#DRAG RACE UK SNATCH GAME HOW TO#

When we get to the actual Snatch Game, the contestants are Michelle Visage and Gemma Collins, a reality personality known as the GC, and I shouldn’t have to explain it to you, because the fact that she is not a global superstar is a shame. Stop trying to make me like you, because it’s working. During their interaction, A’Whora gets all teary because she says that as George, her boy self, she has no confidence, that she needs the illusion of A’Whora and her cartoon bitchiness in order to survive. Last up is A’Whora, who is doing Louie Spence, a camp dance instructor who became a reality-TV staple. I already know this is going to be amazing. If there is an American figure she’s most like, it would be Anna Nicole Smith, but without the rich old man, the drug habit, or, you know, the dying. She was a “glamour model,” which is sort of like a Playboy Playmate, who rose to fame in the early aughts thanks to a number of reality shows and the tabloid ubiquity of her tumultuous relationship with singer Peter Andre. Trying to explain her to Americans is sort of like trying to explain the infield-fly rule to a Brit. I smell disaster.īimini says that she is going to do Katie Price, a.k.a Jordan. Ru tells Lawrence just to be herself and it’ll be funny, and that is failing Lawrence. In the U.K., she is a fixture on chat and panel shows (particularly Graham Norton’s Friday-night staple), so a bit more is known of her outsize personality. Lawrence Chaney is going to go as Miriam Margolyes, a character actress best known Stateside for playing Pomona Sprout in the Harry Potter movies. Vicky Pollard, a teenage “ chav” who lives in a housing project, would never fly today, because it is essentially making fun of the lower classes.

There was a long-running sketch insensitive to trans people, blatantly making fun of foreigners’ accents, and, well, blackface. I mean it is canceled in the more modern sense of the word.

I don’t mean that it’s not on the air anymore (though it has been removed from all British streaming services). I don’t know if anyone has told you, but Little Britain is canceled. Tia switches to Mel B, which is a very wise decision.Įllie is going to do Vicky Pollard, one of Matt Lucas’s characters from the show Little Britain. You can only croon “Goooooolllllllllddddddfiiiiiinnnngggeeeerrrrrr” so many times. (Either that or, as Gigi Goode proved, you need a fully formed character that is so iconic it will be a hit right out of the gate.) What do people know about Shirley’s personality? Nothing. The thing about Snatch Game is you need an icon with an immediately recognizable personality that can be riffed off of or made fun of. Tia Kofi says she is going to do Dame Shirley Bassey, which is a spectacularly bad idea. Ru tells them all they’re doing Snatch Game, and they have socially distanced one-on-ones with him in which they discuss which characters they’re going to do. This year’s Snatch Game is all over the place in the best possible way.Īt the top of the episode, all of the queens are assembled together, and absolutely no one is mentioning A’Whora’s gray sweatpant-on-denim outfit, complete with a chapeau, that looks shockingly like American scoundrel Justin Timberlake in his most famous outfit. We laughed, we cried, we gooped, we gagged, we Googled Miriam Margolyes. This episode is also especially touching for one centered on a comedy challenge. queens, with a few exceptions, showed up as prepared as a Boy Scout with two condoms and some over the counter Viagra, and we love them for it.

#DRAG RACE UK SNATCH GAME HOW TO#

There are three things that every queen coming into Drag Race should know: how to sew, that Michelle Visage hates green, and that you better have your Snatch Game character on lock, or you are going to be eliminated faster than Joe Black in an H&M dress.

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