Drag Race UK: From runway ‘marks’ to Banksie conflict, Vicki Vivacious has a lot to say
“They love the drama and the conflict of it. Good for them, they can have their moment.” WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN SPECIAL THANKS TO JASMINE ALOMA AT THE BBC With Vicki Vivacious’ Drag Race UK elimination, we can now – in her words – “squash any rumour that the look is 50% of the mark”.
While the Cornish queen was unsuccessful in her mission to make RuPaul cackle in the Snatch Game as the late restaurant critic Fanny Cradock – Vicki herself describes the performance as “heartbreaking” – she left the judging panel floored with her Alice in Wonderland-inspired ‘Heart-On’.
RuPaul even hailed it as “perfection”. Viewers felt the same, expressing on social media that the runway should’ve saved her from a dreaded bottom two placement. “If you’re gonna leave, leave looking amazing right?” Vicki tells GAY TIMES the morning after her exit, before admitting that she saw her fate coming as soon as the lip-sync with DeDeLicious to Alexandra Burke’s non-single ‘Heartbreak on Hold’ started. “That wasn’t me giving up, at all.
I just knew that DeDe is so talented in that department,” says the pasty ambassador. “I thought, ‘I’m already on the back foot.’ I always knew that, going onto Drag Race, if I was in a lip-sync, I’d be going home.” In this interview, Vicki Vivacious reflects on her final episode and what it’s like to play the Snatch Game, as well as her equally chaotic backup character.
