- Hello, hello, hello.
[all cheer]
Previously on "RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World"...
For your first Maxi Challenge,
you'll be starring in the Queens' Variety Show.
[bowl resonates] Mayhem Miller...
- I think the nerves took over,
which made you forget things and not be present.
- Marina Summers...
- Sassy and as sexy as you get.
- You like that? - Yeah.
[laughter]
- Gothy Kendoll...
- I just didn't think you had enough confidence
to marry with the scenario.
- La Grande Dame...
- All of it was so ridiculous,
but at the same time, supremely entertaining.
- Marina Summers, La Grande Dame,
you are the top two queens of the week.
Mayhem Miller, Gothy Kendoll,
I'm sorry, my dears, but you are in the bottom.
Marina Summers, La Grande Dame,
each of you needs to decide
which of the bottom queens you'll eliminate
if you win the lip sync.
Marina Summers,
you're a winner, baby.
Which queen have you chosen to get the chop?
- Mayhem.
- Mayhem Miller, sashay away.
- I am the queen!
The queen of the party!
[dramatic music]
- I am gagged that Mayhem is the first person to go.
all: Chaka Khan. [indistinct chatter]
- Chaka gone.
- Uh! - [laughs]
- Girl. - Sorry.
- She did do the worst in the talent show.
That is an objective fact.
But no one saw it coming.
- So, Marina, congratulations.
[all cheer] It's your first win.
- Honestly, it was such a hard decision for me to make.
It's sad to send Mayhem home,
but I just went with my gut.
It's weird to send home a U.S. drag legend,
but I wanted to give Gothy a chance to prove herself.
I hope moving forward, you shake it all out...
- Mm-hmm. - And show the real tiger inside you.
- I'm a lion now, not a tiger. - A lion.
Lion. [laughter]
Well, it's time for a Filipino to clean a mirror in the UK.
[laughter]
- Now I am the only queen representing the U.S.,
which is terrifying.
- Well, Gothy, how does it feel to make it to episode two?
[all cheer]
- It feels right.
[laughter]
No, it's amazing. I think my mum's gonna be so proud.
- Aw. - Aww.
- I've never felt this feeling before, and it feels great.
I really need to show the judges
the confidence that I've built over the past few years.
I'm a different drag queen now,
and I just need to slow down and let them savor all of Gothy.
- We have to know...
- [gasps] Oh, God.
- Whose lipstick did you choose?
[all exclaiming]
- I feel like this experience is just
a big, big opportunity, and in that manner,
I chose Mayhem too.
- [gasps] Wow. - Because I feel like, yeah, Gothy,
the world deserve to know you a little bit more.
I couldn't take away Gothy's opportunity.
So I felt like it was the right choice,
and I will stand by it.
- I have to say, I feel so, so lucky to be part of this group.
- Aw. - Yeah.
- I just keep getting emotional the entire day
because I'm like, I can't believe I'm part of this.
- Hormones.
- Yes, sorry.
[laughter] Sorry.
I'll take it back.
I do not love you at all.
[laughter]
- Let's get out of drag, baby!
[all cheer] - Let's do it!
[dramatic music]
- I just sent the first girl home,
and there's 50,000 on the line.
- Whoo! [giggles]
- It's competition time, baby.
- I feel like we need to have a little powwow about the UK situation.
- Yeah.
- It's "UK vs the World."
It's gonna be a fight to stay out of the bottom.
I'm not going.
I feel like we need to get more strategic. - Yeah.
- There's an alliance going on here, everyone.
- No, it's not.
- No, look, there's an alliance. - It's not an alliance.
- Is that what I think it is? - Can anyone see what's happening here?
- So it is "UK vs the World"?
All right.
- I just need help out of my corset.
- If one of them lands in the bottom,
it's a scary place for the UK.
- Just remember, you're less than us.
- Ah, yeah, there's more of us than there are of them.
[laughing] - Ooh.
- [continues laughing]
Oh! Ah!
- [laughs mischievously]
- [singing] RuPaul's Drag Race.
[speaking] The winner, crowned Queen of the Mothertucking World,
will receive a cash prize of £50,000.
Tonight, with Michelle Visage, Graham Norton,
and extra special guest judge, Adwoa Aboah.
[singing] RuPaul's Drag Race.
May the best drag queen win.
Best drag queen win.
[upbeat music]
[all cheering]
- It's a brand-new day in the Werk Room,
and I've never said that before.
So it feels great.
Yeah!
- And it's the first badge winner.
[all cheer] - Everybody--
everybody now.
[singing] I'm a Filipina.
[all singing] I'm a Filipina.
- Yeah!
- Tell about manifesting, baby.
- I know. - You did that.
- Marina had the gold badge.
Good for her, but I'm telling you, I'm next,
hopefully.
- There are still four UK girls here carrying.
- Uh-huh. - Yes.
- Do you feel a target on your back, any of the UK girls?
- Do you know what it is?
After yesterday... - Mm-hmm.
- I feel a bit more ease because I see the girls
are playing the game to-- in honesty and decisions in their heart,
because it would have been very easy to get rid of one of us yesterday.
- Yeah. - And they didn't.
They went with what felt right for them,
and I think that's amazing, so...
- Four UK girls stayed.
I think that won't be the thing for long.
- I feel great.
Like, literally, that was the first time
I've ever got to walk the runway in front of Ru
wearing an outfit that's not shit.
- Preach! - I felt gorgeous.
I felt glamorous. And I felt like I'm no longer basic.
- Aww. - You're welcome.
- You served the Kofi.
- We really did, and it was piping hot.
[laughter]
[siren blares]
[all screaming] - Ooh, girl!
Her Majesty done already done had herses.
Hey, pumpkins.
You want to go to the ball?
all: Yes!
- Then stop waiting for your Prince Charming to come.
- Oh. - It's time to take matters
into your own hands.
- [gasps] - Oh.
- Because everybody loves a happy ending.
- Balls, balls, balls.
- Balls. - You girls love balls?
- Hello, hello, hello.
[all cheering]
- Oh, my God, Michelle!
- Hello, queens.
all: Hello.
- Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
who's your favorite full-time judge from America
who sits on Ru's right...of all?
all: You! - [laughs giddily]
Thank you.
That is the correct answer.
For today's Mini Challenge, you are gonna take a long, hard look in the mirror.
- Ooh. - Oh.
- Oh, Brit Crew.
- Whoa! - Oh!
[overlapping chatter]
- Now queens, I'm going to ask a series of questions.
You need to write on the mirror which queen is the answer.
- Ooh!
- Oh.
This is gonna be...interesting.
- Okay, darling, pass out the mirrors.
- Let's go. - Grab a mirror and a lipstick.
- Mirror and a lipstick for me.
- [moans]
- Queens, are you ready?
[overlapping responses] Yay, okay.
Mirror, mirror, in your hand,
who's the fairest in the land?
Who's the prettiest queen?
All in and turn.
With seven votes, Marina...
- Me? - Is the fairest in the land.
- I don't think I'm the pretty one.
Maybe I am.
[laughter]
Thank you for being so kind, ladies.
