I remember thinking, like, I've got this in the bag!
"I'm gonna smash it, I'm gonna smash it!"
And then I remember, like, sitting there,
'cause I was second in.
It was Veronica, then me and then I remember, like,
watching all these people come in
and it's like that ‘Hunger Games’ moment.
Do you know when she's like,
"How are we gonna kill all these people, Peeta?"
Hi everyone,
it’s me, Tia Kofi
and this is Attitude Tea Time
served to you in association with Taimi.
This week we're spilling the tea with the top three
of Drag Race UK season three
and right now it’s time to lock up your dads
cause it’s Kitty Scott-Claus
You've made it to the top...
Is Chris Clegg in Mexico?
Not relevant.
You've made it to the top three.
How does it feel?
Are you having a gorgeous time?
- I'm having a blast, I'm having a ball,
I'm having the best time
and honestly, it's just everything.
It is the most incredible time.
Like, now that we're here and it's top three
and, do you know what?
The whole cast has been so incredible
that it's just such an honour to be here.
- I mean, your season three sisters
have been absolutely phenomenal,
but obviously, you've got ties, as I said,
all the way back to season one with Cheryl.
Did she give you any sage words?
Did she say, "Now, diva, let's get into it."
And then give you some, like, advice
before you walked into the werk room?
- Do you know what?
She did.
She was the most incredible resource and world of knowledge
that, like, not many people have that opportunity
and like, I just feel so grateful and so lucky
that I have such an incredible drag sister
and such an incredible friend that would do that for me.
The biggest piece of advice she said to me
that really stuck with me,
she was just like, "You just need to live every day.
You need to live, laugh, love."
No.
She said, "You need to live every day
as if you know you're gonna go home,
because then you just won't give a shit.
You'll just go and enjoy yourself
and be silly and be crazy and just f*** it up."
- And what great advice as well.
All I had was Sum Ting Wong.
All she said was, "Don't go home at Snatch Game,"
and I didn't even manage that one, so here we are, we move.
You've actually, beyond Cheryl,
you've had loads and loads of supporters
internationally from Drag Race.
I know that Bob The Drag Queen and Monét
have literally been #teamKitty from about day one.
- Honestly, it's mad, it's mad
and I had Lisa Scott-Lee, of course
and she's been an absolute queen of the huns.
Like, what more could I wish for?
I had Dawn French the other day and I messaged her going,
"Oh my God, it's a rich man's Kathy Burke."
(laughing)
- Stop it.
Honestly, me talking about Bob The Drag Queen
and Monét X Change, of course you brought it immediately
to Lisa Scott-Lee.
- Oh, literally bringing everything back round.
I'll just start saying, "I'm ready."
- Whenever you're ready.
- I'll be like, "I'm ready."
(laughing)
- Literally.
Okay, picture it, a drag Steps tribute act.
(sighing)
- My dream, my dream.
- Are you Lisa, Claire or Faye?
- Oh, well the thing is, I think I'm very clearly a Claire,
but I would absolutely love to be Lisa.
I think I'd give Lisa a really good whack.
Can you imagine if a runway theme
was night of a thousand Steps?
I'll tell you who I'll do and I'll tell you for why.
I would do Lisa Scott-Lee
in the "It's the Way You Make Me Feel" music video
with the blue hair, the braces, the corset,
the blue skirt and the boots.
I really wanted braces
because Lisa Scott-Lee had braces in that music video
and I just thought was the most gorgeous thing in the world,
so that's the look I would do.
What would you do, please and thank you?
I've turned this question round to you.
- I think I would either do Lee Latchford-Evans
in the "Deeper Shade of Blue" music video.
- Oh, topless!
Phwoar!
- Like, with a fake, like, muscly torso,
or I'd go curve ball, play strategic
and I'd do Faye Tozer as Miss Hedge
in "Everybody's Talking About Jamie,"
to give Michelle the nostalgia of when she played the role.
- Or you could do Michelle
in the "Heartbreak in This City" video.
You could be Michelle and I could be Lisa
locked on the roof, like, just by myself.
Help!
- (laughing) Just wandering around Dubai.
- In the Zara suit, in Dubai.
Just (groaning).
- This is when the whole interview is just Lisa Scott-Lee.
- (laughing) No, literally, the other two have had, like,
"And what makes you think
that you could be the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK?"
This is completely derailed.
You're too funny.
(laughing)
You tweeted the other day about how you were once...
You actually tweeted the photos
of when you were mistaken for the mother on a trip.
Speak on it, sis.
- Do you know what?
I have so much to say on this subject and also,
for years it had been, like, my other brothers would,
like, tease you about it, being like,
"Do you remember when everyone thought you were the mum?"
And I was like, "That is the most embarrassing thing."
And honestly, now I think it's the most funny thing,
but there was another instance as well.
