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RuPaul's Drag Race UK (season 1)
The first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' began airing on 3 October 2019 on the BBC Three section of BBC iPlayer and WOW Presents Plus's WOW Presents Plus streaming service. It ran for eight episodes. The winner of first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' was The Vivienne, with Divina de Campo as the runner-up. The song " Break Up (Bye Bye)", which was featured in the fifth episode, was released as a single and reached number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number 44 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart in the US. The Vivienne died on 5 January 2025 at the age of 32. Their cause of death was initially undisclosed. They are the first winner in the ''Drag Race'' franchise to pass away. Contestants ''Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.'' Future ''Drag Race'' appearances * In 2022 Baga Chipz, Blu Hydrangea, and Cheryl Hole competed on ''RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World'' series 1, with Blu Hydrangea winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul
RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and has received List of awards and nominations received by RuPaul, several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, ''Billboard'' Music Awards, and a Tony Award. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with ''Fortune (magazine), Fortune'' saying that he is "easily the world's most famous drag queen." In 2017, RuPaul was included in the annual Time 100, ''Time'' 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Born and raised in San Diego, California, RuPaul studied performing arts in Atlanta, Georgia, before relocating to New York City, where he became a popular fixture on the LGBTQ cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the List of English districts by population, largest local authority district in England by population and the second-largest city in Britain – commonly referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom – with a population of million people in the city proper in . Birmingham borders the Black Country to its west and, together with the city of Wolverhampton and towns including Dudley and Solihull, forms the West Midlands conurbation. The royal town of Sutton Coldfield is incorporated within the city limits to the northeast. The urban area has a population of 2.65million. Located in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sum Ting Wong (drag Queen)
Sum Ting Wong is the stage name of Bo Zeng, a drag queen from Birmingham, England. She is best known for her appearance on the first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK''. Early life Bo Zeng was born in Birmingham to Vietnamese immigrant parents of Chinese descent. Career Sum Ting Wong's name comes from an incident in 2013, when KTVU in San Francisco aired stereotypical Chinese-sounding gag names of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 pilots including "Sum Ting Wong" (something wrong), "Wi Tu Lo" (we retoo low), "Ho Lee Fuk" (holy fuck), and "Bang Ding Ow" (onomatopoeias of sounds made when crash landing). Wong has said she chose to reappropriate the name for herself to reflect her British Vietnamese heritage. She competed on the first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK''. Outside of ''Drag Race'', she is a Twitch streamer and musician. Filmography Television * ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' (series 1) Web series * ''Bring Back My Girls ''Bring Back My Girls'' is a reality televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystal (drag Queen)
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macroscopic single crystals are usually identifiable by their geometrical shape, consisting of flat faces with specific, characteristic orientations. The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is known as crystallography. The process of crystal formation via mechanisms of crystal growth is called crystallization or solidification. The word ''crystal'' derives from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning both "ice" and "rock crystal", from (), "icy cold, frost". Examples of large crystals include snowflakes, diamonds, and table salt. Most inorganic solids are not crystals but polycrystals, i.e. many microscopic crystals fused together into a single solid. Polycrystals include most metals, rocks, ceramics, and ice. A third category of sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast
Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel. It is the second-largest city in Ireland (after Dublin), with an estimated population of in , and a Belfast metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of 671,559. First chartered as an English settlement in 1613, the town's early growth was driven by an influx of Scottish people, Scottish Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Presbyterians. Their descendants' disaffection with Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy, Anglican establishment contributed to the Irish Rebellion of 1798, rebellion of 1798, and to the Acts of Union 1800, union with Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain in 1800—later regarded as a key to the town's industrial transformation. When granted City status in the United Kingdom#Northern Ireland, city s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blu Hydrangea
