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RuPaul's Drag Race UK is a British Reality Show in which Drag Queens compete in challenges to impress host RuPaul, with the winner of each series crowned as the UK's latest drag superstar and awarded other prizes. The show is part of the international Drag Race franchise.The challenges cover things such as modelling, makeup and fashion design - as well as comedy, acting and dance performances. Each episode also includes at least one themed runway fashion show, which may or may not be related to the episode's other challenges.As well as the challenges themselves, a large part of each show is devoted to conversation and events backstage, in the shared "Werk Room". This is where contestants prepare their costumes, do their makeup and rehearse for some of the challenges. Contestants aren't usually in drag during these segments, but still use their stage names - Drag Race largely avoids mentioning contestants' legal names unless contestants specifically share them.At the end of each episode, contestants in the middle of the field are immediately marked as 'safe' until the next episode and leave the stage, whereas contestants at the top and bottom of the results remain onstage to hear the judges' critiques. As the series progresses, the number of safe places available steadily reduces.After the critiques the remaining contestants leave the stage, the judges deliberate, and all of the contestants return to hear their verdict - at which point one queen is normally declared the week's winner, two are warned that they are potentially facing elimination, and any remaining queens who received critiques are also declared 'safe'.As with other Drag Race shows, elimination is tied to a "lip sync battle" - the two contestants lip sync to a song chosen by the judges, with both queens performing onstage at the same time. The judges then decide who'll be saved and who'll be sent home.The series is hosted by RuPaul and judged by a panel including RuPaul and Michelle Visage (who also judge the original US Drag Race shows), with Graham Norton and Alan Carr alternating as the third regular judge. The fourth judge is a special guest, with a different celebrity for each episode.Each season is preceded by a one-off Meet the Queens special, introducing the contestants.Unlike some of the other shows in the franchise, RuPaul's Drag Race UK was initially self-contained - there was no companion Untucked show to focus on Werk Room conversations and say farewell to the eliminated contestants. However, season five debuted its own companion show, The After Shave with Danny Beard. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Two of the characters in the season five Pantomime are Lisa Thot Lee and D, washed-up pop stars who were previously in "Stairs". Any resemblance to Lisa Scott-Lee and H from Steps is purely coincidental. | |
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Laugh Track: In season five, Alan Carr, who's coaching the contestants for the "Dragiators" comedy Roast, mentions that when a joke falls flat on television, he has to pretend it's worked because canned laughter will be added. The scene immediately cuts to a Confession Cam of DeDeLicious, who's struggled with comedy challenges, saying that she can picture herself in dead space with no-one laughing. At which point the show plays a laugh track. | |
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Voted Off the Island: Ru normally chooses the winner of each episode, chooses the two queens who'll lip sync to avoid elimination, and then chooses which queen will go home. Given the nature of the challenges and the lip sync, there's always a subjective element to these decisions. On occasion, judges can defy the usual voting rule. In the first episode of season five, Ru chooses not to eliminate any of the contestants. In the third episode of that season, after a girl group challenge, nobody is eliminated and the top two contestants instead lip sync for the win. | |
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Drag Race's Panel Game challenge, Snatch Game, is a direct spoof of American show Match Game. There are also some references to Blankety Blank, the British adaptation of Match Game. | |
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Elimination Houdini: invoked As contestants are eliminated via lip sync battle, those performing poorly in challenges but consistently delivering strong lip syncs can remain in the show for quite some time. As with earlier Drag Race shows, they may be directly referred to as a "Lip Sync Assassin" by other competitors - especially if they eliminate queens who usually placed much higher in the competition. | |
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In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It | |
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In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: As with other shows in the Drag Race franchise, Ru is the host so it's RuPaul's Drag Race in the title. This doesn't happen with other Foreign Remakes that have different hosts (such as Canada's Drag Race). | |
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Transatlantic Equivalent: The British version of the original US series began in late 2019 and assembles queens from across the four Home Nations of the United Kingdom; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Despite initial fears of a simple rehash, the show has garnered a strong following both at home and abroad — mostly due to the difference in British versus American drag. British drag has its roots in more raw, less glamorous venues (pubs, working-men's clubs, etc), and lacks the look-based pageant/ballroom culture of the US drag scene, which lends the UK iteration a tone that is a little grittier, more humour-based, and full of outrageously shocking language. And since there's no big cash prize, the queens are more able to have fun and not outgun each other like their American counterparts. In some ways, the US and UK drag scenes (before drag became more universally mainstream) are relatively antithetical and each