Drag Race UK vs the World teases the end of Best Friend’s Race
This season of UK vs the World is currently on track to dethrone season 12 as the ultimate edition of RuPaul’s Best Friend’s Race, with episode two eliciting a lot of laughs and squidgy “aww!” moments between the cast.
But, with the final moments teasing some season one-esque shenanigans ala Jimbo and Pangina Heals’ eliminations, how long will it stay, y’know, squidgy? (In the profound words of Katya Zamolodchikova, “I don’t know, I’m not a scientist.”) Following the events of the premiere, which saw Marina Summers defeat La Grande Dame in the lip-sync smackdown and reveal Mayhem Miller’s lipstick, the 10 remaining queens returned to the werkroom to discuss her shock exit and which name Dame had in her titty.
Like Marina, the France runner-up chose to save Gothy Kendoll, who memorably made history as the British franchise’s Pork Chop when she placed last on the first season of Drag Race UK. “I feel like the world deserves to know you a little bit more,” said La Grande Dame.
Hers and Marina’s strategy is seemingly less Naomi Smalls and Blu Hydrangea and more Trinity the Tuck, but it’s early days and another Manila Luzon/Pangina shock elimination is still possible. (I’m honestly terrified for my faves, who I won’t reveal out of respect for DeLa.) In the mini-challenge, the queens were tasked with answering a series of questions by writing one of their sisters’ names on a mirror. (I love this shit.) The majority voted Marina as the “fairest” and “mightiest in the land”, Hannah Conda as the “shadiest” and Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha as the contestant whose drag is “in the most need”.
