Drag Race UK: ‘She’s scary’ Eliminated queen drops Michelle Visage bombshell

With the first season of the popular US show in full swing, last week’s premiere, which featured Alan Carr, Michelle Visage and guest Andrew Garfield, alongside host RuPaul, saw one queen be the first to sashay away. Speaking to Express.co.uk the first queen to be knocked out the competition, Gothy Kendoll, revealed what it was like to be on the show, the close knit community of drag in the UK, and being starstruck, but not by who you’d think.

Gothy received perhaps the most iconic feedback in last week’s episode, with Alan Carr commenting that: “She looks like an estate agent that’s gone to Regent’s Park zoo and said, ‘can you face paint my face paint for 50p?’ and then gone back to work.”

The drag queen, 21, from Leicester revealed that “there’s no real age divide” between the younger and older queens, as they have “all got something to learn off each other”. 

Gothy, who first got into drag as a Fashion Communications student at university, told Express.co.uk that her inspiration came from “researching a lot of 80s political people” and noted that her main inspirations were “Grace Jones and Annie Lennox who were playing with gender”.

She said that after a night out with a few drag queens, she became “obsessed”, adding: “This is what I need to do.” 

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On who she was most nervous to meet, she confessed: “I was most nervous about meeting Michelle because she’s an intimidating b***h!” 

“She’s got this hard kind of face, she’s quite scary,” she joked. 

On the other hand, she labelled Ru as “more chilled than Michelle,” and said who she was really starstruck by, and it’s not who you would think.  

“I feel like the person I was most starstruck by, you know Raven, who does Ru’s make up who was on season two? I was really starstruck by her.” 

She continued: “She [Raven] was just there powdering his face,” calling the experience “mental”.

She explained how the drag scene in the UK differs from that of their US counterparts, labelling the humour as “totally different”.

Fans across Twitter praised the show for its incredibly “British” approach, and being full of UK cultural references.  

“That was everything I wanted it to be. It was camp, it was irreverent, it was seeped in UK gay culture and it didn’t take itself too seriously. I laughed so much and I *love* this cast already. Thank god eh! #DragRaceUK.” shared one fan.

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“Okay the UK queens have more banter and this was one of the funniest episodes of Drag Race, I hope the momentum keeps up #DragRaceUK,” echoed another. 

Talking in more detail about how UK drag is different, she spoke how American drag has more serious influences. 

“I feel like we come from a pantomime background and a more humorous background, and the Americans come from a more pageant background, a more serious background, for sure.”

As a lot of the queens seemed to be familiar with each other already, she explained how the UK drag scene is: “A more close knit community rather than in the US.”

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Asked whether she had watched judge Michelle Visage on Strictly, she admitted: “I haven’t watched it, I’ve seen clips online, she’s killing it!”

She also praised Michelle and the way in which she is using her platform.

Gothy explained how: “She’s now in this spotlight where she can be an ambassador for drag in the UK and come into her own here which is really nice.” 

As she spoke about what was next for her, she said there was lots in store, revealing: “We’ve got a UK tour and a European tour in the next few months which is going to be amazing, I’ve been working really hard to get some cool costumes and some good content together… it’s really exciting!”

Drag Race UK continues tonight at 8pm on BBC iPlayer. 

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