Sat 27 Jun 2009 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
Auckland gay couple Steven Oates and Stephen Ross were eliminated from The Edge FM's Incredible Chicken Race yesterday after one of them proved once and for all that chickens can't fly. Go jump: The 'Chicken Lickens' (centre) After hitchhiking around New Zealand for two weeks dressed as chickens and completing a wide variety of tasks, Oates and Ross - called the Chicken Lickens team - were strong contestants throughout the promotion, which had a prize of $20,000 cash. Competing in Auckland on Thursday, Ross completed the Sky Jump challenge - leaping off the Sky Tower, while height-phobic Oates stayed down on the ground. Yesterday Oates' task was to jump out of a plane: "I went up, but couldn't go through with it. I just couldn't jump out. So we were eliminated," he explains sadly. Ross tells GayNZ.com that if he'd gone up in the plane with Oates, "I would have pushed him out for sure!"
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News Staff
First published: Saturday, 27th June 2009 - 10:24am