Drag Race UK Season 5

Is anyone watching?

The Polish one is already getting the underdog treatment. The tall scrawny one the villain.

I watched it last night, it was funny and catty. There are only 10 queens because one got accused of sexual misconduct. Here's some scoop from reddit:

I'm involved in the production of Drag Race UK, posting this anonymously for my own protection. The BBC is trying to cover up sexual assault allegations against one of the performers in season 5.

Multiple credible sexual assault allegations have been made against Crystal Lubrikant. Both World of Wonder and the BBC are aware, and performers from previous seasons have corroborated the allegations.

The allegations were made after filming had started. Rather than disqualifying Crystal, like was done with Sherry Pie, the BBC instead have decided to cover it up

Crystal was given the option to be eliminated in the next un-filmed lip sync, with no mention of the allegations. This choice was made because going back to edit footage and remove Crystal would be unreasonably expensive.

I have exhausted my ability to influence this issue internally and have no choice but to go public. Given the BBC's terrible track record for protecting abusers (Jimmy Savile, etc) I can't believe this is how they have decided to handle the issue.

Is anyone watching the German version?

r1 I hope these cancellators realise that the BBC will simply pull the plug on the show if they're going to annoy them like this.

r3 What's the point of complaining? BBC literally removed all footage and mention of the accused.

r2 Yes, I am watching. Seems to be high production value, but that host looks like a truck driver in a wig. Overall, I like the enthusiastic and bitchy contestants but I can't stand all the acting challenges. They are even worse than the US versions, so I skip past them and watch the runways/eliminations.

The pantomime on the most recent episode was a lot of fun.

Ginger Johnson is one of the hottest guys they've had on the show