Team GB skier Kirsty Muir narrowly missed out on winning the nation’s first Winter Olympic medal on Monday in the women’s freeski slopestyle final on Monday.
And as fans watched her flipping through the air on the television, they were surprised to learn her boyfriend has also been a BBC TV star.
Muir, 21 from Aberdeen, is in a relationship with Matt Harris, who appeared on series one of The Traitors.
Matt was best known on the series for his attraction to fellow player Alex Gray – and bursting into tears when it was revealed she was actually already in a relationship with another player.
Scotland’s Muir scored 76.05 on her final run in the women’s ski slopestyle competition, agonisingly short of the 76.46 of Canadian third-place incumbent Megan Oldham, with just the top ranked two to go.
Kirsty Muir, who just missed out on an Olympics medal, is in a relationship with Matt Harris
Muir is pictured in the Women’s Freeski Slopestyle Final on Monday afternoon
Olympian Muir and boyfriend Harris are pictured before Monday’s event on his Instagram page
Fourth place will come as a relative disappointment for the 19-year-old Muir, who broke down in tears afterwards, considering she had won the prestigious Aspen X Games two weeks ago with a score of 93.66.
That would have been enough to win Olympic gold with room to spare, with Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud retaining her title with a best of 86.96, and Chinese superstar Eileen Gu second on 86.58.
Matt is pictured in his publicity shot for series one of The Traitors in the UK
He suffered an awkward moment with co-star Alex Gray, who he had a crush on
Muir had touched down on her first run and ranked sixth after a relatively safe second run that scored 63.01, with only the best of each athlete’s final runs counting towards their final ranking.
Muir, who made her Olympic debut as a 17-year-old in Beijing, will get another medal chance later in the Games when she competes in the ski Big Air.
More to follow.
