It’s time to start your engines. The new series of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK is about to start and contestant Coral-Hole Mandi is ready to “take it by the horns” and “give it everything”.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old calls herself the Bikini Bottom Bimbo from Belfast and she is the only contestant from Northern Ireland in this season.<\/p>\n
She is one of 12 contestants hoping to impress Mama Ru and Michelle Visage.<\/p>\n
Her plans for doing that? <\/p>\n
“I’m going to be the fully realised, colourful cartoon diva that I’ve always dreamed of being.”<\/p>\n
Mandi works in Belfast and loves “how alternative the Belfast drag scene is”.<\/p>\n
“No performer does the same thing in Belfast. Everyone has their own little niche. There’s a lot of campy showgirly drag. There’s a lot of old school divas. There’s a lot of new age, more alternative drag, club kids and creatures as well. <\/p>\n
“Any corner you look, there is every variety of drag in Belfast and it’s amazing. <\/p>\n
She thinks that should be celebrated more and that Belfast “probably has one of the most diverse drag scenes in the UK, but not a lot of Belfast drag has been represented”.<\/p>\n
Mandi thinks casting two queens from Belfast on the same season would allow them to “bounce off each other”.<\/p>\n
“I think that’s the only way that you’re going to get the authentic Northern Irish craic,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s time to start your engines. The new series of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK is about to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-603452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}