Amazing Race will be back for a 12th edition, currently scheduled as a mid-season replacement series, likely meaning the series premiere will be January 2008.

No other details have been released and spoilers likely won’t start coming out until a month or two prior to the series premiere.

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There has been many rumors about which former Amazing Race contestants would be back for the all stars - as well as some b!tching by those who weren’t asked to participate - but we now have the complete All Star contestant list!

Without further ado, here are the all stars!

Only one team — Uchenna and Joyce Agu — was a past winner, in Season 7. But others are standouts: height-challenged Charla Faddoul and cousin Mirna Hindoyan; Joe Baldassare and Bill Bartek (the first season’s “team Guido”); Rob and Amber Mariano, who parlayed their Survivor stint into marriage and reality-TV careers; and Kevin O’Connor and Drew Feinberg, amiable, bald best friends from Season 1. Also repeating the Race are two teams from the latest season: coal miner David Conley and wife Mary, and beauty queens Dustin Seltzer and Kandice Pelletier.

Also in the hunt: Eric Sanchez and Danielle Turner, who competed on separate teams in Season 9 but later became a couple; Oswald Mendez and Danny Jimenez (Season 2’s “Team Cha-Cha-Cha”); John Pietanza and Jill Aquilino, a now-split couple from Season 3; and Teri and Ian Pollack, the oldest couple to finish as runners-up (she’s now 53, he’s 54), also in Season 3.

I am glad to see Uchenna and Joyce back, I think they were my favorite couple from all the seasons. I always remember her shaving her head, then them both struggling to get money to pay that cab fare when they were only moments from the million dollar finish line. And no surprise, Rob and Amber are participating… after all, they have made a career of reality show appearances.

Apparently there will be a lot of curve balls and twists this season… after all, these contestants are the best of the best.

How did Race challenge contestants who knew the drill? “We had to throw them curveball after curveball, because they all thought they knew what we were doing again,” Van Munster says. So the 45,000-mile, 28-day race, which ended Dec. 19, sent them “from extreme cold to extreme heat,” a desert in northern Chile to “borderline South Pole” in Antarctica.

I have always enjoyed those rare times they have sent the contestants to colder climates where they have to bundle up and snowshow or sled

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Gotta love the All Star Editions. Reality show Amazing Race will be returning for its next season in the All Star format, bringing back some of their most popular (or most notorious!) teams to compete against one another for the top prize.

And yes, what would an all star edition be without the love-em-or-hate-em couple of Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich will be on the show (yes, they both were on the all star edition of Survivor, which Amber won), as will a cast of other favorites from the previous ten seasons.

And of course, what would an All Star edition be without those not chosen throwing a public hissy fit. Chip and Kim McAllister posted their temper tantrum via a MySpace video, which they ended up pulling down after a day. And season nine winners, BJ and Tyler, posted their hissy fit on the CBS Former Racer’s Blog, which is actually meant to provide commentary on the current season airing on CBS. And of course, they had to turn it a charge of discrimination against gay couples. Puleeeze.

All the nitty gritty

Amazing Race, which is fairing well in its new Sunday time slot for its 10th season, has been picked up by CBS for its 11th season.  The Phil Keoghan show will be airing the third episode of the 10th season this coming Sunday.