- In a vast universe,came an explosion
of starlightand glitter...
[dramatic music]
Leaving everythingin its path
bedazzled by the magicof drag.
♪ ♪
New stars were formed,each with the power
to make a global impact.
The only all-dragsinging competition is back
as ten internationaldrag queens sing to win.
- There is a quarter ofa million dollars on the line.
- But standing between themand the prize
are four pop icons.
- You've got everythingit takes
to beQueen of the Universe.
- Bigger hits--
- Yes!That is how you do it.
- He is a pop star.
- --glossier lips--
- You have a face for makeup.
Let me explain.
- --and massive tits.
- You have got aset of lungs on you.
- Who--
- That was so beautiful.
- --will be--
- This is your moment.
Congratulations.
- --the next--
- ♪ Ahh ♪
- Wow!
- --Queen of the Universe?
- ♪ She's theQueen of the Universe ♪
♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
- From our host city,London, United Kingdom,
this is"Queen of the Universe."
- ♪ She is the queenof the moment ♪
♪ She is the queenof the night ♪
- Please welcome yourSeason 2 contenders
for "Queen of the Universe."
- ♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
- Yes!
- ♪ Oh yeah,this is for Mexico ♪
♪ Brava ♪
♪ Get ready for the show ♪
- Oh, nice.
- ♪ I'm Chloe Vand I'm from Brazil ♪
♪ I'll get sax on your assand I'll give looks to kill ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ From the Bay to LA,snatching crowns ♪
♪ Along the way ♪
- Militia Scunt.
Make room for Militia Scunt.
- ♪ [inaudible] ♪
♪ I'ma play this gameand you will see ♪
♪ I may be humble, but I'llbe here for eternity ♪
all: ♪ She is the queenof the moment ♪
♪ She is the queenof the night ♪
♪ And she brought the heavensand brought the light ♪
♪ She's the Queen ♪
♪ Of the Universe ♪
- ♪ I'm here to show youelegance and glamour ♪
- Ahh!
- ♪ You want a winner? ♪
♪ Well, baby, I'm the answer ♪
- ♪ I'm Miss Sistrata ♪
♪ I brought the opera ♪
- Wow.
- ♪ I took aplane straight from Italy ♪
♪ By the end you will seewhy I'm from Sicily ♪
Ciao.- So cute.
- ♪ Where I'vebeen makes me who I am ♪
♪ From Haiti to NYCto Amsterdam ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
all: ♪ She isthe queen of the moment ♪
♪ She is the queenof the night ♪
♪ And she brought the heavensand brought the light ♪
♪ She's the Queen ♪
♪ Of the Universe ♪
- ♪ I've been Judy,I've been Joni ♪
♪ I'm so glad you asked me ♪
But all I want to be uphere is Trevor Ashley.
- ♪ I'm a competition queen ♪
♪ I don't know how to lose ♪
♪ I can sing, sew a dress,and play the kazoo ♪
all: ♪ She isthe queen of the moment ♪
♪ She is the queenof the night ♪
♪ And she brought the heavensand brought the light ♪
♪ She's the Queenof the Universe ♪
♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Yes!
- Whoo!
- Please welcome,welcome, welcome.
So lovely to see you alland looking so fabulous.
- Great job.
- Oh my god!
Fantastic.
- One more time.- So good.
So good.So good.
- Hello!
And welcome to asparkling new season
of "Queen of the Universe."
The first all-drag,all-singing competition that
is truly out of this world.
Yeah.
[cheers and applause]
This season, we've selected tenQueens from around the world.
But in the end,only one will be crowned
the Queen of theUniverse and win
a grand prize of...
a quarterof a million dollars.
[cheers and applause]
No, seriously.
You better believe it.
Each week,to avoid elimination,
our queens must impressyou, our drag-loving studio
audience, and survive thescrutiny of our legendary pop
diva panel.
[cheers and applause]
You all look incredible.
Is it nice to be back?
