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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2019 4:45:18 GMT
The Olympic-medal winning figure skater made waves for criticizing Vice President Mike Pence over his anti-LGBTQ policies when he led the U.S. delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, and he hasn't stopped taking a stand since. He joined several of his fellow Olympians that year in skipping the traditional White House visit post-Games. He openly discussed a starvation diet he went on in 2016 to start a conversation about eating disorders and body image. And in a recent interview with Mashable, he criticized President Donald Trump, and the normalization of his hate speech. He also trumpeted the Equality Act, which would prevent employers, landlords, and others from discriminating against someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Mashable: What’s the biggest political, social, or cultural issue that’s boggling your mind these days? AR: Every day I am boggled by how the things Donald Trump says don’t discredit him from being president. I am all day and every day completely blown away with what he's able to say, do, and deny. I hate that all the lying and hate has become so normal. Mashable: You have a cameo in Taylor Swift's new music video for "You need to calm down," which is a big political statement from a pop star we're not used to seeing make big political statements. What made you want to participate in this project and what are your own thoughts on the Equality Act, which gets its own cameo at the end? AR: The Equality Act needs to get passed. It’s time we have equal protections for all people. I’m so proud to have worked with Taylor and everyone involved in the #YNTCD [You Need to Calm Down] project. It’s a huge political statement and to have someone as iconic as Taylor Swift put this together is monumental. She is a big supporter of our community and for her to use her voice to make this statement of support and solidarity and more importantly to use it to encourage action from her massive audience is epic. I think this will be a defining moment of this summer’s Pride celebrations. As a friend and fan, I am so proud. If I heard a song like this as a young kid, it would have made me feel a lot different about myself and helped me on my journey.
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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2019 2:04:42 GMT
Adam Rippon is spilling all the details on making one of the biggest music video of the year – Taylor Swift’s "You Need to Calm Down."
The acclaimed figure skater sat down with ET’s Oscar Gracey at 2019 VidCon in Anaheim, California on Friday and the pair played a hilarious game of Don't Break the Ice while Rippon fittingly answered a few icebreakers, including how Swift’s star-studded music video came together.
"She was such a dream to work with and so nice," the 29-year-old Olympian and vlogger gushed. "As nice as you think she is, she is just as nice and went above and beyond to make everybody feel like… She’s so grateful for everybody to be there and she was just the nicest."
As fans know, Rippon appeared in the music video offering snow cones to a couple from his stand while rocking a mesh half-shirt and retro diner cap. The video also included appearances from the Queer Eye cast, Adam Lambert, Ellen DeGeneres, Laverne Cox, Todrick Hall, Dexter Mayfield, Hannah Hart, Billy Porter and Katy Perry, truly showing that the bad blood between the famous pair is a thing of the past.
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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2019 20:42:04 GMT
Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon turned 30 years old today, and celebrated by taking to the ice for a skate to Ben Platt’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “River”, from the Netflix show The Politician. Said Rippon: “Today is my 30th birthday. I couldn’t be more grateful for everything and everyone in my life. Thank you for always sending love and positive energy my way. I hope I’m always able to do the same for you. I wanted to do something fun for myself so I asked one of my old skating choreographers, Cindy Stuart, to put this together with me. She is amazing. And Ben Platt is also amazing (duh) and when I heard him do a cover of this song I knew I had to skate to it. A huge thank you to On Ice Perspectives for putting it all together ❤️”
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2020 22:41:56 GMT
Mariah Bell had quite the weekend at the US Figure Skating National Championships, taking home a personal best silver medal thanks to two gorgeous routines. The crowd gave a standing ovation for her long program, a spell-binding skate set to k.d. lang's cover of "Hallelujah." But Mariah had already roped us in on night one with a full-on dance party of a routine set to a mashup of the Britney Spears hits "Radar" and "Work." And if that wasn't enough, we also found out that the program was choreographed by the one and only Adam Rippon, bronze medalist from the 2016 Olympics. Simply put, the whole thing is just a combination made in figure skating heaven. At Nationals, Mariah's short program was only marred by a stumble during her choreography section, but she's performed it to perfection throughout the season, often with Adam cheering from the sidelines. And, we were lucky enough that the choreographer himself posted some behind-the-scenes content to his YouTube channel, showing us just how much work goes into developing a figure skating routine. Mariah's triple flips and triple toeloops are pretty impressive, but our personal favorite parts have got to be Mariah's perfectly on-the-beat hair flips; Britney would definitely approve! Watch Adam's behind the scenes vlog and footage of Mariah's pop-perfection skate ahead, then make sure to check out more incredible routines from Nationals, including Alysa Liu's historical performance and Gracie Gold's emotional comeback.
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Post by Admin on May 22, 2020 22:14:01 GMT
With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to dominate the headlines, we could use every ray of light we can find to get us through these strange times. Fortunately, one of those rays of light looks exactly like the signal for America’s Sweetheart. Last weekend, Adam Rippon took some time away from self-quarantining to appear on NPR’s “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” radio show. As is usually the case, the former Olympic medalist showed that social distancing hasn’t affected his ability to throw shade, oftentimes at himself. When asked how he was keeping busy, Rippon informed the panel that “I’m trying to go on a health journey now. Because probably about a week ago, I felt like my organs were competing, like which one would fail first. Now I’m feeling much better.” As if to prove that his brain was not the first organ to fail, Rippon then turned the tables and stumped quizmaster Peter Sagal with a reference to workout guru Shawn T. Perhaps the longtime NPR host is waiting for the popular fitness trainer to release a video called Baroque Concerto for Harpsichord Abs. Rippon also reminisced with the panel about his triumphant 2018 Olympic experience at the “advanced age” of 28 and what it felt like taking the ice with 17 and 18 year old teammates... “I told them I had wisdom. Because when these younger kids were coming up, they were better than me. So the only thing I had going for me was that maybe I wasn’t a virgin.” As any Olympic analyst will tell you, there’s no substitute for veteran experience. When asked if he missed competing as an active figure skater, Rippon briefly turned introspective, admitting, “There’s a huge part of me that’s like, I absolutely never want to compete ever again. Because I never really enjoyed competing. I loved training but I didn’t love the competing.” Despite that revelation, it was time for Sagal to segue into the competition portion of the segment entitled “Rippon? Try these rip-offs.” Sagal asked three questions testing Rippon’s knowledge of bizarre attempts to rip off famous products throughout the world.
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