- Yeah, she is beautiful.
I hate to say it, but she is.
- Okay, next question.
Who's the shadiest in the land?
all: Ooh.
- Hmm.
- Can we vote for multiple people?
[laughter]
- Show us your answers.
With five votes, Hannah Conda is the shadiest of them all.
- What? - Damn you.
- Honestly...[laughs]
I'm--I'm giving off mixed messages, mate,
because I thought I was giving pretty,
but apparently I'm giving shady. Ugh, whatever.
I'm just funny.
[laughter]
Bitches.
- Okay, next question.
Who's the mightiest in the land?
Who is your biggest competition?
all: Ooh.
- Okay, show us your answers.
This was a close race, this one.
Hannah received many votes.
La Grande Dame received many votes.
But with four votes, Marina...
- What? - You are the mightiest in the land.
- Biggest competitor? Biggest?
- The biggest.
- I would not want to be voted the mightiest
because it is way too early in the competition
to have that big a target on your back.
- Okay, final question.
Mirror, mirror, in your hand, who is the neediest
in the land? - [gasps]
- As in whose drag is in the most need...
[laughter and exclamations]
Of a boost?
- Plot twist.
- Okay, show us your answers.
Jonbers received three votes.
- Jonbers' face.
- But with five votes,
Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha...
- I won something!
Yay!
- You are the neediest queen in the land.
- Oh, thank you, ladies.
- Condragulations, Arantxa.
- I don't care about the title.
I just care that I won something on "Drag Race" finally.
[laughter]
- What she said.
- Now, I've just received news
from inside the palace sugar walls,
Her Majesty RuPaul has invited you all
to the Happy Ending Ball.
[gasps and cheers]
Hashtag DragRaceUK.
For this week's Maxi Challenge,
she wants you to serve three fairy tale looks.
- Ooh.
- First look, Lady Prince Charming.
all: Ooh. - [laughs]
A twisted take on a fairy tale hero.
Second look, She-vil Queen.
[laughs sinisterly] - Ooh.
- Something wicked this way comes.
Third look, Drags to Riches Eleganza.
all: Ooh.
- Using the scraps of fabric we've provided,
you need to create a ball gown fit for a princess.
[overlapping chatter]
Hey, Cinderfella, you missed a spot.
Thank you.
[laughter]
- So we have to make a ball gown out of scraps of fabric
and wear two other fairy tale looks.
This is epic.
- Arantxa, as you were voted the neediest queen...
- Mm-hmm.
- You get a ten-second head start.
- [gasps] - Yes!
- Sweet.
- Viva España.
[laughter]
- Go back to the UK where you belong.
[laughter]
- Ready, steady,
make haste!
- Aah!
[all chattering]
- She saw what she wanted.
- Get this...
- Racers, start your engines,
and may the best drag queen win!
[all screaming]
- Move it or lose it, kids!
Get out of my road!
- Ah! I want this one.
- It's mine. It's mine. It's mine. It's mine.
- We are literally fighting for scraps here.
- [gasps] Ah!
[screams and chatter]
- Oh, yes, purple.
Oh, my God, yes, yes.
[gasps] Oh! Perfect.
I have an idea in my head of what I want.
I'm gonna be wearing purples.
More purple, yes.
So everything pink and purple, it's coming my way.
- Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Choriza going
for literally every fabric.
- More shit. [sputters]
- She is just hoarding.
Is Choriza May a hoarder?
Choriza, is this--
- That's all mine.
- All of it? - Yes.
I'm a big girl.
Get out. - Okay.
Choriza's opening a thrift shop, apparently.
- I saw fabric, and I said...
- Yes. - Yes.
- I need more fabric.
This is the challenge that I've been dreading the most
because on my series, the first time I was in the bottom,
it was a sewing challenge.
- I love the hair. I love the bow.
The end.
- [laughs]
- Oh.
- Bring them in. Let's bring--
- Um, excuse me, my outfit from yesterday--
- I am staying away from green
because I do not need to be triggered any more than I already am.
Have they just had this for three years?
Wow. Recycling.
- Okay. Ah.
- All right, baby.
Let's do this.
- I think I'm gonna go for glitter, maybe.
Shall I go for glitter? I don't know.
- Look at all these little mice.
All your little friends.
- Oh, yeah, my little friends.
They're gonna help me build my dress.
- [laughs] Yeah.
- My sewing skills are adequate.
I definitely have been aptly named the Hot Glue Gun Queen
because on my season, I used hot glue to glue leaves to a corset.
- Shall we ask the mouse who-- who wrote my name as the thirstiest?
- Oh, yeah. Who do you think?
- Three votes. I'm not pressed.
- You're pressed? - I'm just like, there's--
well, I'm--I'm a little pressed. - [laughs]
- There's people here that have not had a glow-up, but--
- Don't look at me like that.
- [laughs]
In the short time from season four to here we are now,
I think I've grown.
So to hear that I'm the neediest from my own sisters, it's tough.
Who thinks that I needed more of a glow-up?
- Ooh. - Oh, yeah.
- She cannot let it go.
- You're not even the neediest.
You're just second place.
Get over it, girl.
- You had five, and I had three.
- Answer that question, because who didn't vote for her voted for me.
- Out of respect...
- For who? [laughter]
- I did, I did, I did. - You voted for me?
Well, that's one.
- Who else did?
[tense music]
Wow, so we have two people who are just not gonna speak up then?
Is that what it is?
- Is that what's going on here?
- Some people aren't really clear about their little votes.
But I mean, this is democracy.
A vote should stay absolutely nameless.
- Someone must have voted for Jonbers.
- Oh, I did.
Sorry, I didn't know what we were talking about.
[laughter] I was so out of it then.
- Thanks, UK.
- Yeah. - The UK alliance weakened.
[laughter]
- Who did Jonbers vote for?
- That's not the question at hand.
[overlapping chatter] - Jonbers, who did you vote for?
- That's not the question at hand.
- Who did you vote for?
- Listen, if somebody else isn't gonna be honest,
I'm not gonna--I'm not gonna speak up.
- I voted for Arantxa. I'm being honest.
Now I'm asking you who you voted for.
- I voted for you.
I voted for Keta. - What?
[laughter and exclamations]
- Okay. Noted, noted.
- But who's the third person who voted for Jonbers?
- Nobody's saying who voted for Jonbers, the last person.
- What's going on?
- I voted for Jonbers!
all: Oh! - Yes, I did!
- Why, because my glow-up is not good enough for you?
- You know what? You don't need a glow-up.
You need this on top of your face.
[laughter]
- Oh, my God. - Only joking.
Am I the drama?
[laughter]
[upbeat music]
- Right, I'm gonna start sketching.
- Oh, yes!
- Do you have gold?
- I think I might use that one.
- Our design challenge back in France,
we had to make outfits out of beach material.
I almost won the ball, so this time,
I have a real, like, pressure on myself to do somewhat good.
Anybody got gold--oh, Tia.
Hey, yo, Ms. Tia.
So I'm telling myself I have to stick to one idea, so I pick gold.
