-I did not, I was literally shipped out of there.
Yep. -In a wheelbarrow?
-Get out of there, get out you big ****.
Hi babes, it's me Tia Kofi and welcome
to Attitude Tea Time
in association with Taimi, where each week
I'll be bringing you the freshly brewed tea
from the latest eliminee
of Drag Race UK series three.
And this time, I am joined by the icon, the legend,
the herstory maker herself, it's Victoria Scone.
Let's get into it.
-Let's. -Victoria Scgone.
-Yes, dear.
-Victoria has gone. Yes, she has.
I think I speak on behalf of the nation,
the continent, the world, the universe when I tell you,
we are all so gutted
that you are not in the competition anymore.
It's devastating.
-Me too.
-How do you feel now that your Drag Race UK
journey has come to an end?
-Devastated, absolutely
horrified and very sad, to be very honest with you.
Yeah. Awful watching that yesterday, that episode.
It was horrible. Absolutely horrible.
-Look, look at this.
This makeup is running
for a reason. I watched
the episode this morning and I just,
I mean from a personal perspective, it's
like the episode that my
two besties from this season
have been booted off.
So, honestly, I couldn't cope with it at all.
-Your own daughter is gone.
-My own drag daughter has been eliminated, but-
-I wasn't eliminated!
-You weren’t. You weren't eliminated.
-How dare you.
-You were booted off because of a dodgy knee.
What was it like when you found out
from the doctor,
I assume, that you wouldn't be allowed to return?
Well, he's probably
traumatised because I
was begging and begging and begging to stay
even though I knew full well that I was not
well enough to stay.
I wouldn't have been able
to perform to the best of my,
to the best of my ability.
I was definitely in denial of how injured I was.
It was quite bad.
So, it was to say what it was,
it was a partially torn ACL.
Luckily, I didn't need
any surgery because it wasn't a full tear,
but it was absolutely agonising, if I'm honest.
But I was just pretending it wasn't,
so that I could stay
in the competition, to be honest with you.
But wouldn't you?
-Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I did wonder why
you were on crutches for a bit
a few months ago, but now I know.
-Now we know, the more you know.
-Exactly.
I have got so many questions
for you because
you have absolutely changed the game.
You've made Drag Race herstory
as some have put it.
Honestly, how does it feel to know
what you've done,
this little glass ceiling that you've smashed through
and how many people
you are representing? How does that feel?
-It's very peculiar.
I sort of forget about it sometimes,
especially, and when people sort of recognise me now,
it’s very, very weird.
And all the messages that have been flooding in of how
it's very important,
like, people see themselves
reflected in me and we forget how important
seeing yourself reflected on TV, representation.
We forget how important representation is,
that people need to be able
to see themselves on TV to feel validated.
So many people have messaged
me for different reasons,
like cis women in general that
love drag, women that do drag,
people that are larger, that don't feel confident
in their bodies.
People that are larger,
that do feel confident in their bodies.
So many people have
reached out to me for different reasons.
And it's lovely.
It's really, really nice. It's nice.
As Matt Lucas says, "All things or words
that mean nice, I pretend I've said those."
-No, but I mean, it's
absolutely wonderful that you've done that.
And you actually,
while your time was short,
not only did you
make an impact from the representation
and the diversity that
you bring to the competition.
But you really made an impact,
just with your drag, your personality and
everything that you did there.
So, I'm a proud little mummy.
We need to talk,
I mean look at, you wouldn't think would you
that this created that.
-You spawned this.
-You spawned this. I'm just taking the credit.
-Yeah.
-So, you had a moment,
sort of, early on with Krystal in episode two where
you had that controversial
"biggest competition" moment.
And thankfully, you, sort of, came to Krystal,
had that conversation and she apologised to you.
Who would you, I'm not going to talk about that,
I'm going to ask you who would have labelled
as your biggest competition.
-Still me, yeah. My knee.
-Not that, not the knee.
-Biggest competition?
Yeah, probably would
have been Krystal as well, I guess, from, you know,
from episode one, you could
maybe perhaps see
we were frontrunners
and also actually Charity for sure.
They are bringing something new to the competition,
they have been all their
runways, I think, have probably been
a bit overlooked so far.
Something totally unique,
never before seen, original,
beautiful, stunning, gorgeous.
And they are just unapologetically themselves.
Hairy legs and all. Love it.
-That was actually-
-Really hairy legs, women can have
hairy legs and drag is not just about
trying to look like a woman or, you know, whatever
a woman is, you know, it's not just about that.