[together]Yes!
- Good.
Michelle, what will the judgesbe looking for this time?
- Two things,great drag and great vocals.
[cheers and applause]
- Mel, welcome to"Queen of the Universe."
What are you goingto be looking for?
- I'm looking forthe whole shebang.
And also, I'm lookingfor somebody to fill in,
you know,for the fifth Spice Girl.
Because those bitches needto go on tour with me,
so we need one.
[laughter and applause]
- Tonight's theme isno place like home.
And our ten Queens willserve looks inspired
by their nations andperform songs they've chosen
as their personal drag anthem.
First off to perform,from Cancun, Mexico,
it's Taiga Brava.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat Latin-tinged music]
♪ ♪
- And I'm representingthe gorgeous and very hot
city of Cancun, Mexico.
It is known for supergood shows, nightclubs.
It is known forhow drunk you can
get in just a couple of hours.
And we have gorgeouspeople, men and women.
Men.
[laughs]
Two years and a half ago,I started doing drag.
And I actually startedbecause I went to therapy.
- Oh, really?
- I'm from Mexico.
Mexico is like boyscan't be feminine.
Or if you're feminine,it automatically
becomes a negative thing.
Even as a gay man, I livemost of my life thinking,
I can be gay, but Ican't be this feminine.
Or I--- You have to be masculine.
Exactly.- A masculine gay.
- Exactly.
So I think, eventually,I just believed in myself.
Growing up, I remembermy sister and I,
we would do likeshows for my parents.
Usually, we would dosongs by girl groups.
I could immediatelysee, specifically
my dad's face being like,OK, this is not good.
I did turn against mynatural instincts for years.
I'm going to comeout in this show
and be like, hi,this is my drag.
I broke the systemfor myself,
which is what my dragis about.
And now I'm ready tobe that badass bitch
that I was born to be.
Taiga Brava is here, baby.
[cheers and applause]
[gentle music]
♪ I had a dream ♪
♪ I got everything I wanted ♪
♪ Not what you think ♪
♪ And if I'm being honest, itmight have been a nightmare ♪
♪ To anyone who might care ♪
♪ And you say,as long as I'm here ♪
♪ No one can hurt you ♪
♪ Don't wanna lie here ♪
♪ But you can learn to ♪
♪ If I could change the way ♪
♪ That you see yourself ♪
♪ You wouldn't wonder whyyou're here ♪
♪ They don't deserve you ♪
[singing in Spanish]
♪ ♪
♪ I try to scream ♪
♪ But my head was underwater ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Yes, I loved that.
Yes, yes, yes!
[cheers and applause]
- Taiga Brava, everybody!
[cheers and applause]
Thank you so much,Taiga Brava.
How are you feelingabout that, Mel?
- When the song started,I was like, oh, this is a real,
like, emotional, deep song.
And you took it,and you made it 100% yours.
I loved that youswitched the language.
You embraced it even more.
You look gorgeous.
I'm just taking a momentto really take it in.
[cheers and applause]- Thank you.
Thank you so much.
I used to be you whenI was a little boy
dancing with mysister, being a little
five-year-old gay Mexican boytrying to figure out himself.
And literally you just stoodup for me on a song.
So this is a fullcircle moment.
Thank you so much.
[cheers and applause]
- Vanessa.
- I heard yourvoice and your power
and that beautiful deep melodickind of tone that you have.
Is there anything in your lifethat made you pick that song?
- It's a love letter to myselfof figuring out who I was
and getting to apoint in my life
where I could actuallysay to myself,
it's OK to be who you are.
It's OK to embraceyour femininity
and look this freakingfabulous while doing it.
[cheers and applause]
- Let's move on to Trixie.
- Well, you have to be reallygorgeous to wear like kind
of a flat hair like this.
And luckily, you arereally fucking gorgeous.
So good for you.
- Thank you.
- The look,how does it represent
you and-or Cancun, Mexico?
