RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World season two winner Tia Kofi has revealed how the present’s producers can inform if the contestants have damaged a particular clause of their contracts.
Tia, who’s the newest queen to hitch the Drag Race franchise winner circle, spilled the behind-the-scenes tea whereas talking to influencer Max Balegde on his podcast, The Ineffective Hotline.
Baledge questioned Tia about whether or not the queens are allowed to work together with one another as soon as they head again to their lodge after filming for the day has completed, and requested her to make clear on-line rumours that their lodge doorways get taped shut.
The Drag Race UK queen and “Learn My Lips” hitmaker confirmed that it’s true that queens aren’t allowed to speak again on the lodge after filming, and defined the “taped doorways” hearsay.
“They don’t tape the door shut,” she confirmed.
“They put tape over the be a part of of the door as a result of it means in case you attempt to sneak out of your lodge room, they’ll see that the tape has come off, so it’s clearly simply to allow them to just be sure you’re not breaching the principles of the contract that you just signed.”
She added: “Folks make it sound prefer it’s actually scary, and so they’ve Gaffer taped the entire door. It’s truly just a bit little bit of tape to allow them to see in case you’ve tried to sneak out.”
Baledge then requested Tia to spill the small print of the Drag Race contract that she and different queens signal.
“Actually I might inform you if I may, however I didn’t learn it,” she quipped in response.
All Drag Race queens are anticipated to observe a stringent algorithm whereas filming the fact competitors as a way to preserve the present honest.
In probably the most notorious occasion of a rule break going down, contestant Willam turned the primary and solely queen to be disqualified from the present in season 4 in 2012.
Whereas viewers have been advised that she was eradicated for receiving conjugal visits from her husband, again in 2018 the previous contestant claimed there have been a number of different causes for her dismissal from the competitors.
In a prolonged submit on X/Twitter, the 41-year-old actor claimed that she was kicked off the present for quite a few causes, together with having her hairdresser come and blow her hair out, leaving her lodge room with “two different women” to go to the store, and stealing from the set.
She additionally claimed she had confronted producers over what she felt was unfair therapy of fellow contestants together with Jiggly Caliente, Sharon Needles, and Latrice Royale.
Since beating off stiff competitors from Marina Summers, La Grande Dame, and Hannah Conda to take the Drag Race UK crown final week, Tia Kofi has been inundated with spiteful messages from the present’s fandom.
The wave of hatred from trolls has led to a number of of her season’s sisters having to launch statements, calling for the so-called followers to cease the abuse.
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World season two is streaming now on BBC iPlayer and WOW Presents Plus.