Drag Race Down Under is finally here, and Aussie comedian Rhys Nicholson is along for the ride! After the franchise has been branching out globally with spin offs in the UK, Canada, Thailand and more, drag fans prayers for Australia and New Zealand to get their own version of the competition show have finally been answered.
Season one is now well underway, and luckily for British viewers, BBC have picked up the show on iPlayer so we can watch it easily over here. We’re only three episodes in and have already seen celebrity guest spots from Taika Waititi, Troye Sivan and… wait for it: KYLIE AND DANNII MINOGUE.
âThatâs enough from usâ: What the Get Krackinâ team did next
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Kate McCartney is dressed as a penguin. Not over Zoom but on her 40th birthday, which she celebrated last year during Melbourneâs hard lockdown.
âI donât know if youâre gonna be able to see this very well,â she says, flicking through the photos on her phone, which she is holding up to her computerâs camera.
Kate McLennan (left) and Kate McCartney get up close with the penguinâs at SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium.
Zoe Coombs Marr: âStop doing it, straight people, youâre so weirdâ
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Every comedian may walk a tightrope between being bathed in a balmy wave of laughter and being flattened by the cold rock face of eviscerating silence. But Zoe Coombs Marr does
it while having to balance a seal, metaphorically, on her nose.
âIâd love to be able to just make jokes and be funny but I canât,â she says, âbecause Iâve got like a whole community of people that Iâm part of and representing, and I donât want to get laughs onstage and then have someone beat me up because they hate queers, because Iâve contributed to that.â