'We fell off the face of the earth': Dad-daughter duo who took on 7,500 miles for TV

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Niall McCracken BBC News NI Mid Ulster Reporter

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Molly Clifford and her father Andrew says being on the show was "the experience of a lifetime"

How do you disappear in 2026? When you're 23 years old with a smartphone, social media accounts and life as a junior doctor, it isn't easy.

But that's just what Molly Clifford, and her father Andrew did, for two months - much to the alarm of their friends.

"People genuinely thought I'd went missing, others thought I'd fallen out with them," she said.

Thankfully, it was all down to them taking part in the 7,500-mile (12,000km) scamper across Europe and Asia that comprises BBC's hugely popular show Race Across The World - although even after they returned home, they still couldn't tell people where they'd gone.

Spoiler warning: This story contains details of the outcome of the first episode of Race Across the World.

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