American Horror Story: Olympian Gus Kenworthy to play Emma Roberts' boyfriend in season 9

Tim Stack
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American Horror Story: Gus Kenworthy cast as Emma Roberts' boyfriend in season 9

Well, this is certainly a twist.

American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy announced Wednesday on his Instagram that Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy will appear in the next installment of AHS as the boyfriend of Emma Roberts. Oh, and apparently Emma Roberts will be back!

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That special moment when you realize you have an Olympic medal AND will be playing Emma Roberts’ boyfriend on “American Horror Story” Season 9.

A post shared by Ryan Murphy (@mrrpmurphy) on Feb 6, 2019 at 9:52am PST

Kenworthy shared Murphy’s post on Instagram, writing, “I guess the cat’s out of the bag… I’m 👏🏼 So 👏🏼 F—ing 👏🏼 Shook 👏🏼 ILYSM @mrrpmurphy 😊😍😭”

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I guess the cat's out of the bag... I'm ???????? So ???????? Fucking ???????? Shook ???????? ILYSM @mrrpmurphy ????????????

A post shared by gus kenworthy (@guskenworthy) on Feb 6, 2019 at 10:52am PST

Little is known about the next season of AHS other than this casting news. Production will likely begin this summer with an expected premiere date in the fall on FX. Roberts appeared on this last season of the series, Apocalypse.

Kenworthy won a silver medal in Slopestyle at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia.