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  • GAY TIMES

    VANESSA WILLIAMS.

    Feb 28, 2020 7 minutes
    Photography Laura Allard-Fleischl
    Fashion
    Umar Sarwar
    Words
    Sam Damshenas
    Hair
    Sven Bayerbach at Carol Hayes Management using Bumble & Bumble
    Makeup
    Grace Hayward using Tom Ford
    Photography Assistant
    Holly Millman
    Fashion Assistants
    Solly Warner and Sophia Bennett Post Production Anisa Cleaver
    Location
    L’Escargot, London

    ’m sure she’d probably vote for Trump just because she was probably at the wedding and he owes her a favour,” Vanessa Williams says of her iconic Ugly Betty character, Wilhelmina Slater, to a room full of disappointed Mode-obsessed gays. “She probably hooked Melania up with her inaugural outfit too!” We’ve just spent the past two hours on set watching the Tony, Emmy and Grammy-nominated icon prove why she made history as the first African-American woman to win the title of Miss America. ‘Yaas!’ and the gayest of finger clicks can be heard as Vanessa serves opulent 1940s glamazon - an opulent 1940s glamazon who is about to make her West End debut in a revival of Olivier Award-winning play City of Angels. From 6 March at the Garrick Theatre, Vanessa will step into the infamous role of Carla/Alaura in Josie Rourke’s critically-acclaimed, film noirin-spired production, which focuses on a crime novelist working on a screenplay adaptation

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