Gus Kenworthy is making his grand return to the Olympic stage on Friday in the Men's Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe competition. After the competition, he already has a new job lined up back in London after he finishes competing in Milan.
On Wednesday, it was announced that Kenworthy is teaming up with Alan Cumming, Billy Porter, and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season 7 star Sally TM as a producer on an off-West End show called Sugar Daddy, reports Attitude.
The one-person show centers on a man who has a summer romance in Provincetown, Massachusetts, after his partner dies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The production explores themes of grief, loss, queer identity, and a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis.
In an interview with TNT Sports, Kenworthy shared that he has a personal connection to the show. "When I was 14, I was in an accident with two of my best friends, and my best friend was killed,” he said. "It’s really funny, it’s really heartfelt, it’s moving – it’s his story about loss and resilience."
He added, "I felt like it really resonated with me, and I have felt loss too, so I was deeply, deeply moved by it."
The show, which debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and ran off-Broadway in 2023, is set to play at London's Underbelly Boulevard in Soho from March 5 to April 4. Created by and starring Sam Morrison, the new production will be directed by Amrou Al-Kadhi (Layla).
In May 2025, the gay skier, who previously won a silver medal at Sochi in 2014, announced he was coming out of retirement to compete at the Olympics once again for Team GB. "After taking a step away, I realized I miss skiing, and I really want to compete again. I didn't know if I would be able to come back after three-and-a-half years, but I knew I wouldn't be able to after seven and a half," he told ESPN. "So, it's this Olympics or nothing. I'm never going to have this opportunity again."