Blu Hydrangea (born 15 February 1996) is the stage name of Joshua Cargill, a People of Northern Ireland, Northern Irish drag queen from Belfast who competed the RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 1, first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' in 2019, and won the RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World series 1, first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World'' in 2022. Career Blu Hydrangea was announced as part of the cast of the RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 1), first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' on 21 September 2019 and subsequently finished in fifth place on the series, losing the lip sync to fellow contestant Cheryl Hole. Outside of ''Drag Race'', Blu Hydrangea is a make-up queen and a part of a group called the Frock Destroyers (with Baga Chipz and Divina de Campo). She also hosted the BBC web series ''Strictly Frocked Up'', a weekly web series where she and another drag queen watch and review each episode of ''Strictly Come Dancing''. In January 2022, she was announce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelmsford
Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Colchester and Southend-on-Sea. It is located north-east of London at Charing Cross and south-west of Colchester. The population of the urban area was 110,625 in the 2021 Census, while the wider district has 181,763. The main conurbation of Chelmsford incorporates all or part of the former parishes of Broomfield, Newland Spring, Great Leighs, Great Waltham, Little Waltham, Great Baddow, Little Baddow, Galleywood, Howe Green, Margaretting, Pleshey, Stock, Roxwell, Danbury, Bicknacre, Writtle, Moulsham, Rettendon, The Hanningfields, The Chignals, Widford and Springfield, including Springfield Barnes, now known as Chelmer Village. The communities of Chelmsford, Massachusetts; Chelmsford, Ontario; and Chelmsford, New Brunswick, are named after the city. The demonym for a Chelmsford r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Hole
Cheryl, formerly known as Cheryl Hole (born 18 October 1993), is the stage name of Luke Underwood-Bleach, an English drag queen known for being one of the first contestants on the first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' (2019), as well as the first series of '' RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World'' (2022), and the second season of '' Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World'' (2024). Personal life Luke Underwood was born in 1993 and raised in Chelmsford in Essex. On the 24 September 2021, Underwood and his partner, Haydn Bleach, married; upon which their last names were double-barrelled to Underwood-Bleach. Career Underwood-Bleach began doing drag under the stage name "Cheryl Hole" sometime in the 2010s; his act is based on former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole. On 3 April 2019, Underwood-Bleach and his then fiancé took part in the Comedy Central show '' Your Face Or Mine?'' hosted by Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan. On 21 August 2019, Cheryl Hole was announced as one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East London
East London is the part of London, England, east of the ancient City of London and north of the River Thames as it begins to widen. East London developed as London Docklands, London's docklands and the primary industrial centre. The expansion of railways in the 19th century encouraged the eastward expansion of the East End of London and a proliferation of new suburbs. The industrial lands of East London are today an area of regeneration, which are well advanced in places such as Canary Wharf and ongoing elsewhere. History Toponymy The etymology of London is uncertain, but is known to be an ancient name. The concept of East London as a distinct area is a relatively recent innovation. John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, City and Liberty of Westminster, Westminster, Southwark and That Part Beyond the Tower. From the late 19th century the term East End of London was used to describe areas immediately adjacent to the City in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baga Chipz
Leo Loren better known by the stage name Baga Chipz, is an English drag queen known for competing on the RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 1), first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' (2019) and later the RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World (series 1), first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World'' (2022). Baga Chipz also appeared in the Ackley Bridge (series 5), fifth series of the Channel 4 school drama series ''Ackley Bridge'' (2022). Career Baga Chipz is a part of "The Buffalo Girls", a drag troupe also featuring Lady Lloyd and Silver Summers. In 2014, Baga Chipz appeared in ''Drag Queens of London'', a series documenting the lives of drag queens over a three-month period, both on and off the stage. On 21 August 2019, Baga Chipz was announced as one of the ten queens to be competing in the RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 1), first series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK''. Baga Chipz won three challenges and finished in third place. During November and December 2019, Baga Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighouse
Brighouse (, locally also ) is a town within the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated on the River Calder, West Yorkshire, River Calder, east of Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 motorway and Brighouse railway station on the Caldervale Line and Huddersfield Line. In the town centre is a mooring basin on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The United Kingdom Census 2001 gave the Brighouse / Rastrick subdivision of the West Yorkshire Urban Area a population of 32,360. The Brighouse ward of Calderdale Council gave a population of 11,195 at the 2011 Census. Brighouse has an HD6 postcode, despite being associated with Halifax for local government. The name Brighouse (or "Bridge House") originates from a building on (or close to) the bridge over the River Calder. In its early history, it was a hamlet (place), hamlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
