This week’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season three was a mess, a brilliant and unhinged mess. It also delivered the best lip-sync in Drag Race UK herstory.
Following the elimination of Anubis at the hands of Elektra Fence, the 11 remaining contestants saw their dance and co-ordinations skills put to the test in the high-energy workout challenge, called – dramatic music! – Dragoton, with the help of Strictly Come Dancing champion Oti Mabuse.
The episode started with drama as the queens sashayed back into the werkroom – with the exception of Victoria Scone, who injured her knee in the premiere’s top two lip-sync against Krystal Versace. The two memorably battled it out to Bonnie Tyler’s pop classic Total Eclipse of the Heart, with the latter taking the win and earning a RuPeter badge in the process. Ultimately, Victoria was deemed well enough by doctors to return to the competition, but her knee continued to hinder her performance throughout the episode.
The drama continued when RuPaul tasked Krystal with slapping a price sticker on her fellow contestants in RuPermarket Sweep, with labels ranging from Star Buy to Out of Date. Krystal voted Victoria as her biggest competition, River Medway as the queen with the trashiest taste, Ella Vaday as the “trade” of the season, Veronica Green as the “irrelevant” cast member and the next eliminated queen as Elektra. Her vote for Victoria drew controversy from her fellow queens, as Krystal “joked” that her weight was the reason for her being voted the “biggest” competition.
Shortly after, the queens were divided into three groups: Ride or Dies, which consisted of Choriza May, Vanity Milan and Elektra; Ball Busters, with Krystal, River, Veronica and Kitty Scott-Claus; and Babycizers, with Charity Kase, Victoria, Scarlett Harlett and Ella. Rehearsal with Oti Mabuse was absolute carnage, with Veronica and her leotard delivering some X-rated footage as she bounced on an exercise ball, and Krystal, Choriza and Scarlett failing to keep up with the steps.
Later, as the queens prepared for their performance, Victoria confronted Krystal over her comments. They quickly settled their conflict, and it led to a beautiful discussion amongst the other queens about body image and their self-esteem issues. Victoria admitted that her weight has fluctuated over the years, but she’s now in a place where’s content with her body. “The thought is embedded into the industry of theatre and dance that you have to look a certain way or you just won’t work,” she explained in tears. “I had to carve my own career, which led me to drag.”
Elektra also shared that, at her all-boys Catholic School, her peers used to taunt her freckles and call it a “skin disease”. It was until she met her boyfriend, Charlie, who made her feel beautiful about her skin, that she truly accepted herself. Their discussion resulted in Vanity Milan revealing her school, which featured pre-dominantly white pupils, would bully her with racial slurs. “I got told I’m so Black that I’m purple,” said Vanity. “I got it all. And I remember my mum saying, ‘The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.'”
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