Drag Race UK season seven’s first eliminated queen explains ‘very emotional moment’ that didn’t get aired

The first eliminated queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season seven has detailed the “very emotional moment” that didn’t get shown in episode two. 

Warning! Spoiler alert for Drag Race UK season seven, episode two.

Drag Race UK season seven is now in full throttle, with Cornish queen Pasty becoming the first queen of the season to be given the boot. Her personality was moreish, but her garment construction in this week’s design challenge was, according to the judges, flaky.

This season’s set of 12 queens were tasked with creating a look for this week’s Rumble in the Jumble runway theme, using leftover materials from previous Drag Race UK challenges.

But the chips were down for Pasty before she’d even begun constructing her look, considering last week she was saved from elimination due to the short-lived ‘Lucky Cow’ twist that saw her fellow contestants vote to keep her in the competiton.

Then, entering the Werk Room for week two, Pasty and her fellow contestants were tasked with playing a game of ‘The Tainters’, voting for which queens fit best in a number of categories.

Pasty was sadly awarded accolades in both the ‘Most Distasteful’ and ‘Most Fateful’ categories, the latter meaning the queen most likely to go home next.

Then, as the main challenge commenced in the Werk Room, Pasty seemed a little stressed with getting her emerald jumpsuit right. 

On the most part, she seemed to take the voting all in her stride, and seemed mostly sanguine about her upcoming runway look. In reality though, she was at times “very upset”.

Speaking to PinkNews following her elimination, Pasty said that her full reaction to the shenanigans was left on the cutting room floor – probably for the better.

“I was very upset at certain points that they didn’t show, thankfully,” she admitted.

“I was very low and then, you know, it’s what happened. I had an emotional moment, but it was a very emotional moment. By the time I got onto the runway I was like, ‘I’m just going to have fun with it, and whatever happens happens’.

“I wouldn’t change it for the world,” she continued. “If it was like, don’t go on or go on and [go home first], I would still go on.”

Pasty did manage to pull together a look for the runway, despite having little sewing experience, and even earned some praise from the judges.

Despite putting her in the bottom two, alongside Viola, RuPaul dubbed Pasty’s look “impressive”.

While she called the look her “least favourite” on the runway, Michelle Visage praised the jumpsuit behind the scenes, telling Pasty: “If you sew this two, three or four more times… if you got this down, you could sell them.” Will she? “Probably not, because I don’t want to see a jumpsuit pattern again!”

Drag Race competitors are often criticised by the judges if they arrive at the competition without sewing skills, but Pasty has a counter argument.

“People that go on the show are allowed to struggle at comedy challenges. You can’t learn to be funny. You can learn to sew, but you know what I mean?” she questioned.

“If people are like, ‘Oh, why are you on the show if you don’t know how to sew’, [well] why are you on the show if you’re not funny? Why are you on the show where we do the Rusical, but you can’t sing?”

It’s true. Still, Pasty’s Drag Race UK time is at an end. For a while, she was sad knowing how her experience concluded. “The last few months, I’ve been a bit like ‘Oh no it’s going to be embarrassing’, but everyone loved it and everyone has been really sweet,” she shares.

“I’ve probably just been a bit stressed over it for a while but I’m really happy I’ve come out of it very positive, which is nice.”

There’s always next time, too, as Pasty would go back to Drag Race “in a heartbeat”.

“If you told me my package was ready in the car, I would go now. I would absolutely love to do it again. I think a ‘Pork Chop’ series would be good!”

Drag Race UK season seven continues on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer every Thursday.

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