Adam Rippon Threw His Phone Across the Room After Reading Cher’s Tribute to Him
Okay, I'll be honest. I do follow Kim Kardashian on Instagram, and I'm just obsessed. She's, I think she's so cool. And she's so dramatic and over the top. [SOUND] I didn't wanna be this person. But I am. [MUSIC] So I follow Britney Spears on Instagram because if you're not following Britney Spears on Instagram, you've completely missed the whole entire point of like social media in general. Every time she posts Like a video of her doing a runway walk in her house, or her painting on the balcony, I feel like personally touched, she's just one of us. I'm the oldest of six kids, so my first job was being a babysitter. And I was actually traveling so much, For skating and training, that one time my youngest brother had to draw his whole family. And he draw everybody but he didn't draw me and my mom is like. why didn't you draw Adam in the family picture? And but mom Adam isn't a baby sit. So my brother at one point didn't even know that I was his biological brother. So I was doing a very good job at my first job of babysitting. Well I remember my first time I got like a big prize money check for a skating competition at the time I was like I'm going to just Go all out. And for me, going all out was I got UGG slippers, and I actually just got rid of them. And they were like 12 years old. Well, I was going to bronze them. Yeah, I should have, and like hung them up or something. I know. I can't take back the past, though, I already threw them away. When I'm competing, a lot of times I'll like look up and there'll be like maybe one or two like rainbow flags. I'm gay, by the way. I'll meet the people flying the flags after the competition. Nine times out of ten, lesbians. I'm very big in the **** community. The future actually is female lesbians. I've been thrown underwear on the ice. Yeah. Sick. Thank you, sir. Are you wearing any? You would have done the sam thing, right? I left it. I would say my vice is definitely Ice cream, I just can't get enough. I'm just a plain old vanilla kinda gal and I love the, like the sprinkles. I could just, and you know this is really embarrassing when I was young, that we have a little jar of sprinkles and I would take a spoon And like eat spoonfuls [LAUGH] of the sprinkles. My God, it sounds so disgusting talking about it, but it was so good. I would do it again. So the story behind the moment of this Instagram post was that [MUSIC] I needed content, okay? And it was Christmas morning. And I was in good shape, because we were getting ready for our US Championships. So I made my friend. go out to her balcony and I have maybe fifty different versions of this casual picture where I am holding a coffee cup that is completely empty, In the end though, we got the shot and it was completely worth it so Merry Christmas.
Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon and Cher have a lot in common.
They're hilariously outspoken, they're both Twitter icons, and they both came together this month, in Rippon's honor. Rippon is one of this year's Time 100, and Cher wrote a tribute to him as a result. Rippon, for the record, is still in disbelief.
“As soon as I realized Cher wrote my piece, I read it on my phone and closed it and then threw it across the room because I couldn’t believe that Cher had written my introduction," Rippon told InStyle at the Time 100 Gala on Tuesday night. "It’s insane.”
As it turns out, Rippon feels a kind of kinship with the legendary singer.
“I love that Cher speaks in mostly emojis, which really touches me personally, but what she said and what she wrote is just so unbelievably kind," Rippon added. "I still can’t believe it, I can’t even believe that I’m here tonight.”
He'd better start believing it, because Cher sure does.
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"Adam is a skater who happens to be gay, and that represents something wonderful to young people," Cher wrote in her piece about Rippon.
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"When I was young, I had no role models—everyone looked like Sandra Dee and Doris Day. There was nobody who made me think, Oh, I could be like them. They represent me. Adam shows people that if you put blood, sweat and tears into what you’re doing, you can achieve something that’s special. You can be special. And I think that’s very brave."
