Oh Geru
Alan Carr has slammed Geri Horner for being ‘outraged by everything,’ during her stint as a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. The comedian claimed that the Spice Girl was ‘grabbing her pearls’ at some of the looks and comments that she saw and heard on the runway. All despite her own history of costume and bawdy behaviour. The first episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has been a major hit, with fans of the franchise calling it even better than the US version. Each week will see a different celebrity guest judge – Andrew Garfield was the first guest judge while next week will see Game Of Thrones’ Maisie Williams read the queens., But Carr admitted that Geri’s stint was surprising in unexpected ways.
‘This is a woman who, at the Brits, came out of an inflatable vagina singing Bag It Up! And she was grabbing her pearls! I was shocked,’ he said.
‘I remember the Geri with the big old tits and Union Jack dress causing trouble – but she was like Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey! I was like, “Wake up, Geri!”‘
As Drag Race has grown in the US, the prize has grown with it with every winner from season four onwards winning the life-changing cash prize of $100,000 (£81,000) – or ‘one hundred thousand dooollaaaaahrs’, as Ru likes to say. However, for fans expecting a similar reward for the UK winner, they were in for no such luck because the UK’s next drag superstar will instead ‘be whisked off to Hollywood to star in her very own digital series produced by the hit-making team that created RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’.
Yep, their prize is essentially what all US drag queens get simply for turning up to the work room. However, due to the show airing on the BBC, which is a public broadcaster, the team cannot work with sponsors to provide prizes (like the year’s supply of Anastasia Beverly Hills makeup often offered to winners) or money towards the cash sum.
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