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

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

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

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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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Here’s when Drag Race UK season 6 premieres on the BBC

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“Check your engines and assemble the crew,” because we have a release date for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.  According to the BBC, season six will sashay onto our screens on Thursday 26 September at 8pm. As always, it will air simultaneously on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer. The channel also revealed that season five, which memorably saw Ginger Johnson take the crown, “racked up the most BBC Three brand viewer hours with all previous five series acquiring 79.8M requests on BBC iPlayer, continuing to establish the title as a much…

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Drag Race UK: Major guest judges revealed for season 6

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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

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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

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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

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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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Ncuti Gatwa’s version of Doctor Who “chimes with queer energy”

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Ncuti Gatwa has effortlessly shut down critics of his Doctor Who casting. The British actor, who memorably rose to fame with his performance as Eric Effiong on Netflix’s Sex Education, has succeeded Jodie Whittaker as the BBC sci-fi drama’s Fifteenth Doctor. Gatwa made his debut in ‘The Giggle’ in the show’s 60th anniversary specials (9 December 2023), before starring in his first full episode, ‘The Church on Ruby Road’, on Christmas Day.  As the franchise’s first-ever Black and queer actor to take on the iconic title character, Gatwa’s performance was met with universal critical…

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I Kissed a Girl: Meet the contestants on the BBC’s queer female dating show

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Sapphics, rise! The BBC has unveiled the 10 contestants competing on I Kissed a Girl. The queer female equivalent of last year’s I Kissed a Boy, which memorably made history as the UK’s first-ever same-sex dating series, it is set to premiere on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer from Sunday 5 May. In the same vein as its predecessor, the first episode of I Kissed a Girl introduces 10 contestants who will be matched up and, upon meeting each other for the first time, share a kiss. Throughout the course of…

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