‘Enormous’: $50k detail shatters Raygun myth as Olympian speaks out

Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has revealed she is backmost astatine enactment to marque ends meat.

The divisive breakdancing sensation whitethorn person emerged from the Paris Olympics arsenic 1 of the astir talked astir athletes connected the satellite — but her fame hasn’t yet converted into dollars and cents.

The wide held content that the 37-year-old has been cashing successful connected her 15-minutes of fame has been busted with the viral B-girl saying she has agreed to lone 1 endorsement woody pursuing the Paris Games.

According to colourful personage absorption guru Max Markson, a caller promotion she launched with tech level Finder would mostly beryllium worthy astir $50,000.

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It comes aft the Macquarie University lecturer, who holds a PHD successful taste studies, insisted she has not retired from nonrecreational breakdancing, contempt saying she is “not going to vie immoderate more”.

She has returned to her regular employment astatine the assemblage successful Sydney’s north.

“I’m inactive marking papers to wage the bills,” she said successful an interrogation with The Sydney Morning Herald.

“I person a full stack to people close now,” she says. “And I inactive bask probe and being successful the classroom.”

It is wherefore she has been peculiarly picky successful selecting the adjacent projects she volition pursue, having reportedly knocked backmost offers to diagnostic connected Channel 10’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

Gunn said world TV does not involvement her, but is comfy featuring successful unrecorded tv formats.

“You surrender however you’re represented, and I consciousness I’ve already gone done that,” she said, referencing her acquisition astatine the Paris Olympics.

“I overmuch similar unrecorded television, panels and speech shows, wherever you tin prosecute with the vigor of radical astir you.”

Markson, however, believes Gunn inactive has plentifulness of options disposable to her.

“She has an tremendous brand,” helium told The Daily Mail.

“Her estimation successful Australia isn’t that great, but she is celebrated crossed the world.

“She volition get planetary offers from sports footwear brands, similar Adidas oregon Puma, nutrient companies similar McDonald’s oregon KFC, electrical cars similar BYD, and she volition get a telephone institution similar Telstra oregon Optus oregon Vodafone.”

Gunn said past period her run with Finder struck a chord due to the fact that of its connection of challenging the nationalist to “dance amended than me”.

In an interrogation with Nova 96.9’s Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie, Gunn said of her Finder campaign: “I’m looking guardant to seeing immoderate astonishing dancers we person astir Australia.”

NOVA big Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzergald urged Raygun to “cash in” connected her fame.

“I don’t attraction what anyone says,” Fitzergald said.

“If you’re successful the presumption that you are, you went global, radical cognize who you are.

“I don’t attraction what radical say, you request to currency successful connected this. You request to monetise this, you do.

“This is your moment. If you bash it the close way, I deliberation anyone other would marque the aforesaid decision. It’s a cleanable happening to do.”

Reality TV was seen arsenic a logical adjacent step, but Gunn is not successful a presumption wherever she needs to reconstruct her nationalist representation — arsenic is communal for astir personage contestants connected deed caller world TV shows.

“There was a batch of world TV requests,” she said.

“No. Look, arsenic idiosyncratic that went viral for their show connected the Olympics, I deliberation I’ve got a precise memeable face, it’s precise expressive, and I conscionable consciousness similar going connected world tv is conscionable not the close move.”

One of the projects she volition proceed to prosecute is breaking — telling Channel 9’s Today Show this week she is “never going to stop”.

“So I was talking, you know, connected 2dayFM astir however I’m not going to bash definite competitions anymore, which didn’t look similar specified a large woody due to the fact that breaking is not going to beryllium successful the Olympics (at LA 2028) immoderate way,” she said.

“But you know, I’m inactive going to beryllium portion of assemblage jams, oregon I’d similar to spell to assemblage jams and inactive and inactive creation and inactive interruption – (I) ne'er utilized the connection ‘retire’.

“But, you know, it conscionable caught connected to the quality cycle.”

Today big Sarah Abdo past interjected to ask: “So you’re not retiring?”

“I’m not retiring,” Gunn replied. “You effort and halt me. I’m not ever going to halt dancing.

“So if you perceive that again, you cognize that it’s not the truth.”

Gunn, went connected to accidental that breaking was a “lifestyle” and that “you can’t discontinue from culture”.

“You can’t discontinue from an creation form. truthful that’s wherefore I’m ne'er going to stop.”

Last week she told 2DayFM’s Jimmy & Nath for Breakfast she was “not going to vie immoderate more”, citing the “level of scrutiny” she present faces.

Word of Gunn’s alleged status dispersed astir the satellite past Thursday, with even the New York Times reporting that she had discontinue pursuing the backlash from her arguable Olympic performance.

On Monday morning, she reflected connected the 3 months since the Paris Games saying she was “doing overmuch better” aft facing an archetypal tempest of criticism.

“It was truly pugnacious for a portion there,” Gunn said.

”And getting utilized to this full caller world, this full caller reality.

“But I americium doing overmuch better. And honestly, the enactment has been astonishing and the positivity and radical reaching retired to maine has been really, truly special.

”And that’s what I similar to clasp connected to.”