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IT WAS the morning after the season premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 6. But Gus Kenworthy, a fan of the Paramount+ reality competition and a guest star on All Stars season 4, had not seen it yet.
Such a lapse was “uncharacteristic,” the gay Olympic freestyle skier attests. But it had been a chaotic week. Kenworthy and his boyfriend were “bouncing around” friends’ homes after he sold his Los Angeles apartment; the house he purchased was still under renovation. And another residence he temporarily stayed in had flooded, mandating an evacuation.
Speaking from his car while running errands around L.A. in June, Kenworthy does endorse one drag contestant. “I love Jan, and I felt like she did great on her season but was a little eager,” Kenworthy says of Jan Sport, a New York City-based performer known for perfectionism but ranking “safe,” rather than winning challenges in her season 12 debut. “I’m looking forward to her getting another shot.”
At the time of this interview, the 29-year-old was preparing for his own reality TV spotlight: a Netflix series where he counsels another gay athlete, Colton Underwood, in his coming-out journey. Underwood, a former professional football and , publicly revealed his sexual orientation in a interview with Robin Roberts earlier this year. News of the Netflix deal broke the same day, with some tabloids referring to Kenworthy as Underwood’s “gay guide.”
