RuPaul’s Drag Race UK sashayed onto our screens in 2019, and finally, a major welcome change is being made to the format.
Now all the cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption will be rewarded with a nice cash prize for the winner.
Up until now, they’ve been able to win RuPeter badges – a spoof of the Blue Peter predecessor – in the weekly maxi-challenges, and the winners got themselves bragging rights, a crown and an all-expenses paid trip to Hollywood to create their own digital series with the producers of the series. Although the work opportunity is excellent, they’ve already werked all season so just pure, hard cash feels fitting.
The financial reward will be introduced for the upcoming RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World series, which will air in early 2024 on BBC.
The queens of series five weren’t entirely happy about the news as they just missed out on the upgrade meaning winner Ginger Johnson took home £0.
‘It was a dark dark day in the s5 group chat when we learnt that the season that filmed immediately after us had a cash prize,’ revealed Kate Butch on X, formerly Twitter.
A new verse for Alanis Morissette’s Ironic just dropped – ‘It’s the new cash prize when you already competed. Who would have thought that it, it figures.’
While the UK version has never had financial incentive, the USA original has been living it large with one win being worth a staggering $200,000, and the competitors also earning money in the weekly challenges.
The upcoming series will mark the second time the UK drag queens have come up against the rest of the world to become ‘Queen of the Mother Tucking World.’
As always, each week they will have to impress judges Michelle Visage, Graham Norton, Alan Carr, and of course RuPaul as well as an extra special guest judge.
In 2022 queens from Canada, Thailand, Holland, and the big hitters of America took on the Drag Race UK graduates, before it all came down to US queen, Mo Heart, and Blu Hydrangea who finally took home the crown for the UK.
Let’s hope the crown stays on the British Isles once more, and the winner treats us all to a round!
RuPaul’s Drag Race is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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