Drag Race Down Under delivers its first shocking elimination of the series
Drag Race Down under is back and it’s jam-packed with Snatch Game laughs and a shocking elimination.
The episode started off with the queens entering the werkroom after JoJo Zaho’s elimination. After they reflected on their first challenge and runway, the contestants dived back into competition mode.
The next day, the queens arrived in the workroom with competitive attitudes and their eyes on the prize. After participating in an impromptu “shooey”, the contestants got interrupted by pop music legend, Kylie Minogue.
“Hey Racers it’s me, RuPaul, doing my very best Kylie Minogue imitation, which I have to say is not bad at all,” Minogue joked.
The line-up for Snatch Game on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under has arrived early!
The next episode of the spin-off will see first-time impressions of several iconic celebrities, a few of which have been fervently championed by fans over the years, including Dolly Parton, Jennifer Coolidge and Catherine O’Hara.
World of Wonder released an exclusive photo from the set of the fan-favourite maxi challenge, which shows Karen from Finance take on the legendary country superstar and Scarlet Adams as the Legally Blonde and A Cinderella Story actress.
Elektra Shock also dons a signature look of O’Hara’s critically-acclaimed Schitt’s Creek character Moira Rose.
There is one word for the first Snatch Game of Drag Race Down Under: snatched. (WOWPresents/YouTube)
Drag Race Down Under plays the Snatch Game in episode two, and the line-up might just be the campest one yet.
The second episode of
Drag Race Down Under, airing Sunday (9 May) on BBC iPlayer and Saturday (8 May) elsewhere, will see the nine remaining queens compete with impersonations of celebrities.
A teaser released ahead of the episode has revealed the queens’ choices for the game and it’s safe to say some get off to a better start than others.
Karen from Finance is one to watch, impersonating the never-before-attempted gay icon Dolly Parton. Like a few of the Australasian queens she is trying out an American accent, but unfortunately it sounds like it could use some work.
One of the show s most popular queens is Karen from Finance, and viewers who read the closing credits noticed the program s actual head of finance is coincidentally also called Karen
I don’t have a lot of patriotism for Australia, and there’s not a lot to be proud about imho, but this conversation, and seeing our unfiltered passion for profanity on the world stage did manage to make me feel weirdly proud. And the more I watched, the more I realised that a lot of the joy of
Drag Race Down Under messy, campy, fun– was expressed precisely through that love of swearing.
But I also had to wonder what the rest of the world would think of it? The Australian and New Zealand accents are already thick enough that I imagine the US will have trouble with them (which reportedly was the case with the Scottish queens in