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Drag Race UK’s Pasty reveals which queen is season seven’s ‘runway girl’

Sep 25
Written by Alastair James

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’s Pasty. (BBC)

RuPaul's Drag Race UK's Pasty. (BBC)

Ahead of the launch of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season seven, contestant Pasty has revealed which fellow queen she identified as the standout “runway girl.”

Drag Race UK returns on 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 and other media ahead of the season seven launch, Pasty, Nyongbella, and Silllexa discussed which queen was going to make a strong impression on the runway.

“Miss Silllexa, not even a doubt,” was Nyongbella’s instant response to the question. Silllexa had no complaints adding, “I’d say me as well.”

Pasty then said, “I think from the second I saw you, I was like, ‘Oh! Runway girl.’ I fully was like, ‘Oh! The looks are going to be the one!”

Without being asked for a qualitative statement, Nyongebella explained: “[Silllexa] entered the Werkroom in a gown. Who does that?” And, as well shall see come Thursday, it wasn’t just any gown.

Silllexa Diction on *Drag Race UK*. (BBC)

“It was finale level,” the London queen then added of her northern sister. “It could have been someone else’s finale runway and that’s her entrance look so it was, like, ‘Okay!’ [She] started strong.”

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.