The amount of shock eliminations on Drag Race UK season two? Honey honey honey.
For their eighth maxi-challenge, the five remaining contestants – A’Whora, Bimini Bon Boulash, Ellie Diamond, Lawrence Chaney and Tayce – performed stand-up comedy routines, before stomping the runway in a stone-inspired look.
Following her win in the hilarious mini-challenge, which saw the queens embrace their inner butch queen-realness as they performed Ru’s pop favourite Kitty Girl, Ellie decided the order in which her competitors would perform.
She decided to place A’Whora first, herself second, followed by Bimini, Lawrence and Tayce. After admitting it was a strategic move on her part, as she’s the only contestant without a RuPeter badge, the Scot was met with enormous backlash from A’Whora and Lawrence.
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Southland Girls’ High School student Sophie Ineson and Charge de Affaires Kevin Covert from the United States Embassy in NZ share a word in the school s library. Covert arranged for three Nasa interns to visit the school after seeing Ineson on national television last year.
Was there once life on Mars? A young New Zealand physicist working in the field of cosmological computing will be among the team of Nasa scientists who will analyse the data sent back from the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last week. Emily Kendall, from Auckland, is doing an internship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the New Zealand Space Agency, albeit remotely, thanks to Covid-19 restrictions.
Your playlist will load after this ad Twelve-year-old Sophie Ineson noticed it’s mostly men who enter the industry, so she did something about it. Source: 1 NEWS
Twelve-year-old Sophie Ineson, who attends Southland Girls High School in Invercargill, hopes to one day work for the likes of NASA or Rocket Lab. I really like the space industry, not just the person who launches the rocket, not the person who s in the rocket but all of the different things behind it, she told 1 NEWS.
But her dreams lie in an industry mostly dominated by men, something she wants to change by getting more women interested in the job.
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Emily Kendall smelled smoke and went outside, to find it was “raining ash”. “I noticed the smell was becoming really strong, so I went to the window to look outside and all I could see was dark smoke,” she said. Kendall’s driveway, garden, car and the exterior of her home were covered in ash. “A lot of us went outside to see what was going on, and it was raining ash. “There were cindered pieces of ash and some white little furry things. I didn’t realise as it was happening, but it was flakes of asbestos.”
“At the moment we’re all still evacuated from our places, but it seems as though the remediation is finally starting.” Since being told to leave her home in December, Kendall has been living in a south Auckland barn on her parent’s property, along with her two cats. “I know one of my neighbours has been staying in an Airbnb long term and has it booked until late February just in case. “When we left in December we all thought we d be back before Christmas, so most of my belongings are still in Ponsonby. I just took a bag of clothes and my laptop.”