Oh, I do know what the biggest scandal was
and this never aired.
Oh!
OK, here we go I’m ready
I'm bringing it out of my sleeves, girl
and it's coming to you hot and fresh.
Welcome to Tea Time
with Attitude magazine,
the weekly show where I delve
into the private lives of RuPaul's
Drag Race UK contestants.
I'm Jodie Harsh and I am your host.
I am a DJ, producer
and icon really-
I didn't write that.
Anyway, here's this week's episode.
We are joined by the iconic Tayce.
Oh my gosh.
Hello -Hello, hello, hello baby, it's me
it’s you, it's us. How the hell are you doing?
We’re here. I’m doing really good.
You made it to final three, of course,
and the country loves you,
so now that's all over
and the winning queen has been crowned,
how are you feeling?
Honestly, I feel on top of the world.
I did my absolute best in the competition,
I got from the beginning to the end,
I saw every challenge,
I saw every runway,
some weren’t amazing,
I had stumbles, highs, lows,
peaks and valleys,
but I was just me
and that's all you can be
on a show like that, you know.
I think you can go on to shows like that
and you see other drag queens going in
and you can very much into this headspace of,
I need to be, you know,
”Oh!” and on
and, you know, bitchy and this and that,
and blah, blah, blah.
And I’m like, no, I'm gonna be cool,
stay out the arguments, smile on my face,
keep happy vibes going and have a good time
and that’s what I did, so can’t complain.
-With Drag Race especially, it's not always about
the winning anyway.
-You know, you're going in to win the crown,
but if you can win the crowd,
you're good, honey.
And I think the crowd, you know,
I got a good bunch
of peeps on my side,
so I’m all good over here.
-A hundred per cent. When you were there,
did you think,
did you think it was for the taking?
Like, at the finale or what,
what was your, sort of,
what was going through your head when,
when she said Lawrence’s name?
-Oh well, first of all,
I knew it wasn't going to be Miss ol' me,
I just knew it,
I knew it in my heart and soul,
but I was really fine with it,
like, I got to the end.
I thought it's gonna be Bim,
it's gonna be Lawrence,
either one of them
rightly deserve it.
I think, I
I just don't know,
I just didn't feel like it was my time
to get the crown yet,
I feel like I’ve still got lot of growing and stuff
to do as a queen.
I would love to come back and slay on All Stars one day
and just go out and attack life now.
I do like that it is over,
it's kind of like a weight's been lifted, you know,
and you're not looked at
as a queen in the ranking of the show,
you know, not as a finalist,
as of this, as a fourth out of, whatever
I just want to go out as me, doing my thing for yous
and living it up and there’s lots of things coming.
-You're like, you're released into the wild now.
-Yeah, I’m out of the cage and I’m ready to fly.
-Yeah, totally. You were like
the confessional and meme queen
this season and fans
really like flocked to you in in droves,
which was just so good to see,
but I feel like the judges sometimes,
it's almost like they thought
you were holding back
in the werkroom or something
-Let's talk about the judges.
-Let’s talk about that.
Do you think you, like,
do you think that you brought enough
of the side that we saw in confessionals
into the competition?
Well, this is the thing
I wasn't even thinking about it
because it wasn't,
it wasn't planned, it wasn't rehearsed.
Everything I did on
the show was real
and was just me in the moment.
I'm not sitting there going, Ooh what’s this,
let me go through my rolodex of crazy sayings in my head
and see what's gonna to make everyone,
like, you know, jump up and laugh,
this is just stuff
that comes out of my mouth,
so, you know, when you
hear from the judges like, we wish
we saw more of this
emotional connection
or whatever with drag
that we see out of drag
I was like, I disagree,
because I'm the same
in and out of drag.
My name is Tayce,
it’s my boy name, it’s the name I was given,
and, yeah, I will not hide
behind any facade, any character.
So, what you see is what you get.
-So, you wouldn't have done
anything differently?
-No, no regrets,
apart from the scour outfit.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And a lot of people commented
on your light lunch
with Ru and Michelle
and how there's almost,
like, a pressure for queens to cry
or get emotional on these catch-ups.
Did you feel, like, there was pressure
to, like, essentially, like,
serve teardrops?
Not at all,
I only realised really
until I watched it back
and I saw comments, ’cause I saw,
I always see that conversation as a time
to just have a,
just a nice, more intimate chat.
