Later, Roman made a poignant revelation as he looked back on a troubled chapter in his life. The radio host explained that the scenery on the island reminded him that “there’s stuff worth living for”.
He opened up about a dark time(Image: BBC)
Addressing the camera directly, he revealed: “There’s been moments in my life where I didn’t even want to be here anymore and things like this make me think that if I’d made different decisions then I would never have seen this or I never would have experienced this.”
He went on: “It was a bad time in my life. I remember one moment in particular where it was really bad. I just remember my mum passing the phone to Harley and Harley trying to just talk to me to try and distract me and keep me on the phone so that my mum could get in the car and drive to me.
“I don’t think I have ever spoken to Harley about that call. I don’t think we’ve ever been ready to have that conversation. That’s hard to talk about man.”
Celebrity Race Across The World continues every Thursday at 8pm on BBC One.
