“I think you can expect a whole load of fabulousness,” says Layton Williams of Bad Education’s newly released fourth season. “It is very, very camp.” After playing Stephen Carmichael in the show’s initial run from 2012 to 2014, the star is back - though this time viewers will see him teaching drama at Abbey Grove School instead of causing it as a pupil. The latest episodes follow his character as he and fellow OG Mitchell (Charlie Wernham) each grapple with being on the other side of the desk as they educate an all-new Class K. Taking the lead from Jack Whitehall in the relaunch of Bad Education, Layton serves as a co-writer and adds that the revival is “different” and viewers will either “get behind it” or they won’t. One thing everyone will be able to get behind, though, is the surprise cameo from a certain winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race - Bianca Del Rio. Appearing in the second episode, the queen praises the series for its authentic depictions of LGBTQ+ stories in the context of the real world: “That to me is what’s so great because it is real life, you know what I mean?” she states. “It’s not like some artistic stretch of a struggle and some big issue. Walk down the street and try not to hit a gay person. I live in Palm Springs, they're everywhere.”
Tell us a bit about the episode Bianca makes a cameo in.
I think you can expect a whole load of fabulousness. It
