04/06/15: In surely one of the biggest tragedies in drag herstory, last Monday’s grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 7 saw our favourite queen Ginger Minj lose out to fellow contestant Violet Chachki.
I mean, pur-lease, even John Waters thought Ginger should have won, what was Ru thinking? Anyhoo, as consolation The Minj jumped on a plane and hopped across the pond to follow in a long line of RPDR alumni and take her seat on the G-A-Y Porn Idol casting couch with regulars Baga Chipz and Mary Mac. After last week’s vodka fuelled she-nanigans, this week before proceedings kicked off Jeremy breathalysed Baga to make sure she was fit for purpose, or about as fit as she can be anyway, and it was on with the show. They say red heads have all the fun, and Ginger lived up to her name by snogging the face off not one but two of the contestants leaving her baby pink lippy smeared across their faces, but when it came to crunch they were all made to sashay away and it was audience member Glen who walked off with the £100 and Ginger’s comments echoing in his ears, “well done for living your dream like a whore”.
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Words and Photos by Chris Jepson