Random fact: Jujubee and Scott Evans have history! And, no, not that kind of history, you dirty dawg. The pair first met while working at an arts summer camp, long before Juju first donned a wig and heels and sashayed onto the stage of a gay bar, and budding actor Scott stepped in front of a camera. “So, if it was 2000 when we first met, then we would have known each other for almost…” Drag Race alumnus Jujubee pauses to recollect, thinking back to the summer they met.
“…more than half our lives — a lot. A long fucking time. Too long,” laughs Scott.
“Gurl, it’s been a really long time,” says Jujubee, astounded as she counts back the years. “I’m now realising how actually old we are. But it’s so beautiful to see where we are right now. I mean, we’ve come a long way.”
“It’s just crazy,” Scott replies. “It’s taken me 35 billion years to get here. But you have been all over the place. And I remember when I ran into you in that club, Axis, in Boston. It was, like, 2004. You were a baby dragger!”
During those early chance meetings, the pair quickly established a connection that continues to this day. While Jujubee went on to become one of Drag Race’s most beloved contestants ever, Scott enjoyed his own career on TV and in film, proudly out at a time when almost all queer people in Hollywood hid their sexuality. From playing an openly gay policeman in US soap One Life to Live, which at the time in 2009 caused a great deal of controversy, to a recurring character opposite legends Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in hit Netflix series Grace and Frankie, Scott — younger brother to Captain America (aka ‘Chris’ to him) — is ready to make his next big-screen appearance as a ‘Ken’ in the highly anticipated movie, Barbie.
In a suitably outrageously pink magazine’s annual Pride cover special…
