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Seacrest’s High School Friend Helps Finalize Our Trip to Ry’s Hometown

The team’s trip to Ryan Seacrest’s hometown Atlanta, Georgia, is in full effect. In case you missed it, we appointed Seacrest’s childhood friend, Carrie Russack Ackel, who was his assigned cheerleader back in the day, to be our tour guide after Tanya Rad decided it’s due time for the squad to take a trip down memory lane and explore Ry’s childhood.

Carrie, who used to make Ryan those chocolate-covered pretzels on game day, has taken it upon herself to help host Sisanie, Tanya Rad and Patty Rodriguez when they visit next month, but needed some help when it came to deciding the final itinerary.

“This has been so much fun,” Carrie shared on-air on Thursday, February 27, when we caught up with her. “It was so funny I was telling Tanya I’m fangirling over her and Sisanie [coming] and I’m supposed to be like reporting on you.”

Carrie added that the word has spread in Atlanta that Tour de Seacrest is on and it’s become “a thing now” with others wanting to join.

Watch back the video above to find out the five places on the itinerary and stay tuned for a trip down memory lane! What do you want to learn about Seacrest's childhood? Sound off on social @OnAirWithRyan