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Speaker 1: I'm joined by this week's eliminated Queen from RuPaul's Drag
Speaker 1: Race down Under season three. It is the Fabulous Hollywood Star.
Speaker 1: The Sydney based drag Queen has been in Australia now
Speaker 1: for nine years and has brought a lot of their
Speaker 1: musical theater experience to their drag I think audiences will
Speaker 1: see a lot of her empathy in her final episode,
Speaker 1: and you do get a sense that this is just
Speaker 1: a jumping off point to where Hollywood can take this
Speaker 1: whole RuPaul's Drag Race experience. We are at the pointy
Speaker 1: end of the competition, so there is a lot to
Speaker 1: unpack today and I'm excited to get some insights on
Speaker 1: how the experience went down during the filming of season three.
Speaker 1: I will find out how Hollywood Star got her name
Speaker 1: and we will get to hear more about their backstory
Speaker 1: that we didn't get to see on the show. Hollywood
Speaker 1: will talk about her bond with Flow and which queen
Speaker 1: she feels deserves the crown. Next week, you will also
Speaker 1: get an exclusive as to what happens to the queens
Speaker 1: as they leave the show, and Hollywood will talk about
Speaker 1: this missed opportunity she had with Snatch Game. Plus, we
Speaker 1: will get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes of
Speaker 1: RuPaul's Drag Race down Under season three, which is now
Speaker 1: available on STAN Australia. Anyway, let's bring Hollywood into the podcast,
Speaker 1: and guys, I hope you enjoy this really special look
Speaker 1: at RuPaul's Drag Race season three for Week seven. Hi, Hollywood,
Speaker 1: how are you good?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm very well, very excited to be talking to you. However,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to say to you right off the bat,
Speaker 1: I did not pick you going home from that lip
Speaker 1: sync at all.
Speaker 2: Neither did I. Obviously you know. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: I can't see it, but I remember what I did
Speaker 3: because I'm still feeling it.
Speaker 1: I just can't get over it. Like it it normally Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just a bit of a spoiler for people who
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast. We do get to watch people
Speaker 1: in the media. We'll get to watch the episodes without
Speaker 1: the results. So we watched it a couple of days earlier,
Speaker 1: and in the history of doing that, I've never got
Speaker 1: it wrong. I just assumed I actually wrote out an
Speaker 1: interview for someone else. So look at You're exciting to
Speaker 1: be talking to you.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's hilarious. It was quite surprising for
Speaker 3: me as well.
Speaker 1: So when you watch RuPaul's as much as I do,
Speaker 1: and as much as people do from around the world,
Speaker 1: with so many different incarnations, we often follow certain edits
Speaker 1: and my thoughts with you from the first episode was
Speaker 1: you were getting a final Girl edit, a top three
Speaker 1: edit at least. How did it feel in the moment?
Speaker 1: Did you feel as though you were a Top three
Speaker 1: girl right from the start.
Speaker 2: Right from the start, I knew I was going to
Speaker 2: make Top three. I knew I was to make Top three.
Speaker 3: But it's just because I was so laser focused on
Speaker 3: getting to the Top three that I was like this.
Speaker 3: It was an ultimatum for me. I was like, I
Speaker 3: have to do well.
Speaker 1: You did so well, like as in, I think we're
Speaker 1: going to remember you. You're very iconic for this season.
Speaker 1: You really did stand out. So look, I can't believe
Speaker 1: that you've come out at this stage, but I think
Speaker 1: that there's big things happening for you.
Speaker 3: No, definitely, Like you know, I got a lot of airtime,
Speaker 3: really did. It's not all about winning nowadays, you know,
Speaker 3: like if you even thinking about it, like sometimes you
Speaker 3: don't even remember some of the winners. It's the people
Speaker 3: that you know do iconic things and say things and
Speaker 3: have these taglines and like look at miss Vanjie, she
Speaker 3: went out first, and look at her. She's like over
Speaker 3: a million followers and work the world doing all these things.
Speaker 2: Chandela.
