“Lily Savage, to me, is the queer icon of her time,” Ellie said in the confessional booth.
Judge Michelle Visage was more to the point as she applauded Ellie’s glammed-up interpretation: “It was how Lily wishes she’d looked.”
Shady? Slightly, yes, but Michelle can hardly be blamed when you consider the bad blood between Lily and the show.
Up until the announcement that RuPaul would be fronting
Drag Race UK herself, Lily’s name was often floated as a potential host for a British spin-off.
Paul O’Grady retired the persona to “a convent in Brittany” in the mid ’00s, but that didn’t stop speculation running rampant as Drag Race became a bona fide phenomenon.