Two major Scots actors were spotted enjoying a meal out in Glasgow over the weekend.
03.04.2023 - 12:29 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Scots psychiatrist Zainib Khan had to rely on the kindness of strangers to help her travel thousands of miles across Canada for TV show Race Across the World.
So when she got home, the Glaswegian, who lives in Manchester, tried to repay that kindness when she saw old people with bags in the rain.
But she said whenever she’s offered them a lift, the soaked pensioners have questioned her motives and refused.
Zainib, who is on screen in the third series of the BBC adventure show with husband of nine years Mobeen, 31, said: “I’d like to think doing the show has made me a bit kinder to strangers. Because we had to rely on the kindness of strangers so much I do stop to see if there’s any way to help someone.
“I stop to give people lifts.
“Say it’s really raining, as it does a lot in Manchester, and I see an old person with bags, I’ll stop over and say ‘do you need a lift?’
“Quite often they’ll look at me suspiciously and be like ‘what do you want from me?’
“But I feel I have to stop and ask them because I know what it’s like to be caught in the rain with your bags. It’s just awful.
“No one has got in my car. They think I’m too suspicious. It’s sad that people think that’s a suspicious thing to do.”
After a three-year hiatus because of the Covid pandemic, the third series of Race Across The World started last month.
The nine-part series will see five pairs of intrepid travellers try to travel over 16,000km across six time zones from one side of Canada to the other.
They must travel the route on a budget of £2498.13 – the cash equivalent of the airfare to fly to their destination.
With no mobile phones, internet access, credit cards, air travel or any of the trappings of modern-day life to assist them, they started out in Vancouver, at the
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