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The twelve queens competing for the coveted title of the next The UK’s Next Drag Superstar are: Ella Vaday, Scarlett Harlett, Choriza May, Elektra Fence, Krystal Versace, Charity Kase, River Medway, Kitty Scott-Claus, Veronica Green, Victoria Scone, Vanity Milan, Anubis.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race UK” showcases the very best of what the drag scene across the pond has to offer. An intense competition, the queens will slay their way through a weekly series of challenges designed to test their drag race prowess. Their make-up skills, fashion sense, sewing abilities, comedy, singing, acting, and dancing skills, and of course lip sync skills will all be put to the test. The Queens will be assessed on their Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent with the bottom two queens being asked to lip sync for their lives.

Season three features twelve queens battling it out over ten weeks, with judges RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr returning to the panel. Each week, Alan or Graham will join RuPaul and Michelle on a rotational basis, alongside a special celebrity guest judge.

Victoria Scone becomes the first cisgender female on the show franchise and we want you to get to know her better —

Preferred pronouns:

In drag: She/her

Out of drag: She/her

Tell us about yourself… 

My name is Victoria Scone, and I am a camp, Cardiff, cabaret, disco diva, with a lot of spunk… 

How long have you lived in Cardiff?

I am a Pompey girl originally, but I moved to Cardiff, which was where I fully established my drag career. So, Victoria is very much a Cardiff girl. 

How long have you been doing drag?

About three years… It feels like so much longer! 

What’s a typical Victoria Scone show like?

If you come to a Victoria Scone show, you’re going to get all the divas. A bit of Barbara, a bit of Donna Summer. My drag is high campery, utter nonsense. I am not portraying a real woman. Victoria is a caricature of a woman! 

Who or what inspires you?

I am very much inspired by traditional drag, pantomime, and the older Welsh queens. People like Ceri Dupree have really inspired me. I like to mix my traditional drag with fashion and blur the lines of panto, fashion and costume.

How does it feel to be the first cis female on the show?

It feels right! I didn’t invent the art of drag for women. I am not the first and I certainly won’t be the last. But I feel very capable and proud to have made it through the application process and be the first on Drag Race UK.

Me being here is political but you can just have fun with it. That’s why I started. I just wanted to entertain people and that’s what we’re going to do! Drag can just be fun!

Would you call yourself an AFAB Queen?

I would call myself a Drag Queen, Drag Artist, Extraordinaire.

I understand it’s helpful to use AFAB, which stands for Assigned Female at Birth, when we are specifically speaking about the fact that I do not own certain cis-male drag queen genitalia. But we don’t describe cis male Drag Queens as AMAB Queens, so as a handy tip, I’d just call us all Drag Queens or Drag Artists, and if you must know, I identify as a Tony Award.

What are your strengths?

I sing, I dance. I’m quick witted and I’m creative. I’m everything a Drag Queen should be. I embody a lot of traditional British drag. I am the whole entertainment package. I have been performing since I was a child. I was thrust into dance school from the age of three by my mother. She was a ballerina and was on The Benny Hill Show. It wasn’t easy at first, but fell in love with entertainment, it was a 

kind of Stockholm Syndrome for me. I fell in love with my oppressor. That is theatre for me. I live and breathe it. I need to do it to survive. 

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What is the drag scene like in Cardiff?

It’s quite traditional, but I’m very proud to have been welcomed in and to have broadened the diversity of the Cardiff scene. The older Drag Queens took me under their wing, showed me the way and made me who I am today. You might think that the older scene might turn me away or be sniffy about my drag, but I have turned them! Once they see me perform, they realize that we’re all doing the same thing. We’re all dressing up; we’re all putting on a show. I’m putting on a character, the same as a cis-male Drag Queen. We are ALL putting on a character to entertain!

Why drag?

I think I have always been a Drag Queen, but I just hadn’t found the right outlet.

Drag was a natural progression for me. The theatre introduced me to pantomime, which is such a big part of British culture. I’ve been in pantomimes from a very young age – that was where I first fell in love with drag. I didn’t look up to Cinderella, I looked up to Widow Twankey. That was my goal: to be Widow Twankey.

I love what drag allows me to do. I feel like I can get away with absolutely anything when I’m Victoria. I love drag. I love the entertainment side of it, the escapism, the nightlife, the family. I love that it is a safe queer space. 

Why should you win RuPaul’s Drag Race UK?

I should win RuPaul’s Drag Race UK because it’s so important, not just for me, but for marginalized minority groups in the queer scene to see themselves reflected on TV. We can absolutely have a seat at this table. I didn’t build the table (despite being very butch and very good at DIY) but I deserve a space at it. Everyone deserves a space. I wanted to do Drag Race to prove that I can win it. I’m not a fragile, little flower darling. I can have them all for supper!

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