Ice dancing king Paul Poirier keeps dazzling with his medal-winning routines & stunning lewks
fifth straight ice dance title this past weekend at Skate Canada International, where they scored 214.84 total points in their first event of the season, a crucial campaign for the duo.
Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.While they were originally unsure about gunning for the 2026 Winter Olympics, they’re now committed to making a run.“We had spent the first two seasons of the quad feeling really unsure as we went into our break about what we wanted to do and whether or not we wanted to continue,” Poirier told the CBC. “This year it was a little bit easier to make that decision.”Poirier and Gilles came out strong, wow’ing onlookers with their moves and lewks.
They came out with their own take on Barbie and Ken, with Gilles repping one of the beauty icon’s classic appearances, and Poirier wearing a backless red suit. “The costumes are really a building block to presenting a concept, a theme that we’re trying to interpret on the ice,” Gilles said in an interview. “I had a lot of fun with the Barbie, I kid you not… It was so much fun to go back and look at retro Barbie.”Poirier, for his part, says he drew inspiration from a local Toronto designer, Andrew Coimbra, who has his own line of backless trench coats. “I just thought it would be an interesting way to subvert the suit,” he said. “This program is so ambiguous in a lot of ways.
It’s a tango, but it’s not a tango. And the lyrics don’t really make sense if you pay attention to them. The story is ambiguous.