- I took two big inspirationsin my life.
The first one is the hat.
I used to sing all the timeranchero music.
That's what I started singing.
And the second is lucha libre,Mexican wrestling,
so the cape.
And P.S., everythingthat I brought today
is built and doneby Mexican drag queens.
So I'm not justrepresenting my country.
I'm wearing them, bitch.
- Werk.
[cheers and applause]
Everybody who's hereis here because they're
a fabulous singer.
I don't think this songgave you the moment
to like jump offthat diving board
and necessarily do a trick.
- OK.
- I thought it did!
- Well, there you go.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- Michelle Visage, speak to us.
- I think I agree withTrixie in the sense
that I think you haveso much more to give.
You know when you came to life?
When you sang in Spanish.
Instead of trying to bringit into Billie Eilish,
you came into Taiga.
When it comes to vocals,it is there.
It's all going to beabout the song for you.
- OK.- Understood?
- Understood.
[speaking in Spanish]
- Perfecto.
- [speaking in Spanish]
- Taiga Brava, everybody!
[upbeat music]
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
- What a way to begin.
- I'm loving it.
- Welcome to the table.
- Happy to be here.
- Overly positive, justthink, what would Michelle do?
- [laughs]- What would Michelle do?
- I feel so happy to bein "Queen of the Universe."
- What's your name?- Militia.
- Militia.- Yeah.
- We are all differentculture,
different nationality.
- Hi, everybody. Ahh!
- Hello.
Where are you from?
- I'm from the U.S., Florida.
Everybody greetedme with open arms.
But it's still a competition,so I'm watching out.
♪ I'm here to serveyou elegance and glamour ♪
- I know this competitionwill be tough.
The other queensare so talented.
all: ♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
- Yas!
- That was so much funto meet them.
- Hello.- Hi, baby.
How are you?I'm Militia.
But at the end of the day, I'mhere to stomp on nine necks.
That's my goal here, period.
[tongue pops]
- Oh, that was fun.
[cheers and applause]
- All the way through Oz,welcome, Trevor Ashley.
- Thank you, Graham.
It's so exciting to be here.
- Now, your outfit, am Igetting a whiff of convict?
- Yeah,it's my convict couture.
- Are the people of Australiagoing to be proud to see
you in a convict outfit?
- Probably not.
But look, it wasbetter than dressing
up as a big fat koala.
So I thought, you know, I hadto do something, didn't I?
[upbeat music]
I'm Trevor Ashley.
I'm 1,000 years old.
And I'm from Sydney,Australia.
Yay!
[laughs]
Australian drag is reallydifferent from every
other country in the world.
We generally performin groups.
So in all the pubsthat you go to,
you'll see lots of productionshows, fabulous costumes.
We're one of theonly places I've
ever seen that do that sortof drag on such a scale.
Drag for me is an outlet.
It's a way of expressinga part of myself
that I think when I wasgrowing up it was hard to do.
I always wanted to bethe leading lady
and never the leading man.
It was hard in the'90s to be gay.
So I think that I didn't makefriends when I was just a boy.
But the second Iwas performing drag,
then people wanted to talkto me and be my friend.
♪ ♪
But you can't havebeen doing this long.
- No, I've only beendoing it for two years.
I'm the baby.
I started in lockdownand I was 18.
- Oh god.
- How long have youbeen doing drag?
- 21 years.
- Longer than you'vebeen alive.
[laughter]
Liza Minnelli,Shirley Bassey, Cher,
the kind of traditionalsort of drag that I love,
I don't think that'llever go out of fashion.
I think there areso many people
who still love these icons.
And I think there's ayounger generation who
just need to discover them.
I hope that the younger queensdon't think that because I've
been doing this foras long as I have
that it's time forme to move over.
As long as my knees can holdup and I can still wear a heel,
I'm doing it.
