Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has revealed she is again at work to make ends meet.
The divisive breakdancing sensation might have emerged from the Paris Olympics as probably the most talked about athletes on the planet — however her fame hasn’t but transformed into {dollars} and cents.
The broadly held perception that the 37-year-old has been cashing in on her 15-minutes of fame has been busted with the viral B-girl saying she has agreed to just one endorsement deal following the Paris Video games.
In keeping with colourful movie star administration guru Max Markson, a current promotion she launched with tech platform Finder would usually be price round $50,000.
It comes after the Macquarie College lecturer, who holds a PHD in cultural research, insisted she has not retired from skilled breakdancing, regardless of saying she is “not going to compete any more.”
She has returned to her common employment on the college in Sydney’s north.
“I’m still marking papers to pay the bills,” she stated in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald.
“I have a whole stack to mark right now,” she says. “And I still enjoy research and being in the classroom.”
It’s why she has been significantly choosy in choosing the following initiatives she’s going to pursue, having reportedly knocked again provides to function on Channel 10’s “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.”
Gunn stated actuality TV doesn’t curiosity her, however is comfy that includes in reside tv codecs.
“You surrender how you’re represented, and I feel I’ve already gone through that,” she stated, referencing her expertise on the Paris Olympics.
“I much prefer live television, panels and talk shows, where you can engage with the energy of people around you.”
Markson, nonetheless, believes Gunn nonetheless has loads of choices obtainable to her.
“She has an enormous brand,” he advised The Day by day Mail.
“Her repute in Australia isn’t that nice, however she is legendary internationally.
“She will get international offers from sports shoe brands, like Adidas or Puma, food companies like McDonald’s or KFC, electric cars like BYD, and she will get a phone company like Telstra or Optus or Vodafone.”
Gunn stated final month her marketing campaign with Finder struck a chord due to its message of difficult the general public to “dance better than me.”
In an interview with Nova 96.9’s “Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie,” Gunn stated of her Finder marketing campaign: “I’m looking forward to seeing some amazing dancers we have around Australia.”
NOVA host Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzergald urged Raygun to “cash in” on her fame.
“I don’t care what anyone says,” Fitzergald stated.
“For those who’re within the place that you’re, you went world, folks know who you might be.
“I don’t care what folks say, you might want to money in on this. You must monetise this, you do.
“This is your moment. If you do it the right way, I think anyone else would make the same decision. It’s a perfect thing to do.”
Actuality TV was seen as a logical subsequent step, however Gunn just isn’t able the place she wants to revive her public picture — as is widespread for many movie star contestants on hit current actuality TV exhibits.
“There was a lot of reality TV requests,” she stated.
“No. Look, as someone that went viral for their performance on the Olympics, I think I’ve got a very memeable face, it’s very expressive, and I just feel like going on reality television is just not the right move.”
One of many initiatives she’s going to proceed to pursue is breaking — telling Channel 9’s At the moment Present this week she is “never going to stop.”
“So I was talking, you know, on 2dayFM 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 Olympics (at LA 2028) any way,” she stated.
“However you recognize, I’m nonetheless going to be a part of neighborhood jams, or I’d prefer to go to neighborhood jams and nonetheless and nonetheless dance and nonetheless break – (I) by no means used the phrase ‘retire’.
“But, you know, it just caught on to the news cycle.”
At the moment host Sarah Abdo then interjected to ask: “So you’re not retiring?”
“I’m not retiring,” Gunn replied. “You try to cease me. I’m not ever going to cease dancing.
“So if you hear that again, you know that it’s not the truth.”
Gunn, went on to say that breaking was a “lifestyle” and that “you can’t retire from culture.”
“You can’t retire from an art form. so that’s why I’m never going to stop.”
Final week she advised 2DayFM’s Jimmy & Nath for Breakfast she was “not going to compete any more”, citing the “level of scrutiny” she now faces.
Phrase of Gunn’s so-called retirement unfold world wide final Thursday, with even the New York Instances reporting that she had stop following the backlash from her controversial Olympic efficiency.
On Monday morning, she mirrored on the three months for the reason that Paris Video games saying she was “doing much better” after dealing with an preliminary storm of criticism.
“It was really tough for a while there,” Gunn stated.
”And getting used to this entire new world, this entire new actuality.
“However I’m doing significantly better. And actually, the help has been wonderful and the positivity and folks reaching out to me has been actually, actually particular.
”And that’s what I like to carry on to.”
