Drag Race UK icon Tayce on Season 3 review and Queerpiphany

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Tayce. (MTV)

Drag Race UK royalty Tayce is on top of the world.

She wears an all-red streetwear outfit and gigantic red sunglasses when she joins our video call from home and immediately lights up the room with her energy and sassy.

Tayce, 27, has seen her life change dramatically over the past 11 months after reaching the top three in the second season of Drag Race UK.

For those, like Lawrence Chaney, who wrote searing fanfictions about Tayce and A’Whora, his glamorous roommate and show competitor, we’re sorry to announce that they no longer live together – although Tayce still uses the WOW. the other. Presents Plus connection.

From touring the UK to releasing her own clothing line and becoming a fashion darling – someone who shares the catwalks with Naomi Campbell, nothing less – Tayce’s time is now. The final chord is Queerpiphany, a new YouTube talk show that Tayce is co-hosting with author, activist and model Munroe Bergdorf. Having won rave reviews, it’s the slice of queer joy we desperately need right now – much like the Welsh Queen herself.

PinkNews caught up with Tayce to talk about Queerpiphany, Naomi, and Drag Race.

PinkNews: Munroe says she has known you since the days she was hanging out on the show. When did you first meet and what was it like working with an old friend?

Tayce: I remember partying in East London when I moved here in 2012. I would go to some parties and just see her. We didn’t really know each other, but we were acquaintances of the club, we were thrilled and we were having a good time.

Over the years I have seen her become the absolute goddess that she is today and thanks to Drag Race and everything we started to see more of the same events, and we got closer and closer. .

Queerpiphany. (MTV)

Queerpiphany is such a nice contrast to my volume and his knowledge coming together. It is a pleasure and a privilege to work with her.

In the show, you ask people from the LGBT + community about personalities, movies, TV shows or music that have helped them on their journey to discovering their sexual identity. What was your Queerpiphany?

Between the ages of seven and nine, I still watched Fashion TV. I would watch any fashion show at random. I didn’t know what it was or who it was for, but there was Naomi Campbell.

I was always inspired by powerful women growing up: Janet Jackson, Grace Jones and Naomi. They made me get up in front of my TV, imitate a choreography, perform in front of my family, my friends, strangers or go out to McDonald’s with a feather boa around my neck without apologizing. They’ve always been powerful women for me and camp icons like Prince.

You were invited to the 2021 British Fashion Awards as a model for an exclusive Tommy Hilfiger fashion show. What was it like to be so close to your childhood icon?

It was so surreal for me to walk on the same stage as hers so close to her and wear the exact archival bustier she wore 22 years ago. Naomi is here in my respect. It was a day that I will never forget.

Tayce at the Fashion Awards 2021 at the Royal Albert Hall. (Jeff Spicer / BFC / Getty)

During Drag Race UK, A’Whora confessed that as a fashion design graduate, the fashion industry suddenly looked down on her when she started dragging. Still, you were there at the Fashion Awards onstage, wearing Balenciaga on the red carpet and Richard Quinn on Queerpiphany. Do you think things are changing here in the UK?

There have been so many fashion editorial opportunities presented to me, A’Whora and Bimini. It is progressing and changing for the better, and we just need to keep breaking down those barriers. There are so many talented designers coming to UK, and I’m happy to see them do their thing, and I want to wear it all!

If I managed to get myself published in major magazines and walk to the Fashion Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in the same catwalk as Naomi, that means it can happen to someone else! It’s about continuing and inspiring, baby!

Have you had time to watch the third season of Drag Race UK? Who brought you the most joy?

Of course I watched it! Kitty Scott-Claus was just a bowl of positivity, as always. I met her years ago during my Her Upstairs days. It was a drag bar in Camden when I started dating. It was there that I met Cheryl Hole, among others. So seeing Cheryl in season 1, me in season 2, and Kitty in season 3 made me so proud of my sisters.

I loved the personality of Choriza May on the show. Krystal Versace was a clear winner from the start. She is so beautiful and such a drag prodigy. I loved seeing my POC represented by Vanity Milan. It was a 10 out of 10 watching her on the show.

The cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season three. (BBC)

Were you surprised by the lack of black queens in the cast? [There was much criticism of the lack of diversity this time around, with Vanity Milan the only Black queen cast.]

To spend my season at three [Tayce, Asttina Mandella and Tia Kofi] to one was a surprise. But I don’t know all the ideas. [Casting for season three was announced on 2 November, 2020, with an application deadline set only 12 days later.] Maybe a lot of my daughters that I would have liked to see on the show didn’t audition.

My only concern was that I wouldn’t want someone in my position looking at this and feeling disheartened because you only see one. As Vanity said on the show, being the one alone must have been so much pressure. I would have felt the same. I sympathize with her 100 percent.

There are currently many Drag Race franchises around the world. Do you watch them all or are you also tired of Drag Race?

I watched Drag Race Holland, although I sometimes have a headache with the subtitles. I’m obsessed with Canada’s Drag Race, loved the first season, and I think I love the second season even more. Kimora Amour is hilarious.

It’s so understandable for anyone to feel overwhelmed. As a spectator, I have the impression: “Okay, I just finished All Stars, and now I’m going to see Spain. But the UK is just around the corner, Canada is coming too, then France, Italy, whose hands are these? I do not know.”

There are so many drag races going on, but it’s fantastic to see this rig all over the world. It’s so inspiring! Hopefully they don’t all come out simultaneously.

Queenpiphany is available to watch on MTV UK’s YouTube channel with new episodes every Thursday.

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