[laughs]
[cheers and applause]
[music playing]
♪ Get this party startedon a Saturday night ♪
♪ Everybody's waitingfor me to arrive ♪
♪ I've got lots of style ♪
♪ Check my gold diamond rings ♪
♪ I can go for miles,if you know what I mean ♪
♪ I'm coming up ♪
♪ So you better getthis party started ♪
- Hey!
- ♪ I'm coming up ♪
♪ So you better getthis party started ♪
♪ Making my connectionas I enter the room ♪
♪ Everybody's chillingas I set up the groove ♪
♪ Boulevard is freakin'as I'm coming up fast ♪
♪ I'll be burning rubber ♪
♪ You'll be kissing my ass ♪
[laughs]
♪ I'm coming up ♪
♪ So you better getthis party started ♪
♪ I'm coming up ♪
♪ Get ready ♪
♪ I'm coming up ♪
♪ So you better getthis party started ♪
♪ Get this party started ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ Get this party started ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ I'm coming up ♪
♪ So you better getthis party started ♪
- Werk!
- ♪ I'm coming up ♪
♪ So you better getthis party started ♪
♪ Get this party started ♪
♪ This party started ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ Right now ♪
- You better work,you fucking bitch.
You better work, you bitch.
[cheers and applause]
- Trevor Ashley, everybody!
[cheers and applause]
I think it's safe to saythat went well.
- Worth the plane trip, yeah.
[laughter]
All right,let's go to our diva panel.
I'll start with you, Vanessa.
- You gave usthat wide vibrato.
You gave us a niceearthy growl that Shirley
Bassey was famous for.
And that note at the end,which we know you can belt
and we love it.
You're from Australia.
- Yes.
- And are the cuffsa little history lesson?
- Yes, this is myconvict couture.
- There we go.
- I thought, well, look,if you're coming to Britain,
all Brits think of us asconvicts and criminals.
So I thought, dress the part.
[laughter and applause]
- I love it.
I love it.
Thank you so much forbringing creativity.
- Thank you.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you, Vanessa.
[cheers and applause]
- You know,I had a penal colony.
I went to the doctor.
Cleared right up.
[laughter]
But-- and you justlook beautiful.
I mean the look fitsyou great and has
a sense of humor to it.
I don't think you couldhave done anything
better than what you just did.
- OK.
- Thank you so much.
- I mean, that's whatAustralian drag is all about.
It's always been kind ofa big F-you to society.
And that's what I loveabout drag down under.
So I thought youdid that justice.
But more importantly, you didDame Shirley Bassey justice.
Because that version--
I think if people haven'theard it, they hear it,
and they're little thrownoff because they're
used to the Pink version.- Yeah.
- So I lovedeverything about it.
So there you go.- Thank you, Michelle.
I appreciate it.
[cheers and applause]
- The voice, brilliant.
So controlled.
And even to be able to singand then talk a little bit
and then sing straightaway,like you just kept it going.
I didn't want that to stop.
I didn't want it to end.
You know how to do drag,from top to bottom.
Everyone should be a littlebit worried because you just
set the bar right up there.
And I think-- I know-- do I--
I know you.
I met you before.
- We met once in Sydneywhen you were living there.
- Yeah.
- You were doing the JennyCraig launch, I think.
- Yes!
- You were doing theambassador for Jenny Craig.
- And now I wear acorset, Jenny Craig.
- Me too, darling.
So it's fine.
- I just love you.- Thank you.
- I'm outta words now.
- Thanks, Mel.
- Ladies and gentlemen,Trevor Ashley!
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
- Work, bitch.
Work, bitch.
- Thank you.
- Up next to perform,from Tel Aviv, Israel,
it's Miss Sistrata.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat music]
Hello!
Singing, for me,this is part of my DNA.
This is part of who I am.
I don't remember any dayin my life without singing.
But in Israel,everyone who turn 18
have to serve the army.
And, for me, it was a hell.
To handle gunsand stuff, can you
believe me guarding a base?
