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“I’m so obsessed!”: Drag Race UK fans are saying the same thing about latest episode

This week’s Drag Race UK episode featured a Halloween-themed challenge, and fans are absolutely obsessed. Spoilers ahead. Following Dita Garbo’s emotional exit, the 10 remaining queens returned to the workroom to go over last week’s events. Since the Folkstone-based queen was the first queen to be eliminated, some of the ladies reflected on the high stakes of the competition. “I feel awful because she was in our team. Like, should we have done more? And it’s just really kicked in that the first queen has been eliminated,” Charra Tea said…

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“This feels refreshing”: Fans react to this week’s dramatic Drag Race UK episode

The latest Drag Race UK season six release was filled with drama, and fans absolutely loved it. Spoilers ahead. Following last week’s shocking episode, which saw Saki Yew leaving the competition due to a foot injury, the remaining queens returned to the workroom to decompress and gag over Lill’s win. “I think the others can see me as real competition now. Maybe I’m a silent assassin? Maybe I’m going to sneak up and steal all of the badges,” the Manchester queen exclaimed in a confessional. The room’s joyous mood took…

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Drag Race UK: Saki Yew is monetising her shock exit in the best possible way

Saki Yew speaks with GAY TIMES about her unforeseen exit from Drag Race UK, her planned impersonation for Snatch Game and whether she’s received an open invite for season seven. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS SPECIAL THANKS TO JASMINE ALOMA AND SOFIE VAN DE GRAMPEL AT THE BBC With her “Frankenstein” drag – aka the infusion of her Australian, Filipino and Mancunian backgrounds – Saki Yew was one of the most anticipated contestants on this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Sadly, the theatre queen’s journey came to an abrupt end in episode two when a homophobic…

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“This is insane”: Fans react to this week’s shocking Drag Race UK episode

The second episode of Drag Race UK has arrived and it was full of twists, turns and a shocking exit. Spoilers ahead. Following the events of the larger-than-life premiere, the queens returned to the workroom to gag over everyone being safe from elimination and Kyran Thrax’s win. “I feel on top of the world,” the London-based queen exclaimed. “Immunity, baby.” In an additional confessional, Kyran added: “I came in guns blazing, and it’s only going to get crazier.” The next day, the ladies met up with RuPaul to receive their…

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“Finally real telly is back”: Drag Race UK fans laud the sickening season 6 premiere

Viewers are “living” for the season six premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Major spoilers ahead. The search for ‘Britain’s Next Drag Superstar’ continued on Thursday (26 September) with 12 fierce new queens: Actavia, Chanel O’Conor, Charra Tea, Dita Garbo, Kiki Snatch, Kyran Thrax, La Voix, Lill, Marmalade, Rileasa Slaves, Saki Yew and Zahirah Zapanta. (You can read our digital cover with all 12 queens here.) Wasting no time to serve their charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent, the premiere episode kicked off with the new batch of contestants strutting into the werkroom,…

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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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Drag Race UK: Major guest judges revealed for season 6

BBC Three has announced the line-up of guest judges for the upcoming sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. According to the streamer, the series will return “this Autumn for another round of” – major aliteration incoming – “fabulousity, fun, frolics and fierce fashion”. While the queens are yet to be announced, it has been confirmed that RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Alan Carr and Graham Norton will be joined on the panel by singer-songwriters such as Alison Goldfrapp, Beverley Knight, Simon Le Bon MBE of Duran Duran, Mabel and Claire Richards. Additional…

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“FINALLY, she’s on her way”: Drag Race UK fans react to first season 6 teaser

Promo has officially started for the upcoming sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. On 23 August, the official Twitter account for the series released the first teaser for the forthcoming season. The brief visual shows satellite footage of Earth before it zooms into a city landscape. Of course, the teaser also included RuPaul’s iconic laugh. “Classified information has been intercepted. Stay tuned, racers. All will be revealed soon,” the caption read. While the clip doesn’t ruveal which British queens will stomp into the werkroom, or a release date for…

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I Kissed a Boy renewed for season 2, with Dannii Minogue to return as Cupid

Good news alert: I Kissed a Boy will be back for a second season! On 21 May, the BBC confirmed that the groundbreaking series, which made history last year as the UK’s first-ever same-sex dating show, has been renewed for a second round – with Dannii Minogue to return to her role as Cupid. “I am so excited that I’ll be back in Italy to play cupid. I can’t wait to meet the next cast when the Masseria doors open… There are so many diverse and important stories yet to…

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I Kissed a Girl’s powerful discussion about struggling to say ‘lesbian’ is so relatable

Just Like Us ambassador Lily Kirkby reflects on the cast of I Kissed a Girl’s “bold and raw conversation” about their use of the word ‘lesbian’. WORDS BY LILY KIRKBY HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN As a twenty-something lesbian with a (guilty) penchant for reality TV, who keenly followed BBC Three’s groundbreaking I Kissed a Boy when it premiered last year, it is safe to say that the announcement that Dannii Minogue would be returning to our screens this summer to host the original’s sapphic ‘sister-series’, I Kissed a Girl, had me very…

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