RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is returning with the upcoming fourth season!
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Drag Race UK legend Tayce opened up about homophobia still being "rife" across the country, claiming she was blocked from having gay friends visit her hotel rooms while on tour by "judgey" reception staff.
Tayce made the shocking admission whilst riding around Manchester in a Carpool Karaoke-style chat with cricketing hero Freddie Flintoff, with both in the city during Pride celebrations last week. The star of season two of the hit drag show candidly revealed there had been a couple of occasions on tour where she'd encountered staff who refused to let her take her friends up to her room as she got out of drag.
Although the 28-year-old wasn't phased by the incidents, meeting up with her friends whilst socialising later on those evenings, she fears the experience could make some LGBT couples feel scared or ashamed. Tayce said: "I've had a few experiences where I've been on tour and I've got to the hotel that I'm staying at and had two of my gay friends come over.
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"Once in Birmingham we were in a student accommodation area. I'd just finished a show and got back to my hotel to de-drag. They came over for a little drink. The people behind the desk took a look at the three of us and were like 'no, absolutely not going to happen'. I'm like 'why, these are my friends? It's my hotel room, I'm allowed to have whoever I want in it'.
"[But it's been] 'No sorry, not going to happen' and it just seemed very judgey, very homophobic, which makes me sad."
Explaining the situation, Tayce said 'from the way they were looking at me' the staff might have thought the group were going to have sex.
Adding: "Even if
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is returning with the upcoming fourth season!
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Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK star Bimini has released their second official single titled ‘Tommy’s Dream’.– Read more: Soundtrack Of My Life: ‘Drag Race UK’ star Bimini Bon BoulashReleased via Relentless Records, ‘Tommy’s Dream’ is an upbeat offering that Bimini has described as being about reflection.“It’s optimistic but also comes from a place of vulnerability and aspiration,” Bimini said of the song. “It’s about going back to childhood innocence and the hope you have at that time.”BBimini added: “‘Tommy’s Dream’ is the perfect track to introduce people to what music I’ve been working on and where I’ve been for the last year,” Bimini said.
Excitement for the upcoming fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is at fever pitch after the cast were announced last week, but just because we’ve got 12 brand new queens to get to know, it doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the cast of season three.Especially as runner-up Kitty Scott-Claus, who is currently appearing on Celebrity Masterchef, has lifted the lid on a series of, frankly, jaw-dropping behind-the-scenes Drag Race UK secrets.Kitty spilled some piping hot tea during a recent appearance on the Saving Grace podcast as she revealed what it’s REALLY like to film the BBC Three show and it’s not quite as fabulous as you might expect.She told host Grace Keeling, “Once you finish filming they put you back into your hotel rooms separately and they sellotape the door. They do it on the outside so they know if you’ve left the room.“You can hear them doing it and they would sign it so they knew if you’d been out your room – and they used to have people watching in the corridor.”Kitty also revealed the cast weren’t allowed to have their phones during filming so that there was “no outside world influence”.As for RuPaul, the iconic drag Glamazon might be known for her incredible outfits, but Kitty let slip that Mama Ru actually wears jogging bottoms behind the judges desk.“Yeah, that’s true,” she confirmed.
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Culture Club frontman and former The Voice Australia mentor, Boy George is at the centre of a heated debate surrounding his upcoming appearance as a guest judge on season four of Drag Race UK.Trigger Warning: This story discusses assault and transphobic comments, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The singer’s appearance has upset many Drag Race fans due to his checkered past, with a conviction for beating and imprisoning a male escort in 2007 as well as for making a series of transphobic statements in 2020.
FKA twigs, Years & Years‘ Olly Alexander and comedian Aisling Bea are among the new guest judges announced for the next season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.The fourth season of the UK edition of the long-running drag show will also welcome Spice Girls‘ Mel B, Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham, Boy George and more.Announcements are expected on a release date for the new season of Drag Race UK “very soon” according to a post on the show’s official Twitter account, and ahead of the reveal of a premiere date, a teaser video has been shared with the tagline: “Bring it to the runway.”Check that out below, along with the full list of season four celebrity judges.Bring it to the runw4y!