Like oh my god, stop, no!
I'm gonna show you-- no.
I served in Tel Aviv,which was my first time
exploring Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv is one of thegayest city in the world.
And I saw people in the streetlike walking and holding hands
and kissingand being super feminine
and wearing dresses and stuff.
So I was inspired.
Oh!
Such a gentleman.
I am a perfectionist.
I am a fuckingneurotic crazy person.
I'm thinking aboutevery single detail.
Actually asked likefor the thinnest thing,
because it will hidethe entire thing.
And also, this is gold,and I'm wearing entire silver.
- OK.
- I cannot go to sleepif I'm thinking like,
oh my god, I should putmore stone in the wigs.
That rehearsal was savage.
- Oh, wow.
- And yeah, so Ilose sleep yesterday.
And I was also like, shouldI do the third take again,
like because it's a hard song.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes.
- And we push ourself to--
you know, like an athlete.
First song I'm singingin the competition
is by Dana International,which won the Eurovision.
She was the firsttransgender woman
on the stage at 1998,
which time was hard for us.
I hope I will send a messagethat we are all the same.
We're all people.
We are all human.
We all want peace and love.
This is it.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[singing in Hebrew]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Miss Sistrata, everybody!
[cheers and applause]
Oh.
No, you need to--you're still here.
No, no, back here.
Just there.Just there.
OK.
You're very good at singing.
OK.
[laughter]
- You might have to pinchmy butt, but it's padded.
[laughter]
- All right.
Well, let's Viva laDivas, go to them.
What about you, Trixie?
- You have multiple vocalpersonality disorder
and I loved it.
You kind of sangthree different songs
and sang them all successfully.
The pitch accuracy,it was like Melodyne.
It was like-- and itmust be that extra ear.
[laughter]
- What is up with the earring?
What is that?
- This is look that inspiredby Schiaparelli, the designer.
And I wanted to do a tributeand homage to his piece,
and put David's star on top.
- OK.
OK.
So obviously, you weresinging in Hebrew,
which I don't understand.
But congratulations for makingus feel, because you sold it.
[cheers and applause]
- You have that voice youneed to go, huh, look at me!
I didn't feel that "look atme" when I looked at you.
The voice didn'tmatch your energy.
Give it.
[cheers and applause]
- That was like aEurovision dream on Molly.
That was--
[laughter]
- I'm so mesmerized.
I'm talking to Michelle Visage!- Yes, gorgeous.
- After all of this 30 seasonsof "Drag Race,"
I'm talking to you.I can't believe it!
Sorry, I had to get it out.
- Well, I'm not done.
So--
[laughter]
I think that when itcomes to proportion,
I think that the top partsalmost look like pecs,
and they could have beena little bit larger,
you know what I mean?- Uh-uh, yeah.
- And for your makeup,I want you to give
a little bit under the eye.
You lose the eye when youdon't define underneath.
- Got it.
- OK.
- And, Miss Sistrata,tell us, why did you
choose that particular song?
- Because I thinkI owe it to Dana.
She was a pioneer.
She was the firsttransgender woman
to win the Eurovision contest,
and she brought usa lot of honor.
And I'll be damnedif I will not
give her this respectfor me in the first time,
the first Israeliin this kind of shows,
and give her this homage.
So I had to do it.
- Well said.
Give it up for MissSistrata, everybody!
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
- I'm done for the day.
- You are exhausted.
[applause]
- If you think itwas easy to make
it onto "Queen of theUniverse," well, think again.
Thousands applied fromall corners of the globe.
From androgynous rockers--
- ♪ Ahh-ohh ♪
- Surprise, surprise.
- ♪ You and I ♪
- --to glorious glamazons--
- ♪ Eee-eee-eee-eee ♪
- ♪ Ahh ♪
- Uh-huh.
It's mine.
- --to seasoned performers--
- ♪ Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh ♪
- ♪ Ooh-ooh ♪
- ♪ Ahh ♪
--to new starlets lookingfor their big break.
- ♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
- I'm representing Brazil.
- I'm the youngestbitch in here.
- I love singing.
I love drag.
- Why wouldn't youwant to crown me?
[laughs]
- And from that dragtastic mix,we found our top ten singing
drag queens in the world.
You're welcome.- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
- Ever wonder what supertalented drag queens
from the UK lookand sound like?
Well, you're about to find out.
From Coventry, UK,it's Viola!
[cheers and applause]
- Let's get this...
♪ Show on the road ♪
[upbeat music]
Hello there.
My name is Viola.
I'm 20 years old,and I'm representing
Coventry in the UK.
We're here.We're queer.
Get used to it.
How long you been doing drag?
- Uh, two years I'vebeen doing drag.
- Bitch.
- Yeah.
I started off in makeup.
Like, just, it was lockdown,started off practicing makeup.
I did an online makeupcompetition on Instagram.
Kids in lockdown, theyhave nothing better to do
than just online competition.
I won, and then was like,right, let's pop a wig on it.
- And that's Viola.
- There is Viola.
I'm a competition queen.
I didn't come to lose.
- Ooh!
- I'm not very famous, you see?
I'm not a big queen.
But it feels like I've beenleading up to this show
for my whole life.
Everything that I've workedon, trained myself on,
I bring into my drag.
[violin music]
I play the electric violin,the acoustic violin, the flute,
the kazoo, the ukulele, andif you give me a few weeks,
probably the piano too.
My dad is a music teacher.
And my dad would get onthe piano, my brother
on the guitar,me on the violin,
and my sister would besinging, and my mum would
be listening from the kitchen.
all: ♪ Blue skies ♪
- My family always havebeen really supportive.
They're behind me 100%.
They love Viola.
And I really just wantto make them proud.
This is the beginningof my journey.
And hopefully this canshoot me towards the stars.
♪ ♪
- Hello, Viola.
- Hello, Graham.
- Your parentsare in the audience.
- Yeah, my parents turned up.
- And is it true thatyour whole family
is very, very musical?
- Yeah, family of musicians.
We all sing.
It's like the family Von Trapp.
- [laughs] And you're Maria.
How are you feeling?Are you excited?
Are you nervous?
What's the score?
- I am nervous; I can't lie.
I've never done anythinglike this before.
I've never beenon a stage this big,
had an audience this wide.- Yeah.
- I'm-- I'm terrified.
- Good luck tonight.
I know you're going to makeyour parents very proud.
There's the stage.Get on it.
- Thank you, Graham.
[cheers and applause]
[violin music]
♪ ♪
♪ Yes, I do,I believe that someday ♪
♪ will be where I was rightthere, right next to you ♪
♪ And it's hard ♪
♪ The days just seem so dark ♪
♪ The moon and the starsare nothing without you ♪
♪ Told me not to cry ♪
♪ When you were gone ♪
♪ But the feelingis overwhelming ♪
♪ It's much too strong ♪
♪ Can I lay ♪
♪ By your side ♪
♪ Next to you? ♪
♪ I don't want to be hereif I can't be with you ♪
♪ Tonight ♪
- [laughs]
- ♪ Tonight ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Lay me by ♪
♪ Your side ♪
♪ Can I lay by your side ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Next to you? ♪
♪ ♪
♪ You ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Viola, everybody!
Your mum and dad must be soproud tonight watching that.
- Couldn't be prouder.
Every time Viola hasperformed, my jaw drops.
[together]Aw.
- Fantastic.
[cheers and applause]
Let's go to the panel.What say you, Mel?
You look like youreally enjoyed that.
- Oh my god!
Yes, yes,that is how you do it.
That is how you just knockit out of the bloody park.
[cheers and applause]You need to stop,
your voice, the way you look,the way you hold yourself.
Yes, yes, yes, yes!
I've got nothing to sayapart from fuck yes!
