Meet the Fierce Queens Competing on 'RuPaul's Drag Race UK' Season 7

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is back with Season 7 with a new group of queens racing to be the UK’s next drag superstar.

via: Pink News

Following an initial teaser for the seventh instalment of Drag Race UK earlier this month, the cast of season seven is now crystal clear after a sickening gem-toned promo.

The cast is comprised of twelve glamazons from across the United Kingdom, featuring some excellent drag names, five London divas – oh yes, and the drag daughter of Sasha Colby.

Without another wig toss, here are the girls competing to succeed Kyran Thrax and enter the Drag Race UK Hall of Fame.

Catrin Feelings

Catrin Feelings is 26 and from the Rhondda Valley in Wales. She told the BBC: “I’ve been doing drag for about four years now. It started off in my bedroom but I love the attention, and then after lockdown I just thought “life’s too short. Chuck yourself out there Cat, what’s the worst that can happen? Probably end up on Drag Race. Look at me now!

Tayris Mongardi

Tayris Mongardi is 27 and from Brighton. She says that her drag “in its truest form is a celebration of Black female pop culture,” adding that she loves “Janet Jackson, Beyonce, Megan Thee Stallion, Doechii, Nicki Minaj, Janelle Monae and Grace Jones.” She also says that for her, “drag is all about Black queer joy.”

Sally TM

Sally is 27 and from South Shields near Newcastle. She’s been doing drag for 10 years and she’s inspired by hit video game series The Sims. She told the BBC “I love video games and Sally’s a non-playable character in the SimsTM game. She was burning the town up and I was just like, ‘this diva!’ At the time I was an animator, and I loved designing weird outfits for her.”

Silllexa Diction

Silllexa Diction is 26 and from Leeds. She started doing drag when she was 18, and now she has her own club night in Leeds three nights a week where she gets queens from all over UK together. She told the BBC: “I love to exaggerate the female silhouette to the extreme. My breasts range from double F to double Z. I have about 12 pairs of giant breast plates. They take up a lot of space, so I store them in my parents’ garage!”

Pasty

Pasty, 30, is – unsurprisingly – originally from Cornwall but now lives in East London. She was inspired to do drag after watching Mrs Doubtfire and Hocus Pocus when she was young. She explains: “I loved Hocus Pocus‘ lead witch, Winifred Sanderson, so much that when I was a little kid I used to put clothes pegs on my fingers to act out my very own Winifred fantasy.”

Nyongbella

Nyongbella is 25, and from London. She describes herself as a “life-size Bratz doll and fashion editorial come alive.” She’s only been doing drag for two years, but now she’s very much a fixture of London’s ballroom scene explaining that “the categories I normally walk are fashion, killer face and every now and then I do realness, obviously!”

Paige Three

Paige Three is 28 and she’s from London via Surrey. She told the BBC: “I’ve done all sorts of random stuff in my drag career. You might have seen me at brunches all around London, sometimes I run a bingo, I have performed with Kimberly Wyatt from The Pussycat Dolls. I’ve worked really hard to get to where I am, but I feel that I’ve reached a wall and I want to break through it and see what else I can do!”

Elle Vosque

Belfast-based queen Elle Vosque is 22 and she’s been doing drag for four years. She says that the most important part of her drag is to “have fun” adding: “I’m sick and tired of drag queens who think it’s all about looking like a supermodel. That’s boring, just go out and have fun!”

Viola

Viola, from Coventry, is also 22. She’s known as the UK’s only violin playing and singing drag queen, explaining: “you’ll hear my gorgeous vocals and tremendous fiddling, and you will also laugh – maybe more at me, but I will certainly make you laugh! I am a very sophisticated queen in the sense that I play a lot of classical music at my gigs. My favourite stuff to play is Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.”

Chai T Grande

32-year-old Chai T Grande is from London and has been doing drag for just over four years. Like Catrin Feelings, she’s also a “drag child of lockdown.”

She says its important for her to represent her Thai heritage in her drag, explaining: “Growing up in London as a mixed-race English and Thai person, I didn’t really feel that connected to my ‘Asian-ness’. Now, I’m more confident and I have a stronger sense of my identity, so I can bring forward those elements into my performances, looks and references. I am completely unapologetic about who I am, because being mixed race is fantastic!”

Bonnie Ann Clyde

Bonnie Ann Clyde is 30 and is originally from Dublin, she’s been performing since the mid 2010s, firstly in Dublin, then San Francisco, and after that she moved to Gran Canaria. She now lives in Manchester. Describing her style of drag, she says: “At a Bonnie Ann Clyde show you get the full package! We might have a little comedy, a spoken word lip-sync number before we move onto something fierce and dance-y in a body suit, and then we’ll do a ballad, and mostly you will be enamoured by my presence and my glamorousness!”

Bones

Bones is the 25-year-old “witchy boho queen of Soho, London.” She’s a fine art graduate and has been doing drag for seven years now. “I started by accident,” she told the BBC. “I was a club kid and then I met the high priestess drag queen, Jodie Harsh, and she whisked me away.”

When does Drag Race UK season seven premiere?

The “Meet The Queens” preview feature will premiere on 24 August on BBC/ iPlayer/ and WOW Presents Plus outside the UK. A formal season seven premiere date is yet to be announced.