You've been the greatest of all time, and you have such great taste.
- Thank you.
- And, like, seeing you picked up, like, gold,
which is absolutely what I need right now, it's like--
- Is it? - Matchy-matchy.
- Do you know what I need right now?
- What do you need?
- I'm not sure I could say it on the BBC.
- [chuckles]
- La Grande Dame seems to be flirting with me
to try and get this fabric.
And let me tell you something about Tia Kofi.
If you try and get things from me by flirting,
it'll work.
- I can help you on the-- on the drawing and the idea first.
- You're good at concepts.
I've got no gag reflex.
This is great. - [laughs]
Hey.
Sounds like an alliance too.
- Ooh, la, la.
Mon Dieu!
Are you single?
Okay, never mind.
- Well, hiya, my little bibbidi-bobbidi-boobies.
[overlapping greetings]
- Back, back, back again.
- Hello. Mabuhay. - Hi, kids.
Mabuhay.
- Hey, girl. - [laughs]
Marina, what are you gonna make for us?
- Yeah. Last week, I brought you to the mountains of the Philippines.
Now I'm gonna bring you under the sea.
I'm gonna do, like, a mermaid cut. - Okay.
- And, like, I'm gonna use all this fabric down below
to, like, emulate the shore.
- This is a big undertaking, yeah?
- This is a lot to take on for someone who doesn't sew,
but I did not came here to play it safe.
I am here to show you what my drag is all about.
For a small girl, I like big things.
- Yeah. Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm.
[chuckling mischievously]
- Yes, well, good luck to you with that. - Thank you so much.
- Scarlet Envy! - Hi, Michelle.
- It is so good to see you back.
- It's so good to be back.
- You sew.
- I do.
This is one of my favorite challenges.
- What are you gonna make for us, Scarlet?
- Well, it's just, like, the classic, like, Cinderella gorgeous,
kind of a light-- light blue with the blues.
- Well, it looks beautiful.
- Thank you. - Thank you, kids.
- All right. - Thank you. Mabuhay.
- Good luck. Carry on. Mabuhay.
Hannah Conda, Keta Minaj.
Now, Hannah, what I remember about you is, you are not a sewer.
- Shh.
- You are a gluer.
- Yeah, and there's no shame in that.
- I am not shaming you.
Babe, I would glue too. - Yeah.
Oh, look what I've-- can I show you what I've glued already?
- Already, that color has me running away.
- Look, I've already done that.
I don't think that's half bad.
- Well, what are you gonna do on the bottom of that?
Because you know how I feel about a leotard.
- So she's going for this kind of experience.
It's very bold, and I know it's not your favorite color.
- It's actually my least favorite color, but it's not about me, Hannah.
- It's about me. - Yeah.
- She's gonna be built by the mice, so I've got a basket of mice.
And so they're gonna be running around on her dress.
- Okay, I'm here for the story. - Yeah.
- Keta Minaj. - Yes.
- Are you the quiet one of the bunch?
- I think so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- But there's another side to Keta because we see it in drag.
- Yes, for sure.
I like, like, superhero villains, like, the evil characters in stories.
- Let me see what you're doing for your princess, Ms. Darkness.
- So I'm doing, like, a medieval moment.
I can be a princess, but I need to be a evil princess.
So this is gonna be, like, our evil princess, like--
- All gold?
- Yeah, like--like, black and gold
and maybe a bit of influence of a spider.
- Well, I can't wait to see what you've done.
Happy gluing.
- Yeah--ah, thank you.
- Gothy Kendoll, La Grande Dame.
Gothy, this is--I would say that you didn't get to the design challenge,
but you didn't get to any challenges.
- No. Basically, I didn't do jack shit.
[laughter] - So do you sew?
- Yeah, I do. I went to fashion school, yeah.
- Great. - Yeah.
- That's gonna help you out.
- Fingers crossed.
- So what are you gonna do for us?
- So I'm going for, like, a classic Gothy silhouette,
but I'm going for, like, different colors, like, very not Gothy.
- Okay, what is not Gothy?
- Pastel like this.
I'm normally, like, very, like, black, cinched.
- Hence Gothy.
- Yes, exactly.
I think I can do it.
- Okay. - Yeah, for sure.
- I think you can too. - Thank you.
- La Grande Dame. - Bonjour, bonjour.
- So we know fashion is your thing.
I want to see what you're planning for us for this challenge.
- I'll try to do something a little futuristic.
- Okay. - I'm not a--I'm not a girly girl.
- Okay. - So I'm going with the gold.
We'll see how it goes. It's a--yeah, it's a sort of lamé.
- Okay. Bonne chance.
Good luck. - Merci.
- Thank you very much. - And don't fuck it up.
Yeah?
Arancha Castilla-La Mancha, Tia Kofi,
what are you going to sew for us?
- So for the princess, I wanted to go
with an emo princess. - Okay.
- Like the misunderstood girl from the high school.
- So like Wednesday Addams?
- Yes. - Yeah, okay.
- And I thought about making, like, this dress,
like, maybe she was going to prom.
This girl is going to prom. - Okay.
Okay, that's sweet.
It's a storyline. - Yeah.
- Where does your fashion sense come from?
- You have to have one for it to come from someplace.
- [laughs]
- And I'm still working on it.
On my series, the ball were some of my favorite and best looks.
It's a shame the judges didn't think that.
- You do have style. It's just questionable, that's all.
[laughter]
It's there.
Listen, I've been called that my whole life as well.
- My drag always comes from,
obviously, when you're trans,
and you transition when you're an adult,
you kind of miss those teenage years
that you didn't have as a girl, in my case.
- Mm-hmm. - So now I'm living that through my drag.
That's why so much of my fashion sense come from, like, the 2000s
because this is when I was a teenager.
- I'm very excited for you
because I'm not sure it was understood in your series.
So I think you get a chance to show it again.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
Tia Kofi, fashion?
- Yes. - Okay.
- Yes, I've heard of it.
[laughter] I've heard of it.
Rumors suggest it exists.
- So you chose the red velvet.
- I did. - Not an easy fabric.
And what's your plan?
- So I'm gonna give you more of a traditional sort of, like,
princess shape and just give you a journey in red
because I've--I've got a theme, and I've got a reason for doing it.
- Have you figured out how to sew?
- I have indeed had sewing lessons.
- Good for you.
- Thank you.
- Well, good luck to you both.
- Thank you. - Thank you very much.
- Can't wait to see your creations.
Choriza May, Jonbers.
I'm happy you're here.
- I'm so happy I'm here.
- The last time you did a fashion,
you had some story about an owl jizzing in your eye or something.
- Baby, you better believe...
- Yes. - The owl is back for the ball.
- Oh, no! - Oh, my.
- Oh, no!
So do you have a story with this?
- Well, you'll have to find out on the runway.
- Yes. - But I just want to say,
the three looks are connected.
I have the very traditional, you know,
Snow White with the puffy sleeves, lots of pleats on the skirt.
- Uh-huh. - And I did manage to grab
some materials in purple and black.
- Your drawing is...
