Drag Queen on Strictly

[HelenaWaiting]

I didn't see a thread on this, and it seems to have been slipped out quietly. I'm assuming this man in woman-face will be taking the place of a female?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/strictly-come-dancing-la-voix#:~:text=A%20powerhouse%20of%20charisma%2C%20comedy,no%20stranger%20to%20national%20television.

Equal ballroom dancing is a thing. There doesnt need to be mans role and womans role or lead and follow. It is just down to the choreography.

The thought of the navel gazing segments pre-dance are making me even more 🤢 than usual.

I'm going to duck out of this one. We would usually watch as a family.

I agree that there's likely to be some really awful segments courtesy of the BBC who must be creaming themselves over their virtuousness for having secured this.

On the other hand, I kind of think strictly is all about drag already.

And I thought Danny Dyer's daughter was the bottom of the barrel being scraped.

Ooh- fabulous! Gotta love a drag queen! 👸As a previous poster stated, Strictly is already as camp as Christmas, so why not??

I'd have no objection to him appearing as himself but he won't and we'll have to go through the tedium of him being called she/her. I love Strictly but don't think I can stomach it this year. There's bound to be lots of BBC promotion so that he doesn't get voted out first.

He should go on as himself. Actors don't go on as the part they play on TV. Chefs don't go on in their kitchen whites. Cyclists don't go round the dancefloor on a bike.

DAs are shoe'd in everywhere

You’re comparing a black lesbian to a drag queen?! JFC just listen to yourself, that comment is a disgrace.

This is really a non story, are you really that sad!

La voix is an ace drag queen. Quite old school. Not overly sexualised and will be thrilled to be on strictly, I imagine.

No she is making the point that ballroom couples dont need to be one man and one woman. Any combination is allowed.

I can't imagine he'd get all dressed up in drag for rehearsals every day. The shows themselves, perhaps, and maybe not even every week, if he wants the public to get to know the real him. But I can't get too worked up about it. I've got tickets to see La Voix in panto at Christmas and if she goes quite far in Strictly, I'm just wondering how that'll work out!

Just to add, I've read that La Voix uses female pronouns when in drag and male ones when not in drag, so I've used both in my above paragraph. No doubt someone will spot that, so I'm just pre-empting.

Yet here you are commenting on it 😂 not sad at all.

Here’s me hoping their couple’s choice is a camp Queen bop to Lily Allen’s “Fuck you”, dedicated to those Mumsnetters.,

I guess the problem is that the notion/concept of drag queen is insulting to women though - the focus on make up, oversized boob etc. That's why drag exacerbates the negative way women are already seen in the world as the concept of drag characatures women.

However, I personally love drag acts themselves as there's clearly a freedom for the person, and I'm yet to meet an unkind person in drag.

You know strictly struggle to get competitors, rather than people being desperate to get on it right?

Wow. It never takes long for the homophobia to rear it's head when males impersonating females is the topic.

You have to be really messed up in the head to automatically go there, and deeply homophobic/lesbophobic. But those who defend womanface are usually homophobic. It goes with the territory.

Yes, run away when your disgusting homophobia is called out @ipredictariot5 .

But they are offensive to women.
I am deeply offended by this.

With four RuPeter Badges under her belt and a place in the Grand Finale, she was awarded runner-up and quickly became a fan favourite

Why do they call her she? I thought the whole point of drag queens, the raison d’etre and the frisson, was that they are really men

Drag is offensive to women! Would you be ok with a blackface face actor?

Its not remotely the same and it is racist to suggest it is.

Re-write this about blackface - "They are a person, blackface is their profession." about Al Jolson. Still ok?

Is he going to appear in drag? If so, he can fuck off to the same bin as the Black and White Minstrel Show.