Drag Race UK: Why Choriza May wanted another double elimination
Catherine of Aragon’s praise beyond the grave. Marge Simpson’s “blue muff”. Eating ass. Incoming: a very serious interview with Drag Race UK vs the World star Choriza May.
WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN SPECIAL THANKS TO MARY JONES AND ELOISE LONGDEN AT THE BBC Choriza May might have sashayed away from Drag Race UK vs the World in sixth place, but it doesn’t matter: her 2021 debut single ‘My Pussy is Like a Peach’ has just surpassed three billion streams on Spotify. (That might need fact-checking.) On this week’s episode of the all-star international spin-off, the Valencia-born Newcastle queen lost her place in the race after the contestants danced their “padded asses off” in pairs (and half-and-half drag) for the BBC’s Strictly Come Prancing.
With all of the queens receiving rave reviews for their performance, it was a clutching-at-straws situation from the judging panel – including special guest star (and Strictly judge) Motsi Mabuse.
Ultimately, Scarlet Envy and Choriza’s tango landed them in the bottom, with lip-sync winner Marina Summers (now a three-time RuPeter badge champion!) choosing to eliminate the latter ‘Eat That Ass’ songstress. “I was really hoping that she was going to pull two lipsticks and then Scarlet was going to have to come with me. ‘If I’m going, you’re coming with me bitch,’” jokes Choriza, who memorably made herstory in season three as part of Drag Race UK’s first-ever double elimination with River Medway. “So, this time when I was eliminated, it did feel a bit lonely.
