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Ginny Lemon on Leaving RuPaul's Drag Race UK: "I Did It For Me."

05/02/2021 - 10:50 AM

Programme Name: RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 2 - TX: n/a - Episode: RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 2 episode 4 (No. 4) - Picture Shows:  Ginny Lemon - (C) World of Wonder - Photographer: World of Wonder

Ginny Lemon left RuPaul's Drag Race UK [1] in episode four during a lip-sync battle with fellow contestant Sister Sister [2]. On leaving the competition, the 31-year-old drag queen told producers that "I'm ready to go home babs, I'm knackered. I would have regretted it if I had tried to fight against something I didn't want to fight against. I don't think I've tapped out of the competition. I did it for me."

The fourth episode of this season saw the girls compete in a monster mash challenge, after being tasked with presenting their very own live morning show with the help of daytime TV queen Lorraine Kelly [3]. Lemon struggled to impress the judges as an Aussie weather girl in the first challenge and, unfortunately, was not able to make up for it on the runway. As a result, she ended up facing the lip-sync battle of her life against her closest friend on the show; but as soon as the song began, Lemon immediately walked off the stage. Ahead of the lip-sync, Lemon opened up about her struggles with the judge's feedback, explaining that "I'm absolutely devastated that the judges aren't getting what I'm giving. I can feel myself checking out. Ginny's closed for business today."

After leaving the show, Lemon told BBC that [4] "I did not want to compete with my sisters. It made me dreadfully sad anytime anybody went home," adding that "I went there to break the binary, I went there to be myself, I did not go there to win a competition. I was having a fabulous time, and I was challenged to do lots of things, but ultimately, I'm not a competitor, I'm an icon."

The next episode of RuPaul's Drag Race UK is set to address the seven-month gap in filming, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.


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