Drag Race UK vs the World winner Tia Kofi reflects on her herstoric win, her proudest moments from the series and the queens she wants to compete with on the franchise’s next winners’ season.
WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN SPECIAL THANKS TO MARY JONES AND ELOISE LONGDEN AT THE BBC The world’s supreme Anne Boleyn impersonator (and supporter of Natalie Cassidy’s trailblazing artistry) has just made herstory.
As well as becoming the first queen to win four challenges on a vs the World season, Tia Kofi has injected some much-needed diversity into the Drag Race UK Hall of Fame as the franchise’s first-ever champion of colour.
And, on the same day she became Queen of the Mothertucking World, Tia celebrated the release of her long-awaited debut studio album, Read My Lips, which immediately entered the top 20 of the UK iTunes charts.