G Flip will join girlfriend Chrishell Stause on Selling Sunset despite trolling
Australian musician G Flip will appear on-screen with Selling Sunset star Chrishell Sause, with the reality TV realtor declaring the pair are refusing to let haters steal their joy.
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G FLIP will feature on the upcoming sixth season of Selling Sunset, despite “flood of trolling,” the Aussie musician and non-binary advocate has received since making their relationship with reality TV realtor Chrishell Stause public.
“Of course, we had supportive messages, Stause, 41, tells the new issue of Vogue Australia. “Every day I’m seeing, like, three positive comments and then hundreds of puke emojis and midlife crisis comments. At first, it felt so heavy, like, ‘What have you done?’ because it brought all this negativity to G’s life.”
After televising her divorce, then subsequent breakup with Selling Sunset boss Jason Oppenheim, Stause is acutely aware of the pitfalls of sharing her private life — and now the additional scrutiny that comes with being in her first openly queer relationship.
In a tell-all interview for Vogue’s February Pride issue, she even admits that following a first kiss with G Flip at an LA house party, she “apologise[d] for being straight,” when they asked her out.
But the attraction was undeniable and the pair began casually dating, although Stause was signed up to a lucrative dating show, in which she was meant to find a man.
“I was not letting myself fall too hard,” Flip said, “because I’m like ‘I’m gonna have to say goodbye to Chrishell and let her go find her person”.
By the time they confessed they’d fallen in love with another, each found their fears and feelings mirrored back at them.
The decision to appear on Netflix’s juggernaut show together, which will also feature the American cast’s recent holiday Down Under, is a sign of the couple’s security.
“We could have kept everything quiet,” Flip begins.
“But then they win,” Stause finishes; “They quiet you and take your voice.”
“I feel like you get to an age and you’re supposed to know it all by then, but there is no age where you know it all, because you’re always evolving,” Stause said of delving into the LGBTQ+ community in her 40s.
“And this is the perfect example of a relationship that a few years ago I wouldn’t have thought was possible.”
Asked what the highlight of 2022 was, Flip puts aside co-hosting the ARIAs, and performing the Aussie summer festival circuit, and an AFL Grand Final.
“What I’m super-proud of is Chrishell speaking as an ally for the non-binary community, and how she speaks on being queer and her identity.”
Vogue Australia’s February 2023 issue is out on February 6th.