Real fame and/or notoriety await!
Stephanie Gilmore is, truly, a surf icon. Winningest female competitor of all time, very picture of grace and flow, hero to boys and girls everywhere. Last season, you certainly recall her basement-to-penthouse run through the World Surf League’s Finals Day there on Lower Trestles’ cobbled stone. Eight million (and counting) fans watched her dispatch one challenger after another until hoisting the trophy at the end.
And she will start this 2023 season as the one to beat except might her focus be slightly shifted? Not so surf-centric? In a stunning move, it was revealed days ago that the eight-time champion has signed with the YMU Talent Agency. According to film industry source Variety:
At YMU she will be repped by the group’s LA-based executive manager Alex Frankel, who will work with Gilmore across film, entertainment, publishing, IP and brand development, live events, marketing, digital and social strategy and Web3. Frankel will also work with Gilmore’s manager and sister Whitney Gilmore and NC Management’s Nikki Craig to oversee Gilmore’s surfing and Olympic agenda.
“I met Steph when I played at Australia’s ‘Big Day Out’ music festival in 2009,” said Frankel. “Since then, it’s been a pleasure to watch her become an eight times world surfing champion and Olympic athlete – as well as to use her platform to advocate equal pay for female athletes. It goes without saying, but it’s a true privilege to represent Stephanie in this next chapter across literature, film, music, brand endorsements, and whatever else she dreams up. On behalf of the larger YMU team, I enthusiastically welcome Steph and can’t wait to add value to her already astonishing career.”
Literature, film, music and wow!
Making sure Gilmore is in good hands, I searched through YMU’s roster and was shocked to discover they represent Alex Jones.
Stunning.
Further searching, though, learned me that Alex Jones is also a female Welsh television host not only a controversial founder of InfoWars.
YMU also calls The Voice judge Simon Cowell, the pop punk band Blink-182 David Walliams and Matt Lucas its own.
Did you ever watch Little Britain starred in by Walliams and Lucas?
Very funny.
Bravo to Gilmore and I am excited to watch her silver screen turn.
And/or bombastic fire starter one.
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I, for one, would love to see Steph Gilmore become a female Australian Alex Jones.
Having spent just enough time in Alabama going to a football game to experience that world, I wonder if the Bogans can match the rednecks in Alabama? Could there be a TV game show in the future featuring these two species in epic battles of intellect, car repair and moonshine consumption? Saw a promo for MILF Island recently so why not Bogans v Bama rednecks next?
Jim Craig might have something to say about that, and I wouldn’t fuck with a guy that rides horses off cliffs!
They do love it over here don’t they. Think its the cheap booze. Take them to rite aid and its all over.
Some one has to say it
Fuck the pipe masters
Ohh fuck me.
YMU might convince her to surf some lefts sometime.
cosmic children
You wish
i didn’t bother to check swell angle(s)…”What’s your vector, Hector?”
The less Pedos here the better
Woman from Snowy River would have me signing up for whatever steaming service purchased. Great call.
I only watch Little Britain.
THIS! Stab rarely gets my attention as I come ot BG to escape from the reality of mainstream sites
I know more than a few insane Aussies who have settled in the US. Love their in your face unfiltered shit talk!
She has been living in Malibu for years
Little britain kicks ass
Mi ese
Como?
¿Como?
Primero aprender espanhol
Hablo Español.
Portuguese is just Spanish being spoken by a drunk Frenchman.
That is a brilliant “Alex Jones” tie in, Chas. You’re the master. Pretty sure there is no social upside to your skill but there is no denying your talent.
I would love it if the WSL could get Alex jones in to call some heats. Assuming he knows nothing of surfing, could he possibly weave some conspiracy theory about how surfers are secretly tied to George Soros and are just putting up a fun loving vibe to trick us into a real prison planet?
Zero upside except for my own chuckling each and every day. Thanks for chuckling along!