I didn't, you know, I don't really go in-
I mean, I'm not a crier anyway
really, like, it's just not really
how I deal with things.
I can't, I just don't cry
when I, I just get frustrated and
I move on and it keep moving.
I don't have any, you know,
I don’t have all this emotional trauma
that - fortunately
I haven't gone through any of that,
I've had a very fortunate upbringing
and I, the only thing I can
really bring into it is that
if you have parents who, you know, support you
being queer from day dot
you can make a camp old ***** like this,
so honey, why can't other parents
just be a little bit nicer,
you know what I mean?
-Totally, yeah. Is there anything that happened
that didn't make the edit
that you would have liked fans to see?
Ooh,
no!
No!
I showed myself,
I had a great time.
Honestly, I think the only thing they didn’t show
was the who,
who should go home and why question,
on one of the last episodes and that was about it,
which everyone said Ellie, apart from Ellie, who said A’Whora.
-What was the biggest
scandal of the season for you?
-Oh, I do know what the biggest scandal was,
this never aired.
Oh! OK!
Here we go, this is juicy.
-We want the secret, juicy scandal.
-Here we go,
I’m bringing it out of my sleeves,
it’s coming to you hot and fresh.
So, episode four monster runway,
backstage behind, literally behind the,
you know, where you come out on to the runway to do your walk,
We’re there in our queue, ready to go,
and I've got this little bottle of spray blood
because you know I’m obsessed with my blood, girl,
so I’m there, because I was doing my vampy look wasn’t I,
so I was like, psst, psst, psst,
eyes closed, getting it all over of my face
and that fifth squirt I just hear a
“Eurgh!”, and I open my eyes
and I turn around and it's Lawrence Chaney
covered in my blood.
-You squirted it at them.
-Not my real blood, yeah, in my fake blood,
but she was literally about to go on the runway
after me in a monster gown.
She was like, “Someone get me a foundation
and some powder now!”
And I was like, “Lawrence, I’m so sorry, I didn't mean to-”
She was like, “Tayce, Tayce don't even talk to me.
I don't even want to know.
I don't even want to know.”
I was like, “Lawrence it was a-”
”No, we’ll talk about it later.”
-Sabotage.
-Yeah, we got over it, she was fine, she tapped it off and
it was all good, but, you know,
imagine if I had done that on purpose,
that would have been a very ‘Showgirls’ moment.
”Oops,
sorry”.
-Yes, so that, I love that.
You were, like, undoubtedly
the lip sync assassin
and you sent your sis and bestie
A’Whora packing.
Now the two of you,
of course, live together,
so was there any, like, awkwardness
or bad blood, like, you know,
like, when you got home
was there slamming of kitchen cupboards or anything?
-Oh no, nothing like that, you know,
I think we were very much
like, if one of us is gonna to go home,
then the other one just has to try and bring it home, you know.
We would have had a lovely little box in the corner
with a little light ready, ready
to place it all in and everything,
but sadly it's gone to Lawrence,
it’s in Scotland, so what can you do?
-Yeah, yeah.
And you and A’Whora,
obviously your besties basically?
-Yeah, just good ol' chums.
We made out once in a club,
what gaymo hasn’t?
-Exactly, yeah, a lot of fans are rooting
for like a proper Drag Race romance.
They want the whole 'Branjie' vibe,
but they're not gonna get it,
I can't be fake, I can’t be two-faced about it.
I'm sorry, I just gotta be honest.
There’s no love there like that. I'm looking for someone else,
it is what it is.
Yes, so, on the subject of romance, like, you spoke about
not having that much luck
in the love department so far, which-
-No, never.
-And as trade of the season,
I think that's probably
surprised quite a lot of people.
-I’m still surprised that I got it, I was surprised when I was there.
I watched it and everyone was like, “Oh my God, Tayce being like shocked”.
I was, I thought it would have gone
to Asttina or Bimini, hands down.
They got the bod, that’s who I voted for.
I’m this skinny, little thing over here, darling,
who’s been unlucky all her life
so she doesn’t think that way.
-But I bet your DMs are filling up now, aren’t they?
-I’m not complaining at the minute, it's all good,
but I'm still, I'm very picky
I think that's my problem as well.
I could have a line of
of people in front of me,
don't get me wrong,
but I could say no to every single one
and if you're good
and then you mess me about
well, it's a no straight away,
so I probably make it hard
for myself as well,
but, hey ho.
-Yes, you are making it harder for yourself.
