General News
17 February, 2023
Adventure All Stars-Legends celebrates FNQ paradise
GLOBAL TV show, Adventure All Stars took over the Far North for their three-part series ‘Legends’, bringing back the best of the best cast and showcasing the paradisiac region in all its splendour.
Adventure All Stars is known as a socially conscious TV travel series with cast members fundraising for charities and all net proceeds going to Australian not-for-profits.
With this three-part series, they aim to bring the focus on the resilient FNQ tourism industry.
The Legends series will air in the second half of 2023 across Australia and 30 countries worldwide.
The socially conscious TV show brought the 24 philanthropic cast members from across Australia to Tropical North Queensland to experience the best the region offers.
For part one of Adventure All Stars – Legends, 12 of the 24 cast members visited Port Douglas to enjoy FNQ adventures like swimming with crocodiles, river drifting, exploring the Mossman Gorge and more.
In part two, the remaining 12 cast members came to Cairns to film their experience river tubing, exploring the Reef, going up to Kuranda and even bungy jumping.
Executive producer and host of Adventure All Stars – Legends, Troy Gray, said Legends had brought back some of the most iconic philanthropic personalities from previous seasons to discover Tropical North Queensland.
“The Legends series is bringing back the best of the best of our previous Adventure All Stars members; it’s going to be filmed as part of a special three-part television event,” Mr Gray said.
“It’s the first time we’ve ever done a ‘best of the best’ television series, so we brought back only the most exciting and the ones that are deserving of doing this a second time.
“Our casting process requires people to fundraise for their chosen charity. Our Legends have previously fundraised for a charity they’re passionate about, and they were invited back due to their success in doing so well with their fundraising.
“For our Legends series, we’ve brought people from every state across Australia, and they all descended to a secret location for a week of filming with 11 other people.”
Mr Gray said Tropical North Queensland was a fantastic destination that needed to be showcased worldwide.
“We filmed based out of Port Douglas last week, and this week we’re filming in Cairns, and we’ve started the week with nothing but amazing weather, wonderful activities to film and the tourism operators and people we’ve met have been generous and accommodating,” he said.
“The footage is going to look truly spectacular.
“The idea was to treat our Legends to a tropical location, so we wanted it to be lush, exotic and full of surprises, and that’s exactly what we’re getting up here.
“There’s such a vast amount of things to see and do, and when you combine two world heritage sites in one filming location, you’re destined to have something of high quality that people worldwide will love watching.”
Each Legends episode will take audiences worldwide through breathtaking views and locations of the Far North and highlight the philanthropic characters and their experiences.
“I’m excited about showing how amazing our Legends are to the biggest audience as possible,” Mr Grey said
“They’re such amazing people, and they come from diverse backgrounds, a variety of ages; we’ve got people from 20 through to 70, and people that are philanthropic, community-minded and also adventurous deserve to be showcased.
“We’ve got a partnership for this particular production with Tourism Tropical North Queensland, and they have been amazing to work with and to accommodate with suggestions and support.
“Our ability to showcase Tropical North Queensland around the world and hopefully improve the interest in people travelling here and increase tourism, it’s the forefront of our production.
“Because we think this area is a must-visit destination and must be seen by many people as possible as a place to come on holiday.
“We’re combining entertainment with philanthropy, and we’ve been doing that for almost 50 shows, and that’s what makes our show successful not only to a global audience, but it also makes us very unique,” he said.
With the upcoming release of Adventure All Stars – Legends coming in the second half of 2023, Mr Grey said the series would make a must-watch for people who enjoy adventure and travel and are looking for entertainment with a purpose.
“We’re very proud to be up here showing the very best of the Tropical North because there’s a lot of wonderful people and businesses that have suffered through COVID, so if we can bring eyes, ears and tourism dollars, then we’re doing our job,” he said.
“If you want to watch people from all across Australia doing amazing things in spectacular locations, then this is a show you want to watch.
“This is real people doing real adventure, and we generate real emotion.”
