Naturally, the US’s rampant brand sponsorships and cash tips are nowhere to be seen. It has to be about the humour, really, because the BBC’s prize budgets remain as tight as any corset. Lines such as: “I am serving you … Charles Rennie Mackintosh,” are the reason the UK version will always be my favourite. If you’ve ever wondered what Worcester, Nottingham or Dundee look like as drag concepts, then it is time to find out.
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This is one of my favourite runway challenges, mostly because it asks people to look inside their heads and imagine how to give Newport, for example, the sartorial interpretation it deserves. Part of the challenge that tops off the episode involves asking the queens to create a look based on their home towns. I love how quickly it has embraced, for example, meme culture’s “hun” to hear RuPaul ask: “U OK hun?” is a sign of how distinctly British this series is. Those not versed in camp or queer British internet culture may find some of the references sail over their heads like balls. For the first challenge, the newly arrived queens, pulled from most corners of the UK (no Northern Ireland this time, but Scotland and Wales are represented), must pose for a tennis-inspired photo, for an imaginary tournament called Wimbled’hun. If anything is different, it’s that the queens seem more polished than the first batch, though only by a squeaky margin, and only in the sense that many of them will have grown up with Drag Race, and will now have seen the British edition and know what to expect. This series is enhanced by having 12 queens, rather than 10, though much of the tone and tempo remains the same. The first series was won by the bosomy Liverpudlian pro The Vivienne, although there is a strong argument to be made that Baga Chipz’s catchphrase “Much betta!” was its true enduring legacy.
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It is back for a second season, and I continue to cackle for the full hour at its winningly filthy self-deprecation. The gist was, with apologies to the wits who came up with the original, that while the American original was about power, realness, glamour and attitude, the British spin-off was about being a camp old slag, and loving it. At around the time of the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (BBC Three), a few variations on a meme did the rounds, which compared the finer points of the US original and this brash and brassy spin-off.
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