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[siren blares]

-Ooh, I've never heard that. -What's going on?

My dear queens,

in light of the rapidly changing coronavirus situation,

we must cease filming immediately.

Drag queens know a thing or two

about survival,

so stay safe,

and I pray we'll be back together soon,

even stronger than before.

For now, with my love, sashay away.

Actually, what is going on?

What is going on?

Is this the end of the world?

♪ May the best woman ♪

♪ Best woman win ♪

We have to film episode five,

and then this siren goes off.

[siren blares]

That siren doesn't go off.

This isn't a part of the show where the siren goes off.

Obviously, we don't know what's ever going to happen.

Ooh, I've never heard that before.

-What's going on? -What's going on?

...at this time of the day.

No-one's saying a word.

Especially the production crew.

We're all looking at...

like... hello?

We stopped recording. Everything's okay. Don't worry.

Uh, but I've got a lot of things I need to tell you right now.

And they cut the camera dead-ass.

♪ Welcome to the end of the world ♪

Ah! Oh my God.

Are we coming back? What's happening?

Like, is the world ending?

Are my family okay? Are my friends okay?

What the hell is going on?

I kind of didn't realize that Covid had got so crazy

and out of hand.

When we were in the hotel rooms and stuff like that,

I would always have the TV on in the morning,

so I kind of knew what the pandemic was going on,

I just didn't know the severity of, like,

up in Scotland.

We didn't know what was going on.

The place was a ghost town.

Why is the world going into lockdown?

I just got back from the werkroom,

and now I'm sat in my bedroom.

I got back from filming and...

it felt like I'd come back to a different reality.

It was just a weird energy.

You could like see it, and the roads were empty

and there was... nothing was open.

Like it was bizarre.

I guess everyone's a bedroom queen now.

Aah!

When I came out of Drag Race, it was mildly apocalyptic.

No toilet roll or pasta anywhere.

One of the local corner shops drived the bloody prices up.

They had, they doubled it.

And I said this seem expensive, he said,

"Well, times are tough." Cheeky fucker.

What, how long is it? How long are we in this lockdown for?

A month? Three months?

We're going to get through this.

Daniel Bedingfield didn't write that song

for no reason, honey.

I'm not going anywhere for a while now.

Uh...

It's probably a good idea to unpack,

I just don't know where to start.

[laughs]

Bloody hell, how do I set this up?

Let me just gonna focus up.

Um...

We're out of hand sanitizer.

Hope I can deal, but...

-I hope... -[squeaking]

That was not a fart, that was the kitchen door.

Wear a mask, you bastards.

On the plus side it gives me

some time to zhuzh up some of my flat wigs.

I'm lucky I'm not terribly thinking about the show a lot.

I've been able to really get away from it, you know?

So, it's...

quarter past 5:00 in the morning.

I've just got to work.

I'm feeling it, I'm really feeling...

feeling the virus.

It's really...

taken over everything.

Everything.

Although this is one of the reasons

that I became a nurse...

is to look after people...

when something like this is happening

that people have no control over,

people know nothing about,

no one knows what they're doing.

Everyone's just trying to be safe and just

try to look after each other but it's so hard when...

I don't know.

There's nothing more that I want

than everything to be normal again

and for everyone to be safe,

and for coronavirus to fuck off.

But...

That's not going to happen for a long time, I don't think.

How are you doing?

Oh, it's a bit cold, come on in.

Come and see my house, why don't ya?

Hiya, babs.

Good morning, world.

To another day.

Where's that bottle of wine?

I am just existing,

I think is the best way to describe it.

I'm quite lucky, actually,

I rent me friend's house.

I live in a big three-bedroom house

in the countryside so I'm very happy.

When you start doing drag,

you have to sign a contract. RuPaul appears.

Look who it is.

Look who it is.

This is my bedroom.

And what you agree is you can either have

a comfortable and minimalist home life...

This is the current state of my bedroom.

Or you can have drag, and I don't trust anyone

that has a minimalist home life that is also doing drag.

Oh, you can't look at that rail.

How do people live like this?

Oh, I wondered where those boots went.

I'll get those.

This is the garage of the house.

Full of feminine, womanly possessions.

I'm gonna put my pole up, I'm gonna have a little dance.

Let the neighbors know who's here, who's queer.

This is the bathroom.

It's where I do my morning poos.

Gonna do some household tasks.

I'm gonna Hoover the floors.

Oh, they actually do smell.

This feels oddly familiar.

Hi.

Those tights were stinking at the Drag Race.

I whacked them right in the bath.

I made a lovely, lovely tight soup.

