{"id":475090,"date":"2026-03-14T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475090\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:55:09","slug":"rupauls-drag-race-runway-graced-by-neath-olympic-swimmer-daniel-jervis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475090\/","title":{"rendered":"RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race runway graced by Neath Olympic swimmer Daniel Jervis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olympic swimmer Daniel Jervis is no stranger to a challenge, and his latest was to step out of the pool and onto the RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race mainstage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daniel underwent a head-to-toe drag transformation, after being paired with US drag queen Mariah Balenciaga, whilst appearing on the BBC series RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race UK vs the World.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/wales\/61922959\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The long distance swimmer from Neath, who came out as gay in 2022<\/a>, told the show that he was hesitant to announce his sexuality publicly until he was 26 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can sometimes feel like you&#8217;re being told you can&#8217;t be Christian and be gay,&#8221; Daniel said on the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[But] I was very blessed when I came out. My church didn&#8217;t change towards me. For me, that&#8217;s acceptance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic swimmer Daniel Jervis is no stranger to a challenge, and his latest was to step out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475090","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=475090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}