[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Adam Rippon to work for NBC for remainder of 2018 Olympic Games

 

Well aint that special..

But I just don't understand why they keep saying he is the first openly gay USA in the Olympics. Johnny Weir never denied he was gay and he was in the Olympics.

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Adam Rippon to work for NBC for remainder of 2018 Olympic Games

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Travis Mewhirter

Feb 18th 2018 8:30AM

Adam Rippon, in his own words, is "not a gay icon or America's gay sweetheart."

No, "I am just America's sweetheart. And I am just an icon."

While his Olympics may be over as a competitor, with a bronze in the team figure skating event and a 10th as an individual, the self-proclaimed iconic sweetheart of the United States will remain in PyeongChang as a contributor for NBC, according to USA Today. NBC Spokesman Greg Hughes told USA Today that Rippon will work in television and digital and social media.

This will come as little surprise to those who have been following these Olympic Games. Even before the Games began, Rippon, one of the first openly gay male athletes to compete for the United States in an Olympics, was in the headlines over a feud with Vice President Mike Pence. 

Adam Rippon, the US' first openly gay Winter Olympian

Since, he's become one of the most recognizable stars of these Olympics, a celebrated member of the gay community, as well as a polarizing one outside of it. His response to the rise in his celebrity was, like many of his quips, memorable: "Sometimes I just get attention, and I really don't know how it happens."

It's lines like that that make the outspoken, and very well-spoken, Rippon a suitable candidate, as well as his ability to deflect a maelstrom of criticism on the internet, an inevitable aspect of working in television.

After his final skate, another smooth run though not nearly enough to land him on the podium, Rippon told reporters that "I'm probably going to have like a stiff drink later."

Not just yet. Rippon still has work left to do at these Olympics.

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