Pinkabella Cupcakes CEO to be featured on ‘Relative Race’ reality TV show

Redmond’s Pinkabella Cupcakes CEO Margo Engberg and her husband, Doug, will be featured on “Relative Race,” a genealogy-based competition TV reality show premiering on Feb. 28 on BYUtv.

Redmond’s Pinkabella Cupcakes CEO Margo Engberg and her husband, Doug, will be featured on “Relative Race,” a genealogy-based competition TV reality show premiering on Feb. 28 on BYUtv.

The show features four married couples as they race across the United States in search of long lost relatives, armed with only paper maps, a rental car, a $25 per diem and a flip phone.

Using the science and technology provided by AncestryDNA, the couples embark on a journey that starts in San Francisco and ends in New York City and leads them to unknown relatives along the way.

“Relative Race” has been described as “Amazing Race” meets “Who Do You Think You Are.” Cameras follow all four teams as they drive across the country — more than 4,500 miles — in just 10 days, stopping each day to complete a challenge and find (and stay with) their newly discovered relatives in a different city. At the end of each day, the team that finishes last receives a strike; after three strikes, teams are eliminated and the remaining teams travel to NYC for the grand finale where there is a $25k grand prize for the winning couple.

Doug is the director of development for OliveCrest, a nonprofit organization dedicated to meeting the needs of kids in crisis by strengthening families to prevent abuse and neglect.