Aussie B-girl Raygun (Rachael Gunn) became a viral sensation after her breakdancing attempt at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and now the dancing professor has apparently signed with a talent agency.
Gunn, who has amassed almost 200,000 Instagram followers, has added Born Bred Talent’s general manager Stephanie Scicchitano’s contact info to her bio this week.
The move comes following rumours of an appearance on Channel 10’s “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!,” with a source allegedly telling New Idea that producers were gunning for Raygun to appear on the show’s 11th season.
“Raygun would be the ideal campmate,” they said. “The public will want to hear her story in the jungle. Love her or loathe her, she has everyone talking. It’s these viral moments and water-cooler conversations that IAC will want to capitalise on.”
Born Bred Talent also happens to represent Olympic boxer Harry Garside, who appeared as a contestant on the ninth season of “I’m a Celebrity…” last year, and came second behind netball player Liz Ellis.
Some fear Raygun may have left it too late to capitalise on the attention of her Olympic debut — which had everyone from Adele, Jimmy Fallon, and Fatboy Slim talking about her signature “sprinkler” and kangaroo hop moves.
Gunn broke her silence with a social media post last week, before she made a cameo at Sunday night’s TV Week Logie Awards, and What So Not has extended an invitation for her to attend next weekend’s sold-out Bunnings Rave with Peking Duk in Melbourne.
“If she was taking this seriously, she should have already done five international talk shows by now,” a public relations expert told Daily Mail Australia. “Raygun has had some of the biggest stars in the world talking about her and doing impressions of her. (But) the best her management have come up with is a pre-recorded message on the Logies.”
It has also emerged that university lecturer Gunn published an 18-page research document in 2023 entitled “The Australian breaking scene and the Olympic Games: The possibilities and politics of sportification,” in which she detailed how the Paris Olympics was the perfect opportunity for a media frenzy around breaking.
One of the paper’s interviewees, Lowe Napalan, said: “Good thing about the Olympics, and the best thing, is the media attention. So, we can do a repeat of, let’s say, what happened with […] Rock Steady [Crew], the whole media boom, and then everyone started breaking.
“So there’s potential that that can happen again with the Olympics, which is what we really want to utilise to get those numbers in the community.”