{"id":343569,"date":"2025-10-30T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343569\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:53:13","slug":"celebrities-and-influencers-running-the-nyc-marathon-2025-and-how-to-spot-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343569\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities and Influencers Running the NYC Marathon 2025 and How to Spot Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Sunday, more than 50,000 runners will take to\u00a0the five boroughs’ streets for the\u00a02025 TCS New York City Marathon<\/a>.\u00a0As they traverse a\u00a0challenging 26.2-mile course across the city, they’ll be raising\u00a0money for charities, chasing personal goals and\u00a0hopefully having\u00a0a ton of fun as the city turns into a party.<\/p>\n

Among the crowd, expect to see a few familiar faces. These stars\u2014from the TV, film, sports and entertainment worlds\u2014will\u00a0put their personal mettle to the test as they try to\u00a0earn a medal for running\u00a026.2 miles across all five boroughs. If you want to\u00a0cheer them on, here\u2019s our guide to the\u00a0best places to watch<\/a>. You can also follow along with their times\u00a0on the NYC Marathon app<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED: The NYC Marathon 2025 guide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Which celebrities are running the NYC Marathon 2025?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Actors\u00a0<\/p>\n

Merle Dandridge<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Broadway star and actor who recently completed a run as Persephone in Hadestown\u00a0will run to support Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS.<\/p>\n

Claire Holt<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 See if you can spot the actress known for her roles in The Vampire Diaries\u00a0and Pretty Little Liars.<\/p>\n

Jordan Litz<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Broadway star and actor who currently stars as Fiyero in Wicked\u00a0will support Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Patina Miller<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Tony Award-winning Broadway star and actor is known for her role in Sister Act.<\/p>\n

Oliver Phelps<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Best known for playing George Weasley in the Harry Potter film adaptations and host of Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking, the actor\u00a0will run his first marathon in support of The Matt Hampson Foundation.<\/p>\n

Anthony Ramos<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The actor, singer, and songwriter, who starred in the original cast of Hamilton on Broadway, will\u00a0run his first marathon alongside a group that includes his high school guidance counselor, brother and run coach and U.S. Olympic marathoner Des Linden.<\/p>\n

Lauren Ridloff<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The actress known for her role in The Walking Dead will be on Team New Balance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Musicians<\/p>\n

Ben Gibbard and Dave Depper\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service bandmates will support sustainability nonprofit Protect Our Winters.<\/p>\n

N.O.R.E.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Queens-native hip-hop icon and “Drink Champs” host N.O.R.E. will return to the five boroughs to run his first marathon alongside his Run Champs run crew.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joe Amabile<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Bachelorette\u00a0star will support Release Recovery.<\/p>\n

Bryan Arenales<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Catch the Love Island USA star on the course.<\/p>\n

Elan Bibas<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Love Island USA\u00a0star is running with Team TAG Heuer.<\/p>\n

Tyler Cameron<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Bachelorette star\u00a0will run with girlfriend Tate Madden.<\/p>\n

Zac Clark<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Bachelorette star will support his charity Release Recovery.<\/p>\n

Tanner Courtad<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Bachelorette\u00a0star will run this year.<\/p>\n

Joey Graziadei<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 You know him from The Bachelor\u00a0and Dancing with the Stars.<\/p>\n

Matt James<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Bachelor\u00a0star and entrepreneur is running with Team Mastercard.<\/p>\n

Phil Keoghan<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The television personality and host of The Amazing Race will\u00a0support Back on My Feet.<\/p>\n

Nic Vansteenberghe<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Love Island USA\u00a0star is running with Team Strava.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TV personalities\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Good Morning America” 50th Anniversary Relay participants<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Rhiannon Ally, Dani Beckstrom, JuJu Chang, Liz Cho, Christiane Cordero, Linsey Davis, Devin Dwyer, Ike Ejiochi, Will Ganss, Matt Gutman, Rebecca Jarvis, Whit Johnson, Jonathan Karl, Aaron Katersky, Rick Klein, Chante\u00e9 Lans, Mola Lenghi, Janai Norman, Nina Pineda, Stephanie Ramos, Deborah Roberts, Perry Russom, Will Reeve, Ashan Singh, Karen Travers, Selina Wang, and Ginger Zee<\/p>\n

Tayshia Adams<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The television host and former Bachelor contestant will run with Team Maybelline.<\/p>\n

Errol Barnett<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The CBS News anchor and national correspondent will run this year.<\/p>\n

Chloe Lukasiak<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The television personality and actor who made her debut on Dance Moms will run with Team Maybelline.<\/p>\n

Carl Radke<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The television personality and entrepreneur known from Summer House will support Release Recovery.<\/p>\n

Nev Schulman<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Host of Catfish: The TV Show, he’ll support\u00a0Achilles International and will run with his wife\u00a0Laura Perlongo.<\/p>\n

Athletes\u00a0<\/p>\n

Peloton instructors\u00a0Mariana Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>,\u00a0Ben Alldis<\/strong>,\u00a0Jeffrey McEachern<\/strong>,\u00a0Rad Lopez<\/strong>, and\u00a0Alex Karwoski\u00a0<\/strong>will take to the course.<\/p>\n

Alex Cora<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Boston Red Sox Manager will journey to NYC for the race.<\/p>\n

Alexi Pappas<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Olympic runner will\u00a0run with Team TAG Heuer.<\/p>\n

Isaac Rochell<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The former NFL player and digital creator is running with Team Strava.<\/p>\n

Influencers and digital creators<\/p>\n

Christine Doan<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The digital creator and entrepreneur is running with Team Maybelline.<\/p>\n

Isabelle Glasgow Jensen<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The digital creator and entrepreneur is running with Team Maybelline.<\/p>\n

Karen Sarahi Gonzales<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The digital creator and entrepreneur is running with Team Maybelline.<\/p>\n

Olivia Maher<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The digital creator is running with Team Maybelline.<\/p>\n

Brooke Monk<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The digital creator will run this year’s race.<\/p>\n

Casey Neistat<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The NYC-based digital creator and filmmaker will take to the streets for the marathon once again.<\/p>\n

Filmmakers<\/p>\n

Cole Cook<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The filmmaker and entrepreneur will\u00a0support Keep a Child Alive, co-founded by his sister Alicia Keys.<\/p>\n

Rudy Valdez<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0He’s the filmmaker and director of NYRR’s East 89th St Productions documentary short, “Final Finishers<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Sunday, more than 50,000 runners will take to\u00a0the five boroughs’ streets for the\u00a02025 TCS New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10336,169158,18634,10784,10782,18625,10785,18626,10783,18629,18628,37719,405,403,18632,5226,5225,5228,5227,1072,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-343569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-categories-things-to-do","10":"tag-event-type-marathon","11":"tag-family-kids-good-for-kids","12":"tag-good-for-good-for-going-in-a-group","13":"tag-good-for-good-for-going-solo","14":"tag-good-for-good-for-going-with-friends","15":"tag-good-for-good-for-locals","16":"tag-good-for-good-for-taking-parents","17":"tag-good-for-good-for-tourists","18":"tag-good-for-vibe-ethical","19":"tag-good-for-vibe-outdoors","20":"tag-more-free","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-city","23":"tag-news-events-festivals","24":"tag-newyork","25":"tag-newyorkcity","26":"tag-ny","27":"tag-nyc","28":"tag-things-to-do","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}