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14-03-2018 10:11 PM |
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Courtney: No! I think they wouldn’t be that foolish as to. I’d tell them to back off! So I know you’ve started watching Drag Race season six. What episode are you up to?
Andrew: I’m up to episode five now. I’m finding it hard to find time to actually watch it.
Courtney: Is that Snatch Game?
Andrew: Ah no, I’ve just finished episode four, and it is the most addictive, hilarious, over-the-top, camp programme I’ve ever seen – and it’s brilliant.
Courtney: The thing about Drag Race is, when you’re there and you’re used to watching it, the seriousness when RuPaul is like, ‘The time has come for you to lip sync for your life,’ obviously it’s funny, but when you’re there it’s deathly serious. You’re desensitised to the ridiculousness of lip syncing for your life. Leah Remini was a guest judge one week and she just started laughing hysterically. None of us could work out what was funny. We were like, ‘What’s funny about lip syncing for your life? This is very serious, Leah.’ Ru was even like, ‘Everybody, this is a serious moment.’ What was your favourite part?
Andrew: When you walk in and say, ‘Is this America’s Next Top Model?’ I was like, ‘That is Shane all over!’
Courtney: When I walked into the Celebrity Big Brother house, as a tip to Drag Race I was going to say, ‘Is this Britain’s Next Top Model?’ But then my skirt fell off and I forgot.
Andrew: Yeah, sure…
Courtney: My skirt fell off!
Andrew: But yeah, I love RuPaul’s Drag Race. I don’t think I’d watch the other series because I don’t have an alliance with anyone in there. I like the show and Adore and Bianca are amazing as well.
Courtney: Andrew’s early favourites are my favourites.
Andrew: Bianca is my favourite. Adore, I don’t like her in the show, but I like her as an annoying, always got this screwed up face, and I’m sure the person behind the mask is unbelievable and really nice.
Gay Times: Andrew if you had to lip sync for your life, which song would you want to do it to?
Andrew: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor [bursts into song]. That’s also what I want to be buried to as well. Ironically.
Courtney: But you didn’t survive – you died!
Andrew: But that’s the irony of it! Speaking of Drag Race, do you think they’ll ever let a straight man compete?
Courtney: Yeah. Well, ironically… oh here we go… I think that Drag Race would certainly let a straight guy compete in drag. But there’s a controversy going on at the moment because RuPaul has drawn a line in the sand saying that a trans woman at a certain point of her transition is not welcome to compete in Drag Race.
Andrew: Oh wow. So what point is that then?
Courtney: This is the thing: on the last season there was a girl called Peppermint and she identifies as trans and lives as a woman. But being trans means different things to different people. Some people don’t take hormones, some people don’t have surgery, some people are just happy living in the clothes of their chosen gender. So Peppermint at this stage hadn’t had any surgery, but was living as a woman and taking hormones. RuPaul just said recently that because she didn’t have breast implants yet, that somehow that was okay [to compete].
Andrew: A bit controversial that is, right?
Courtney: Yeah, Ru as a cis man having conversations about, and rule over, women’s bodies is alarmingly in line with the current swing of conservative politics. Also the public erasure of trans women from the history of drag and then the irony of Ru, a male, telling women, cis and trans, they can’t do drag because it’s not as big of a **** you to a male dominated world. Very controversial…
Andrew: But would they let a straight guy compete?
Courtney: Yeah, for sure.
Andrew: So do you think I’ve got what it takes to be on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11?
Courtney: No.
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"No" :laugh2:
Also the Britain's Next Top Model line would've been a gag <3 I guess she can save ha for BOTS
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