RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: second series confirmed – but with what changes?

The show will not be Sashay-ing away

RuPaul's Drag Race

by William Marriott |
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The hit BBC entertainment show RuPaul's Drag Race UK is officially returning for series two and we are over the moon.

Confirming the news this morning, RuPaul said, "I want to thank the BBC and all our fans for their overwhelming support of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.

"This season's queens proved that Britain's Got Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent - and I want to see more!"

The show's fans were obviously buzzing about the news, with one user taking to Twitter to say, "Yesssss!! I have loved this series sooo much!!! And a snatch game where I knew who everyone was!!! Thank you UK Queens!!", while another said, "I mean how could they not when this season has been amazing."

The show will return to BBC iPlayer. However, it has not been confirmed whether the current judging panel, made up of Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr, will remain the same, or whether bosses are going to switch it up.

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RuPaul's Drag Race UK Contestants

Blu Hydrangea1 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Blu Hydrangea, age 23, Belfast.

'My name comes from the blue hydrangea bush that's in my garden. My nanny taught me that you have to plant it with a rusty nail so that it turns into a beautiful blue hydrangea. I love that story, of like something coming from a rusty, dirty nail into something beautiful — which is kind of like me.'

Crystal2 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Crystal, age 34, London.

'Crystal is a gender-bending, mess-with-your-brain kind of drag queen. She stands for tearing down gender constructs, and using creativity and looks and fashion and crazy performances to create excitement.'

Divina Di Campo3 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Divina Di Campo, age 35, West Yorkshire

'Drag to me is absolute freedom. You can do anything and everything that you want.'

The Vivienne4 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

The Vivienne, age 27, Liverpool.

'My style of drag, I always say it's like a scouse wife who's come into money, she's moved to LA, blew it all and then she's had to move back to Bootle.'

Cheryl Hole5 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Cheryl Hole, age 25, Essex.

'I have been described as a lip sync assassin, and I would like to see any of these girls try to out-lip-sync me because this is what I do.'

Scaredy Kat6 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Scaredy Kat, age 20, Wiltshire

'I'm way too young to be here — I'm the youngest queen ever on Drag Race. My persona in drag is cute, pink and scared like a nervous flamingo.'

Baga Chipz7 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Baga Chipz, age 29, London

'I'm the tart with a heart. Like chips, they can go with anything. [...] I'm not an instagram, makeup drag queen — but throw me on a stage and I entertain the absolute shite out of a room.'

Vinegar Strokes8 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Vinegar Strokes, age 35, London

'My drag's influenced by family members and friends, who are really strong working class women who have kind of built their way up and climbed their way up through the mud and the shit to get to where they are.'

Sum Ting Wong9 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Sum Ting Wong, age 30, Reading.

'I'm doing things now that I wanted to do as a kid. Drag helped that 12-year-old me finally live out his dream.'

Gothy Kendoll10 of 10
CREDIT: BBC/ Leigh Keily / Matt Burlem

Gothy Kendoll, age 21, Leicester

'I think, for a lot of queens my age, RuPaul's Drag Race kind of sets the standard for what modern drag is, so i'm definitely inspired by the show. [...] Being in this competition means the world to me — the fact that I even got cast doesn't feel real.'

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Other drag performers have now said that this is great news for the show, but they are keen for other changes to be made. Drag queen Chiyo Gomes said in their review of the show that trans people should be let on the show.

They said, "There is a complete lack of acknowledgement on how hard it is to be trans, or even a woman doing drag. Some people are both gay and trans, yet we are never seen on a show like Drag Race.

"Ru was telling us how hard it is to be discriminated against, yet he won't let woman or trans people or drag kings on his show. It's hypocritical."

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And fellow drag queen Daisy Puller agrees, saying, "This is a show about the UK drag scene - a place where quite literally anything goes - and this should definitely be reflected in our version of the show."

If you want to apply for the show, you'll have to be quick as the entries close on 15th November, where the show's bosses will then decide who will make it through and appear on the popular show.

We. Cannot. Wait.

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