Aly Raisman and her Team USA teammates are heroically disrupting a dangerous belief system that athletes must blindly trust their coaches and doctors — so says fellow Olympian Adam Rippon. The Team USA figure skating star says he’s so proud…
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Friday, October 19, 2018
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Adam Rippon Says LeBron Pulled Off The Suit Shorts for Game 1
Adam Rippon just signed off on LeBron James’ interesting pre-Game 1 attire, saying suit shorts are totally acceptable … all because the King set the trend. We got the Olympic figure skater Saturday at LAX and asked what he made of Bron’s lack of…
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Adam Rippon Praises Pope Francis, Pro-Gay Comments Were "So Awesome!"
The Pope is gonna be stoked … ‘cause he just got some serious props from the guy who won “Dancing with the Stars!” Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon — the first openly gay U.S. athlete to medal in the Winter Olympics — says he heard about Pope…
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Tonya Harding, Adam Rippon Join Dancing With The Stars" All-Athlete Season!
Watch out for your kneecaps! (Kidding!)
Tonya Harding will be on the new season of Dancing With The Stars.
Olympic snowboarder Jamie Anderson and Olympic figureskater and media darling Adam Rippon will also be joining the cast.
The finale of Dancing With The Stars was last November, and it’s about time that the world learns who’ll be starring on this next season.
Well, Us Weekly reports that Tonya Harding will be one of the “stars” who will be dancing.
Harding was infamous in the ’90s after her ex-husband … who was also her bodyguard … orchestrated a “hit” on Nancy Kerrigan, designed to injure Harding’s rival so that she could not compete.
Harding did not order it herself, and complains that she has been unfairly condemned for it. But she did admit to knowing about the attack before it happened.
It’s worth noting that Kerrigan has competed on Dancing With The Stars before, during season 24.
This will be the dance competition’s first-ever all-athletes season, so this controversial Olympian won’t be alone.
Olympian Adam Rippon made headlines earlier this year over his back-and-forth conflict with Vice President Mike Pence.
Rippon is openly gay, Pence is notorious for holding extremely anti-gay views.
Donald Trump himself has reportedly joked that Pence would prefer to see gay Americans be executed by hanging.
And Pence’s history of espousing extremely conservative views and carrying those beliefs into government speaks for itself.
Rippon, however, turns out to be a media darling, adored by American fans for his unbridled honesty and his sense of humor.
He’ll make a great addition to this upcoming season.
As one of the best figureskaters on the planet, he’ll also be one hell of a dancer.
Jamie Anderson will also be on Dancing With The Stars.
She is an extraordinarily talented snowboarder.
Anderson is one of the top slopestyle riders in the world, and demonstrated this at the Sochii Winter Olympics in 2014 and in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018.
With four gold medals, five silver medals, and two bronze medals, she’s proven that she’s devastating in the snow.
But how will that translate to dance?
We’ll just have to wait and see.
Tonya Harding reentered the spotlight recently with the Oscar-nominated film, I, Tonya.
It appears that she hopes that this film can be part of her redemption in the eyes of the public.
“The media had me convicted of doing something wrong before I had even done anything at all,” she lamented last December. “I’m always the bad person.”
Honestly, she hasn’t always done herself that many favors, as she has sometimes taken odd stances in interviews over the years.
It will be interesting to see how well she takes the inevitable jokes at her expense when she appears on Dancing With The Stars.
To be clear, ABC has yet to officially confirm that Harding, Rippon, and Anderson will be on this season.
They’ll announce the full list of “stars” on Friday, April 13th, on Good Morning America.
Considering how interesting these three names are, we have to wonder who else will be among their competition.
And, for that matter, who their dance partners will be.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Score 1 For Sally Field Because Her Son Sam Met Adam Rippon
Sally Fields is deliciously diabolical … and her plan for her son to meet Adam Rippon worked!!! Sally was trying to set her kid, Sam Greisman, up with the Olympian and after some back and forth on social media, the 2 mugged for the camera at the…
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Adam Rippon Wants Meryl Streep to Play Him In Movie!
