- Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
(coughs) Hey, everybody, it's me, Miz Cracker
dressed as Carmen Sandiego today for some reason,
and you are watching "High Tea",
the show where we talk about everything that has to do
with anything that has to do with "Ru Paul's Drag Race UK"
season one.
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Today, I have two incredible guests with me,
and they're very funny comedians,
and they have alliterative names!
We have Jay Jurden,
and we also have Gabe Gonzalez.
So, last week, we lost Crystal.
- [Jay] We love Crystal.
- For me, I think the reason she went
is because of that lack of confidence.
She had so much going for her,
but she didn't feel herself, and so other people
couldn't feel her, but enough about last week.
It is time to move onto this week,
and of course, we start with some drama.
- Oo, okay okay, so The Vivienne was in the bottom two,
and last week, she was just a Vivienne.
She's trying to become The Vivienne again.
- Again, yeah.
In my mind, she's implying that Divina De Campo
is not stellar, she's just a red wig and a silver dress.
- The Vivienne and a Vivienne are saying
I've seen you do work outside of this space,
and I wasn't impressed with it.
When I saw you here, I was finally impressed with your drag,
which is compliment and a critique and an insult,
which is really just how gay people speak.
- [Miz Cracker] Right, oh yeah, absolutely, yes.
- You know, I do think Divina, you know the way it looked
it's like she took maybe a bit too personally,
but I totally feel that.
Like if you were killing it the way Divina does,
and people were constantly underestimating you
the entire competition, and you had that laugh just (kisses)
It was beautiful.
- And if you have the most credits out of all the girls.
- Which she loves listing, and I would too if I had them.
I wouldn't even criticize.
- [Jay] Atone, absolutely.
- [Gabe] Yeah, are you kidding, yes, yeah.
- Now, before we start the day,
we have to do the mini challenge.
They had to choose whether or not a person was wearing
briefs, boxers, or commando, and the commando surprise
was that they were wearing camo underwear.
- Right?
We're on the BBC, this is Europe.
Maybe they're gonna show some (beep) like yes yes yeah!
Literally clutching my boyfriend in bed being like
I wanna see someone else's penis,
and then, they gave us camo!
Like I thought we getting full royal family jewels,
and what we got was "Duck Dynasty".
I was so disappointed!
- Yeah, how are we supposed to know this show
actually takes place in the UK if we can't see foreskin
or not? - [Gabe] Right?
- Enough of that (beep) dammit, we've talked about the past
boop, it's time for the main challenge,
and the main challenge this week is for the girls to make
an advertisement for their own brand of water.
- An advertisement.
Let's think about Cheryl Hole.
Ru is very upfront about saying you have won nothing.
- [Jay] No badge.
- [Miz Cracker] From me.
- Blu Hydrangea went first.
- Yeah.
- Just by herself, no brick crew,
just a black robe, and then, it revealed that was an outfit
that the water gives you I assume confidence.
- Yeah, we also we got some like vague hand job jokes,
and maybe like a little blowing.
I get it, I know the joke sometimes works,
but that's like the last gasp for water, air, I don't know.
That's like if you don't have many jokes, it's like
let me just jerk off this water bottle.
- It wasn't Smart Water.
- It wasn't Smart Water, there we go, yeah!
- [Jay] The reason De Campo did a very good job,
even Graham Norton said that this is a production.
This seems to be a lot.
We only have this many minutes left,
but the final product did show that she pulled off thought
into her script.
- There was like BBC going on.
There was the sea pun.
There was her name being in it.
That confidence came out today,
and she was like several steps ahead.
She knew it was okay that no one was laughing now
because she had her eye on the prize.
That brings us to--
- Baga Chipz!
I thought that it was okay.
It's a chip and fish flavored water,
which sounds about as good as the commercial.
- [Miz Cracker] We have Cheryl Hole.
- Middle of the pack, which out of five people,
which can't be the case anymore because at this point
in the competition, you're either top two
or you're bottom three.
- Yeah, the concept was a lot of fun at first,
dancing diva drink, we got those like weird witchy fingers,
which I loved.
I loved that they couldn't just cut between.
We had to see her find them,
but yeah, I think the ending didn't quite bring it together.
- [Jay] It ended with half naked boys dancing,
which is great--
- [Gabe] I don't mind, yeah.
- But then, it also ended with Cheryl
doing another duck walk, doing another dancing
kind of party Essex girl moment, and everyone kind of goes
oh, all right, is there something else?
Especially just for this commercial.
If that's you, then how do we elevate it?