Speaker 3: You know, she's not the only person you know who
Speaker 3: has done so many seasons. You know, in her season
Speaker 3: she people thought that she was going to win her
Speaker 3: All Stars and you know that, you know, kerfuffle have
Speaker 3: happened with her and stuff, Manila los On. You know,
Speaker 3: things like this always happen in drag Race and it's
Speaker 3: kind of iconic, you know when things happen like this,
Speaker 3: and it kind of it goes to show that, you know,
Speaker 3: winning is in everything because you can still be very successful.
Speaker 1: I think that's very true, and I think more so
Speaker 1: in Australia, I think because we have a bit of
Speaker 1: tall poppy syndrome here. Sometimes the winner we feel like
Speaker 1: we've given them the win and then we want them
Speaker 1: to go away, you know, then we follow the story
Speaker 1: of the people who came second and third. I mean,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm really looking forward to seeing what
Speaker 1: you do with this experience. I mean, if you've got
Speaker 1: a plan as to where you want to take it.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I've I've waited for a platform for a
Speaker 3: very long time, and I think people will see Hollywood
Speaker 3: as you know, this fresh young queen and yes I am.
Speaker 3: You know, I've a live been doing Drag Wron Now
Speaker 3: in November, it'll be two years. But I have been
Speaker 3: performing for my entire life and I've waited for something
Speaker 3: like this for a long time. So now to get
Speaker 3: this platform and to have this voice, I'm not taking
Speaker 3: it lightly. I think to have a platform and to
Speaker 3: not make change, I think, why have it?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to doing stuff, more stuff with
Speaker 3: the community, more things for you know, other you know,
Speaker 3: POC people and immigrants and you know that migrate to
Speaker 3: Australia and stuff like that. So I just feel very
Speaker 3: grateful that now I can finally do that.
Speaker 1: Well, you did say in the show, you know you're
Speaker 1: relatively new to doing drag. What has the journey been like?
Speaker 1: How did you come to Australia. I feel like there's
Speaker 1: a lot that we don't know about you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, and I talked about it, but a lot
Speaker 3: of it didn't get shown. But yeah, I was born
Speaker 3: and raised in America and then I moved to Australia
Speaker 3: nine years ago. I came for a visit, just came
Speaker 3: for a visit for a month and thought, oh my god,
Speaker 3: people actually live here. This is like holiday, Like literally,
Speaker 3: look at me. Saying holiday very Australian of me. We
Speaker 3: say vacation. It's like vacation, you know. You can go
Speaker 3: to work and then go for a swim in like
Speaker 3: Bondai Beach at like five pm, you know. And so
Speaker 3: that really drew me into just experimenting for a year.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'll just live here for a year
Speaker 3: and see what happens. That one year turned into two, three,
Speaker 3: and now it's been nine. In January it'll be ten.
Speaker 3: And I think just the work life balance for here
Speaker 3: is so beautiful. You guys have medicare people live really
Speaker 3: well here, and that kind of drew me to Australia.
Speaker 2: And I also love the accents.
Speaker 1: We love your accent. You're sounding very sexy today.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say thank you. You know, it's just
Speaker 2: for you, just for you.
Speaker 1: I'm just starting to hear that you can hear the
Speaker 1: Australian in your you can hear the Australian accent in
Speaker 1: your American accent, which I'm really enjoying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 3: Like my mom, whenever I talked to her, She's like,
Speaker 3: you sound Australian, but of course you know, when you're
Speaker 3: here for a long time, like you start to, you know,
Speaker 3: pick up different accents, and accents are just generally of people,
Speaker 3: you know, being understood and stuff, So I kind of
Speaker 3: I like, but my American accents very neutral as well.
Speaker 1: What did your mom think about when you told your
Speaker 1: mom you were doing drag? What did she say?
Speaker 2: She loved it? I think.
Speaker 3: So I did Kinky Boots, and my performing I have
Speaker 3: a history in performing background, so I was accepting to
Speaker 3: Julliard in America, I went to Manhattan School Music. I've
Speaker 3: done operas all over the world, and then I moved
Speaker 3: into musical theaters. So I've done professional productions with like
Speaker 3: The Book of Mormon, and so that Kinky Boots was
Speaker 3: the first time that I've.
