Drag Race UK’s Elle Vosque reveals the disastrous way she hid her casting from friends

Ahead of the launch of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season seven, Elle Vosque has shared the disastrous way she tried to conceal filming the show.

Drag Race UK returns today (Thursday 25 September) and will see 12 queens compete to become the UK’s Next Drag Superstar. They are Catrin Feelings, Tayris Mongardi, Sally TM, Silllexa Diction, Pasty, Nyongbella, Paige Three, Elle Vosque, Viola, Chai T Grande, Bonnie Ann Clyde, and also Bones.

Speaking to PinkNews ahead of the season seven launch, Vosque and Nyongbella discussed the various ways they tried to hide from friends and family that they were filming.

In a promising start Vosque said, “It’s actually a really funny story,” explaining she got the call from Drag Race while at university where she also worked in a bar. “I had to figure out how I was leaving the bar I was working at so they wouldn’t know,” she said. “They didn’t clock it at all,” she added.

“So, I told my bar I was taking a few weeks off work to focus on uni and I told my friends in uni that I was taking a few weeks off and I needed some mental space,” Vosque continued.

But as she then detailed, it was all going well until the two sides crossed. “My friends in uni started going to the bar and asking where I was. And then my bar were going, ‘Oh, it’s funny because she told us she was really busy with uni work.’ So yeah, that was my story!” A spectacular story!

Nyongbella tried something a little more dramatic. “I said I was doing a humanitarian excursion,” she shared. “The thing is everyone kind of knows it’s ridiculous and a lie. It’s like, ‘Yeah I went on a humanitarian excursion. I’m going to Uganda, the third world, and want to help the children and all that kind of stuff’.”

And while that may have been a big fat lie, Nyongbella’s fellow queens said she succeeded in her mission to “feed the children,” clarifying, “the children being us.”

Returning to preside over proceedings will be Mama Ru herself. Joining her to judge the queens are Michelle Visage, Alan Carr as well as Graham Norton. Earlier this month the BBC revealed the celebrities joining Mama Ru and co on the judges’ panel. Among them are Nadine Coyle and also the Sugababes’s Mutya Buena.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season seven starts at 9pm on BBC Three as well as the BBC iPlayer on Thursday 25 September. All other episodes are currently streaming on BBC iPlayer.

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