Drag Race UK: Kate Butch has her say on controversial exit
‘I have left some secrets’: Yep, this is Kate Butch’s ominous Drag Race UK exit interview. WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN SPECIAL THANKS TO JASMINE ALOMA AT THE BBC Although Drag Race’s staple makeover episode is a rather wholesome affair as the queens share their charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent with non-drag folk, from war veterans to teachers and fans, it’s often met with controversy for the panel’s ever-changing criteria for what constitutes a “family resemblance”. (Cheryl Hole deserved to win on UK season one, a hill I will die on.) Kate Butch, who became the challenge’s latest fatality, tells GAY TIMES: “It is what it is.
It’s a difficult one to judge. Do you wear identical body suits? Do you not?” This week’s episode saw the top five – also consisting of DeDeLicious, Ginger Johnson, Michael Marouli and Tomara Thomas – makeover volunteers from Switchboard, the lifeline service that has proved vital support and signposting help to the LGBTQIA+ community since 1974.
Fresh off winning her first RuPeter Badge, Kate made her bottom two debut alongside this season’s lip-sync assassin DeDe. While queens rarely survive past three lip-syncs, Krystal Versace’s drag sister defeated the Wuthering Shites star to the beat of Rina Sawayama’s country-pop anthem ‘This Hell’.
Kate’s elimination was met with wrath on social media – you can check out the reactions here. The morning after her exit, GAY TIMES caught up with the comedian to discuss her final episode, her “marmite” impersonation of her namesake Kate Bush and her ambitious plans to compete alongside her mum on Pointless.