Speaker 2: Ever been in drag.
Speaker 3: And my auntie and my grandmother flew all the way
Speaker 3: from South Carolina to watch me do Kinky Boots in Australia.
Speaker 3: And that's the first time my family kind of saw
Speaker 3: me dress up as a woman, and I was quite
Speaker 3: shocked that they were so just open and beautiful about it.
Speaker 3: And when I got into RuPaul's drag race, they were
Speaker 3: so excited. They're watching it now and my mom is pissed.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm pissed. I'm not even related to so angry.
Speaker 3: She was like, I cannot believe this, Like you know,
Speaker 3: I was like, Mom, you have to remember reality television show.
Speaker 3: You know, it is a competition, but it's also reality television.
Speaker 3: I just I had to explain to her, like, you know,
Speaker 3: look at you know, the airtime, and like how people
Speaker 3: were going to feel now that you know that didn't
Speaker 3: get to the finale. Of course I'm feeling this type
Speaker 3: of way. But you know, I'll let other people say it.
Speaker 3: I won't have to say it.
Speaker 1: We'll get over it. Tell me how did you get
Speaker 1: Hollywood stuff? I'd love to know how you you got
Speaker 1: the name.
Speaker 3: I have been obsessed with pop culture since I was
Speaker 3: a child. Michael Jackson, Withitney Houston, you know, Dorothy Dandridge.
Speaker 3: I always loved watching these old Hollywood films, and I
Speaker 3: loved Betty Boop and Lucille Ball, Like when I was
Speaker 3: a child, this is my mom used to watch all
Speaker 3: the time, Diane Carroll. And so when I was thinking
Speaker 3: of a drag name, I was like, what can I
Speaker 3: think of that is glamorous but also quite funny and fake,
Speaker 3: because you know, that's what Hollywood is the name is
Speaker 3: super super glamorous, and people think like, oh, if you're Hollywood,
Speaker 3: you're so glamorous, and you know, just you hold this
Speaker 3: your way this way, you know. But also so if
Speaker 3: you've been to Hollywood, it's actually a dump.
Speaker 1: I lived there for six months, and I remember when
Speaker 1: I first got there. I mean, i'd been there on
Speaker 1: a holiday when I was a kid, so I kind
Speaker 1: of had some idea. But I remember after i'd been
Speaker 1: there for like a week, I was like, this place
Speaker 1: is a cement hole.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3: So that's why it's kind of funny. Like that's why
Speaker 3: I said, and I like, welcome to the Queens. I said,
Speaker 3: Hollywood is a facade. You think that, you know, but
Speaker 3: there are the cracks. And that's why I kind of
Speaker 3: changed it to Hollywood. And then I added star at
Speaker 3: the end because I just thought I was a.
Speaker 1: Star and yes you are. Girl. The thing about Hollywood
Speaker 1: when I leaved there was that the more you lived there,
Speaker 1: the more you got into a bit of a routine,
Speaker 1: and you sort of stepped out of all of the
Speaker 1: bizarreness of the nature of that place and you could
Speaker 1: go run run in canyon and go to the farmer's market,
Speaker 1: and there are some very beautiful things about Hollywood, just
Speaker 1: in case people come for me and be like, there
Speaker 1: are What did you think of watching yourself back on
Speaker 1: the show? I mean, if you really enjoyed the edit
Speaker 1: that we've seen.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, I was not mad at it. I wasn't mad
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 3: Think they showed some really great moments, but I do
Speaker 3: wish they would have shown some more of like you said,
Speaker 3: some more of my background and talking about some of
Speaker 3: the vulnerability moments that I thought I showed. And I
Speaker 3: was confused, you know, when they said that they wanted
Speaker 3: to see that, because I know that in the workroom
Speaker 3: there were definitely stories and all kinds of things that
Speaker 3: I talked about my childhood and upbringing and trauma and
Speaker 3: things that they didn't show, which was quite disappointing because
Speaker 3: I think that would have really rounded out of how
Speaker 3: professional and polished and why I'm so confident and where
Speaker 3: that confidence came from, you know, and why I hold
Speaker 3: myself so professional and serious in some ways. But overall,
Speaker 3: I was happy, Like, I really loved the moments. So
Speaker 3: when they showed me comforting people and my friendship with Floor,
Speaker 3: because that's the real people who actually know me know
Speaker 3: that I am so nice and so kind and can
Speaker 3: attest to that. It was a little terrifying at first
Speaker 3: in the first episode when they were like, oh, you know,
Speaker 3: I heard Hollywood's a bitch, and I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I hope they're not going to give me
Speaker 3: this edit because first of all, and the whole drag
Speaker 3: Race franchise is always, you know, this history of turning
Speaker 3: POC people into this you know, evil queens and bitchy
Speaker 3: and all of these things, and I was like, and
Speaker 3: that is definitely not me. So I'm glad that they
Speaker 3: softened it after that first episode because I was like,
Speaker 3: I didn't really give them anything in that aspect.