- Let's talk about Vivienne's, which was confusing to me
because for me, to use your word, I thought it was very
middle of the pack.
- It was a nod to her colloquialisms like as a Scouser--
- Well, she loves doing, she's referenced sort of
the Scouser look before, I think on the runway,
but I don't think we've seen her body up for a challenge
so it was kind of exciting to see that come out
as a comedic character, but I think you're right.
It's funny that she told Cheryl that Cheryl's idea
was kind of old and was just doing what she had done before,
whereas I feel like The Vivienne brought a very, you know,
a very branded Vivienne kind of.
- [Jay] A polished thought through and finished
The Vivienne brand, but still very much in line
with what we've seen.
- It's time to get to my favorite part of the whole show,
the runway, the girls are gonna show their creativity,
uniqueness, nerve, and talent
in a rainy day Eleganza runway.
- Yes yes yes.
- Let's talk about Cheryl Hole.
For me, I don't know if it was the greatest runway ever,
but I would live my entire life if I had this silver
rain jacket set.
- I loved the "Barbarella" in the rain moment.
I loved the metallic aspect of it.
I loved the angles.
I didn't notice that it was quote unquote unfinished
until Graham Norton pointed it out.
Like I couldn't see it when I was watching.
- And it wasn't like there was a sliver of panties showing.
She had a full panty showing so it felt intentional to me.
- And I just wish she had taken off the jacket,
but you know, I thought it looked sharp.
It was a sharp look from Cheryl,
and she had great presence this time.
- The Vivienne came as a rainy day.
I thought yeah, I thought this was really great.
Michelle clocks people for the silhouette all the time.
I kind of wanted a little more like (grunts)
instead of (mouth farts) but yeah, I loved,
I loved the face, all of that,
and her makeup was very fierce.
- I think the reason it was surprising or I think they gave
her so many props is that it wasn't what we were used to
seeing from The Vivienne, right?
Last week, I thought her look was very well put together,
very impressive, but because it looked like so much
of what she had worn before or maybe almost too polished,
the judges kind of dinged her for it.
They were like we wanna see something new.
- [Miz Cracker] Absolutely.
- [Gabe] But I think if only because it was such a departure
from what we're used to, it was very impressive
on that runway.
- I wanna talk about Baga Crisps.
- Yes. - Yes!
- How do you feel about her?
- Baga, to me, looked like an aunt I had
that lives in Miami that like showed up a half hour late
to the baptism in a hurricane, you know what I mean?
Like she's got that tia haircut like her name
could easily be Maritza.
She didn't realize her umbrella got caught in her hair.
The duck was a gift.
Like it was-- - And she's not even,
she's not even really a tia, she's just your mom's friend.
- Yes!
No blood relation.
She's just showin' for the party.
- She did look a bit like a martini glass,
and it was a bit of, it was a pantsuit again.
There was this illusion of rain.
The rubber ducky was a cute kind of cheeky nod.
- Sure, yeah. - And I think that
as the comedy queen out of these five, she nailed that look
for her. - Totally, yeah.
- Okay, so let's talk about Divina De Campo.
You know, she was not gonna get hit by a car in this outfit.
Let's say that right away.
- I think the Notorious DDC did a very good job
with this outfit because she went rain slicker,
nod to the rain, umbrella, came out first, big reveal,
and the reveal was it's gonna be a more polished rain look
so it's gonna be a corset.
We're still gonna have elements of that yellow leather,
which is a vocal warmup, but it's also,
it's still her drag, red wig, and I mean,
she got high praise from the judges.
- Yeah, I wanted, I wanted that silhouette to be
a little tighter.
I think she added bulk to herself.
It was slicker, yes, but was it slickest?
(men jeer) Do you know what I mean?
Do you know what I mean?
- And she was dressed a little bit
like the Morton salt girl, and she was the saltiest queen.
- She was, look at that!
- Okay, silence! (claps)
Last, but not least, we have to talk about Blu Hydrangea.
Now, she blew it in the challenge. (laughs)
- When I saw her commercial, I said H-2-O,
no she wetta don't.
(Gabe laughs)
- [Miz Cracker] What did we think about her runway?
What did we think about it?
- I loved it!
It was very kuwai, cute girl.
It was very 2019 drag in the sense that it played
with like eye illusion.
You had fun colors, you had iridescence.
You had an aesthetic that's both Instagram-friendly,
but also would look really run in person.
- [Gabe] I love the buns, the new makeup
that we're seeing on her was really fun,
also a great departure from what we're used to, yeah.
- All right, enough of that!
