Scott Moir can’t seem to stop talking about Tessa Virtue
The Olympian confessed that he spent “way too long” speaking about his former skating partner on his wedding day
Olympic fever is in the air, and it feels like only yesterday that the entire country—the entire world, really—was hard-core shipping Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue. Back at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Canadian ice dancing pair effectively leveraged a moony-eyed Are they or aren’t they? vibe and set our collective loins alight with their gold-medal-winning performance to “Moulin Rouge.”
“It’s a compliment,” Virtue told Ellen Degeneres shortly afterward, when asked about the global obsession with their relationship status. “What we portray on the ice is really important to us. We love getting into character. We love telling a story.”
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Moir and Virtue retired from pro skating in 2019. Now, Moir is in Milan, coaching Olympians from both Canada and the US. But he still found time to do an interview on the surprisingly spicy Skate Ontario podcast, Let’s Talk About It, where he admitted that he “spent way too long on my wedding day talking about Tessa.”
Moir met his wife, Jackie Mascarin, long before the Scott and Tessa era—they were skating partners when they were just kids. Based on the podcast interview, it seems like the point of his wedding speech was to convey how his time with Virtue had turned him into a man worthy of his now-wife. Which, yeah—you can see how that may have been ill-advised.
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Of course, the internet has taken this stroll down memory lane as an excuse to recirculate photos from a shoot Moir and Virtue once did for a Canadian bridal mag, which, through a 2026 lens, kind of feels like cringe-worthy marital cosplay.
Moir’s actual wedding was in 2022. Virtue married her NHL boyfriend, Leafs player Morgan Rielly, the following year.
In the same interview, Moir revealed that he and Virtue still have “long conversations” on a regular basis. And then he went on to gush over Virtue’s restrained sexuality. (Yes, seriously.)
“When I look back, she could be the sexiest thing you’ve ever seen, but still classy, never vulgar. I think even when I say ‘the sexiest,’ I think that just cheapens it just a bit too much,” he said. “She just always had this class about her that, I think if it was just me out there doing ‘Moulin Rouge,’ it probably would have crossed the line.”
Uh, Scott…you’re doing it again.
Courtney Shea is a freelance journalist in Toronto. She started her career as an intern at Toronto Life and continues to contribute frequently to the publication, including her 2022 National Magazine Award–winning feature, “The Death Cheaters,” her regular Q&As and her recent investigation into whether Taylor Swift hung out at a Toronto dive bar (she did not). Courtney was a producer and writer on the 2022 documentary The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, based on her 2014 Toronto Life magazine feature “The Yorkville Swindler.”