This is the garden.

We've actually been working on the garden quite a lot.

I did the garden a lot.

So I did a lot of... I became very green-fingered,

which was... eww. Nice.

And, um.. you've got no excuse now.

Do your hedge, plant some veggies, do it all.

It's just waiting for ya.

So, yeah, I did the garden a lot.

And then we'd have sex and then we'd go back in the garden

and have more sex.

It's another day of lockdown, darling.

So I thought I'd test my Snatch game.

Oh, God, the cat is absolutely trying to chew my...

Klaus? Klaus.

[chuckles]

You know what we've got?

Bloody cat.

You want to be a star, don't you?

You want to be a star, don't you?

Then chase the stick!

[laughs]

We've acquired a lovely, beautiful grey Sphynx cat

called Klaus.

Or, officially, Klaus Augustus Black.

I've got a baby. We're watching some horror films.

I've got some... well, I've got an empty cup

because I've drunken all my tea.

It's not so bad.

You know.

So this is Buddington.

Say hello, Buddy. Say hello.

[cat meows]

Cat. Hey.

You're not allowed out either, are you?

Well, he's called Buddy, but his actual full name is

Captain Buddington Gumdrop I.

Hi. Pam.

Pammy.

There's Pam. Look, she's clawed away

that bit of carpet there.

Don't share that, don't share that.

Do you want to come up there?

We're just walking the child, Mr. Buddington.

-This is Michael. -Hello.

[chuckles]

This has become our form of entertainment at the minute.

Just out on the daily exercise.

Mitch is just doing 0.1kg on the...

[groans]

Oh!

I'm just on a run.

I'm looking for Chanel!

She's an African Grey, her name's Chanel.

I like exercise that is a bit diff--

a bit unusual.

I bought myself a chair online for 12 quid.

There's actually a lot of things you can do with a chair

other than sit in.

Started teaching myself how to do the splits on it.

'cause you never know when it might come in handy.

I didn't really do much during the pandemic.

I'm just a very chilled person.

I just slept through it like a squirrel.

[recorded voice speaking Dutch]

I did try to learn a bit of Dutch.

So I don't have to read the subtitles

on Drag Race Holland.

And then Dutch was like hard, so I didn't learn that much.

I've got, like, some Dutch now.

[voice speaking Dutch]

One of my favorite phrases is "neuken in de keuken",

which means "fuck in the kitchen".

I can say, "slagroom", which means cream.

"Komkommer", which means cucumber.

Which is generally being a slag in Holland, to be honest.

Cucumber, cream, fuck in the kitchen. Ciao.

Dutch with Tia.

So today we are making one of my favorite delicacies

of all time.

No, it's not beans on toast.

I know, crazy.

What is it?

It's a pot noodle sandwich.

It looks horrific, but it's gorg.

I don't know about you, world,

but I love me a cheap and cheerful.

You get your chicken and mushroom.

Yeah.

You boil it up.

Mm-hmm.

You get your butter and your bread.

Boom boom boom boom boom.

And you make sure that it's nice and thick.

Ooh, just fill it everywhere.

Really soaked in all them juices,

and then you go pkrrt! on your bread.

Whack it on.

Bang, put your other bread on top.

Splat! What? Oh, shit.

Let me tell you, that is some good quarantine food.

Bon appétit.

I bet everyone's like, you know,

I feel locked up. I learned a new skill.

I'm just like I made a pot noodle sandwich, how about you?

I'm cooking.

Don't know what I'm cooking yet.

I think I'm just gonna cook some eggs.

Cooking chicken with a cat on my shoulder.

Oh, God, why can't I open the fridge?

Wow.

Half a butternut squash, and some pickled onions.

It's a healthy lockdown lifestyle.

And it's not bad.

Quick nuggets?

Nuggets.

With curry sauce. Mmm.

Mmm. A Sister Sister recipe for your cocktails.

Just double the amount of liquor,

and add a splash of ginger beer.

Sister Sister. Mwah.

So I got hungry again.

Chips aren't chips without mayo, let's be honest.

So yummy.

I miss my family the most.

My nan, um, she's my absolute best friend.

A hugger for parents, or a loved one,

it's just like... you know...

It's a huge problem solver.

It's hard because they also don't have technology that well.

They're not very good with it.

I've been trying to get them on the Facetime

and trying to get things to work out but...

it's a process.

I haven't been home for nine months.

Haven't seen my mam, haven't seen my dad,

my siblings, my cats,

in nine bloody months.

My mum has sort of preexisting health conditions.

I'm just not prepared to risk it.

I've got a very good support network at home.