- Oh![cheers and applause]
- Yes!- Wow.
- Yes!
- I'll have what she's having.
- [laughs]
- Being the parent of a queerchild, which I am as well,
and to have your child up herein drag doing what they do
and you being heresupporting them is
really what love is all about.
So thank you for that.
[cheers and applause]
I think that you've done abeautiful job with your drag.
I think your makeup is lovely.
I think your musicalityis fantastic.
But more importantly, singingSam Smith is very difficult.
And you tooka very complicated song,
and you had a lot of funwith it.
I think you've gotsomething very special.
[cheers and applause]
- Your drag is so beautifullyreflective of the class
that you evoked.
Both my parentsare music teachers.
So thank you forsupporting her.
Because music education in ourschools, where we come from,
is getting slashed so quickly.
And this is a prime exampleof giving value to the arts.
I know you're the youngestin this competition.
- Yeah.
- I became famous at 20years old as a musician.
Are you ready foryour life to change?
- I'm ready.
- OK.
- I'm ready.
[cheers and applause]
- The bottom your voicehas this tenderness.
And then the top parthas this robustness.
And so when thetwo come together,
it's like really seamless.
And I also have to say, Iknow that this is primarily
a vocal competition,but playing
an instrument,obviously, showing
us some of your musicianship.
- As a musician drag queen,I just cannot believe
that you just saw me perform.
And--
- We're not just prettyto look at, right?
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
Thank you.
- Ladies and gentlemen, Viola!
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Tonight, the themeis no place like home.
Up next, serving a lookinspired by her homeland
and singing her ownpersonal drag anthem,
she's ready to let you have it.
From Orlando, Florida,USA, it's Jazell Royale.
Hello, Jazell Royale.
- Well, hello.
- Apparently, in Florida,it's not just fabulous,
it's also verycompetitive drag.
- Absolutely.
We love a pageant.
- If you win the $250,000,will you retire from pageants?
- I've done everything thatI wanted to do pageantry.
I've done it half of my life.
So it's timefor something else.
It's time for me touse my God-given gift.
- Well,let the life change begin.
It's time.
Off you go, Jazell Royale.
[upbeat music]
- My name is Jazell Royale.
And I am from Orlando, Florida.
I was born inJacksonville, Florida.
Coming up in the HolinessChurch, it's very strict.
Women aren't supposed to wearearrings, makeup, nothing.
Being anything differentis frowned upon.
But coming closerto puberty,
I knew that somethingwasn't right.
I knew that therewas something I did not
want to happen to my body.
And it wasdepressing, honestly.
You know, the voice change,that was really, really,
really hard for me.
But then it was when I metmy best friend that I knew,
OK, there is somebodyelse out there like me.
So we would sneak tothe club,
and that was when I sawmy first drag show.
And I instantly knew thatthat was what I wanted to do.
♪ ♪
- Can you imagineyourself already
like how you willreact in front
of the public and the judges?
- If all my vocalscome out right...
[laughs]Then I'll be OK.
- Same.- I'm used to the stage.
All I know how to do is, youknow, show off my showmanship
and who I am.
So yeah.
When I knew it was time forme to leave Jacksonville,
I moved to Orlando.
And it made me who I am,because I was exposed
to so many different people.
Orlando is justreally a safe space
for the LGBTQIA+ community.
And that was whereJazell Royale was born.
I got access to hormones, andI started to become myself.
In my life,I've kissed a lot of frogs,
toads, snakes, you name it.
It's very hardto find somebody
that really gets to know youand wants you for you
and wants youwhen this wig is off,
when this makeup is off.
Sometimes you don't know whatyou like until you try it.
And my boyfriendwas definitely one
of those people that tried it.
This definitely is anotherpart of my evolution.
Because being someoneof trans experience,
you want somebodyto take it easy.