- It's there. It's there. - [laughs]
- I promise I will look better than this.
[laughter]
- Okay, I can't wait to see it. - Thank you, Michelle.
- Jonbers!
How are you? - How are you?
I'm great. How are you?
- I'm all right. Thank you, wee kid.
So show us what you're gonna do.
- It's kind of-- kind of, like, '80s Lacroix.
So it's gonna be gold, like, golds and blacks.
- Last time you did a fashion challenge, it was--
- Hot apple pie. - Mm.
The woven-- - The woven lattice.
- Drooping. - Yeah.
On my season...[scoffs]
I didn't do so well in this challenge.
So you know, I'm looking at this as an opportunity
to learn how to grow.
I'm ready to Ru-deem myself.
- So, Jonbers, are the UK queens sticking together?
Because some have named you the neediest.
- You want to answer that, Choriza?
- It was lost in translation.
- [laughs] Sure, it was. - It was.
- So are the UK queens sticking together?
- I think we are. - I think we are.
Yeah, I mean-- - Good to know.
- It's still a competition--oh.
- It's official, ladies. - Are we?
- Apparently so. - Did you hear that?
They heard that.
- Thank you, UK queens, for making it so much easier
because that's very pertinent information for everyone to know.
- Well, I cannot wait to see what you bring to the ball.
- Thanks, Michelle. - And again, remember,
confidence is key, so sell it. - Yeah, exactly.
[upbeat music]
- Choriza, how's it going?
- It's going good, actually.
How are you feeling about the whole thing?
I heard that you also have, like, a theme running through.
- Yeah, I just wanted to do something really special because I know--
my evil queen look is based on Cherry Valentine's...
- Oh, wow. - Meet the Queens look.
And I just thought it was really important that when I got the call to be here,
I wanted to do something for her.
- Yeah, of course.
- Because--
- It's okay.
It's okay, baby.
Come here.
- 2022 was a very difficult year for me.
I lost my mum,
and then a few months later, lost Cherry Valentine
from my season of "Drag Race."
I think she would have been here.
- You know what it is?
- If she was here, she would have been on this.
[sighs]
I want to do this to dedicate it to Cherry's legacy, to her memory,
but also, on behalf of all of the queens of series two
who got to share this special time with her.
- The fact that you're doing this to just honor her--
her memory, it's beautiful.
- I need to make sure the makeup is on point though,
because her face was always stamped.
- Stamped, and the fashions were always incredible.
- I need to make sure that it's gorgeous, it's glam.
It's just--
- Beautiful. - Quintessentially Cherry.
I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed.
But I just really want to, like, live up to Cherry and--
and prove to the world that every day is Valentine's Day.
- I'm so proud of you for doing this.
- Thank you. - This is incredible.
Give me a hug.
Love you, baby.
[upbeat music]
- Runway, runway, runway. - Is it fashion?
- Runway.
- So she says. - So she says.
[laughter] - Come on, lady.
- Come on, ladies. - We have to go to the ball!
- Ah!
What a mess. What a world.
- It's elimination day.
We're getting ready for the Happy Ending Ball,
and we have to serve not one, not two,
but three looks.
- Who's ready to go to the ball?
- Me!
- Yes! - I'm ready for the balls.
- Feel pretty, ladies.
Okay? - Feel pretty, laters.
- [chuckles] - Okay.
- [laughs]
[tense percussive music]
- Well, that's drag.
Right now, everything's together.
I think I'm done.
- Are you done?
- It was Elizabeth Taylor, I believe, that said,
"When you leave the house, take one thing off."
But I've just rolled in a pile of shit.
- Wow. - You're the first one done.
- If I add much more--
- Efficiency.
- I think that could be, like--
- It might border on tacky if you do that.
- Oh, really?
Oh, wow.
- Ooh. - Ooh.
- Tacky?
Does this look tacky to you?
How dare you.
[laughter]
[upbeat music]
- God, I can see everyone's dress, and it's so pretty.
- How are you getting on with yours?
- It's going well.
Lots of safety pins and desperation.
[laughter]
- "Hoot" glue.
- Today, I'm wishing upon a star for a happy ending.
[upbeat music]
- This is the last few minutes we have.
Everyone is focused.
And this is an elimination day.
Someone's gonna have to send somebody home.
- So, Scarlet? - Yeah?
- I think the room really requires some motivational speaking right now.
- Go out there and believe in what you've made.
Do you know what I mean? - Yeah.
- Sell it, girl.
- Yeah. - Sell the garment.
- Sell it! - Sell the garment!
- The garment!
- Although one of us is going to sashay today.
- No! - No!
- It's gonna be crazy.
[RuPaul's "Cover Girl"]
- [echoing laugh]
[singing] Cover girl, put the bass in your walk.
Head to toe, let your whole body talk.
[speaking] And what?
Welcome to the main stage of "RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World."
She's kissed a few frogs,
Michelle Visage.
- And I've shagged a few pigs.
[laughter]
- Oink, oink.
- Yes. [snorts]
- International treasure, Graham Norton.
Now, Graham, have you ever kissed a frog?
- No, but at midnight, I will turn into a rotten fruit.
[laughter]
- And the gorgeous Adwoa Aboah.
Welcome. Are you ready to have a ball?
- Yes, queen.
[laughter]
I can't wait.
Thank you so much for having me.
- Thank you.
This week, we challenged our queens
to serve three fairy tale looks.
And tonight, they are ready to tell their stories on the runway.
Racers, start your engines,
and may the best drag queen win.
[singing] Nobody's business.
Come on, come on, come on.
[speaking] Welcome, all, to the Happy Ending Ball.
First category is Lady Prince Charming.
Up first, Hannah Conda.
- Bette Midler is looking good as Prince Charming.
[laughter]
- For my first look, which I brought with me,
I am serving what I like to call "hello, nails."
[laughs]
- You are the wind beneath my wings.
- He is the campest prince you'll ever see.
It's very knockoff Disney and very my brand.
- And from these brussels sprouts, I will fashion a cape.
[laughter]
- Jonbers Blonde.
- Is that Madam Ant?
[laughter]
- I am serving you Prince Farming,
inspired by my favorite designers from when I was a kid.
- Quill she or won't she?
[laughter]
- This is kind of like if Quentin Crisp was a farmer in the '80s
and loved Vivienne Westwood.
- She's got frills. They're multiplying.
[laughter]
Up next, Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha.
I think she's got some of Ziggy Stardust in her eye.
- [laughs]
- I went with a David Bowie inspired look
because it is fascinating how he loved to play with gender roles.
- She's got one eye on the prize.
[laughter]
- I'm looking at the judges' faces,
and I know exactly what they're thinking--
nothing, because they are astonished by my beauty.
[laughs]
- Where do you go to get your blood work done?
- I don't know, where? - To the labyrinth.
[laughter]
- Up next,
the question remains.
- What's in the dossier?
[laughter]
- Tia Kofi.
- I am serving you Robin Hood realness.
Now, I did a Robin Hood look on my season,
and this one's a glow-up.
- Child, she from the Robin Hood.
- Listen, we're in the "Hunger Games" of drag.
Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay.
Mocking-gay?
Mocking-hey.
- What's in the quiver?
- What is in the quiver?
- Where's the dossier?
- What's in the quiver?
[laughter]
- La Grande Dame.
- Oh. - Tickets, please.
- I am serving French haute couture houses.
There is a Caffarelli feeling.
There is a Gautier feeling.
This is French excellence.
[laughing in a French manner]
[laughter]
I can't help myself, apparently,
by making French, weird noises.
[continues laughing]
[deep-voiced American accent] Oh, yeah.
[laughter]
[normally] If they like it, I will keep doing it.
[continues laughing]
[laughter]
- Up next, Scarlet Envy.
- I'll just have one breast.
- Yes. - Thank you.
- The story behind my Lady Prince Charming is a knight in shining armor.
He's just slayed the dragon.
- Scarlet, I have two words for you:
moth balls.
[laughter]
- He slayed the dragon, and then he slayed the runway.
- Oh, Spartacus.
[laughter]
Keta Minaj.
- From a land that's tucked far, far away.
[laughter]
- I made this myself, so all my heart and sweat is in this look.
One side is all covered in armor.
- Fancy a slice?
[laughter]
- So I'm very proud walking on this runway with this outfit
because it really represents me.
- Can you tell which leg is wooden?
- Wouldn't you like to know?
[laughter]
- Up next, Gothy Kendoll.
- Well, it turns out the emperor has a few clothes.
[laughter]
- My Prince Charming is on his way to find his princess,
but secretly, he wants to find his prince.
- Prince is strong.
- Yes. - Yes.
- There we go. - Ooh, yeah.
That prince is pumpin'.
- I'm feeling like such a camp little prince in this.
I'm loving it. I'm having a little skip.
I'm showing off my muscles.
And I'm enjoying it.
- Party at Versailles.
[laughter]
Marina Summers.
Ooh. - Ooh.
- Aqua Marina.
- I am gonna let you dive in
with my sexy prince of the underwater world.
- Hunk, a hunk of burning queen. - Yes.
- I guess, with this look, the judges are really hooked,
and I'm ready to reel them under the sea.
[laughs]
- They call me jelly, jellyfish.
[laughter]
- Up next, Choriza May.
Oh, hello, Dolly--
Salvador Dali.
[laughter]
- I'm serving you Dali with the mustache.
I'm serving you matador with the jacket.
- It's an aubergine emoji come to life.
[laughter]
- Very fiery look, but at the same time, very camp,
because, you know, gay.
- She ain't scared of no bull.
[laughter]
[singing] Nobody here ever seen her before.
[speaking] Second category is She-vil Queen.
Up first, Hannah Conda.
- [cackles]
- [singing] Who is she?
- I'm going for a really traditional evil queen.
She is sort of one color palette from head to toe.
- You ain't my evil step-muvva.
- Yes, I am! - [chuckles]
- I have sucked the color and the life out of everything
apart from my really gay son, the prince from my first look.
The story is coming to life now.
[gasps] Oh, isn't that wild?
- Ooh, spell you later.
- [chuckles]
Up next, Jonbers Blonde.
- Well, she's clearly a flamer.
[laughter]
- For my She-vil Queen look,
I'm giving you '90s Thierry Mugler realness.
Very fire-breathing dragons,
but fashion.
- I "lava" this look.
[laughter]
- Somebody grab the extinguisher.
I'm hot.
- Fire in her hole!
[laughter]
Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha.
- Will you sign my burn book?
- I am serving you the meanest queen of all,
Regina George.
- She's a real mean girl.
- With this giant pen, I want to write so many names
of so many queens on this burn book.
- [singing] Who is she?
[speaking] It's a can, not a can't book.
It's a can book.
I believe in you.
See you next Tuesday.
Up next, Tia Kofi.
[singing] Who is she?
- What's in the basket, Tia Kofi?
[laughter]
- For my She-vil Queen look, I am serving you my interpretation
of the most iconic Cherry Valentine look,
and she loved all things spooky-ooky, Halloween, and evil queen.
- Mm.
- I'm giving you Cherry's aesthetic mixed with mine,
and I'm very, very happy about it.
I'm really, really just genuinely pleased that I get to present this to the world.
- La Grande Dame.
- Wow.
- [animalistic chittering]
I am serving you laying queen mother alien.
[chittering]
I'm taking a risk fully. I know it.
But this look, I'm so proud of.
[chittering]
[chitters]
- Oh, the French.
- They'll eat anything.
[laughter]
- Wow.
- [singing] Who is she?
[speaking] Scarlet Envy.
- Green with envy.
- Mm-hmm.
- My She-vil Queen is very angry Mother Earth energy.
- We were rooting for you.
[laughter]
- This look is making me feel very empowered.
In fact, I'm a little scared.
Am I tapping into my villain?
- Give us a root.
[laughter]
- Keta Minaj.
- Come on, come on. There you go.
- Come on, boy. - Come on, don't be shy.
- [singing] They tried and failed to clock her.
But time could never stop her. Headliner on the roster.
- I am the evil queen.
You can find me in the red-light district riding my big monster.
- How's the drag, hon?
[laughter]
- I really feel at home showing off my evilness.
[cackles]
Couldn't wish for anything better than this.
[laughter]
- Gothy Kendoll.
- I'm serving you dark glamour.
- [singing] Who is she? Who is she?
- She's not hungry.
[laughter]
- I've sort of mixed the evil queen from Snow White and Cruella
into one look, sort of like this fashion-y, sleek, evil queen.
- She's having Cruell-of a day.
- [chuckles]
[singing] Diamond perfect posture.
[speaking] Marina Summers.
Ooh, gill.
[laughter]
- I am paying homage to one of the scariest evil queens
that I grew up watching.
We call her Dugong.
She has kind of a very fugly body,
but she has a very beautiful face, I must say.
- But how did she put her shoes on?
[laughter]
- I am giving you the mating call, which is the--
[fluttering tongue]
Yeah, that's her mating call. [laughs]
- What's the catch of the day?
- [laughs]
Choriza May.
Oh. - Ooh.
- She's a hoot.
- My She-vil Queen is paying homage to my owl story from season three.
That was the origin.
Now we see her developed in a full queen with her beautiful owl by her side.
- Excuse me, your owl is on fire.
[laughter]
- [cackles]
Hoo, hoo.
- Give a hoot, don't pollute.
- [laughs] - Well, it's too late for that.
- Are the judges reacting?
Probably. Can I see them?
Absolutely not.
- Anyone else think that owl doesn't look too comfortable?
- Well, I hear she has bad owl movements.
[laughter]
- [cackles]
- We can't see you.
[laughter]
[singing] I feel blessed.
I feel blessed.
[speaking] Final category is Drags to Riches Eleganza.
Up first, Hannah Conda.
- From the House of Mouse.
[laughter]
- For the look that I made in the Werk Room,
I am serving you princess of the mice.
Is it fashion?
Ah, it depends on what you're into.
[laughs]
- Naughty but mice.
- [chuckles]
- It's a story.
