Adam Rippon Made History as an Openly Gay Athlete. Now He’s on Mars.

It wasn’t long into my FaceTime call with Adam Rippon before I started to feel nauseated.

Training my features into what I hoped approximated my genuine interest, I gazed at the former Olympic figure skater and Dancing With the Stars champion, who, with on-brand emphasis, was energetically gesticulating every conspiratorial one-liner, seemingly oblivious of the iPhone—and me—in his hand. Behind him a window created a fittingly angelic haze, as white wired headphones swung around his face, and within seconds every single one of his angles—none of which, I was able to note briefly, are bad—zig-zagged across my screen.

“It was chaos,” he said of filming the new Fox celebrity reality show Stars on Mars (airing Mondays), as his ceiling fan, couch, coffee table, and dog morphed into a pixelated blur on my laptop. I considered asking him to sit still—his movement was making me dizzier to watch than any of his skating routines. But, as he regaled me with anecdotes from filming (which wrapped before the first episode premiered on June 5), I realized that sitting still doesn’t seem to be part of the athlete and LGBTQ icon’s DNA.

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