Drag Race star Arantxa on UK vs the World exit: ‘Claws are coming out’
Drag Race star Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha discusses her UK vs the World exit, why she had to change her talent show number and finally “feeling comfortable” as a trans woman.
WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN SPECIAL THANKS TO MARY JONES AND ELOISE LONGDEN AT THE BBC As the Drag Race UK vs the World contestant whose drag is, according to her sisters, in the most “need”, Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha had one thought when episode two was revealed to be the ball: ‘Well, it’s over.’ This week, the queens served three looks for the ‘Happy Ending Ball’ with the last category, ‘Drags to Riches Eleganza’, requiring them to construct a gown fit for a princess from scraps of used fabric.
Arantxa, who is “self-aware” about her so-called lack of fashion sense, bottomed with her Spanish bestie Choriza May, and was subsequently eliminated from the competition by two-time challenge winner La Grande Dame.
The Drag Race Espana star tells GAY TIMES that she doesn’t hold any feelings of resentment towards the French fashionista because, in just two episodes, she achieved her “one goal”: to showcase her authentic trans self to viewers for the first time.