He’s got one helluva story … but if Adam Rippon ever gets the “I, Tonya” movie treatment — he wants Meryl Streep to play him on screen! “She’s the most accomplished and ready for the role,” Rippon told us on the way out of ‘Watch What…
Friday, February 9, 2018
Mike Pence vs Adam Rippon: VP Feuds with Out Gay Figure Skater
Mike Pence is heading up the US Olympic delegation in Pyeongchang for the 2018 Winter Olympics. He has Mother in tow, of course, so that he can talk to the lady athletes if needed.
But he doesn’t need his wife to chaperone him tweeting to openly gay Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, which is exactly what he did after Rippon reportedly rejected his offer to meet.
What started all of this was Rippon’s comments about Mike Pence’s alleged homophobia and support for “conversion therapy.”
There’s no shortage of gay and bisexual athletes in the world, and the Olympics are no exception.
Many of these athletes are not yet out, however. Olympians often hope to profit from sponsorships, and since their very existence can be controversial and lead to calls for boycotts, some find it easier to remain in the closet.
That harmful and homophobic culture is (very slowly) changing. And openly gay figureskater Adam Rippon is a great example.
Naturally, he was asked for his thoughts about Vice President Mike Pence, who is notorious for his conservative views and seen as an enemy of the LGBT community, leading the American Olympic delegation.
Rippon replied: “You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? I’m not buying it.”
Conversion therapy, of course, is “treatment” in which LGBT people are subjected to emotional and psychological torment until they convince themselves that they’re, well, straight. Sometimes self-hating people sign up, sometimes parents force their gay children into it.
Rippon’s comment, referring to Mike Pence’s infamous stint as Indiana Governor that saw him accused of homophobia and laying out policies that harmed the LGBT community among others, did not go unnoticed.
Mike Pence tweeted this:
“Headed to the Olympics to cheer on #TeamUSA. One reporter trying to distort 18 yr old nonstory to sow seeds of division. We won’t let that happen! #FAKENEWS. Our athletes are the best in the world and we are for ALL of them! #TEAMUSA.”
He then tweeted at Adam Rippon, directly.
“.@Adaripp I want you to know we are FOR YOU. Don’t let fake news distract you. I am proud of you and ALL OF OUR GREAT athletes and my only hope for you and all of #TeamUSA is to bring home the gold. Go get ‘em!”
Uh-huh.
Adam Rippon reportedly declined an invitation to meet with Mike Pence. He is, however, reportedly open to the idea of a meeting after the Olympics.
Responses to that have been mixed.
There are certain people who feel that a polite sit-down is common courtesy, regardless of ideological differences.
Others disagree, citing that different opinions on tax law is very different from “opinions” that certain groups of people aren’t entitled to basic human rights, and that oppressed minorities don’t owe anything to the people in power who work against them.
Adam Rippon, however, has other things on his mind right now: the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
“Tonight I walked in the #OpeningCeremony and got to watch my old friend @Yunaaaa light the Olympic flame. Representing the USA is one of the greatest honors of my life and being able to do it as my authentic self makes it all so much sweeter.”
In the mean time, Mike Pence — who famously opposes mixing politics with sports, as he demonstrated with that absurd walk-out stunt last year — notably refused to stand for the joint Korean delegation.
Why? Probably because of Trump’s hardline approach to North Korea.
Twitter is roasting him, calling him out for hypocrisy.
No one questions that the North Korean regime is monstrous and an affront to human rights.
People do question why someone would object to North and South Korea reconciling, since peace between the two nations seems like the best way to put North Korea on a path to softening its stances and allowing human rights to flourish.
Some believe that Mike Pence’s overture towards Rippon was yet another calculated political stunt to make him appear to be less hostile to LGBT rights than he actually is.
Pence can say what he likes, after all, but his history as Governor of Indiana speaks for itself and has nothing nice to say.
And it doesn’t help that Trump reportedly “joked” that Pence would love to see all ay people hang.
Others, however, feel that perhaps the tweet was genuine.
Abby Wambach: Adam Rippon "Can Handle Himself," In Pence Drama
Soccer legend Abby Wambach doesn’t seem too worried for Adam Rippon in his spat with Vice President Mike Pence … telling TMZ Sports, “I think [Rippon] can handle himself.” Rippon — an openly gay U.S. figure skater — has been blasting Pence in…
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