Speaker 1: It's not really who you are. Like you said, even
Speaker 1: in your final episode, there is a really beautiful moment
Speaker 1: with your makeover, and the way in which that you're
Speaker 1: relating to her is really empathetic and it's very kind.
Speaker 1: I think that I do think that people and audiences
Speaker 1: will walk away with a very positive look at you
Speaker 1: overall once you watch the final thing all come together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's nice. That's nice to know. I do
Speaker 2: have a lot of empathy for people.
Speaker 3: That's one thing that I hold very close to my
Speaker 3: heart because I know how it feels and a lot
Speaker 3: of different ways of try mind to be left out
Speaker 3: and singled out, and you know, just to feel disappointed
Speaker 3: about a lot of things I reckon.
Speaker 1: I could count on my hand the amount of times
Speaker 1: that of cry watching RuPaul's or not really cried, like
Speaker 1: I wasn't sobbing, but I had tears in my eyes
Speaker 1: for watching you talk in this episode. So that's an
Speaker 1: amazing thing to do in a show like this, because
Speaker 1: I mean, it is supposed to be very fun and
Speaker 1: very light, you know, so I think they've made a
Speaker 1: bold choice with that story that you get in the
Speaker 1: final episode, which I think, yeah, you haven't seen yet,
Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting for you to watch.
Speaker 2: Oh that's I am looking forward to it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: grab my tissues, you know.
Speaker 3: I think I was talking to my partner and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I don't even know if I want
Speaker 3: to watch this episode. I might take a few days
Speaker 3: for me to watch it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's hard because I remember the experience and having those
Speaker 3: conversations with Arlene was hard. But then also it's going
Speaker 3: to be quite disappointing to see me losing on television
Speaker 3: and knowing how I felt in that moment of just disappointment.
Speaker 3: Of course, you know it's been months now and stuff,
Speaker 3: and I've gotten mostly over it and things like that.
Speaker 3: But you know, I just I might take a day,
Speaker 3: who knows, and then I'll just today, I'll watch it
Speaker 3: right at five pm.
Speaker 1: You should, because this is a celebration. This is your
Speaker 1: time to reclaim that moment like, this is a powerful
Speaker 1: moment for you. This is a celebration of you. That's
Speaker 1: how I see it. So and I think you'll watch
Speaker 1: this episode. I think you're going to be really proud
Speaker 1: of yourself. I do.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so great.
Speaker 3: Well then I will I watch it today and see
Speaker 3: what happens in what mpauls.
Speaker 1: I think for a very long time, Sydney was like
Speaker 1: the gay capital of Australia. Do you think that it
Speaker 1: still owns that title here in Australia and New Zealand
Speaker 1: or do you think that Melbourne and New Zealand have
Speaker 1: kind of taken away some of that?
Speaker 3: Oh definitely. I used to live in Melbourne for three years.
Speaker 3: I love Melbourne. I love both cities equally. Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: I think that like the scene definitely in Melbourne is
Speaker 3: equal in that sense, and I think there are other
Speaker 3: you know, cities that are coming up as well. Even
Speaker 3: in Adelaide, Mary's Poppin's, like Stephen Kradacht is doing such
Speaker 3: amazing things there for that, you know, just for little
Speaker 3: old Adelaide, and Brisbane with Harry Kay is doing a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff as well. So I think Sydney is
Speaker 3: obviously the biggest one in that aspect, but it's because
Speaker 3: they had it for so long. But it's definitely spreading
Speaker 3: out and definitely spreading out.
