But I think personally, for me, a big worry going into the show
was that I would potentially receive more hate
because of my heritage,
because obviously, as it's very well known,
you know, the, kind of, darker you are, or the more, you know,
African you are, you do seem to get more hate online.
Hi everyone, it's me, Tia Kofi
and welcome to Attitude Tea Time in association
with Taimi, where each week I'll be bringing you the latest
eliminanee from RuPaul's Drag Race UK season three.
And we'll be spilling a little bit of tea.
This week, I'm joined by Anubis.
First thing's first,
let me start by congratulating
you on being part of the Drag Race UK family.
Welcome to the club.
How are you feeling now that the episode has aired?
-Very relieved. I mean, we filmed this quite
a long time ago now.
So, a big part of me is like,
thank God everyone's seen that, you know?
But yeah, it was weird,
very strange reliving everything, because I,
kind of, boxed it away for the last few months.
So, then to see me on the runway,
see me in the mini challenge, and then obviously the inevitable.
It was very, very surreal.
And I feel very out of body,
really, which is quite nice,
because sometimes this body gets a bit tiring because it's
so sweaty and large. Sorry, that's quite gross, really.
Next question.
-Don't worry about that,
I'm very turned on by that, so that's gorgeous.
-Good, I thought so.
-I'm going to rip the band-aid off,
we're going to talk about it, you are the first queen
to be eliminated, joining the ranks of the iconic
Gothy Kendoll and your fellow Brighton queen Joe Black.
How does it feel to be the first queen to sashay away?
-Do you know what?
Like, part of me is like,
oh, that's quite gutting, but
then also part of me is like, that's actually quite iconic.
I quite like that, you know.
It's annoying I didn't get to showcase,
you know, my songwriting or my vocals or my comedy.
I didn't get to get to do that this time around.
But I am very, very happy with what I did show
and I'm actually
very proud of myself and I'm very happy
that I'm representing Brighton specifically.
But yeah, it's an elite club, babe, I'm really quite proud.
-I mean, season four,
maybe we'll have a Brighton queen win, who knows?
-Maybe we will, maybe I'll come back to you, you never know.
-Well, if you do, don't come dressed as a squid.
-No, I won't. I won't.
I also won't come dressed as the Helter Skelter
because they didn't really like either did they, funnily enough.
-Well, I mean, let's talk about that,
because the first
challenge was a ball, two looks in the first episode.
Do you feel like they made the right decision
by putting you in the bottom
or do you think someone else should be sitting here?
-You know what, I think
because it's all so subjective
isn't it, drag is subjective, so I feel like
it is just RuPaul's decision at the end of day,
as you know, my darling.
So, I feel like part of me is content with the decision,
because if that was, you know, what his true
opinions were then fair enough, do you know what I mean?
I can't change that.
I could have changed my makeup
and outfit, but other than that, it was all quite cemented in.
But no, I just I don't really mind. I mean,
it is what it is. I'm very happy with the placement.
Do I think I should have been in the bottom? I don't know.
Do I think I should have been in the top?
Probably not, but I had a camp time.
And it's a great lip-sync,
you know, Elektra
is a powerhouse performer, and I'm very, very
honoured to be next to her.
Oh, I didn't know she was in the conference
call, oh, it was just Tia, it was just Tia doing that.
Oh, bloody hell,
here she is again, coming back from the dead, bless her.
-And so, you said
you, kind of, don't think
that you should have been in the bottom.
Who do you think should have been in the bottom?
-I didn't say, you're twisting my words,
you naughty girl.
-I'm not, we're friends. I’d never twist your words.
-Right, OK darling, you can twist my leg though.
Who do I think should have been in the bottom instead of me?
Michelle Visage, I mean, that was an ugly, horrible outfit.
No, honestly, like, I think the placements,
I think were, like, relatively justified.