And I like that Charity embodies that in every way.
-That's really lovely.
That's really, really lovely.
Team Charity, then.
-Now, you are now.
-Well, I, no, I'm still Team Tia, to be honest with you.
-I thought you were going to say River,
because River is, like, your other
favourite now, apparently.
-Right, listen, you need to stop getting jealous.
Me and River, we've just got a special connection,
do you know what I mean?
-To cones.
-Basic, traffic cones.
-Face it,
Her outfit was stunning this week, both of them.
-Yeah, that's what would have happened if
my sewing challenge
had been unconventional materials, obviously.
-OK, you keep telling yourself that.
-Yeah, maybe not, maybe not.
If you had had the opportunity
to be eliminated in
a conventional way,
what would your exit line have been?
-You know, well I'll say and you finish it.
-OK, this is pressure because
now I'm just going to look like a terrible friend
if I’m not right.
-You’re not.
Where's Victoria?
-Victoria's Scgone.
-Yes, well done, you did it.
-I love how we both held for applause,
but it was just an uncomfortable silence.
Your knee injury situation is actually like,
similar to Eureka, who also got the boot
from a knee injury.
Have you spoken, compared notes, compared knees?
-Weirdly, she did literally message me two days ago,
wishing me well and hoping it was alright.
She's so lovely.
Yeah, she's really nice.
And I'd love to get to America
and hang out with her,
be knee pals or bring her over here, even better.
-Yeah, we could do a knee tour. Call it,
It's A Right Old Knees Up.
-Yeah, Knees Up, or you could just
do a three-legged race where you tie
the injured knees together to make one knee.
-One solid knee from two broken knees.
Do you remember, like, ages ago where,
what was the premiere
that you went to where they took that photograph,
I think it was on the Daily Mail, and they labelled you
as Lawrence Chaney?
-Yeah, that was the LGBTQ Awards.
-Yeah. What great journalism that was.
I took that as foreshadowing.
I was like, oh, they just see you as a winner, dear.
-Exactly. I just exude winner energy.
-You really do.
-It’s not that, it’s because I’m fat.
-Not at all. But you do you do exude, like, winner energy.
Like I feel like the reaction of the queens
when you entered
was so supportive, but more like a little bit nervous
because everyone saw you as, like, real competition.
And I think most of your cast
would say that they
were very certain that you would get to the end
of the competition.
-Yes.
-Where did that confidence come from?
Like, how have you built that up yourself?
-I think men telling me that
I can't do it has made me want to do it more.
In the drag scene, in my whole life, really.
So, telling me what I should and should
look like, what I should and shouldn't do.
So, I think there's nothing more powerful than a woman
that categorically does not need a man
for anything, spiritually,
emotionally, sexually, financially. I love it.
-That's where we completely differ.
You're like, I don't need a man for anything
and I'm like please can I find one, thank you.
So, Veronica
has also left the competition this week,
and she obviously really opened up about her
struggles during the lockdown, sort of, like, coming back
into this competition.
How difficult was it
for you preparing for this in a lockdown?
You couldn't go to fittings. You couldn't get fabric.
-Exactly. Yeah, we couldn't
have fittings. We had to do like Zoom fittings
and also pretend that they were for something else.
"Yes, I very much need this big outfit urgently.
That's not for Drag Race."
Like, yeah, it was awful.
If you ordered a fabric,
you didn't know what colour was going to come,
if it was going to match your wig and all this stuff.
It was a nightmare, but
I made a lot of stuff myself,
I like the craftiness of it.
I made the petals for my daffodil outfit
and bits that we haven't seen.
Do I or do I not reveal, you know, all my outfits?
I don't know, I guess so.
Did you do all the ones
when you left?
Did you have photographs of all your outfits?
-I put up photos of all my runways
that I did and all my runways
that I didn't do apart from the one
that I got eliminated in,
because I just cannot look at it anymore.
It just upsets me, quite a lot.
-That's fair.
Like, I don't want to,
I didn't want to put out
the photo from episode two of that red dress,
because that was my
back up, back up, back up dress, because I was
categorically told I couldn't wear heels.
I had to wear trainers.
And they were Choriza's stinky warm sausage trainers.
What they smelled like.
-You didn't bring any flats with?
Do you not own trainers?
-They were white.
And when I walked, you could see the flash of white.
So, at least when,
I was like, does anyone got any red trainers
and Choiza was literally wearing red trainers.
