An intrepid mum and daughter team from Kent are to appear in the latest series of a BAFTA award-winning TV show.
The BBC’s Race Across the World returns to screens for a fourth series next week.
Airing at 9pm on Wednesday, April 10, the programme, which began in 2019, will see five duos battle it out in a race across Asia in a bid to win a £20,000 cash prize.
The 15,000km journey will begin at the northernmost tip of Japan.
The teams will then cross six seas and eight borders to reach the finish line in Lombok, an idyllic Indonesian island paradise.
Competitors have a budget of the equivalent of the airfare to travel between the countries and cannot use a plane as a mode of transport.
Leaving behind their smartphones, internet access and bank cards, the race will test them “like never before, pushing them to both their physical and emotional limits”.
One of the five pairs hoping to win is mum and daughter, Sharon and Brydie, from Kent.
Brydie, a 25-year-old snowboard instructor, will join forces with mum Sharon, a 52-year-old cleaner.
Brydie told the BBC website: “I think job-wise we can do any job. We’ll be fine.
“I think I’ll take a bigger role than mum. I think right now in our day-to-day lives mum takes the lead and does everything but I think we’ll swap roles.
“Mum has no sense of direction at all.
“But since she’s taught me everything, now I’m giving it back so we can have this experience together.”
Meanwhile, Sharon added: “I’m a cleaner at home so I’ve got to put my hands down toilets anyhow, so if it’s in Japan or at home, it doesn’t make a difference does it?
“So I’m quite happy with that. We’re not fussed are we?
“I want to say, and this sounds like I’m bigging us up, but I want to say we’re really easy.
“We just fit in. If we went round someone’s house and they gave me some sushi, I’d never be rude, I’d make out that it’s the best meal I’ve ever had”.
The other teams include fellow mum and daughter pair, Eugenie and Isabel, best friends Alfie and Owen, married couple Stephen and Viv, plus brother and sister, Betty and James.
The first series of Race Across the World, from London to Singapore, won the BAFTA TV Award in the Best Reality and Constructed Factual category in 2020.
Series two saw pairs of contestants racing across Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina.
The third race, which aired last March, was based entirely in Canada.
Meanwhile, a celebrity edition last September saw the teams finding their way from Africa to the Arctic circle.
It featured weather presenter Alex Beresford and his father, Noel; former All Saints singer Melanie Blatt and her mother, Helene; McFly drummer Harry Judd and his mother, Emma and former British F4 Racing Driver Billy Monger and his sister, Bonny.
