- Rachael Gunn appeared on the Today show on Monday
- Also gave surprise performance as Tones And I concert
Aussie breakdancer Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn has admitted that she’ll ‘never be able to process’ one aspect of her fame: the incredible popularity of the Halloween costume based on her Paris Olympics look.
Gunn, 37, has hardly been out of the headlines after her Games routine saw her become world famous for all the wrong reasons.
The Sydneysider has since been crowned the No.1 breaker in the world in controversial circumstances, linked to a switch to Australian reality TV, and seemingly retired before stating that while she won’t compete in the Olympics again, she intends to keep breaking.
Gunn appeared on Channel Nine’s Today show on Monday, soon after making a shock appearance on stage with singer Tones And I during a concert at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Saturday night.
She told hosts Sarah Abo and Alex Cullen that she still cannot believe the green and gold tracksuit combination she wore while performing in Paris was one of the most sought-after costumes when Americans celebrated Halloween last month.
‘That is just crazy. It is so wild,’ Gunn said.
‘It is still something that I am trying to process and I don’t think that I will ever process it ever completely.
‘It was not on my bingo card for this year, being the No.1 Halloween costume – I just did not expect that.’
Gunn has been left stunned by the popularity of the Halloween costume that’s based on her green and gold look from the Paris Olympics (pictured)
The 37-year-old took to the stage again on Saturday night when she made a shock appearance to break at a Tones and I concert in Melbourne (pictured)
The B-girl said she will never stop breakdancing as she cleared up reports that she had announced her retirement last week
NFL star Camryn Bynu (pictured, centre) impersonated Raygun’s routine when he scored a touchdown on Monday morning, Australian time
Her popularity in the USA was underlined on Sunday when Minnesota Vikings NFL star Camryn Bynum performed parts of her infamous routine when he celebrated a touchdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The B-girl was also at pains to clear up any confusion about whether she has retired from breaking after making headlines with her comments on radio last week.
‘It’s not a decision that I did come to,’ she explained.
‘I was talking on 2DAY FM about how I’m not going to do certain competitions anymore, which didn’t seem like such a big deal because breaking is not going to be in the [2028] Olympics anyway, but I’m still going to be part of like, community jams or I’d like to go to community jams and still dance and still break.
‘I never used the word retire but you know, it just caught on to the news cycle … I’m not retiring!’
‘Honestly, try and stop me. I’m not ever going to stop dancing so if you hear that again, you know that it’s not the truth.’
Asked to compare the experience of dancing with Tones and I to the Paris Games, Gunn joked, ‘I tried to get them to use the confetti cannons at the Olympics but for some reason they just weren’t on board with that.
‘But the energy in that stadium was amazing and of course I didn’t have the same level of pressure that I had on the Olympic stage, so [it was] completely, completely different.’
When Cullen pressed her on why she dances, Raygun replied, ‘I love dancing, it just makes me feel good.
‘I feel free when I move and when I express myself, even if I’m being a total dag in my living room at home – or if I’m trying my hardest on the world stage – it is something that I’ll never stop doing.
‘Breaking for me, it’s a culture, it’s a community, it’s a lifestyle. You can’t retire from culture, you can’t retire from an art form, so that’s why I’m never going to stop.’
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