Speaker 1: How have you gone with interacting with your fans online?
Speaker 1: Like what do people want to know when they hit
Speaker 1: you up?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, They've been so amazing, Like I like
Speaker 3: got a little shout out from like Jeremy Scott the
Speaker 3: other day, Tay sent me a message I love tas.
Speaker 2: I love taste.
Speaker 3: Everyone has been so sweet and just like living for
Speaker 3: my drag and things and it is so cool. And
Speaker 3: you know, even people like have been messaging me and saying,
Speaker 3: you know, the way that you hold yourself in this
Speaker 3: confidence that you know you have and stuff is so
Speaker 3: inspiring for me.
Speaker 2: And when I.
Speaker 3: Watched the show, I feel it's like my might get away,
Speaker 3: and you know that means a lot to me that
Speaker 3: you know, I'm you know, making change, and I've yeah,
Speaker 3: I've just always wanted a platform to make change.
Speaker 1: Ashley Madison was actually sharing on her socials this week.
Speaker 1: She know, she was talking about the breach of privacy
Speaker 1: on some of these subreddit pages. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw that, but do you think that there should
Speaker 1: be harsher punishment for revenge porn like that? That's what
Speaker 1: I call it, revenge porn for like entertainers like yourself.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I think it's such a private thing and you trust people,
Speaker 3: you put your trust in people, and like, you know,
Speaker 3: I think there should be consequences, like if you are
Speaker 3: trying to you know, hurt harm people, because that's that's
Speaker 3: that's not something where you're just like, oh, that person's dumb,
Speaker 3: you know, that's trying to you know, really just take
Speaker 3: them down. And so I believe, yeah, there should there
Speaker 3: should be something done. You're like, you know, there there
Speaker 3: needs would be some rule set in place so people
Speaker 3: know that you can't do that.
Speaker 1: If it hasn't happened to you, I don't think you
Speaker 1: understand it. It's way more psychologically. It affects you in
Speaker 1: different ways. So that's why I'm you know, I thought
Speaker 1: it was really powerful for Ashley Madison to share that
Speaker 1: and get sort of information out about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, definitely.
Speaker 1: But getting back to the episode, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: ask what was going on with Gabriella Labucci's face during
Speaker 1: that pre lip sync post lip sync Gabriella looked terrified.
Speaker 1: Was there something that we weren't seeing in that moment?
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand why she looked. She looked like she
Speaker 1: was about to shit herselves.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I had to lip sync against Hollywood,
Speaker 3: I would shit myself too.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: But you know what, in hindsight, she won, so you know,
Speaker 3: you know it was fine, you know she won.
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know what to.
Speaker 3: Say about that because I know I slayed. I know,
Speaker 3: I fucking slayed, and I was pulling out some tricks
Speaker 3: that I didn't show in the competition before, just saving
Speaker 3: it just in case. You know, I don't know how
Speaker 3: it looks and things, and my only prediction is that
Speaker 3: they probably just didn't show all of my things, because
Speaker 3: like if anyone would have seen what I was doing
Speaker 3: and stuff. I think, Yeah, I don't know. I just
Speaker 3: it was really confusing. But I don't really even remember
Speaker 3: all of her face facial expressions and things because I
Speaker 3: was so laser focused. I kind of it was just
Speaker 3: you kind of like blanket. They put you there, and
Speaker 3: then it's a very long process. You have to get
Speaker 3: miked and then unmiked, and then all this stuff and
Speaker 3: you have to wait for the things, they have to
Speaker 3: test the music, and then you just do it and
Speaker 3: it just goes by like that.
Speaker 1: What happens when you get eliminated? So you get eliminated
Speaker 1: and we say it like play out as you say,
Speaker 1: sche away, But how quickly do they send you back
Speaker 1: home to Sydney? I mean, what sort of a process
Speaker 1: goes into place once we stop seeing you on screen?