I'm very lucky to have two partners

and we are in a thriving, beautiful, amazing,

weird and dynamic triangle.

Hiya, babs, it's us here,

the throuple Lemon.

Fancy three slices?

[laughs]

The throuple Lemon.

I finally got home to my parents' house,

to my moms and my nans, stay there.

I didn't want them to be alone.

And kind of I don't want to have to cook.

I've moved and my room is a hot mess.

And this bitch is helping me!

Oh my God, whoo!

Tayce's energy is really good to be around.

In contrast to mine, because we're very polar opposite.

While I... I'm an overanalyzer,

she just does not give a shit.

She's clean, she's spacious, she's cozy.

She's ready for a queen.

Here we go.

It's been really, really nice to spend time

with her and you know, bounce off that kind of vibe.

Didn't take that long, did it, girl?

-Only about 12 hours. -Only about 12 hours.

Hey, we've made it!

I just didn't have money to keep up

the house we were in, so we all had to move out.

So I had to apply as homeless,

and I was just staying with friends at the meantime,

trying to just like stay there until the Council

found me a place.

Luckily, I was blessed enough

to have found a place very, very quickly.

It's my first time moving out, I've never moved out before,

with anyone, and I've moved out by myself,

so it's definitely been a learning experience,

to say the least.

But now I've got my own space to do whatever I want

which accommodates me, all of my stuff,

as well as all of Ellie's stuff,

and so that is my drag room.

I battled with my mental health.

It's just kind of like learning, well, what can I do

to not lean into being a big sad Mary today?

Most people, we all overthink and overanalyze

certain situations, and when you've got

so much time on your hands,

like we have in lockdown, it's easy to really, you know,

go to a bad place.

I would be just staring at myself a lot of the time

in the mirror, just like finding things wrong with me,

and just really, really getting into a weird mindset

where, like, I was starting to like, knock my confidence.

I cry a lot, but that isn't weakness to me.

That is... just a release of emotions

and once they're released, we move on.

It's just a thing that I do.

It's not weakness. It's just... emotion.

People need...

a release.

Like that's what...

that's one of the things I enjoy so much about doing drag,

is making people happy, seeing people...

people see me performing, all the other amazing people

that I perform with,

and...

People can just forget.

That's why we need dance floors.

We need clubs, we needs bars, we need these places

where people can escape.

Especially young queers as well that are finding themselves.

It's so necessary.

When I first just moved to London,

it would have been detrimental for my mental health

because...

that's where I really found myself.

In a club.

In a sweaty club, I found myself.

It's hard to not...

get, um... down and lose sight of everything

and just kind of fall in on yourself.

That's... that's where having friends

and being able to talk to people really helps.

I think maybe I went through a bit of a depression,

um, over the summer.

Get up.

No. Stop that.

-Get up. -Stop it.

I literally didn't leave my bedroom

for a couple of days.

-Time to wake up. -What?

-Come on. -Leave me alone.

But then those days turned into weeks

and those weeks turned into months.

I didn't leave the house.

Like I wasn't even there in the room.

I'd just be staring into space for hours on end.

I shut the world out.

Didn't want to talk to anybody.

Handsome?

-What? -Time to get up.

You also need to give Dickhead his belly rub treatment.

You've done that already.

-Nope, it's your turn. -Oh, no.

My fiancé Steve...

Steve would come into the room every morning

and he would wake me up with a brew.

Brew for you.

I realize how alarming that kind of behavior is,

but at the time, I felt it was perfectly normal.

Kevin.

Let's go for a walk.

No.

I made you a brew.

We started going out on the morning walks,

and... that just really helped to

clear my mind.

This is my first walk

since lockdown started 12 weeks ago.

I've not left the house in 12 weeks.

Thankfully, the walks allowed me to start focusing

then on the future and what I could do

to get myself back up and running again

and functioning as a human being.

So me and Steve are out on the Common.

It feels really good.

Thinking back at it now...

Say hi, Steve.

Hello.

I think it was shock.

I had this amazing opportunity of being

on RuPaul's Drag Race Season Two,

and that was cut short when I was doing really well,

to then losing all of my work.

Everything felt like it was crashing down around me

and I felt like the rug had been pulled from under me.

And there was no floor,

and I was just falling. That's how I felt.

Here we are on our daily stroll.

Morning walks have become a regular occurrence now,

thanks to Steve dragging me out of bed.

And it's really, really good

to just get out of the house.

[laughs]

There's a kind of ominous cloud of...

worry...

dread, and fear,

because of course, overnight,

everything I'd really worked for was just gone.

