{"id":159692,"date":"2025-09-25T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:38:09","slug":"rupauls-drag-race-uk-irish-drag-queens-make-herstory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159692\/","title":{"rendered":"RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race UK: Irish drag queens make &#8216;herstory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elle and Bonnie Ann told BBC News NI that they developed an &#8220;Irish alliance&#8221; on the show, which features 10 other drag queens from across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They found a third ally for their sisterhood in Welsh drag queen Catrin Feelings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were the Celtic Sisters and that was established from the jump,&#8221; said Elle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Celts are coming to take over,&#8221; joked Bonnie Ann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bonnie Ann Clyde has been performing for almost 11 years across the island of Ireland, in Gran Canaria, and now in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although she said there are &#8220;no abject rules&#8221; on who can and cannot compete, when she moved to Manchester it felt like the chance to represent the Republic of Ireland on the show was closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think everything you do as a drag queen, in the world where Drag Race exists, is with sense of could this get me on Drag Race?&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Being the first person to represent the Republic of Ireland is &#8220;a lot of pressure but a lot of fun&#8221;, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle and Bonnie Ann told BBC News NI that they developed an &#8220;Irish alliance&#8221; on the show, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-159692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}