Speaker 3: So you get eliminated, you say your exit line, you
Speaker 3: do your exit interview, and then you have to come
Speaker 3: back and do your like normal interviews, and they ask
Speaker 3: you about your day and stuff, which is actually quite hard.
Speaker 1: That would be really hard. And then are you back
Speaker 1: at home in Sydney like in forty eight hours? Like
Speaker 1: what happens?
Speaker 2: Like they usually fly you back very soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but like I guess the really hard experience
Speaker 3: for the whole show is like not having contact with
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 1: And few peers. With the people that support you, you know,
Speaker 1: well absolutely.
Speaker 2: Just like you can't get their advice on so many things.
Speaker 1: I guess at that point where you sort of Sunday
Speaker 1: morning quarterbacking thinking about things that you could do differently,
Speaker 1: were you thinking, you know, you would do the snatch
Speaker 1: game differently. Once you've done the RuPaul experience reflectively looking back,
Speaker 1: do you now think, oh, I could have done it
Speaker 1: different I could have done this.
Speaker 3: The only thing that I have, like I guess regrets
Speaker 3: in a way would be my snatch game because I
Speaker 3: had another character and which was it. It was Regina
Speaker 3: hall okay from Scary Movie.
Speaker 1: Of course showed the wig.
Speaker 3: They showed the wig and then they were like and
Speaker 3: they showed me saying, oh, guess what I'm doing, and
Speaker 3: it went Naomi. But then they showed the Brenda wig
Speaker 3: and I was like, that's not even the right wig.
Speaker 3: That's not the right wig. Anyway, I had the conversation
Speaker 3: with Rapaul and she she somehow changed my mind.
Speaker 2: I think I got scared and so I didn't do that.
Speaker 1: But I love that character.
Speaker 2: I know it would have.
Speaker 3: Been epic, and I know that it would have been
Speaker 3: way more funny than my Naomi.
Speaker 2: But I was fine, like, you.
Speaker 1: Know, you look good. You look good. But you know,
Speaker 1: I love that character from Scary Movie where one of
Speaker 1: my gay best friends is. One of our most quoted
Speaker 1: moments is from Scary Movie three, you know, in the
Speaker 1: classroom where she talks about Asian drivers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had so many quotes. I could have literally
Speaker 3: just set all the snatch game. I just set all
Speaker 3: the quotes, and all the quotes are so funny. So yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe I'll use it next time. But I'm
Speaker 3: actually quite sad because I think I talked about it
Speaker 3: and I don't want someone else to steal my character.
Speaker 1: What was your relationship like with all of the queens.
Speaker 1: I mean, early reports came out from this season that
Speaker 1: there was far less drama this time than from first
Speaker 1: season and second season. Is that an accurate report? Did
Speaker 1: you guys have a closer bond than what had probably
Speaker 1: been seen in previous seasons?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we did not have a lot of drama this season. Like,
Speaker 3: we all legitimately just liked each other, and it's quite hard.
Speaker 3: I think also just there's been so many seasons of
Speaker 3: drag race and stuff, and so we all know when
Speaker 3: we get cast in things that we have to create
Speaker 3: drama and you know, those things and stuff. But we
Speaker 3: loved each other and obviously the closest person that I
Speaker 3: was too was with Flora, and we're still very, very close,
Speaker 3: and that was definitely one of the highlight experiences to
Speaker 3: come away with, having like Flaora and being so close.
Speaker 1: Do you think you're the miss congeniality or who do
Speaker 1: you think the miscongeniality of this season is?
Speaker 3: Maybe I am, Maybe I am. Maybe I don't really know.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people might say Avana. I
Speaker 3: think she was very sweet as well.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like even watching it back, I was running
Speaker 3: to lots of people that were upset.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just in your nature.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Ashley Madison. I think they showed when Isis
Speaker 3: was upset, you know. So I don't know, maybe I am.
Speaker 1: But you can take yourself out of this equation because
Speaker 1: I'd really be curious to know have we got the
Speaker 1: right top three out of this season? And I want
Speaker 1: you to take yourself out of it, because I think
Speaker 1: everyone knows that you had a rightful place in that
Speaker 1: top three, so I kind of want to remove that
Speaker 1: element out of it. But how do you feel about
Speaker 1: our top three?
