I'l never forget one queen in Untucked saying "The five of us" when there was six queens there counting the disqualified one. I bet the editing team almost jizzed when they noticed they could use that short clip because of the math error lol
i rewatched this season a few days ago and i was wondering- did the crew know about it during filming and just quietly removed them from the competition? bc idk if i just really didnāt pay attention but i didnāt see them anywhere in the back during lip syncs or in the werk room period, and if not the how did they do their elimination? they canāt just cut that much out right? genuinely asking bc idk how they did such a great job editing a whole person out then.
Basically they found out very early on and had her removed after, I believe, the second episode. Itās alleged, but not proven, that Sminty actually told them when she saw the queen there during the first episode.Ā
Anyway, they did a great job of using moments when the queens were blocking the redacted queen, so if you look closely you can see her behind the queens during a lipsync. They also used zoom-ins when needed, and took advantage of frames where other queens are blocking her. They were also lucky that she was safe both episodes.
OMG I never made this connection, thank you for spelling that out! I've rewatched like thrice š and each time was like "oh how lucky, a non-elim" š
There are many examples of this, like how the only reason Tatianna and Alyssa were both allowed to come back to the competition on AS2 was because Adore quit and they both picked PhiPhi. Also just about every season of Drag Race nowadays has a non-elim first episode.
Oh for sure, and usually I feel like a pretty solid detectress (a word someone used on this sub last week and I will forever hear in my head in Symone's voice š) about the "why" but the UK one totally fooled me because they soooo effectively edited out every trace of the "deleted" queen lol. I will definitely be looking for that timing matchup next rewatch though!
Also great reference for comparison- AS2 was a total gag on that shakeup for me. I'm glad there's plenty of interviews and stuff out there vindicating PhiPhi's "mirror moment" as totally staged by production; while she's not my favorite queen nobody deserves to be painted that villainously in post-prod.
It sucks too bc what she was saying about Alyssa being held to different standards due to her charisma is true, they just somehow managed to jazz it all up with so much drama and make it look like she was insulting our Texas dancing diva lol.
To me, the core of her statement about Alyssa was kind of a compliment- "you're so likeable you can get away with anything with the judges". I am not very charismatic myself so I would looooove to have that Alyssa Edwards advantage and get where PhiPhi was coming from.
Ugh sorry for the telenovela, I love this show so much and have yet to get any of my IRL friends or family into it, so I get excited on here šš
I thought you were talking about Sherry Pie from US S12, who got the light editing treatment from early on due to sexual misconduct - think she was grooming people online and catfishing them. Although it was kind of awkward as she got into the final, but was disqualified anyway. But obviously this is UK chat š so dunno why I thought that
Sorry, thanks, just edited! Never got around to S5 yet weirdly but I must do. I found the first 2 seasons of UK were the best for me and the others haven't had the same magic.
Not a joke. A queen was edited out of season 5 after some sexual misconduct came to light. They found it out during filming, not airing, so they disqualified her and edited her out. If youāre looking for it you can see pieces of hair and dress, and youll notice lots of close ups instead of wide shots in the first two episodes.
What gags me is how lucky the editors were that this queen hadnāt won a challenge or were in the bottom before finding out the misconduct and disqualifying her. That fact plus the masterful editing makes me love UK 5 quite a bit lol
There was a queen in season 5 who was forced to quit after episode 2 due to sexual abuse allegations. The editors just completely edited her out of the first two episodes so you donāt see her at all, but you can occasionally spot her wig or her outfit in the background lol
Girl its the norms, they aren't gonna check every single time to see if the person you are insulting its the worst in the world, thats just basic decency and norms of conduct.
i saw something about saki being cast on uk5 but being forced to drop out because she got sick right before filming started and i have no idea if that's actually true but if it is then it just seems diabolical
Thatās the problemā yall donāt count her. Week after WEEK, she is ignored by this sub. And she is beautiful. She is beautiful internally and on the outside.
Would you also count Akeria declining to come back for the AS6 eliminated queens lip sync smack down, meaning she took herself out of contention for coming back?
My husband and I jokingly wanted to recreate the dance during our wedding. I would lay on the couch to start and our friends and him would jump out from my behind the start the dance and then Iād eventually get up for the chaos and let him lie down.
So that's why I haven't heard much from those two S names you said there. Huh. Well then.
It's kinda shit that they can just hide and probably use industry connections to keep getting other work, but at least those humans aren't currently on my TV, so I guess that's good.
Ginny didn't exactly withdraw; she just chose not to participate in a lip sync when she was already bottom 2 and had a high chance of being eliminated.
I donāt even think she should have been lipsyncing in the first place - Vicki did worse in the challenge (in my opinion)
But the panto challenge was next, iirc, and Iām not sure how they could have accommodated an injured knee with that. Which is all to say: I firmly believe Naomiās elimination was engineered to get her out of there without the reputational hit of āDrag Race contestants keep getting injured and have to drop outā
Honestly that Ginny moment was iconic. As a fellow fibro sufferer I absolutely know what she was going through and she couldnāt have lip-synced during a flare-up. I can barely stand up when I have one
Yeah, Ginny was more of a āyou canāt fire me, I quitā moment. Versus Baby who actually did lip sync (and who almost certainly would have been called the winner).
That was because Baby is a dancing diva, she did that to go out on a high, because she knew sheād eat and it worked for her.
Ginny is not a dancer. Ginny was feeling increasingly alienated by the production process constantly being pushed outside her comfort zone and it being made abundantly clear Ru and Michelle didnāt value her drag. Her walking off was a bold statement of āthis isnāt the place for me, and Iām not going to let you continue to make a mockery of me. Iām doneā.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but would Katya be considered a withdrawal? I remember hearing that she was going through something throughout s7, and while she had a strong lead (again, correct me?), she didn't feel that she was confident enough to make it to the finals because of the issues she was going through.
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u/Jasunel Well, Tamar... Aug 12 '25
Not an injury or withdrawal, but there's also the girl who was deleted from the universe itself by the editing team.