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Drag Race UK: Zahirah Zapanta on how she would’ve broken the “Asian curse” on Snatch Game

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In her GAY TIMES exit interview, Drag Race UK star Zahirah Zapanta discusses her “traumatic” final episode and Oscar-worthy impersonation for the Snatch Game. Zahirah Zapanta may not be the UK’s Next Drag Superstar, but it’s fine. As the Filipino Goddess demurely (and correctly) tells GAY TIMES, “I’m so fierce it hurts. It hurts so much. It’s crazy being this fierce.” Girl groups made a return on this week’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, with the ten remaining queens writing ghoulish lyrics and recording chilling vocals in hopes of securing the UK’s Halloween…

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

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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

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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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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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Drag Race UK champion Tia Kofi is ready for the next winners’ season

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Drag Race UK vs the World winner Tia Kofi reflects on her herstoric win, her proudest moments from the series and the queens she wants to compete with on the franchise’s next winners’ season. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN SPECIAL THANKS TO MARY JONES AND ELOISE LONGDEN AT THE BBC The world’s supreme Anne Boleyn impersonator (and supporter of Natalie Cassidy’s trailblazing artistry) has just made herstory. As well as becoming the first queen to win four challenges on a vs the World season, Tia Kofi has injected some much-needed diversity into the Drag…

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Drag Race UK: Hannah Conda and Tia Kofi clear up “silly” narrative over wins

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Ahead of the Drag Race UK vs the World finale, Hannah Conda and Tia Kofi reflect on their respective journeys, straighten out a particular narrative from “bastards on the internet” and feel the rain on their skin. That last part will make sense later. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS SPECIAL THANKS TO MARY JONES AND ELOISE LONGDEN AT THE BBC ‘Demolished’ is an apt word for Hannah Conda and Tia Kofi’s performances on this season of Drag Race UK vs the World. With a respective three and four challenge wins, the Australian and British duo will make…

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