Strictly Come Dancing: Michelle Visage reveals real reason she wanted to sign up

The Drag Race judge scored highly on some of her performances but was knocked out after her performance in Blackpool. She explained how she had been previously been asked to appear on Dancing With The Stars in America but turned them down.

Michelle Visage had her fair share of hit routines whilst taking part in this year’s series of Strictly, including a near perfect 39 points for her Addams Family inspired Foxtrot. 

The TV Personality was strongly tipped to be one of the show’s finalists this year and go onto lift the Glitterball Trophy.

However, she was knocked out of the competition after her Madonna inspired performance which featured her and Giovanni Vogueing.

Although it was a hit with fans, it was not enough to keep her in the show as she was booted out over social media star Saffron Barker when they found themselves in the bottom two together. 

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Talking at Samsung’s KX Thread Talks in partnership with Twitter, the star revealed some details about her time on the show and why she decided not to say yes to an appearance on Strictly’s sister show. 

She revealed to the audience how she had been asked to partake in Dancing With The Stars but turned it down because she felt Strictly was “very pure” compared to its American counterpart. 

“I didn’t do Dancing with the Stars because I wanted to do Strictly, for many, many reasons… I love this country so very much, I feel like I belong here, I feel like I’m home here, I feel like one of you and I’m grateful for that,” she admitted. 

Dancing With The Stars is known for some of its more out-there themes such as Country Week, Fusion Week and Trio Week which seem to be another reason why she chose not to go on the show. 

She added: “Dancing with the Stars got really kinda crazy over the past few years like in the middle of a Foxtrot they’re twerking and it was like okay, no. And what I loved about Strictly was very pure. 

“It was like if I’m gonna learn how to Foxtrot, I’m gonna learn how to Foxtrot so I really held out for that,” Michelle continued. 

Michelle has also featured on UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother as she confessed it was in a bid to put drag on the map across the pond. 

The former contestant has been a judge on Ru Paul’s Drag Race for the past ten years and has recently brought over her tough critiques over to the UK for the first series of Drag Race UK.

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She told the audience: “I did a little embarrassing show five years ago called Celebrity Big Brother and the only reason I entered into that house of hell was to get Drag Race on the map here in this country.

“I had performed here so many times I knew how important it was to gay kids here in the United Kingdom to have their own show that represents them and yes the American version is amazing and it will keep going.

“But for me, I know how important it was so I didn’t have a fake tan range to sell, I didn’t have a book at the time, I didn’t have a calendar, I was just in there to be the voice of queer people, of queer culture, of a generation,” she concluded. 

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Michelle also opened up about how much her final routine meant to her even though it led to her being knocked out of the competition.

She explained: “I left the show after performing one of the most important dances of my life.

“The Twitter community showed me and Giovanni so much support for our dance it was the most loving, supporting battle cry for me and I know 10,000 percent that I did the right thing this week and I wouldn’t change it for anything…

“I’m so proud that I could do that and make a statement for my community,” she added.

Strictly Come Dancing: The Final airs this Saturday at 7.20pm on BBC One.

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