You see now, the twin sister, she's out of the tower.
She had the scrap fabric left over from the brother to create the dress.
I mean, come on.
- I thought I smelled cheese.
[laughter]
- Up next, Jonbers Blonde.
- Curly hair, don't care.
- Drags to Riches.
This look is also inspired by one of my favorite designers
as a kid, Lacroix.
- Like I always say, bows before hoes.
[laughter]
- It feels really special to walk the runway in something I've made
that looks quite good, if you don't mind.
- Bitches better "bow" down.
Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha.
- Okay, what?
- Stupid Prince Charming.
[laughter]
- I am serving you goth emo princess,
the girl that did not want to go to the ball,
but her mom force her to go.
- [chuckling] - She is so over this runway.
- I don't want to go to the ball, Mom!
- Okay, I'll go to your funeral, but I'm not gonna be happy about it.
[laughter]
Up next, Tia Kofi.
- Warning, don't feed that wig after midnight.
[laughter]
- I am serving you an above adequate dress
that I made in the Werk Room by myself.
- How much is that poodle on her head?
- Ruff, ruff.
[laughter]
I wanted to present three looks for Cherry.
So that's a lot of pressure.
And it didn't get to me.
- [laughs]
- Come on, growth as a person.
- La Grande Dame.
- A tale as gold as time.
[laughter]
- For the Drags to Riches look, I am serving a gold goddess,
Charlize Theron getting out of the pool.
- Lamé, you stay.
[laughter]
- Using scraps of fabric,
I have created a princess ball gown
fitted for a modern princess.
- The theat-whore.
- [chuckles]
Scarlet Envy.
You know, I really miss the season one filter.
[laughter]
- I'm serving you classic Cinderella ball gown.
You shall have balls.
Is that how it went?
- She'll grant you three bitches.
[laughter]
- I feel glamorous.
If she's not gonna crown me, I brought my own.
[laughs]
- Princess Grace of Mona-ho.
[laughter]
Keta Minaj.
They sure don't make straitjackets the way they used to.
[laughter]
- Everybody's going for, like, the princess kind of vibe,
but I want to stay true to my brand.
So I'm, like, a young witch going to her ball for the first time.
- I wonder what time it is.
I'll just check my--oh, never mind.
[laughter]
- I almost cannot believe I made this look in this amount of time.
I am proud of myself.
- Do you be-sleeve in life after love?
- We do. - [laughs]
- Gothy Kendoll.
- Pastel Gothy Kendoll. - Mm.
- This pastel goth princess is on her way to an underground rave.
She's gonna go camp it up to some PC pop stupid shit.
- She's just a girl about crown.
- I feel quite pretty in this look.
I mean, these colors are so opposite to what I normally wear,
so I'm glad I went out of my comfort zone a little bit.
- What's a mini train?
- Is the mini train still running?
- Uh-huh.
You know, I summer at the marina.
I call it Marina Summers.
- Great name.
- A long walk on a short pier.
[laughter]
- I am serving you a princess by the ocean.
I made this mermaid-cut dress.
You know, mermaid, ocean.
See what I did there? [laughs]
- Imelda Marcos, eat your heart out.
- Don't cry for me, Philippines.
- [chuckles]
- I look pretty. I look regal.
I look like I own the entire queendom.
- She's famous for having very fat ankles.
- Yes. [laughter]
Choriza May.
- That owl does not look well.
- No. - No.
- I'm serving you ugly sister going to the ball,
getting the happy ending she deserves,
because everyone deserves a happy ending,
right, boys and girls?
[coughs]
- Oh. - Oh, dear.
- Cage before beauty.
- That owl was a inner saboteur.
It's telling me all these ugly things about myself,
and I decided to fully destroy it.
- Bye-bye, birdie.
[laughter]
Welcome, queens.
"UK vs the World" rules are in full effect.
Now, based on your three runway presentations,
I've made some decisions.
When I call your name, please step forward.
[suspenseful music]
Jonbers Blonde.
Tia Kofi.
Scarlet Envy.
Gothy Kendoll.
You are all safe.
Please step to the back of the stage.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Thank you very much. - Thank you.
- Off you go.
- Ladies, you represent the tops and the bottoms of the week.
Now it's time for the judges' critiques.
Let's start with Hannah Conda.
- You know, you came out here,
and there's always kind of a wink and a nudge-nudge in your drag,
and I love that about you.
And I thought your Lady Prince Charming was funny.
I like the intentional bulge.
I just thought you had a good time with it.
- Yeah. - Well, as a fellow ginger,
I hope the upstairs matches the downstairs.
And that's about it. You were amazing.
- There's no downstairs. Shh.
[laughter]
- Are you saying you have hardwood floors?
- Oh, baby, it's always hardwood with me.
[laughter]
- She-vil Queen, I think that was your prettiest.
- You went classic, and you sold it to us
with your spells and your cackling.
- Throughout all your performances, it's the face, it's the character.
- You always have a good time...
[Australian accent] And I expect that from an Australian.
- This, there's something a bit dressing up box about it.
- It's not necessarily expensive.
- Oh, no. - But I quite like
that it stands out from all the others.
- I think what could have made it better, maybe not so many mice.
But to be honest, for gluing, not that terrible.
- Okay, so I've been upstairs with my mice friends.
- Ah, I see.
- And they helped me, and it's really cute.
- Oh, the--the mice helped you construct it?
- Yeah, the mice helped me. Yeah, they just haven't left yet.
- [chuckles] - Does everyone live happily ever after?
- Oh, fuck no. [laughs]
That's boring. [laughs]
- Thank you very much. - Thank you very much.
- Up next, Arantxa. - Hola.
- Your Lady Prince Charming, you did, I would say a nod to David Bowie,
but basically, you were David Bowie.
It was cute, but on the main stage of "RuPaul's Drag Race,"
we don't want to see what lies beneath.
And I saw your undergarments just sticking out.
Right. - Okay.
- And it takes us out of that fantasy.
- To pick David Bowie to represent sort of gender fluid thing,
it was really good.
But it missed a bit of polish.
- What I loved about the second look was this oversized jumper.
It was a cloak, but it had those great sleeves.
And I thought that was such a lovely touch to the kind of "Mean Girls" aesthetic.
- I love "Mean Girls," but I didn't get it till you turned around,
and I saw the burn book then.
But then it was kind of too late.
- I guess you were the She-vil Queen of high school?
- Yes. I always was the bullied girl in high school.
And for once, I wanted to take it back and say, you know what?
I'm gonna bully you this time.
- What a lovely message.
- Yes. [laughter]
- And then in your Drags to Riches, yeah, I mean, you struggled a little bit.
I don't know if you claim to be a seamstress, but--
- Oh, please, no.
[laughter]
- Well, that's obvious. But I will say...
[laughter]
There's some fit issues and some hem issues
and some sleeve length issues.
- It was great ideas, but presentation kind of let you down tonight.
- This is not what we think of as Drags to Riches.
What's your favorite part of this outfit?
- I like the neck because you can almost see my tits,
and they're starting to grow.
