The 26-year-old from East London is one of the 12 queens participating on the third season of the British spin-off, which premieres this Thursday on BBC iPlayer.
Ahead of the series, the star spoke with GAY TIMES about how Drag Race impacted her as an LGBTQ+ youth and culminated in the “proper mouthy, cheeky cockney, like Danny Dyer” drag queen that will be sashaying into the iconic werkroom later this week. “The short story is that I’m one of those kids that saw Drag Race on TV,” says Scarlett. “I was a little creative kid but I didn’t know that at the time.
I was just 17 at the time and I was gay and I was struggling with my feelings and it was one of the first kinds of LGBTQ+ programs on TV that I saw that celebrated the people that we