MICHELLE VISAGE.
After “five bloody years” of meeting with televisions commissioners and even sharing a bedroom with Perez Hilton and Katie Hopkins for a month - the horror! - Michelle Visage has finally got what she wants: a UK version of Emmy-winning reality-competition, RuPaul’s Drag Race. “You’re going to die, I’m telling you,” Michelle says of the long-awaited series. “Just know we are celebrating all things British. I’m obsessed with your country so I was in my element.”
Drag Race UK premieres 3 October and will feature ten incredible British queens who will sashay, shantay and compete in a variety of challenges for the title of the UK’s first Drag Race Superstar.
“I don’t want them to be compared to the American queens, they have different cultures, different aesthetic, different approach,” she tells us. “Drag queens have always been about the performance and the talent, so I don’t want people to think that because they’re not highly polished and they don’t look like Aquaria, that they’re not good.”
In her first interview for the series, Michelle discusses the differences
