[Maru]

Interview with Cosmopolitan UK

Youtube video

Here are my notes... (and clips)

Danny is asked "Did he consider going in as him and not in drag?"
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxray_kRR...BRf35IgsVixKvp

Because he know he good at it and has worked at it for 10 years, but goes into he wants to do presenting and more than that..

On Telling AJ he wants her job
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=f7gkvS5psmtAykoz&t=215

-He clarifies he only meant he wanted the job she was doing, not her job specifically...
-Imo, he kind of slips up here and says "Yeah, I can do it" (their job lmao), "but I want them to do it"...
-What he would like to do: Everything
-"Danny's Friday Night Cabaret" : He had said he wanted to more than that (drag) "as well", but then says the Friday Night Cabaret would still be in drag, but in and out of drag... so he still expects to continue onto whatever but the drag would be part of that (makes sense)...
-Host jokes around with him that ITV should call him.. he says he's hoping they call

Asked about the After Party
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=0NR2HAUkDotW_yNi&t=298

-He missed his friends and his boyfriend for 3 weeks. He said thank you to a lot of people and "that was it". He used his drink tokens and went back to the hotel to see his friends lol
-Doesn't remember feeding Chris in the back of a van
-Facetimed Donna for hours the night before
-Has respect for Jack that is private and isn't inviting any of them to his wedding

"Jack said he was surprised Jojo didn't win, did you think that as well?"
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=rJBuuZtzbewnbNaF&t=389

-Jojo has "47,000 million billion and trillion followers" ...
-They all thought Jojo was going to win. She was the biggest name in there. "That just makes sense, I suppose"
-They saw Jojo as being fun and dancing all the time, "being with Chris", so they thought that meant it would be the case she won

"What was the first thing he did after coming back into the real world?"
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=lqE--BLKObIhBQ4J&t=432

-Hugged his boyfriend and talked to his all friends
-Went on Instagram and doom scrolled for at least 3 hours... "decompressed" by watching himself back like a true Drag Queen
-He went to Soho and went to get a margarita and pancakes...
-He gained a stone while in the house from eating so much

On what his Mother thought about him going in
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=d3MtshuvqECx80GN&t=523

-She was really worried because she knows how he gets when he reads bad comments

On Celebrity Master Chef
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=qcWWCI0fAzAO_jUU&t=571

-He was on tour in Australia at the time they asked him to do it
-He wanted to achieve a career in and out of drag after Drag Race. He didn't want to do stuff other Drag Queens had done because the industry pigeonholes them a lot.
-He didn't want to stand around on a cooking show for x amount of weeks in full drag
-"I'm not going to do that", but doesn't mean that as offense to the girls "who do" (I'm not familiar with the show)
-That is why he did Big Brother, because it was apparently more his ideal and he was hoping people would like him...
-He is very glad he did BB over "The Jungle"... but the challenges wouldn't be hard for him, ofc... he just doesn't like being hungry...

On rewatching back episodes
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=I-6XxvLlVcyXuIIF&t=744

-The pirate task he's seen, he wanted to see how the discourse panned out and if we "saw it all"
-He wanted to see the family task
-Donna made her laugh endlessly in the whole experience and then he saw bits he didn't see while in the house, so he's enjoyed laughing again about things she did while in
-He was bummed they missed so many funny moments, but then was fine with it because it meant it was "just for us" at that point...
-He was asked if he thought about whether some things would make the edit... HMs would joke about whether things would make it in or not
-They don't forget the cameras are there, but they kinda do
-Mentions Angellica's loud banging of the pan

About the house itself
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=y95M_yxqKvQU9Is8&t=855

-Asked about dismal lighting and he jokingly said "it was homophobic"
-He would'ved like a hoover a bit more. He loves to hoover, apparently
-He thought they would have cleaners coming in (if they came, he didn't notice them)
-Everyone chipped into cleaning... Ella chipped in the least... in her defense, "She chipped in in other ways"