I think I could have elevated my looks slightly more,
but obviously we filmed it
in the middle of a pandemic, so getting everything ready was like,
I would have to get, you know,
we couldn't go to
shops to get fabrics,
we couldn't have fittings in person
because it was in the middle of a lockdown.
So, making the outfits was, like, the hardest
part for that show,
which might have held me back for the runway,
but I'm not making excuses, darlins, you know what I mean.
I know when something's not the best it could have been,
but we live and we learn, do you know what I mean,
I'm sitting here having a great time with you, so I'm winning.
-Something I want to talk about
because it's something that's very important
to me, is you representing your Egyptian heritage. -Yes.
-In your name, in your entrance look, everywhere
that you could really.
Do you want to talk a little bit
about that, particularly given the difficulties
that LGBTQ people experience in North Africa?
-Yeah, for sure.
I mean, like for me,
my heritage has always
been something I've wanted to showcase,
particularly through my art.
So, when I got the call for the show, I knew that
this was something I wanted to really hammer home on.
So, maybe this is a spoiler,
I don't know, it probably isn't, but who cares?
You know, I wanted a lot of my runways
when I was initially sketching my ideas to be centred
around my heritage and around my Egyptian ethnicity.
So, my entrance look obviously was a deconstructed
idea of the Egyptian flag.
And there might be some other ones relating to that.
But I think personally, for me, a big worry going into the show
was that I would potentially receive more hate
because of my heritage,
because obviously, as it's very well known,
you know, the, kind of, darker you are, or the more, you know,
African you are, you do seem to get more hate online. And
I think that for me, it was something I really wanted
to talk about and discuss, because I don't think
my heritage is also necessarily
prevalent through my drag unless it's, like,
I'm wearing the Egyptian flag, because I am very camp,
I am very wacky.
And, you know, sometimes it can maybe overshadow that.
But that's such an important
topic for me. And that's why my name is Anubis.
So, yeah, I'm very, very proud of my heritage.
-Right, let's get into it, Anubis.
This is what I want to know
about, now you called yourself the trade of the season,
and I beg to differ, there's no FaceTune here.
Who else from your
season would you called the trade of the season?
-Well, it's got to be, well, you know what?
I do fancy, kind of, everyone, to be honest.
But that's just because I'm a raging slag.
I've got to go with, my top picks are,
notice how I'm doing multiple because I'm just obsessed.
I do love Ella Vaday
very much, you know, obviously a gorgeous human.
I do love a bit of Scarlett Harlett, she's also very lovely.
But you know what?
I think all of them are very, very beautiful.
I think it's a very, very beautiful cast.
I mean, Victoria, that bloody cheekbone, darlin',
you can't pay for that, Krystal.
-Would you say that your cast is hotter than season two?
-Well, yeah, clearly.
-Well, it's been a great call, good to speak to you, bye, thank you.
-I'm very sorry, I take it back, don't cancel me.
No please do, it would be quite fun.
It'd be quite a live entertaining thing.
-Do you think there are any romances that might like
be sizzling under with your fellow cast members?
-Oh, that's quite a fun question.
I mean, I hope so.
Who doesn't love a wedding, do you know what I mean?
I mean, I won't be invited to perform, bless me.
But no, I'd happily attend as a flower girl.
I don't know, any showmances...
I mean, I wasn't there long enough to find out
really, babe, you know what mean?
I'll have to tune in to find out.
-Oh, yeah, just keep watching, see what happens.
If you could have a little romance with anyone,
who would it be? Just choose one, just one.
-RuPaul! Anyone from my season? OK,
It's got to be Victoria, genuinely. I'm just in love with
her, like, everything about her I'm obsessed with.
She is one of the best performers I've
ever known, and she's such an amazing friend.
So, I've got to go with Vic, my home girl, Vic.
Why not? -Interesting, and is that someone
that you want to see make their way to the final?
God yeah. Of course I bloody do.
I mean, Victoria has been one of those people
that I've known for ages, and she's always been
someone I've admired and looked up to.