Let us talk about the final cut on the commercials.
- I thought that Divina De Campo basically showed us that
whatever you think is going on when you see the first edit,
do not pay attention to it because it came out so well done.
It was the one that had different locations.
She used the (mumbles) very effectively,
and then, she also had humor.
She also had a message.
It was good!
I really liked it.
- [Gabe] It was a fun gag, yeah.
- I have to second what you said just that it was like
(mumbles) total artwork for DDC, do you know what I mean?
It was just like it had it all!
Which is you know why I was kind of surprised that it is
The Vivienne who takes the day.
- I thought Vivienne De Campo was going to win
because it was gonna be the challenge.
We basically understand that now Divina is on the rise,
and The Vivienne has to say not only do I take back
my words, but I'm gonna have to eat some crow.
You did very well.
- But as you know, wherever there are tops,
there are hopefully some bottoms, we have Cheryl Hole
and Blu Hydrangea in the bottom.
- I honestly, I did think Baga was gonna be in the bottom
this time around.
I don't know if I saw the strength there
that the judges saw.
Between the commercial and the look.
- Yeah, the bottom three,
all deserved to be in the bottom three.
I think that the reason that Cheryl Hole and Blu Hydrangea
were gonna have to lip sync was because these were the two
that had not shown the most over the course
of the competition.
They didn't have anything to rest on.
- And how are you not gonna have Cheryl Hole lip sync
in front of Cheryl Cole.
- [Miz Cracker] What did we think of the lip sync?
I thought it was the best that we've had so far.
- It's clear they both knew the lyrics,
and Cheryl knew the hell out of them.
What I think is super gaggy is that backstage Baga
was like I don't know the words.
I'm not gonna learn the song.
I don't know the words, and then--
- Oh my god, it's like she's here, you nailed it.
- Literally, I'm a tiny Baga Chipz.
What was funny is when you see her in the background,
Baga is like lip syncing the whole song.
- I loved the fact that we got to see Cheryl Hole
be the diva that she says she is, be the dancing queen
that everyone says she is, be the Essex girl
that she says she is.
- Skirt, it's time for us to do our weekly segment,
which is called the Queen's English!
Today, we're not gonna talk about vocab,
we're gonna talk about culture, and we have a lovely lady
from Girls Aloud so let's learn a little bit about them.
Girls Aloud was the heir apparent to Spice Girls,
and they have sold over four million copies
of some of their albums, and they had 20 top 10 singles
in the UK consecutively.
- The song "Call My Name" was everywhere when I first moved
to New York, and I realized Cheryl was part of a girl group,
she'd gone solo, she was pulling a Jerry Hollowell.
Like they really, Girls Aloud really did follow
the Spice Girls trajectory to a T.
Cheryl is just fantastic.
- I love a white Destiny's Child.
That's my go to.
I appreciate UK's fate's daughter, I guess?
- Fate's daughter? - I'm a big fan.
- If you love Cheryl Cole, you should really read
her new memoir, it's called "Cole My Name".
It's touching.
(men laugh)
So, of course, we, one girl has to go,
and the girl that goes home is Blu Hydrangea.
- With the disheveled buns.
So, the Sailor Moon buns fall out as she was lip syncing
for her life, the buns lost theirs, and--
- I just, you couldn't have given her moment
to put them together? - [Jay] No, you no--
- Before she said goodbye?
I, just-- - They wanna push you out
that day, you gotta go back to northern Ireland.
- This is what I wanna know.
Who do you think is in the lead at this point
in the game, and who do you think should just be thrown
down a trap door?
What's going on?
- Okay, so my answers for who's in the lead are different,
right, because I think the judges clearly favor
The Vivienne, and I think she's had a very clear trajectory
to be the winner.
A very sure safe path at the top,
but I can't help but start rooting for Divina.
I think Divina has brought us so much context for like
what drag has been like and what it's like now.
I also think she brings a nice balance of humor,
great runway looks, and just you know kind of like
the overall, I think Baga said it today.
She's the total package, right?
- Unless Cheryl Hole blows all of us away,
we know that it's gonna be Divina De Campo,
Baga Chipz, and The Vivienne.
- I like the top four.
I think we've come by this fairly, and I think these girls
all have something to show.
I've heard enough of these boys.
Now, I want to hear from you.
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Don't forget, tune in every Friday at eight/seven central
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You guys, thank you so much for joining me today.
I had a blast with you.
- Thank you. - It was!
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That's Baga with a Z.
- Until next time, this has been "High Tea.
Thank you, boys!
- Thank you. - Thank you.
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