-Yeah, but, you know, good things are worth the wait
and they take time.
-Absolutely and your DMs are open,
you are available
to the prospect of meeting a nice-
-Oh yes, blue tick or not, baby, roll on in,
let the good times roll.
-Now if there's one other thing
that we learnt about you it’s that you
love baked beans.
-Oh, I do, I do indeed.
Have Heinz been in touch?
Did I see you opening up-
-Yes, honey baby,
they’ve been in touch,
I did a little job for them yesterday
and there’s some other stuff coming, you know,
maybe a big, fat campaign,
who knows maybe I’ll be in a bath of beans,
living it up.
-Oh, that could be,
that sounds quite Comic Relief-y as well.
A bath of baked beans.
-So, watch this space, baby.
-OK, perfect.
And you provided, like, honestly, so much
cheer and charm
and joyousness on the show,
obviously, we're friends,
and so I know you want on a personal level
but I think just the whole nation
just, like, really fell in love with you
and you just always had, like, a,
you always had a beaming smile on your face.
But what pisses you off in life?
Like, not a lot does.
When we come down to the nitty-gritty of it,
it's usually, really just boys that get on my nerves
Apart from that, that’s it,
you know, boys messing you around,
him giving you mixed messages,
saying they want you and then they don’t,
you know, taking 27 years to reply to a stupid message.
Things like that,
that’s when the psycho Gemini Tayce comes out,
Patricia I like to call her and she’s horrible.
-You and series one queen
Vinegar Strokes,
I've gotta, I've gotta ask.
I didn’t write this question
but there was,
there was a bit of beef last week.
Have you kissed and made up
or is Vinegar off
the Tayce menu for the foreseeable?
Like what-
-Oh, she’s unfollowed. I'm not talking to her at the minute.
I’m not really into it and I don’t really care to,
like, sort it out right now.
She sent me an apology,
like, about an hour after the fact that it had happened
and she was sharing Metro articles and Pink News things
and I basically said, “Listen,
we can sort it when we sort it out, but for right now
I don't even want to talk about it.
You must be a bit bored
and you need something to do
so your lashing out on me for some sort of reason
I don’t need it,
I didn’t call you this, that and the other
I never have before
and I never would even now.”
But we’ll fix it, we’ll patch it up,
but you know when you need a minute to breathe,
like, when someone comes with an apology straight away It's like, I’m still angry
but I’m sure she’ll watch this
I’ll see her at in a few weeks and we’ll sort it out then,
it’ll be fine.
Things like, they're are not that deep,
they’re really not
and the situation wasn’t that deep, it was just annoying.
And what is next for Tayce,
like, for example,
could there be a stint on
All Stars UK if that ever happens?
Would you be down for doing that?
-Oh, I would love to come back and show my face and say hi to the kids.
You know, I think the nation misses me on their screen every Thursday
I know I miss lip syncing four times in the competition,
so, honey, have me back for an All Stars
so we can bring it up to eight.
-Please, we need that to happen.
-Hopefully, a lip-sync for your legacy
and I can do what I do and win.
-Yes, please.
-I would love that, but there's are things in the works
things with Coke, Heinz Beans, Pat McGrath,
magazines, I got music coming out soon,
I got YouTube, I’m building my YouTube.
-I want to see you walking down the runway in Fashion Week.
We need all of that.
-Uh-huh, uh-huh, I’m getting signed today
with a big modelling agency as a male model,
so that will be fun.
So, I’ve got Tayce the male model, and Tayce the Ru girl,
I can’t complain, what a good mix.
-Get you a girl who can do both.
-Exactly
-I love that, listen,
it's been an absolute pleasure
watching you on Drag Race
and you're amazing and you are a winner,
baby, you are a winner.
-Thank you, baby.
Oh, so good to speak to you, boo,
I hope to see you out soon,
when everything is open
we’lll have to good ol' drink and bev going
A hundred per cent, we need that. Bye, baby.
Thanks for watching Tea Time,
brought to you by Attitude magazine.
We’ll be back
for some more very, very soon.
And don't forget to subscribe
to Attitude’s YouTube channel. Byeee!
She was like, “Someone get me a foundation
and some powder now!”
And I was like,
“Lawrence, I'm so sorry. I didn’t mean to-”
and she was like, “Tayce, Tayce,
don't even talk to me.
I don't even want to know.
I don't even want to know.”
I was like, “Lawrence, it was an-”.
“No, we'll talk about it later”.