Right, hang on, I've got a lot to say about...
on the subject.
So when it happened, we were in Thailand, on holiday
and I was 14
and by the way, I don't condone using animals,
any animals, for riding or anything
cause of the trafficking and everything.
I'm not about that.
I was 14, it was 15 years ago.
Lets move on.
So, we were on an elephant and I'm one of six siblings,
so I was on an elephant with my older brother,
my youngest two siblings,
so my youngest brother and my sister
and then my dad was on an elephant with my other brother
and my mum was on one with my other brother
and my mum's elephant got, like, held behind something.
It was eating a banana off a tree
or something that elephants do
and so the tour guide was like, "Oh, is this your wife?"
And he pointed at me and literally, like,
I remember thinking, like, "That is so funny,
but also mortifying, but also iconic, hilarious."
So that was such a moment
and then when I went to drama school, I was 18
and we had to bring in pictures of us
when we were growing up,
at different ages and stuff
and I'm just showing them pictures of me
when I was, like, 14 and the teacher was like,
"Is that your grandma?"
(laughing)
I was literally like, "No, that's me, that is me."
So I've done, like, a Benjamin Button in reverse.
I need to change the lyrics to
"Lock up your grandads, it's Kitty Scott-Claus."
- That's where the catchphrase comes from, because-
- Literally.
(laughing)
Release the elephants.
- (laughing) Literally.
OK Kitty, we're doing a thought experiment now.
Suddenly it's Kitty's Drag Race, start your engines.
Kitty's Drag Race, lock up your dads,
that's the catch phrase.
- There we go, there we go.
- How would you switch up the franchise?
What's gonna be, like, the Kitty stamp on it?
What do you wanna see in Drag Race?
- Well, obviously instead of Brit crew or pit crew,
we would have, like, pit dads,
cause then it'd be something for me.
No one else would fancy them,
but they would all be absolutely obsessed with me,
obviously, goes without saying.
They've never seen beauty like this and they just think,
"Phwoar, what a woman.
I'd love a little kiss on her cheek."
(kissing noises)
- They're all from the West Country.
- But also, I would shake it up,
I would have drag kings, I would have drag things,
people who don't wanna define themselves
into a drag king or queen, I'd have it for everybody,
cause drag is for everybody,
all creeds, all colours, all sexualities, all genders.
Mwah, mwah, mwah, I love them all.
(giggling)
- Excellent, what a great answer.
Kitty, final question.
- Oh no, it's not over already!
I love these videos!
- Okay, well I mean, we can keep chatting if you want.
- Let's keep going, let's keep going, babes.
- We've got a few more questions then.
Kitty, what you gonna have for tea?
- I am going to...
Oh, I don't know actually.
I've not been shopping in absolute weeks.
My life has been bedlam at the moment,
so I'm just actually having a coffee
in honour of you, Julie Coffee.
It is lovely.
(laughing)
Did you think you were gonna make it to the final?
Let's just ask a real question, why not?
- Do you know what?
I had, no, wait.
So, I think I was in, like, different stages throughout,
because I remember going into it and like,
obviously you hear rumours of like,
"Oh, apparently so-and-so's going on.
Apparently so-and-so."
And I remember thinking, like, I've got this in the bag!
"I'm gonna smash it, I'm gonna smash it!"
And then I remember, like, sitting there,
cause I was second in.
It was Veronica, then me and then I remember, like,
watching all these people come in
and it's like that ‘Hunger Games’ moment.
Do you know when she's like,
"How are we gonna kill all these people, Peeta?"
That's how I felt.
I was like, "How the f*** am I meant to, like..."
Because they're all amazing.
They were all so good that I was like, "F***, f***, f***."
In my head, I was like,
I feel like I'll stick around a while, I'll be funny.
And do you know what?
Like, because I took Cheryl's advice and just thought,
f*** it, what's the worst that's gonna happen?
I think it, like, paid off.
- It really has.
You made it all the way to the final.
- I know, and I'm the only queen in Drag Race herstory
to ever win a sash.
No one else has won a sash.
- That's very true.
No, my Baroness Basic was more of a brooch.
- It's a brooch, that is a brooch.
It's like a QVC or whatever they call it.
Kitty, I wish you all the best.
I hope you have a gorgeous, gorgeous day.
I hope you just have a wonderful time.
- Oh Tia, I love you so much.
You look like Mel B and I look like Baby.
- Oh no, not Mel B, very triggering for me.
I did that very badly on the show.
- Lest we forget, lest we forget.
- You can definitely do Baby though.
- Oh yeah, gorgeous, stunning, babes.
Oh no, you look stunning, it's so gorgeous to speak to ya.
Thank you for watching Attitude Tea Time
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and join us again after the final
where we’ll be chatting to the winner
of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK series three.
Bye for now.