- Ooh. - And I think it's time to show them.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- That's lovely.
Thank you, Arantxa.
All right, up next, La Grande Dame.
- Lady Prince Charming, it was so funny,
and it was so beautiful all at the same time.
- It was like Jean Paul Gaultier ran a railway.
It was just stunning.
It was like watching a cartoon.
I really liked it.
- I mean, you should give every single model a lesson in walking.
It was absolutely superb.
- Then you transformed into your She-vil Queen.
I thought it was amazing, but I just felt like some part of it,
I wish I could have seen you in it.
But that's fine. It was still amazing.
- No, I loved that second look,
and I disagree in that, I could see your face.
You were in there, and it was terrifying.
- Absolutely loved it.
It was so different, and you definitely, like, brought us into another world.
- Love the way your mind thinks.
That was pretty remarkable.
- This, I was so impressed with the transformation.
It was very smart and very skilled.
- I don't even know where to begin with this look.
How many times do we see, like, celebrities on the red carpet?
And I don't think they come close to what you've created.
It is Oscar-worthy.
- Those smoky eyes, it looks like Choriza May's owl has been all over them.
[laughter]
- Do you have a fashion background?
- I wanted to go and pursue fashion school,
but that wasn't even an option.
My household couldn't allow me to do that.
- Well, you've clearly proven your point.
- Mm-hmm. - You've shown them, haven't you?
- Mm-hmm. - All right, thank you so much.
- Thank you.
- Up next, Keta Minaj.
- Keta, Lady Prince Charming, I adored.
I loved the flouncy-ness of the sleeve and the leg
and the stiffness of the armor that you did.
Your She-vil Queen was silly, Keta,
and this is kind of we're finding out who you are.
- I loved how stupid that was.
There seemed something very British about it.
Just it really made me laugh.
- It's very Monty Python, very wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
- You know, it would have been so obvious to kind of, like,
stride down like you were in control of this weird-looking animal,
but instead, this animal was almost in control of you, which I really loved.
- And this is beautiful.
The execution of this is gorgeous.
- This is exactly what you said you were gonna make,
and then you added the headpiece to it,
and I think you did a really good job.
- It's completely fantastic.
It's definitely something that I'd see, you know, on the catwalk.
- Yeah, this is beautiful.
Love the silhouette.
It's really finished well.
Elegant. Well done.
- Thank you so much.
- Up next, you know, I summer at the marina.
I call it my Marina Summers.
- Mm-hmm. [laughter]
- Mabuhay.
- Marina, your Lady Prince Charming was kind of like an Elvis of the sea.
I don't know if it said Lady Prince Charming,
but I could tell how fabulous you felt in it.
- What I really like about the first one wasn't so much the outfit,
but the way you performed it.
- It's not easy to have those, like, massive, long, drapey things
coming off your outfit and to style it out,
and you did it absolutely perfectly.
- The one you're gonna have to explain,
I think, to all of us, is the She-vil Queen.
What were you?
- It was a underwater character from the Philippines,
which I was scared of when I was a child.
- Okay, understood.
We were a bit confused.
- What I liked about it, though,
because you're so pretty and beautiful and put together,
I loved the lack of vanity in it.
- It did feel like that kind of fish at the bottom of the ocean
that is truly terrifying.
- This, however, when you told me you were gonna make this,
I was like, okay, good luck,
but, Marina, it is just phenomenal, kiddo.
- It's my first dress.
- Oh, shut up.
- Wow. - You've never made a dress before?
Stop.
- Uh, can we have the trapdoor open now?
[laughter] - Thank you.
- It is perfection.
- It's beautiful.
Thank you. - Thank you.
- Up next, Choriza May.
- Lady Prince Charming,
I love the nod to your culture, to your heritage.
I love the matador.
I think that your ideas are okay,
but it's the fit that sometimes throwed me off.
- I loved your first look.
It was like the Go.Compare man gets cast in "Carmen."
You were everything I wanted Choriza May to be.
You brought it all.
- I loved the velvet, the mustache.
And that señorita aspect that it also had, I really, really love.
- Your She-vil Queen was great.
It was fun. It was dark.
The laugh, the owl with all the toxic shit coming out of it.
- The problem was, once that owl got going,
Jesus, I don't know what it had eaten, but it was...
[laughter] It did not agree with that owl.
We couldn't really see it, which is a real pity, I think.
- Tonight, from Drags to Riches, I'm not sure I see the riches,
but you were able to put a dress together.
- Now, did anyone else want this fabric?
- [laughs]
- It's just not a pretty fabric, Choriza.
I love the accessories and the wig and everything,
but I feel like the make element of the ball slightly let you down tonight.
- It just doesn't have the richness that this brief really called for.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, queens. I think we've heard enough.
Now, based on the judges' critiques,
I've made some decisions.
[dramatic music]
Keta Minaj,
La Grande Dame,
you are the top two queens of the week.
[upbeat music]
Condragulations.
[applause]
- Come on, girl.
- Marina Summers,
Hannah Conda,
you are both safe.
- Thank you.
- That means Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha
and Choriza May,
I'm sorry, my dears, but you are both in the bottom.
[dramatic music]
La Grande Dame, Keta Minaj,
each of you needs to decide which of the bottom two you will eliminate
if you win the lip sync.
So while you queens deliberate in the Werk Room,
the judges and I will complain about the weather.
You may leave the stage.
- Ooh, girl! - Oh, my God!
- I'm happy.
It feels special to be back in-- in the top for the second week in a row.
- Let's start by congratulating the winners because--
- Yes! - Congratulations.
- That is amazing. - I'm not surprised.
It feels correct.
[laughter]
- Get it right, baby. - But--but yes, I'm very happy.
But I have to say, everybody really turned it out.
Like, they are saying your fabric is ugly.
I don't find it ugly. Like, you made that whole dress.
- Mm. - It's amazing.
- I'm very proud of what I presented.
I am devastated.
I was so close to the top last week.
This is a total kick in the balls.
- Oh, well. How are you feeling, Arantxa?
This is heartbreaking to be...
- It is. It is. - In the bottom with my best friend
because no matter what happens,
what I know is that next week, we are not gonna see each other.
- Yeah. I know.
- Aww. - Aww.
- And that just fucking sucks. [sniffles]
- This is my sister, and I want her to keep going in the competition.
But on the flip side, I also want to be here.
Whatever happens, I'm gonna miss you so much.
- Aw. [both sniffling]
- Now is when they play, like, really sad Spanish music.
[laughter]
Subtitle say...
[laughter]
- Okay, so we have a very important decision to make now.
Yeah, let's do it.
I'm really bad at making decisions,
so I'm not sure yet what I'm gonna do.
So let's have a chat.
Actually, you helped me to win.
Do you realize that?
- [gasps] - These.
- Oh, the sleeves.
That's my pattern.
- I didn't have any patterns,
so I actually got help from Arantxa.
So I'm kind of grateful for her.
So how are you?
- To be here representing the trans community to me,
it is so important to keep fighting.
- I have to say, like, I really respect you,
and I think it's really important to represent the trans community for sure.