So they went with my dress
a little bit better than white trainers.
Yeah, that's why.
-It was gorgeous.
And you weren't the only go into our flats
that season, Veronica Green managed it
in both of her episode runs.
-Absolutely.
-Don’t worry about it.
-She's a proper lesbian.
-You looked gorgeous, though, in your flats.
-No, I didn't.
That was the red carpet runway.
And speaking of red carpet, we just spent a gorgeous time
at the Attitude Awards, didn't we?
-What a gay time we had.
-It was wonderful.
I mean,
-Queerest event ever.
-It really was and really inspiring.
Who was your best celeb spot that you saw?
-Lucy Spraggan.
-Lucy Spraggan?
-Yeah.
-Work. Did you have a little chat?
-We had a little chat, yeah.
-Oh, oh.
-You know we did.
-Oh, I know. Tell the people.
-I had a wonderful chat with Russell,
Russell T Davies of ‘Doctor Who’ fame.
-You did?
-Literally changed my life. We had a whole catch up.
I was trying to like siddle up to Russell T. Davies
to like subtly ask for a photo
and then he turned around
and was like, “Tia, can I have a selfie?”
And I was like,
not this, on this day.
That is mad, isn’t that mad?
I know,
and just as he is coming back to ‘Doctor Who’ as well.
You never know, maybe I'll end up with a part.
The gayest thing that happened was at the end
when Steps were on
and everyone like rushed to the front.
And Billy Porter and Russell were just like hugging
and talking in my eyeline in front of Steps.
And I was like, I am gay.
That is when I knew.
It was the queerest moment of my entire existence.
They know how to put an event,
I must say, well done Attitude.
-Right, back on track, back to Drag Race.
We didn't get to see you again after your elimination, but
did you have an opportunity to say bye to the queens?
-No.
Absolutely. No, I did not. I was literally
shipped out of there.
Yep.
-In a wheelbarrow? Did they just-
-Get out of there.
Get out you big ****.
F*** off.
Yes. No, I honestly, I didn't get to say bye.
I remember it was very much like, go, go, go.
And I think I wrote Charity
a little note to say, here's my number.
text me if you get out.
Yeah, and I went
home to my beautiful girlfriend, Dani,
who looked after me and my knee.
And I had to, like,
stay hidden in my flat for a little while in Cardiff,
so no one saw me on crutches
just in case there was any rumours was,
oh, Victoria’s on crutches. So I was very sensible.
And I locked myself in my lounge watching Netflix
with lots of food. How horrible for me.
-How distressing. Did Dani look after you?
Insert picture of Dani here.
-She’s gorgeous.
Yes, she did. Very much so.
The best couldn't ask
for a better girlfriend, best friend, assistant, PA,
future wife. Oh!
What?! Was that a proposal. Did we just get an exclusive?
OK, I'll call her now, Dani.
I don’t know if you know... oh, she just WhatsApped me.
So, that was a proposal that was an exclusive moment.
You are now engaged.
-Headline here.
-I'm an ordained minister
of the Universal Life Church,
so I can perform wedding ceremonies.
-Can you really?
-Yeah, I think so.
Oh, let's do it.
I'm so bad at this,
I just want to talk, you know, normally
and I’m just like, I've got a list of questions.
Will you be back for series four?
You know as much as I do, as Ru said,
“we haven’t seen the last of her.”
And that is literally as much as I know,
that's as much as I've heard.
So, I mean, this season three is still on telly,
so it’s a bit early days.
But I have not been asked yet.
-Babe, Veronica had to go back for series three
while season two was airing,
So, you knows,
maybe you're filming it right now?
Have you just come off set?
I've won, I’ve won season four.
-You’ve won? Oh, condragulations.
-Thank you. -Another exclusive.
-And five. -And five?
-And All Stars?
-And All Stars.
No, you won All Stars.
-One day.
-Don’t act awkward, now it looks like you’re in it.
-I hope you have an absolutely gorgeous day.
I will love you and leave you on that note.
-I don't think there's any usable material there.
But, you know, we had fun.
-Honestly, that's more usable
material in this than there was with me and Elektra
Trust me, that was mainly about sausage rolls.
Please enjoy yourself.
Have a gorgeous day. Honestly, you deserve it.
You've been absolutely incredible.
You’ve changed the game.
I appreciate you.
I adore you. Enjoy it.
I'm going to go eat this and probably call Dani,
to be honest with you.
-Do it. I haven't spoken to her today,
so yeah, check up on her for me.
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