She's a true idol of mine and I think she is now, like,
she always has been, but particularly
with the casting of this show, she is a queer icon.
And the fact that she's on the show, like, not only warms
my heart, obviously, from a selfish perspective,
but everyone's heart watching, you know, everyone just adores her.
And if you don't,
you're a stupid cow and you need to start following
her and supporting her.
Yeah, she's actually
amazing. So, I would love to
marry her if you have an invitation for me?
-I don't know, I'll ask your boyfriend
if he's OK with it, do you know what I mean?
-He's not, he's not OK with
it, but I don't care these days, you know what mean,
I've got a blue tick, so I do what I like.
-That is not how it works.
-It is, yeah. No, it's in the terms and conditions on page
six, if you read it properly Tia, you would know that.
I know you can't read, so a bit awkward.
-I'm working on it, thank you.
You actually said
in the episode that you
couldn't find your voice when you got off the runway.
Do you feel like it was the pressure
of the competition that had gotten to you?
-Do you know what, babe,
genuinely I felt like it was a mixture of things because
obviously it's very daunting, especially, you know, walking in
and then meeting Ru for the first time.
And it all just happens at once, doesn't it?
It is a whirlwind of emotions.
So potentially, yeah, it could have been the pressure,
but also I feel like I could have been a bit choked up
with the memory of my dad,
with the gown that they were, kind of, critiquing.
So, it could have also been a bit of that, but also maybe
the just the nerves of having to lip-sync as well.
Like, I think it was just
a big amalgamation of all those different things.
But yeah, for some reason, I just I felt really choked up.
I couldn't, I couldn't speak.
I felt like I couldn't
articulate what I wanted
to say about the outfit or about my drag.
And it really wound me up because I wanted to, you know,
get across who I am
and what I'm about and I felt like I didn't,
I didn't get a chance to do that.
And it's my own fault, but I just get in my own head,
babe, do you know what I mean?
-Well, it's difficult, that first runway walk,
I can empathise that it's very overwhelming,
you've never really turned that corner before.
So, it's the first time you get to do that.
And I can understand,
but Ru was, sort
of, in your corner saying,
I know exactly how out there you can be. -Yeah.
- having seen your audition tape.
Anubis, what did you do on the audition tape?
-What didn't I do on the audition tape, darlin'?
I did a bit of everything.
I think I dressed up as an old lady at one point,
and I had birthday banners and I drew a face
on a balloon and caressed it very, very sweetly.
That was genuinely something I did.
Yeah, I don't know, I'm just a bit of a weirdo.
I always have been.
So, I feel like that might have been what drew Ru to me
was that I was something he'd never seen before.
And I feel like when you are younger, I think people expect
you to be fashion.
You expect you to, you know,
cinch in your waist, really small and, you know,
have the tightest latex outfits.
And, babe, that just ain't me, as you probably discovered
from episode one. But no, my drag is all about
camps. Camps?! It's all about tents and camps and forests.
No, it's all about being camp and over the top and silly.
And I think that is
potentially what Ru saw in me from the audition process.
I mean, if it wasn't, ---- knows
what else, you know what I mean?
Maybe my big tits.
-I love that, "At 19 people expect you to cinch
your waist in real small", just say Krystal Versace,
we know what you're saying.
-Do you know, she's actually next door.
She's sleeping next door,
I'm very tempted
to wake her up and get her in the FaceTime call,
but she would be very livid.
-Oh, well, you never know.
I might be speaking to her at some point so
safe your breath - you never know.
Gorgeous. Anubis, thank you so much for chatting with me.
I will see you very soon for a little bevvy.
I'll get you a gin and tonic.
Don't worry about it. -Oh, thank you very much.
I'll get you something special too, darlin' alright.
A signed print, perhaps? -Oh,
I’m OK, thank you.
-All right.
You can ---- off then, see you later.
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