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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2014 1:25:47 GMT
Gracie at Skating with the Stars
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2014 2:17:03 GMT
Olympic figure skater Gracie Gold joins us on The Couch to talk about going to Sochi and what she's up to now.
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2014 16:25:36 GMT
The editors of Cosmopolitan.com will host U.S. Figure Skating Olympian Gracie Gold in the "Ask Gracie Edition". Taylor Swift has had one of the most interesting years out of the major A-list celebrities. In addition to enjoying considerable professional success, the country superstar has also encountered her share of bad luck. Yet, it seems that her social life is as healthy as ever. According to an April 9 report by E! Online, the star was recently spotted spending time with Olympian Gracie Gold.
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2014 21:35:21 GMT
Famed X Factor UK twins Jedward — John and Edward Grimes — are coming out with a new single and it was inspired by figure skater Gracie Gold! The 22-year-old brothers recently appeared on TV3′s Late Lunch Live to chat up their new album and title single, “Free Spirit”, which was only inspired by their fans but also by Gracie, 18.“It’s such an honor to have inspired @planetjedward’s new song, “Free Spirit”! You guys are amazing!” Gracie thanked them in a cute tweet. Edward spoke about the new album, “Since October, we have been working on our album, we have had three albums to date, but this is the first album written and produced by us.” “Each song reflects a different mood and emotion, which our fans can associate with. Over the last year we have gone through a transition as artists, we have had time to reflect about life and put those thoughts into our songs,” John added.
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2014 1:37:10 GMT
Stars blow off interviews all the time and it's usually because they went out for a latte or aren't good at telling time, but Gracie Gold had an excellent excuse for missing a phone call last week: The U.S. figure skating champ and fourth-place finisher at the Olympics was taking a final exam. "I have three tests left before I graduate," says Gold, 18. "My librarian is a little bit -- she lives on whims -- so it's hard to schedule stuff with her sometimes and it took longer than we thought it would to do my final exam. It was just one of those days when I was not meant to have an interview." "Sometimes I would be in my house and something would come on TV about how I was an Olympian, even though I hadn't qualified yet, and I would get teary. I was like, 'Mom, what if I don't make it? What if it's not really my dream, since sometimes you have to change your dreams?' " says Gold, who will be at Xcel Energy Center on Sunday as part of the Stars on Ice figure skating show. "Everyone told me not to worry, just to go out and represent them well, but I knew people had higher expectations, that people wanted me to place well and get medals." Gold's fourth-place finish just missed the medal stand but she is happy with her Olympics results, which did include a bronze medal in the new team figure skating event. "I came as close to a medal as one can, and it was an amazing accomplishment for me," she says. "Maybe those expectations were a little soon, but these next four years I'll have a chance to meet them." In St. Paul, Gold will join a few group skating numbers and perform two solos: "All That Jazz," from the musical "Chicago" (which she skated at the Olympics exhibition) and "Let It Go" from "Frozen." The "Frozen" song is bound to be a favorite with fans of what has become the most popular animated film in history. Gold has seen -- and heard -- the popularity of "Frozen" first-hand. "It's so fun to skate by all the little girls when that song comes on. They're screaming and singing along and it's so cute," says Gold, who has been competing at figure skating events since she was tiny but says ice shows still feel pretty new. And she likes them. If you have a show that didn't go as well, you don't feel as OK about the number until you can re-do it in the next show, so there's still a competitive element," Gold says. "But you get to focus more on what it looks like from an audience perspective. It feels really nice when the crowd roars and it's not necessarily because of the technical elements but more because they enjoyed your personality and loved seeing you on the ice." It's a good thing Gold has fun on the ice since there isn't much spare time in her schedule. She trains about four hours a day and, this fall, she's hoping to take at least a couple of online college classes while she prepares for the next figure skating season.
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