Speaker 3: I would probably take one out, And if I had
Speaker 3: to take myself out and take one other queen out,
Speaker 3: I would put in Ashley Madison.
Speaker 1: And who do you think deserves to win? And not
Speaker 1: how you felt when you left the competition, not what
Speaker 1: you probably know now, but like, who do you think
Speaker 1: deserves the crown?
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 3: I mean I love floor like FLOORA. I think showed
Speaker 3: so much. And also I think she should have she
Speaker 3: should have gotten some wins. I think the Talent show
Speaker 3: like and that whole episode was hers, and you know,
Speaker 3: I put myself aside in that, and you know, I
Speaker 3: was happy with what I did and things, but I
Speaker 3: thought she just really turned it out and to also
Speaker 3: just educate us on the CPR, like.
Speaker 2: You know, he was what you know, And I thought
Speaker 2: she did really great.
Speaker 3: And also she's not used to you know, speaking to
Speaker 3: you know, public, and she's a different language and things
Speaker 3: like that, so I thought she did really really well.
Speaker 3: And her fashion okay, oh the fashion has been so
Speaker 3: good and she's so charismatic, So I would say floor
Speaker 3: and definitely Isis and Isis has shown so much and
Speaker 3: such beautiful and has been just so well rounded as well.
Speaker 3: So you know, those two for me have like really
Speaker 3: really really made an impression.
Speaker 1: If you can finish this sentence for me, if anyone
Speaker 1: in this season needs a redemption.
Speaker 2: Story, it is Hollywood Star.
Speaker 1: Are you guys looking forward to this tour that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Are you're a part of this tour that's going to happen?
Speaker 1: Can you tease us about work the World Australia Tour.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I am so grateful that they asked me,
Speaker 3: because they could have asked just the top three, but
Speaker 3: they brought me back in and you know, so I
Speaker 3: feel very grateful for that, and I'm looking forward. I
Speaker 3: have a new mix, you know, I'm doing some Kelly
Speaker 3: Rowland Nicole shirt singer. I'm going to put my song
Speaker 3: a little mix in that as well. I have some
Speaker 3: new fashion, you know, some new things getting made. So
Speaker 3: I'm excited to just be with these amazing queens, Aquaria,
Speaker 3: Naomi Smalls, you know, kim Chi, this is this is
Speaker 3: a dream, you know, this is I feel, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm on the right path if I'm with these established.
Speaker 1: People, well whoever's organizing and understands bums on seats because
Speaker 1: you deserve to be there before you go. There's something
Speaker 1: I ask everyone who joins the podcast, is what is
Speaker 1: something from behind the saint something that we don't see
Speaker 1: that we won't see, kind of like a bit of
Speaker 1: a behind the scenes secret or something that happened to
Speaker 1: you personally throughout your time on the show.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: I Actually you don't see how RuPaul actually cares about
Speaker 3: the queens.
Speaker 2: She really does.
Speaker 3: So when we get our critiques after the judges speak
Speaker 3: to us, she always asks us, would you like to
Speaker 3: take up for shoes? And I thought that was just
Speaker 3: a really kind thing. Obviously we're sitting on stage for
Speaker 3: a very long time, but she is worried about us,
Speaker 3: you know, are just how we are, how we're doing.
Speaker 3: And also with the lip syncs, because we're always wearing
Speaker 3: a microphone, we have to do a lip sync. She
Speaker 3: wants us to go into the back to save our modesty,
Speaker 3: so the person doing the microp doesn't have to like
Speaker 3: go through all of our costumes and things like that.
Speaker 3: So I appreciate that and that's a little you know
Speaker 3: thing that people love that I.
Speaker 1: Think you've given me, out of the three seasons, the best,
Speaker 1: the best answer to that question. I appreciate that. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you, Hollywood Star. I am a fan and I
Speaker 1: think I will be for a long time. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for your generosity. And yeah, I look forward
Speaker 1: to watching what you do with this.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.