But, like, I'm also here to play the game.
- Of course.
I can see in her eyes that she's trying
to math it up all in her head.
I have no idea what could come out of this.
- How are you, baby? Congratulations.
- I'm good. Thank you, thank you.
How are you?
- I'm devastated to be in the bottom,
especially with a friend.
- Yeah.
- But I did better and through the three looks, the consistency.
La Grande Dame is a fair player,
in terms of, she's gonna keep who she thinks should stay and continue.
She did that last week, and I hope she does the same this week.
- Just want to make one to be sure,
if a UK girls lands in the bottom...
- Uh-huh.
- And to you, deserves to go,
you will vote the UK girl out? - 100%.
- Okay. - 100%.
- Choriza is assuring me that there is no UK alliance.
But I don't know what to think.
- Do what you think is best.
I'm sure it will be the right answer.
Thank you.
- My question, Jonbers, who would you send home?
- Uh, listen--[sighs]
Arantxa was safe last week, in the bottom this week.
They've both done really incredible-- - I don't like where this is going.
- Yeah, I know. - It's too fair for me.
Oh, like, this is your track record,
and it's just like, ugh, I hate it, honestly.
I really don't like going by track record.
- You don't? - I mean, it's totally fair, obviously.
- Yeah. - It's probably the right thing to do.
But, like, who wants to do the right thing?
- Do you just think because we've got four people from the UK,
one of us deserves to go?
- No, I think she's my stronger competition.
- So you're gonna--you're gonna...
[clicks tongue] The competition?
- I mean, I guess that's what I just said.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
- She said she's really gonna bring the drama.
She said she is the drama.
- She is. - I mean, it just--it is what it is.
- I want to know everything.
- Okay.
I have so much to show to the world
because my first time on "Drag Race,"
I did not believe in myself at all.
But also, I think that I do have a lot to offer to this competition
that, well, maybe Choriza doesn't have to offer
because there are other three UK girls here.
- Mm-hmm.
Arantxa is really making a very good point.
This is "UK vs the World," and maybe I should play into that.
- You have to make a decision, and either way, I love you a lot
because you--actually, you are one of the people
that I feel like I've connected the most in here.
- This is really tough.
They are both stating really good points,
and I'll really need to think about it carefully for sure.
- I'm about to make a very important decision.
- You are. - Of course, girl.
- You are.
- So why should we keep you?
- I'm one of the UK queens standing here,
and it would be very easy to break
what maybe you girls could consider as a pack of four.
But I--I think you should look at what the challenge was.
The fairest choice, I think, would be to keep me
because I think I did-- I did better in the challenge.
- I'm not sure what I'm gonna do.
- Okay. - But I--I take your--
your story in consideration, and--
and we will see each other later.
- Keta, I cannot read her.
I--I find it quite hard to know what's going on within her head.
It's quite scary because she could send anyone.
She's a player, and she certainly is playing.
[tense music]
- This is a really tough decision I have to make.
I know that whatever I do, both are gonna be very upset and sad.
Choriza, she's a very funny and entertaining queen.
On the other hand, you have Arantxa,
who is just the sweetest of the girls in this Werk Room.
I really have to make the right decision.
I want this to be fair.
- It's a very intense game.
I'm a Libra, so I always doubting, should I do this or that?
Sometimes you just have to feel your gut and then go for that.
It is the name of the game.
It feels shit.
But shit happens.
[dramatic music]
- Welcome back, ladies.
Two internationally-acclaimed queens stand before me.
Ladies, this is your chance to impress me
and earn the power to give one of the bottom queens the chop.
- Lip-synching is my thing.
Bring it on.
- The time has come
for you to lip-synch
for the world.
- This time, I want to feel the full fantasy.
I want to be proud of myself for what I did
and proud of myself for winning this goddamn lip sync.
- Good luck,
and don't fuck it up.
- [singing] I still hear your voice
when you sleep next to me.
I still feel your touch in my dream.
Forgive me my weakness,
but I don't know why.
Without you, it's hard to survive.
'Cause every time we touch, I get this feeling.
And every time we kiss, I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast?
I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
'Cause every time we touch, I feel the static.
And every time we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat so?
I can't let you go.
Want you in my life.
[upbeat dance music]
[all cheering]
- You better!
You better!
- Yes! - Whoo!
- Yes, bitch!
Come on! Yes!
- [singing] Your arms are my castle.
Your heart is my sky.
They wipe away tears that I cry.
'Cause every time we touch, I feel the static.
And every time we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat so?
I can't let you go.
Want you in my life.
'Cause every time we touch, I get this feeling.
And every time we kiss, I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast?
I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
[laughter and cheers]
- That song.
Oh, wow.
Oh, my God.
- Wow.
Ladies, I've made my decision.
[suspenseful music]
La Grande Dame,
condragulations, you're a winner, baby.
[all cheer]
- Yes, bitch! - Thank you.
Thank you so, so much.
- You are the proud recipient of a gold RuPeter badge.
["Rule, Britannia!" plays]
May you wear it with pride.
- Yes! - Yes!
- Keta Minaj, you are safe to slay another day.
You may join the other girls.
- Thank you.
[applause]
- Will the bottom queens please step forward?
[suspenseful music]
La Grande Dame, with great power comes great responsibility.
Which queen have you chosen to get the chop?
5- They have such a special bond,
and by being here, I'm gonna break that,
and I ask pardon from both of you.
[no audible dialogue]
Ah, the queen that I've chosen is...
Arantxa.
[somber music]
- [sobbing]
- Te quiero mucho. [indistinct whispering]
- As it is written, so it shall be done.
Arantxa, you are and will always be
a global phenomenon.
Now sashay away.
- Thank you.
- I'm so sorry.
- I don't have words of gratitude to thank you all.
And since I don't have words, I only have a gesture.
[laughter]
[all cheer]
Love you all, love you all, love you all, love you!
Bye!
This has been an experience that I owed to myself,
to come back to "Drag Race,"
but do not doubt myself and to have fun.
And I did all of that.
What I want to say to all the people that have supported me is,
thank you and I'm so sorry that you chose the wrong icon to follow.
It is what it is.
- Condragulations, queens.
And remember, if you can't love yourself,
how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?
Can I get an amen up in here?
all: Amen!
- All right, now let the music play.
[singing] To, to, to, to the moon.
To the moon, baby.
To the moon.
Come on and take me away.
To, to, to, to the moon.
[speaking] Next time on "RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World"...
You need to create your own immersive experience,
"Drag Race" World.
all: Ooh.
- Each team will produce and star in a video
that sells their unique experiences.
- Keta-morphosis.
- I just don't think many of the jokes landed.
- I thought you were the star of your immersive experience.
- Yours is a bit of a car crash.
- I'm triggered, if I'm honest.
- [singing] To, to, to, to the moon.
To the moon. Blast off.
To the moon. Come on and take me away.
To, to, to, to the moon.
To the moon, baby.
To the moon. Come on and take me away.
To, to, to, to the moon.
To the moon. Blast off.
To the moon. Come on and take me away.
To, to, to, to the moon.