RuPaul s Drag Race UK introduces Season 2 cast
UPI News Service, 12/16/2020
RuPaul s Drag Race UK is giving a glimpse of its Season 2 cast.
ADVERTISEMENT World of Wonder, which produces the show, introduced the contestants in a photo Wednesday on Instagram.
Season 2 will feature 12 new queens, including former X Factor UK contestant Ginny Lemon. Lemon is a non-binary drag queen and singer-songwriter.
The season will also feature Veronica Green, Tia Kofi, Sister Sister, Tayce, Lawrence Chaney, Joe Black, Ellie Diamond, Cherry Valentine, Bimini Bon Boulash, A Whora and Asttina Mandella.
World of Wonder also shared Meet the Queens videos featuring the new contestants.
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After feverish anticipation, frustrating delays and the small matter of a global pandemic,
Drag Race UK season two is ready to spread its tuppence all over your screen.
Returning 14 January on BBC iPlayer, the new season will see RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Alan Carr and Graham Norton preside over a diverse new cast of queens, including the franchise’s first Scottish contestants.
Expect glamour, spook, vocals, veganism and a whole lot of regional dialects for RuPaul to smile and nod at.
The twelve competing queens are: Tayce, Joe Black, A’Whora, Tia Kofi, Ellie Diamond, Sister Sister, Veronica Green, Bimini Bon Boulash, Ginny Lemon and Asttina Mandella.
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Drag Race UK season two cast reveal carried a message of racial diversity and trans inclusion hidden in plain sight.
RuPaul and the BBC unveiled the 12 queens competing in
Drag Race UK season two Wednesday (16 December), with the first image of the new batch of contestants showing them dressed in the colours of the Progress Pride flag.
Designed by Daniel Quasar in 2018, the Progress Pride flag is an alternative to the traditional six-stripe rainbow that incorporates a chevron of black and brown stripes to represent people of colour, and the blue, pink and white of the Trans Pride flag.
Over in the states, season 13 is set to air on New Years Day.
The award winning series teased us with 13 new queens, who are in for, the strut of their lives.
Recently, a leaked trailer for the show revealed a thrilling twist.
In the very first episode, we ll be treated to six, lip-syncs for your life, and we can t wait.
The official trailer, released this week, reveals the jaw dropping moment the queens learn of their faith.
Out with the old, in with the RU!
Get ready to ring in the New Year with SIX lip syncs!
Don t miss the premiere of #DragRace S13 New Year s Day at 8/7c on @VH1! pic.twitter.com/a8f6Pb6xJY
RuPaul s Drag Race UK is giving a glimpse of its Season 2 cast.
World of Wonder, which produces the show, introduced the contestants in a photo Wednesday on Instagram.
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X Factor UK contestant Ginny Lemon. Lemon is a non-binary drag queen and singer-songwriter.
The season will also feature Veronica Green, Tia Kofi, Sister Sister, Tayce, Lawrence Chaney, Joe Black, Ellie Diamond, Cherry Valentine, Bimini Bon Boulash, A Whora and Asttina Mandella.
World of Wonder also shared Meet the Queens videos featuring the new contestants.
In one video, A Whora sports a robin s egg blue dress and declares, I m the fashion queen of the London scene.