Since I've moved to London quite self-sufficient,

I've lived here for eight years and I've made it work, you know,

and if I'm going to be a bit broke for a week, then whatever,

but having to ask for like quite a big bit of money

from like family is not really something

that I want to be doing.

I've not fully relaxed this whole year.

I think I've always had the feeling with Drag Race,

and also the impending doom of the virus

and the uncertainty of job and how disposable it was.

I know of three queer venues

that have had to close during this.

Since like, 2010, we've lost 50% of venues.

And we're losing even more because of this,

and they're safe spaces, and they're needed,

and they're necessary,

and they need to be protected at all costs.

I didn't get any employment grants,

but I did get to go on universal credit.

Thankfully.

And, um, they kept telling me to get a real job,

and I was just like, excuse me, this is a real job.

There's such a stigma against, oh, don't sign on,

don't do this, don't do that.

Do you know what? Get that stigma out the window.

We all need to do what we need to do

to get food on our plates,

and trust me, I know about food on a plate.

There's no shame, that's why we pay taxes.

It's why we do everything.

During this quarantine,

I have earned no money, I've had no work.

I've been skint.

I've written a song called "I'm Over my Overdraft"

which I should sing for you, but I'm not.

I'm gonna do another song.

My residencies were gone.

I had loads of fingers in loads of pies,

and all those pies have pissed off now.

♪ Red Bucks ♪

Bollocks, I messed it up.

Well, where am I going to get me money from?

How'm I gonna get me bloody oat milk

for me morning Cheerios?

I actually mocked this hoop skirt.

Thank you, Drag Race.

And so, yeah, I sold some things, but, you know what?

That's something I will keep for a very long time

until I sell it online.

It's about 6 A.M.

And I am currently doing the visuals and DVM.

Augh. Help me.

I'm on night shift in my fast food restaurant.

I'm doing a trash walk picking up rubbish.

I have been doing night shift, day shift, morning shift,

late shift, night shift.

Before the pandemic even hit,

there wasn't that many opportunities for me to work

full-time in drag up in Scotland anyways,

so I had to go out and get my little drive-thru gig

and make as much money as I could there.

It's all about survival in these times.

Got to make that coin.

I'm one of the fortunate ones.

I temporarily paused a office job to come and film,

and that job has been a blessing.

I'm honestly just past the point of tiredness now.

This pandemic has literally changed

the whole landscape of healthcare.

I'm seen people die from the virus,

and it's been horrific.

But... to be honest with you,

it's made me really appreciate life more than ever.

Like, I've always appreciated life,

because I've seen people die before.

I've seen people get through really bad illnesses and not.

But this has just been really different

because it's affected the whole world.

It's, it's...

Whew, this is rough. This is really rough.

Mentally, it's mentally draining.

I...

By my training...

I'm a mental health nurse, so that's my background,

but during the pandemic,

I've been working so many different environments

that I've never worked in in my whole life

and it's sort of changed my whole perspective on everything.

I've been picking shifts up everywhere and anywhere

that I can do,

because it's...

It's been very demanding.

And there's not enough of us,

so if you're ever stuck for something to do,

train yourself in healthcare,

because I don't think there's enough people doing it.

Usually, I'm like performing in front of loads of people

and to stop that,

and do things online, it was weird.

I mean, it was great that we adapted.

[piano playing]

[hisses]

[laughs]

This pandemic has really tested the drag community.

There were some people that just hung up their frocks.

[squeaking]

And there were some people that it's made them

really, really got for it.

[bass voice] ♪ Windows ♪

It's really tested people's survival skills.

I was very fortunate because fans have tipped

and that was wonderful.

Because I realized how much support I had

as an artist.

And I felt so loved and appreciated.

Fancy microphone and lovely backdrops do not happen

without the support of people,

and I have such a lovely support.

So today I found out that I am

returning to doing some regular drag gig.

Show me the money, honey.

I need to pay this rent!

We're now doing performances in venues that would

originally hold 2.000 people,

and now they're holding 250 people.

When restrictions lifted,

I felt like it was my first time on stage again,

and it was, oh, goodness me, it felt good.

If I had to go out there in a full hazmat suit,

I was gonna go out there in a full hazmat suit.

I've been working, I've been gigging,

I've been hustling, I've been doing the thing.

I've been doing the brunches,

I've been doing the whole rounds,

I've been doing the circuit.

If you're paying, I'll be there.

Oh, look, you can see me in the mirror.

Oh, that's like Inception, that.

A lot of places survived on brunches.

I think there's a moral issue

with the amount of Prosecco you feed these Huns

and then you expect them to sit down when "W.A.P." comes on.

