E! News revealed the identity of his partner.Supporting Kenworthy on the slopes at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado in late January was Adam Umhoefer, a foundation executive at Creative Artists Agency.
The men were snapped kissing and the pic was shared online.Related: Gus Kenworthy confirmed for Winter Olympics, secret boyfriend revealedAccording to a source, Kenworthy and Umhoefer (pronounced oomhayfur) have actually been an item for the past two years and live together in Los Angeles.Now, in a new interview with GQ, ahead of the Winter Olympics, Kenworthy made mention of his “boyfriend” when asked if he planned to adopt any dogs in Beijing (he famously adopted several in Sochi in 2014).“My boyfriend’s like, ‘We’re not bringing a dog back’.
And I was like, ‘No, we definitely are’. And he’s like, ‘We really are not’. We’ll see.”In a video shot to accompany the magazine interview, Kenworthy also answered some questions about himself that he found online.At the 4.35 mark, he answers a question about his relationship status when shown a photo of him with Lil Nax X, and says, “I am taken.
I have a boyfriend. Unfortunately, it’s not Lil Nas X. Sorry to my boyfriend! But yeah, taken.”He did not name Umhoefer.In the piece in GQ, Kenworthy talked at length about his decision to switch from Team USA to Team GB for his third and final Olympics.Kenworthy was born in Chelmsford, England.