I know that I did what I did
and no one in that room could tell me different.
Not Michelle, not Graham, not Alan, not Ru.
No one! I did that.
Hello, hello, hello, world.
Who is it?
It's me, Tayce. That's right.
From 'RuPaul's Drag Race UK' season 2.
Why don't you sit down with me
and we can go through
some of my past looks?
Some are good, some are bad, some are inbetween.
You figure it out for yourself. Let's go.
Oh my goodness, that was me
back when I was 16.
Yeah, this was like the start of me
experimenting with crazy brows.
Look at them big old slugs on my face.
That hair, oh my God.
So I did not know about lace front wigs, obviously.
I used to go to Cardiff Market
and buy extensions, and then I would clip
in bobby pins and then bobby pin those into my hair.
My little mohawk thing, flat top going on.
It was a hot mess, but you couldn't tell me anything.
I thought I looked a million bucks.
I looked all right, to be honest.
But that hair is a joke.
Oh, I mean, that's
the straighest I think I'm ever going to look at my life.
I think that was a shoot for Criminal Damage back in the day.
Shout out to Criminal Damage if you're still around.
Yeah, I was living my butch fantasy up in a forest
doing the old shoots.
And, yeah, though I look like God's gift.
Oh, my God.
So that was that was my Milli Vanilli phase.
I was obsessed.
I found this woman on the other side of London,
and she did dreads for £100, and I would go there.
She did them for me.
They took, like, 5 hours to do.
But let me tell you, inches to the floor
I ain't talking about my weave.
Honey, they were like, down there, down to here.
They were heavy as hell, but they looked amazing and I live,
but I could only have them in for a week.
She said they would last for two months,
and after one week of sleeping them, I said they got to go.
They hurt, they're too heavy, get them out.
And that was it.
Ah, look at the ashy tones, mama!
That's a white woman.
That is a white Caucasian woman.
I mean, she's living though, she's living.
This was around the time I was,
when I was starting a competition
that my friend entered me in.
And I won.
At the time, this is just me going through it,
not winning yet, but playing around with the make-up.
But I mean, looking back at it, it's not terrible.
It's really not terrible.
I mean, it's come a long way since, but
yeah, good for her.
She was trying.
Oh, I love that make-up.
That is a Juno Birch-inspired piece.
Absolutely stunning. Yes, it is.
I am obsessed with Juno Birch, if you don't know her.
Got to know her on YouTube.
She's an amazing queen, amazing, absolute icon.
And she always pulls these amazing alien looks sometimes
very like, cow mooo UFO-inspired.
So I was giving a little back, but like a chocolate milk cow,
you know, because who doesn't like a bit of chocolate milk.
So that is me repping some
lovely spiky, spiky hair for a lovely friend of mine made it.
He made me a bunch of wigs for
Drag Race
and I was actually going to wear this
for my family resemblance.
I had a lovely matching blue one,
and these lovely motocross looks, but
it didn't end up making the cut, so that didn't happen.
But I used this at the time, and I have some lovely friends
and they have a lovely trans organisation called Not A Phase,
Support Trans Lives, baby.
And yeah, just spreading the good Lord's
word baby, helping them out, you know what I mean?
Who are those people?
Absolute nobodies. I've never seen those in my life.
Who is that and who's that? I don't know.
I'll tell you who they are.
Asttina Mandella, baby, and Bimini Bon Boulash
my Drag Race season two sisters. Absolutely love them.
This was when we were shooting the advert.
I've known Bimini and Asttina I want to say nine, eight,
nine years.
I've lived in London for nine years now,
and I've definitely known Bimini from the beginning.
And it started very much
saw her on the off, bumping into each other
in G-A-Y Late, then bumping into each other more
in East London parties and then lots of times
at after parties
and underground raves and then started working
together and doing, just working together
in the same, on the same nights doing drag.
So I'd see her a more and more and more.
And Asttina I think I've done about the same time,
just London girls I've known since day dot.
That's my entrance look to Drag Race UK.
Oh my God.
I mean,
what a lovely little coat easy but let me tell you
a hundred degrees it is wearing that thing.
I remember doing my entrance and they had to
redo it about eight times
because I was like a spudulike under there.
I was cooking under there,
I was just cooking, girl, cooking hard.
So they were like, "No, do it again, do it again".
Because I had on all my Fenty and my moisturiser.
It wouldn't grip, girl,
so we had to take it off and start again.
That is my Wales look, honey, hometown
queen, I'm a Welsh dragon and I'm here to make it clear.
So I thought, what better way
than to come out in a big, fat, dragon.
Puff, puff.
Slutty hot mess by the looks of it.
I mean, it was gorge.
I actually spent Christmas with A'Whora,
because I had to spend it here.
I couldn't go home and see my fam-a-lam.
It was rough, but we made the most of it.
We had a lovely time.
This was us just taking a lovely little Christmas photo shoot.
The minute this picture was taken,
I then pushed the tree over and just made all the
baubles smash for content.
I mean, honey,
cavewoman, high priestess, voodoo witch doctor, beast!
Honey, that is me right there in that moment with that look,
that lovely red face I was giving you.
Buffy the Vampire, the first Slayer!
I was giving it all, honey.
I was performing down that runway.
My puss-wanna was all over the shop.
I was living, I was screaming, I was drooling, I was dribbling,
my hair was all over the shop, all over pavlova.
It was amazing.
And A'Whora made it
because I couldn't be bothered to make a look that week.
Wow, panto dame.
No one really saw it.
Do you know what?
Yes, it's very Kylie Minogue but, you know,
why can't that be panto dame?
Kylie's is quite camp, and I thought I looked camp
on the runway, but you know what?
You know what, Attitude?
That's what you want me to do.
You want me to sit you and defend myself?
Don't you? You want me to battle back?
Well, you know I'm not going to do it.
I know what you want out of me, and you're not going to get it.
I look stunning.
You know what, that is a moment for me.
I think that's, apart from the 'Memory' lip-sync.
I think that is my proudest moment on Drag Race
because I know, I know that I did what I did,
and no one in that room could tell me different.
Not Michelle, not Graham, not Alan, not Ru.
No one!
I did that.
And that's what I came to do.
I said, if I'm going to go on Drag Race, I need to show myself
to the best of my ability.
And it's not going to be me
doing a comedy challenge or doing
maybe an acting scene or designing a couple of outfits
out of Brillo pads,
but I'll tell you what I can do is perform and emote.
So you know what?
Put me in the bottom
watch me lip-sync and watch me stay and put me in that
finale challenge
and watch me rip up that runway with my passion,
because that's what I do and that's what I did.
And none of them were on my level. None of them.
My lovely Tic
Tac diet lunch with Ru and Michelle, that was cute.
I love that outfit.
My friend Returning Queen made that for me.
That was actually,
that was going to be my family resemblance look.
I had a blue look
and a green look, and it was going to go
with my blue and green liberty spikes
and we were going to be lovely, fierce camp old rockers
coming down the runway, didn't happen.
But look how happy I am.
I was having a great time.
I think I was just so happy because
I knew it was coming to an end.
It's a bittersweet thing, but I was just ready to just cast
off the shackles of yesteryear and just attack life, you know?
My finale look, I mean, this is a hot button for some people.
I don't know why.
I mean, I think I'm too chill for my own good.
I just don't care.
I don't care about all these opinions.
This is the worst thing you ever worn on Drag Race.
Well you know, I didn't do it for you, I did it for me.
And I had a great time wearing it.
I came into the show in the Meet the Queens in my white vision,
and I wanted to leave and bow out and say, bye suckers
in my black vision.
The yin and the yang, the duality, the
Gemini and that's what I did.