On his toes and being clumsy
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=0izKNNOl_JDqya0K&t=939

-He broke a few things in the house...
-Clumsy genes run in his family
-His toes are like battered "old, fishtank rocks"
-He wore a big blister plaster during the Final
-He stubs his toes constantly so they're like Hobbit's feet now

Other Notes:

-He would do Big Brother again
-He had a product to sell and he "cut his teeth" the same way as comedians
-He would love to do All Stars CBB
-He would love to see Gemma Collins on it
-Doesn't want to live with Jedward
-He had to suddenly think about who else has been on CBB so couldn't mention more than those two...
-Who else would he like to be on with again from the house: -"Most of them.... all of them... Ok, but most of them"
-When asked who he would not have back, he said "leave it at that"

-Host suggests he clocked the relationship with Jojo & Chris before they did maybe
-He was a massive fan of Jojo before the show, he claims he still he is
-He knows what he saw looked a certain way, because he'd want his friends to clock him that way... "Whatever is going on, good for them"
-He thinks she needed someone to be close to in the house because "she's a child star that's worked since she was 5" "She's 21" ... to people obsessing over a relationship that involves a 21yo "Get a grip"

On whether the beds were comfortable
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=9q2RFGDdvVzUlFei&t=1195

-Agrees they were like sleeping on a "Budget Ella"(?), but says he's blessed because for his first mattress, he spent good money on a discount one: a cooling gel, springs, foam, "Princess & the Pea" thick ass mattress... but for some reason he feels the need to defend his mattress selection because he's "always on tour"... is he covertly admitting to a luxury mattress fetish or something?
-His hairless chihuahua "draws on the bed" with her mini poo poos
-He really likes Cosmopolitan publication
-He loves his Dog Fanny, they are always together... he's nothing without Fanny...

-Who surprised him the most in there? — Everyone in different ways
-Donna Preston, he knew of her but said connecting with her was like "Comedy ping pong" ... they had so many belly laughs... the public have only seen 1% of it based on what he's watched back so far (2 episodes)
-Hated Face to Face Nominations (go on...) ... the public didn't see where he was thinking "I"m not doing this" at some point... he was thinking about not doing it...
-The only people he thought of putting up were Chris & Jojo, because technically their the option made easy because they only get along together... but then it wasn't... he did want them to actually stay

-Questions whether Katy Perry actually went to space because her hair was too damn flat
-Jojo had apparently known in the house she was doing it
-He said it was kinda nice not to know what had happened yet...he thinks that humans are not meant to see as much news around the world as they see, that it's not good for their mental health... but when he got out, he immediately checked lol

On learning about the Supreme Court ruling
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=quylJUaCGb6W3MjJ&t=1546

-The ruling doesn't make sense to him
-He thinks trans community are being scapegoated in the name of "safety for women"
-Thinks that allowing transmen into women's bathroom is not protecting women's spaces and that it makes it easier for "predatory men" (he means transmen) to come into women's spaces
-People are being transphobic and not seeing transmen as men and transwomen as men
-He's not a woman and he's not trans, but thinks this is a conversation that women and trans people should be having "but fairly"
-He thinks if people would just get to know each other without judging, but in a deep way, "give everyone in the world 5 minutes". He thinks people should go out of their way to get to know a trans person, but if they still have that negative opinion, "You're trash", because all of his trans friends just want to be left alone

On Jojo and their conversations
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=Kx5q80JOo_QyqA-8&t=1718

-Thinks she is a wise kid
-Big Brother is great and thinks it is the best show on television. He likes the melting pot aspect. He thinks "BB is back".

Reads another one of his Dad's poems
https://youtu.be/cUk_I0Stgss?si=zG370av1bV3Pf6GE&t=1757

On what he learnt about himself

-If we give people 5 minutes, there's not one person we can't make a connection with in this world
-Raves about Wingstop (I'm here with him on this... )