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Actavia, Marmalade & Kyran Thrax reveal the BIZARRE moments they were cast on Drag Race UK
One phone call can change your entire life; take for instance the one that informs you that youve just been cast on the new season of RuPauls Drag Race UK. The only problem: You cant really predict when that call is coming and what youll be up to when the phone starts ringing.Thats unless youre Marmalade, who, as it turns out, may be more than a little psychic. This queen, who hails from Cardiff, Wales enters the competition with a famous legacy. Both her mother Victoria Scone and grandmother Tia Kofi have become beloved of the fandom, and shes poised to follow in their glamorous footsteps.Maybe she was fated to be on the show; based on what she was doing when the call came in, it certainly seems that way. I had this premonition that I was getting [on Drag Race]. I felt it in my bones, in my waters, Marmalade tells PRIDE. So, Id already started making my looks for the show. Id started straight away making my finale outfit, she admits. When the phone started ringing, the queen was in her sewing room trying the garment on. When she realized who was on the phone, she quickly took it off. I was like, it would be really funny if I answered the call in this big, grand outfit. But I thought, no, thats a bad omen. So I took it off, I put it down, I answered the call, and just hoped that all this work I put into it wasnt a waste.Thankfully it wasnt. I ended the call and went right back to making it again, just at twice the speed with about four times the stress, she jokes. While Marmalades call was appropriately glamorous, not every queen can boast the same. Even so, Kyran Thraxxs big moment was absolutely hilarious. I was having a poo. I was having a poo. Ill hold my hands up. I was having a poo, Kyran confesses to PRIDE, going on to reveal how it all went, ahem, down. No caller ID. I answered it. She said, Hey, Kyran, its Drag Race. Can we [go on camera]? And I was like, maybe not right now. So I put my phone face down. Wipe my bum, come out. Boom, youre on Drag Race.Truly iconic behavior. But thats not all. Later that night, Kyran says they did something theyve never done before: Sleepwalking and sleep peeing. I got out of bed and the gaggiest part about it is that I opened my drawer I opened the drawer and pissed inside it. The only reason I woke up is because my partner started screaming from the bed, they recall. I was like, Oh! Then it was too late. Once youve started, youve started, so you just gotta let it go. We emptied the drawer, my passport, everything was floating. It was really one of the craziest things that Ive ever experienced, and it kind of felt like a good omen.Kyran is a Lancashire-based queen whos no stranger to making a spectacle. In addition to their drag career, theyre all about the drama and by that, we mean they studied acting and contemporary theater at drama school. Oh, and they also recently starred opposite Caleb Landry Jones in the film Dogman.Speaking of second careers, Actavias is about to change for good. This queen hails from a very small town in North Wales called Bala, but she made the move to Manchester, where, in addition to gigging, she was working in a call center. It was during that nine-to-five job that she got the call that would change her drag life. Im not psychic, and [my story] unfortunately doesnt involve poo and pee, she jokes to PRIDE. I was actually working my day job at the time... I could see the text [from Drag Race], and I was like, right? I need to wrap this up, she recalls. And then I was screaming, and I was like, Oh my god, oh my god. And then I went straight back to work. So it was very weird because I wanted to cry, I wanted to burst, and I just had to be professional and talk to some people.While she didnt quit on the spot, Actavia did tell her manager she would need a few months off. While learning that theyd been cast on the show was certainly the beginning of a wild ride, its just that: the beginning. We cant wait to see what they do next when RuPauls Drag Race UK season six premieres on WOWPresents Plus on September 26, 2024.To watch PRIDEs full interview with Actavia, Marmalade, and Kyran Thrax where they read their sisters, share moments of Drag Race herstory that lives in their heads rent-free, give us their best American meow, and open up about why humility is OVERRATED check out the video at the top of the page!
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