other’s Foil. It’s not a universal truth, but historically, in the prominent ball culture and pageantry of the American drag scene, the ‘rich lady’ lifestyle is celebrated and aspired to, with queens, often from (very) humble backgrounds, wanting to be like the rich, Dynasty-style women they portray — see Paris Is Burning for additional insight. However, the British drag scene, especially with classic pub queens, compères and the venerable institution of the pantomime dame in mind, has its origins in making fun of and sending up the affectations, cattiness and airs and graces of the aspirational women of the middle-classes, who would have (certainly in the past) been a higher step up on the British social class ladder than the more humble drag performers (and their appreciative audiences). There's nothing the British love more than poking fun at class distinction and, for the working-class, indulging in a spot of épater la bourgeoisie. Ru has clearly leaned into the British setting in a big way, and along with a newly badged, Queen's Guards themed "Brit-Crew", she has tasked the queens with a multitude of British-themed challenges and main-stage looks: "Day at the Races," "Downton Draggy, "Bond Girl Glamorama", "Wimbled'Hun" and of course, THE (former) Queen herself, Elizabeth II. When Ru quizzes The Vivienne on the subject, she perfectly sums up all of the above, as does show judge Graham Norton. | |
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Establishing Character Moment: The first episode deliberately gives each contestant a showcase to establish their drag style and persona when they make their grand entrance. Each queen walks into the Werk Room in full drag, pauses, poses and delivers a carefully chosen entrance line. | |
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Elimination Catchphrase: RuPaul dismisses eliminated contestants with the same "Sashay away" used on previous English-language Drag Race shows. | |
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Drag Queen: As with other Drag Race shows, not only is it a contest for drag queens to demonstrate their skills, host RuPaul is a very well-established drag queen as well. In practice, much of each episode covers the Werk Room preparations and rehearsals, with contestants mostly out of drag. Confession Cam segments, commenting on the show's events, are also filmed out of drag. | |
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Confession Cam: Contestants provide commentary via confessional interviews, which are recorded after the scenes they refer to, then spliced into the episode. Confessionals typically start on video, sometimes continuing as voiceover once the episode cuts back to the original scene. Confessionals are recorded out of drag. | |
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On the Next: Every episode (aside from the season finales) cuts from the onstage ending to a set of "Next time on..." clips. The clip montage introduces the week's main challenge and normally includes some judge's comments, but doesn't reveal who's being judged. Closing credits follow the clips. | |
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Elimination Statement: As with other shows in the Drag Race franchise, eliminated contestants usually make two different statements when they leave. The first is a final comment to the judges and cameras, before the contestant leaves the stage. The second is a message for the remaining contestants, written in lipstick on the werk room mirror. | |
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Given Name Reveal | |
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Given Name Reveal: For most of the series, contestants who use Stage Names for their drag personas are only ever referred to by those names, even when out of drag. Real names are never revealed. However, in the finale of each season, Ru addresses finalists by their real first names when asking what they'd tell their younger selves. | |
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Perverted Sniffing: In an Establishing Character Moment for season five's Footballer's Wags sketch, comically crazed stalker Champagne (played by contestant Cara Melle) pulls Stefan's Union Jack underwear out of her cleavage, holds it to her nose and inhales deeply. | |
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Everyone Meets Everyone | |
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Everyone Meets Everyone: The first episode of the season begins with the contestants entering the werk room in drag, one at a time. Some of them may already know each other (in season five, two of them are actually housemates), but they get some time to talk and introduce themselves before Ru arrives. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: Ru regularly tells contestants that they'll be judged on their Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent. | |
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Shout-Out: Any contestant who wins a challenge is rewarded with a "Ru Peter badge", a reference to long-running British children's TV show Blue Peter. Ru tends to introduce the "Reading is Fundamental" challenge, in which queens cast shade at their competitors, as being "in the grand tradition of Paris Is Burning". Season's five's screen test challenge spoofs three well-known British shows. Footballer's Wags spoofs Footballers Wives, Holedark spoofs period drama Poldark and Femmerdale takes a swipe at soap opera Emmerdale. Drag Race's Panel Game challenge, Snatch Game, is a direct spoof of American show Match Game. There are also some references to Blankety Blank, the British adaptation of Match Game. Season five's semifinal challenge, the Dragiators Roast, is spoofing Gladiators. Ru directly describes it as a Gladiators / Drag Race mash-up, and the logo is clearly based on the Gladiators version. | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene: The Brit Crew (the British version of the Drag Race franchise's Pit Crew) are muscular men who only wear Union Jack underwear. It's part of the job. | |
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