"Relative Race" researchers performed genealogy tests before contestants sought out their long lost relatives, Kacey said. The first episode is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Of the show's more than 200 applicants who auditioned for Season 7, Kacey and Sean - who represent Team Black - were among the eight selected to take part. "Relative Race" follows four teams on a 10-day trek throughout the U.S. as they complete challenges and discover unknown relatives identified through previously conducted DNA tests. "Before the show, (most of them) didn't even know I existed." "Sitting in front of a home in a driveway (waiting to meet someone), I was like, 'This is 30 years in the making,'" Kacey recalled. Success was achieved when Kacey, along with Sean's help, discovered more than a handful of family members through "Relative Race" that neither had met.ĭue to contractual obligations, Kacey and Sean cannot publicly disclose which family members they met and precisely how many. "If you like feel-good, Hallmark-type stuff, this is it." "The show offered me a lot of closure (in finding family) and friendships that will last forever," she said. But in spring 2019 a casting agent reached out via social media and piqued her interest in the reality TV series. Taking to social media the past few years has opened and closed doors regarding her family life, Chapman said. "I tried searching (online) and kept hitting roadblock after roadblock," she said about the grueling process. She knew very little about the closed-adoption process until she reached her late teen years. When she was 9 months old, Kacey was adopted in Columbus. Four teams compete to find their relatives. "My life has come full circle," Chapman said.Ĭhapman, 31, and husband Sean, 33, were chosen to participate in the 10-episode, seventh season of "Relative Race," an unscripted TV series airing on BYU TV. Each day that they met someone, it felt like a unique, personal holiday. to come face-to-face with new family members. NAVARRE Kacey Chapman said her Christmas season came a little early, primarily during a two-week period in late August when she and her husband took part in a reality TV series aimed at finding family they've never met.
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