Sometimes the media are a tad too quick to idolize sportsmen especially the ones that have medals hanging around their necks.  However, in the case of the young openly gay Olympic Ice Skater Adam Rippon who has barely been out of the headlines these past few weeks, he deserves every single drop of adoration that has been piled on him.

Not only did he rise to the bait of the virulently anti-gay Mike Pence who was trying to score a poor political point off him, but he had the common decency to explain why there was no point in meeting with the Vice President. This was one of many answers  Rippon gave Ellen Degeneris who was unashamedly in having a  mini love-fest with him on her TV show the other day.

First, he explained how excited he was with his new role as a Youth Ambassador for GLAAD helping LGBT teenagers and young people, and then prompted by Ellen, started to confess all the crushes he had on unobtainable straight men as make-believe boyfriends.

Rippin is articulate and passionate about life and really enjoying his moment in the spotlight, which we think is going to last a very long time.  He is as cute as hell and undeniably charming, it’s no wonder at all that Sally Field wanted to be his mother-in-law.  Take a look at these two clips.