They all lose their shit.

No cheering, no whooping.

No clapping, no dancing.

How are you doing tonight?

Please don't answer that question, you know.

Did you enjoy that song? Doesn't matter.

I mean, I suppose if they didn't like it,

they're not going to be able to boo either, so...

You know, you know.

Apples and oranges.

[bagpipes play]

Right now there's nothing else I'd like to do more

than go out and perform and make money,

but I can't do that.

I'm glad to see some queens are back at work

but it wasn't the case for us queens in Scotland.

You know, we've kind of been left in the dark.

It is against the law

to play music in any venue, any bar,

so drag right now is dead in the kind of live events way.

I'm sure, you know, good intentions and all that.

And it is better to be safe than sorry,

but, you know, there's a whole, you know,

load of drag queens out there that are, you know,

losing their jobs and having to sign on, myself included.

Bleaching my hair because I need to look

exactly the same way I did seven months ago!

I am in such a lucky position to be returning

to Drag Race.

And it's given me a goal to look forward to.

The Season Two girls have come correct.

So Imma step my cookies up on some of these runway looks.

My anxiety is through the roof.

It's a lot more stressful this time around,

not knowing what to expect.

In the history of Drag Race,

no one has ever had this amount of time

to actually get ready for the show.

There's no excuse now, this is the time

where we've been able to practice our sewing skills,

refine our makeup, actually hydrate those wigs.

Tia Kofi.

No more will you see me sporting a flat wig on the runway.

No, no, no, no, no, styled wigs only for Miss Tia Kofi.

Thank you very much.

[laughing]

Who, me?

Like this?

With all this hair?

Can you believe it?

Yes.

That's right.

Darling! Oh, she's gonna look like a right tart.

I can't wait. Whoo!

I do most everything myself, so I've been sewing.

The sewing machine's been out.

We learn and we grow from our mistakes.

My mistake being making that outfit.

I'm currently mocking up three outfits at once.

Look how neat and pretty that is.

Yeah, I'm running out of time.

But... it's getting there.

I've started experimenting with different...

different techniques that I've never done before

and trying to learn new things.

We're in a five-star spa-hotel over the weekend...

and there you just sat on the floor,

sewing your dress.

-Well, I've got work to do. -You nerd.

It's tedious work, but...

makes all the bloody difference.

I'm going to be making some pads.

Kids, don't do this at home.

Binge-watching Drag Race has given me a lot of insight

into what RuPaul likes,

and whatever she doesn't like, I'm not doing.

You never think this much effort would go into making

an arse, would you?

I'm just trying to really push myself.

I'll put my all into anything.

It might not be good, but I would put my all into it.

I'm shy now.

It'll be Camp Old Times, being reunited with the girls.

I got...

my Covid test results back today,

in preparation for coming back to Drag Race,

and my result was positive.

I can't go back to filming

because I...

I have...

I have the disease. I have Covid-19.

I don't really know...

I don't really know how to deal with having it.

I'm just a bit numb.

This whole year has just taken everything away from me.

That's the end of my Drag Race journey.

So...

[sighs]

Filming is most likely well underway by now.

I've just got to focus on getting better now

and hopefully.... hopefully they'll allow me back

for the finale, to at least see that.

So we'll have to see.

Fingers crossed. Everything crossed.

Oh my God!

We're back!

Drag Race UK, Season Two!

Oh, my goodness, oh!

I'm back, I'm home.

Let's go, I'm ready.

Can I get that crown now, please?

These other clowns better watch out.

Ellie Diamond is back and she's here for the crown.

As much as they are all my mortal enemies,

I'm excited to be reunited with them,

in some strange way.

Oh, I think I've got feelings. Eww.

Last time I'd be worried you'd like smell my bacon sandwich

on my breath or something like that.

So this is a wee bit more flattering.

Trust me, I've not had people to talk to,

so I'm fucking choking to talk to people.

I'm gagging for that--

to talk to people.

Off to the pink prison.

There ain't no pandemic gonna stop

Bimini Bon Boulash, baby.

Corona may have sent these girls home the first time,

but this time around, I'm sending these bitches home.

[wicked laughter]

I am not coming back as Tia One,

not even Tia Two.

Bitch, I am Tia Three, and the government tells me

that I am very dangerous.

♪ To, to, to, to the moon ♪

♪ To the moon ♪

♪ To the moon ♪

♪ Come on and take me away ♪

♪ To, to, to, to the moon ♪

♪ To the moon ♪

♪ To the moon ♪

♪ Come on and take me away ♪

♪ To, to, to, to the moon ♪