You want somebody to reallyget to know you at your core.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
[gentle piano music]
- ♪ There ain't no gold ♪
♪ In this river ♪
♪ That I've been washingmy hands in forever ♪
♪ I know there is hopein these waters ♪
♪ But I can't bringmyself to swim when ♪
♪ I am drowningin this silence ♪
♪ Baby, let me in ♪
♪ Go easy on me, baby ♪
♪ I was still a child ♪
♪ Didn't get the chance to ♪
♪ Feel the world around me ♪
♪ I had no time to choose ♪
♪ What I chose to do ♪
♪ I had good intentions ♪
♪ And I had the highest hopes ♪
♪ But I know right now ♪
♪ It probablydoesn't even show ♪
♪ Go easy on me, baby ♪
♪ I was still a child ♪
♪ Didn't get the chance to ♪
♪ Feel the world around me ♪
♪ I had no time to choosewhat I chose to do ♪
♪ So go easy
♪ On me ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Perfect.
- Jazell Royale, everybody!
[cheers and applause]
Wowza!
I mean, Adele.
That is an ambitious,challenging song.
Are you pleasedwith how it went?
- I have been a nervous wreck,because it is not
easy to come to the UKand sing Adele in front
of a crowd of British people.
So I hope that I didyou all justice tonight.
- I think they liked it.
I think they liked it.
[cheers and applause]
So the audience are pleased,but what about the panel?
Let's go to Michelle.
- You have got aset of lungs on you.
[laughter]- Thank you.
- Jazell, so, so beautiful.
I'm assuming youcome from pageants.
I can tell by looking at you.
Am I correct?- Yes. Yes.
- Yeah.
[laughs] But, you know,people that know me
know that I lovethat aesthetic,
because it's very regal.
Not an easy song to do.
There were a few momentsthat I'm sure
when you hear back you'll go,ooh.
But you carried on.
You pushed through them.
And it was beautiful.
- Thank you so much.
[cheers and applause]
- I mean, when you came outand you started singing,
it was like "Designing Women."
Like five other contestantsquit on the spot!
I mean, it was like--
[laughter]
Oh, gosh, people haveto compete against you.
That's tough.
Congratulations.- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- I think you didit beautifully.
I think you looklike a goddess.
- Thank you.
- You look sensational.
- Thank you.
- And just very elegant.
- Thank you.- So elegant.
Right.
Said that bit.
Bad mistake.
Bad move.
You should neverhave sung that song.
- OK.[crowd booing]
- Because, sorry,unless you're going
to sing an Adele song betterthan Adele, don't do it.
Or do it in your ownversion and own it.
I love all this, but thevocals were not convincing.
And that's toomuch of a big song
to not completelyget 95% right.
- OK.- You know?
- I'll take that.
I like theconstructive criticism.
If I had to say how I did,I think I did pretty well.
[cheers and applause]
- It's like a lover's quarrel.
The song choiceseems controversial.
Why did you choosethat particular song?
- I'm in a new relationship.
Finding him really opened upa lot in my heart, in my mind.
And so that song just saysthat-- it spoke to me.
And so that's why I chose it.
- Ladies and gentlemen, pleasegive it up for Jazell Royale!
- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
Whoo!
- ♪ Queen of the Universe ♪
- So much gown.So much gown.
So much gown.
- Stop being scary, Scary.
- I'm not scary.
- An opinion.You went for it.
Yeah.
- Michelle is the nice one now.
Get into it.
[laughter and applause]
- So far tonight, we have seenfive queens strut their stuff.
But there are five moresuper-talented contestants
ready to steal your hearts.
[siren wailing]
Oh my god,things are happening.
- Stop right now!
Thank you very much.
[tense music]
Queens, there is a quarterof a million dollars
on the line.
So I have some veryscary news for you.
♪ ♪
Tonight, not one queenwill be eliminated.
♪ ♪
In fact, beforetonight's show ends,
two queens will be eliminatedfrom this show forever.
- What?
What?
- The first queen toleave tonight will be--
♪ ♪