Jeremy responded: "Yea-yah! I'm rich, bitch!" (Note use of "I'm" as opposed to "You're")... then proceeded to the pornographic moaning of: "Oh dude, I'm loving it! I'm loving it! I'm taking it in right now"... before climaxing with:
"Dude, I'm gonna give you some spankings when you get home."
Eric, the nipple-ringed waiter from Florida and Danielle, the hardbitten Staten Island bartendrix, were paired for the All-Star edition from two Season 9 teams. While the couple's relationship was portrayed as strained throughout the series (as opposed to the perky beauty queens), and Eric's sexuality was questioned on this space back in April 2006 (before Tabloid Baby's arrival) with a series of photos depicting "Jeric" in compromising positions with the male winners of Season 9 (above and below, left), Eric's macho heterosexual credentials were pounded home during the All-Star season with his allegedly homophobic comments about the two openly-gay teams (while paradoxically, his misogyny was displayed in his treatment of Danielle and words about female competitors).
Eric responds:
"Joe and Bill, I don't care that they're gay," he tells Reality TV World. "I don't know what it's like to be a gay male 20 years ago... I have no idea. But the problem is everything you say to them, they take it as me saying it because they're gay. Me calling them freaks has nothing to do with sexuality, it's because they're freaks. They freak-out about everything. Their personality... you can call a man a nervous-Nelly, it just means everything that happens they're just like, 'Oh my God what's happening! Oh no! Oh no!' I called them queens. They are queens. They're older males, who are gay...
"They're gay and act like women," adds Danielle.
"I live in South Florida. I'm a waiter, " Eric says. "I have plenty of gay friends. And you know what? They call themselves queens. Danny and Oswald, I treated those guys as well as I could treat anybody. They were my friends. I never said anything about them being gay... I don't care if you're gay... I don't care if you're straight, gay, blue or purple... it doesn't matter to me."
As for his and Danielle's selection to All-Stars as a "dating couple," Eric explains: "They didn't want an alpha-male team on the (All-Stars) race because they didn't want to risk having first places or second places throughout, which we did our first season... So they didn't ask Jeremy and I to do it, they asked Danielle and I to do it because we met on the race and were dating."
Danielle: "When me and (Amazing Race 9 partner ) Dani (Torchio) were actually just auditioning, we actually saw Jeremy and Eric in California for the audition and we were like, a little bit flirty... Eric liked me so much he called me as soon as he got home, so..."
Eric: "We started talking on the phone..."
Danielle: "A lot!"
Eric: "... a lot, and we started taking some trips back and forth. I actually moved up to New York this [past] summer to try-out how it would be. And you know, actually, we did pretty well but it was just too much too soon. We tried to do long-distance and we went on (All-Stars) to kind of see, you know, how our relationship would hold up, if we wanted to look into moving to either place again. Since then, Danielle and I have actually broken up... I mean we're still cool, we're good friends, it's just as far as a relationship goes, it's not in the cards for either of us."
Eric also defends his use of the term "dirty pirate hookers" to describe beauty queens Kandice & Dustin, but that's another story...