Competed in Season 21 of
Double Your Money (2012) with his fellow Chippendales Las Vegas stripper (and best friend, per The Amazing Race team profile),
Jaymes Vaughan, hoping to win enough prize money to help their respective parents, in particular Jaymes Vaughn's father, who was suffering from cancer at that time. The team of James and Jaymes finished second overall in (
Take Down That Million (2012)) the twenty-first edition of
The Amazing Race (2001).