Celebrity Race Across The World viewers ‘refuse to believe’ Scott Mills’ real age

Celebrity Race Across The World viewers are furious after discovering Scott Mills’ real age.

The BBC Radio 2 presenter and his husband Sam Vaughan are travelling from Belem, northern Brazil, to Frutillar, southern Chile, with limited resources and a shoestring budget on the BBC show.

They are racing to reach the final checkpoint before competitors Kelly Brook and her husband Jeremy Parisi, father and son, Jeff and Freddy Brazier, and actor Kola Bokinni and his cousin, Mary Ellen.

On last night’s episode of the hit travel series, Scott revealed his real age – which shocked viewers despite being a radio veteran with a decades-long career on the likes of Radio 1.

Scott said he was 51, which prompted @MrsGMusicTeach to rage on X: ‘Scott Mills is NOT 51!!! How dare he be that old.’

Echoing their sentiment, @lau_lau87 fumed: ‘Scott Mills is NOT 51! Shut up! 40 maybe but 51! No way, refuse to believe that.’

In disbelief, @jonnymuzzer exclaimed: ‘Scott Mills is in his 50s???’

@lukeysam1 also said he believed Scott and Sam, who is 35, were ‘a similar age’.

‘Scott looks great for 51,’ they added.

During the episode, Scott and Sam endured a horror toilet on a several-hour-long coach journey as they raced across another section of Brazil to checkpoint Lençóis.

Scott told Sam that the toilet on the stomach-churning bus ride was ‘overflowing’ with a ‘brown colour’ while viewers reached for their sick buckets.

The veteran radio star previously told Metro.co.uk ahead of the premiere of Celebrity Race Across The World he genuinely thought the trip was ‘the end’ for him.

He recalled: ‘It was a heatwave and we were on a bus and the air con didn’t stretch as far as the toilet, so as soon as you went into it it was 50C.’

‘Someone had just had a poo in there and I was just spewing, spewing, spewing, spewing. And I actually thought to myself, “This could be the end.”

‘I couldn’t stop being sick. All I could smell was hot poo. I was like this is the grimmest thing I’ve ever done.’

It wasn’t the only tribulation Scott told us he endured on Celebrity Race Across The World after fearing he had contracted the mosquito-borne virus dengue fever.

He said he felt so ‘awful’ during his trip around South America that he asked producers to halt filming as he suffered debilitating symptoms for three days.

He said: ‘I started getting these mad headaches – I don’t get headaches – but I was getting really awful ones to the point where one day I said, “I can’t film today, I’m really sorry.”’

It was Sam who eventually found the real cause of Scott’s pain.

Scott recalled: ‘Sam said, “When was the last time you had a coffee?” And I went, “Oh [damn]”, It was massive caffeine withdrawal.’

But Scott’s Celebrity Race Across the World experience hasn’t totally tarnished travel: he’s even taken some notes for his upcoming honeymoon.

A self-proclaimed workaholic, Scott said it was ‘horrendous’ to be banned from having a phone on Celebrity Race Across The World but ‘will lock it in a safe’ when they celebrate their marriage in October.

‘I’ve done it once, I can do it again, and I just want to do it because it really focuses your mind. I’ve really enjoyed it,’ he said.

Celebrity Race Across The World continues on Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.

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