Raygun tapped to MC $100-a-ticket Sydney fundraiser

The Raygun redemption tour appears to be gathering pace.

Just days after Netflix dropped the trailer for its documentary on Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn, the Australian Olympian has booked another date with the spotlight - this time as MC of a Cancer Council fundraiser on Sydney’s Lower North Shore.

Gunn will host Sip and Swap in Lane Cove, a $100-a-ticket evening where guests hand over their quality pre-loved fashion, grab a drink and then, essentially, shop through everybody else’s wardrobe.

It’s all for a good cause, of course, with proceeds supporting Cancer Council.

 

 

 

 

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From Paris to the pop-up shop

Organisers have described Gunn as “One of Australia’s most talked-about athletes following the Paris 2024 Games”, adding that she will “be bringing her trademark humour and energy to a community fundraiser”.

Gunn became one of the defining, and certainly most debated, Australian faces of the Paris Olympics after her breaking performance spawned headlines, memes and a global pile-on that stretched well beyond the Games themselves.

Now, two years later, Raygun is getting a second act.

Netflix recently unveiled the trailer for Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly, which revisits Gunn’s Olympic experience and the extraordinary backlash that followed.

Social media has its say (again)

Not everyone appears ready for the Raygun redemption arc just yet.

The announcement of Gunn as MC quickly drew comments online, with some questioning the choice and others unable to resist the obvious breaking-meets-microphone gag.

“Who was their first choice for MC?” one person wrote.

Another was more brutal: “Probably time to ditch In The Cove.”

And then came the inevitable: “MCing as in rap?”

A swap, a sip and a silent auction

The premise of Sip and Swap is simple: guests donate quality pre-loved clothing, shoes and accessories ahead of the event, which are then sorted and styled into a pop-up “shop”.

Each $100 ticket comes with one token to exchange for an item, with extra tokens available for anyone who spots more than one treasure. There’ll also be wine, nibbles and a signature Daffodil Day cocktail.

Alongside Gunn, the evening’s line-up includes a personal style consultant, a colour expert (what?) and, of course, a tarot card reader. 

Organisers have promised a program that is “inspirational and helpful” and, by their own admission, “downright hilarious”.