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“I was mind-blown”: Drag Race UK star Actavia on RuPaul’s comments and “tricky” Rusical

In her GAY TIMES exit interview, Welsh dragon Actavia reflects on her Drag Race UK experience, from her lauded lip-sync battles to her Geri Halliwell homage and status as RuPaul’s new favourite. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS SPECIAL THANKS TO JASMINE ALOMA AND SOFIE VAN DE GRAMPEL AT THE BBC With her addictive Welsh charm, frenetic energy and camp-as-tits sense-of-humour, Actavia rapidly sashayed into Drag Race UK‘s upper echelons of fan-faves. Although she didn’t leave the competition with a RuPeter Badge, she earned viral infamy with her barrister realness and lip-sync smackdowns, both of which are revered as two of the…

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Drag Race UK: Actavia issues statement on “twink” controversy

Actavia has set the record straight regarding her “twink” comments on Drag Race UK. Spoilers ahead. This week, the season six cast were split into two “ghoul groups” and were tasked with writing, recording and performing verses to the spooktacular original track, ‘Dead or Alive.’ Charra Tea, Rileasa Slaves, Lill, Kiki Snatch, and La Voix formed ‘Ghoul Group One’ aka The Things, while Chanel O’Conor, Zahirah Zapanta, Marmalade, Actavia and Kyran Thrax made up ‘Ghoul Group Two’ who later established themselves as Dracula’s Child. While the episode was full of…

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‘A new direction for the franchise’: Drag Race UK stars on “mind-blowing” season 6

e WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS DESIGN BY JACK ROWE SPECIAL THANKS TO BBC’S JASMINE ALOMA AND SOFIE VAN DE GRAMPEL Babes, let’s all take a moment to reflect and thank Michelle Visage for sacrificing her sanity to live in a claustrophobic hell-hole with Katie Hopkins and Perez Hilton on Celebrity Big Brother. Without the Seduction singer’s valiance in trying to secure a British broadcaster for Drag Race UK, the United Kingdolls failed to bing, bang, bong popular culture, the Angels of the North’s shoplifting tendencies have landed them in jail as…

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