-I mean, I farted
directly in front of RuPaul.
-Whoa, wow.
-Yeah, so like, I mean that's, I guess,
a moment I would have loved
to have had on camera
and remember for the rest of my life -
it'll will haunt me
for the rest of my life!
Hello! DJ, drag superstar and all-round
humble human being Jodie Harsh here.
Welcome to Attitude’s
Tea Time, a weekly show
where I chat to the most recent
eliminated queen from RuPaul's Drag Race.
Today, we are joined by Ellie Diamond.
-Hello.
-Dundee!
-From Dundee!
-How you doing?
How you feeling?
Good. Tired, exhausted,
all those, sort of, feelings
that you could be feeling after
doing a full run of Drag Race
and then having to sit
at home and do nothing.
But I mean everything is fine at my end
I'm just like working
on a couple of things today.
-I wanted to say
that it was so lovely
to see you help Lawrence in the final
when they were struggling
with their dance choreography,
'cause, especially like,
a couple of weeks after
the tension between you two.
So how would you describe your
relationship with Lawrence
and has it changed even since Drag Race?
It's funny, like, people are watching it
from like week by week by week,
that literally happened within like two
or three days' time,
so, like, when Lawrence was struggling,
that’s just a thing where
I hate seeing people struggle
or uncomfortable or whatever,
so whatever I can do in that moment
to help that person out
I'm just gonna do it
and, like, it's, Lawrence was like,
“I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do.”
I'm literally, like, girl,
you know exactly what to do,
like, you know exactly what to do
and she just second guessed herself
and she does that a lot
and it's good to always
have someone there,
I guess, to, like, back you up, "No, you can do,
remember who you are
and what you can do
and apply that to everything."
It's like what RuPaul said,
RuPaul said,
in the Snatch Game, like,
you know, "Take Lawrence Chaney
and just put it into Snatch Game."
And she failed miserably.
-Is there anything that we didn't see in
the edit that
viewers should know,
like, what, what do you wish
they could have shown?
-I mean, I farted
directly in front of RuPaul.
-Whoa, wow.
-Yeah, so like, I mean that's, I guess,
a moment I would have loved
to have had on camera
and remember for the rest of my life -
it'll will haunt me
for the rest of my life!
It’s one of those things,
it’s one of those things I wish was caught
'cause it would have been so funny.
-What was RuPaul's reaction
in that moment, can you reveal?
Her, sort of, cue to
leave a room and she’ll go, “OK,
Have a good day.” And she’ll clap and that's for
that's for,
mic and audio and sound people.
That's RuPaul done.
And then I was like, cool she’s done
turned around - 'cause I was holding in a fart -
turned around
and I literally went [fart noise]
it was like wet at the end
and then I started laughing
‘cause it was really loud, funny fart
and then Lawrence
standing next to me was like,
shocked and I turn back around
and RuPaul’s right there, like, right there
and I was like,
Oh God, like, you know how close she is,
sort of, in proximity or whatever.
I was on the other end and I was like,
it just couldn’t have gotten any worser,
or any bad moment, but
she didn't really know what was going on,
she, kind of, was like, looking around,
had a little head nod or whatever,
then that was it.
But, I mean, better out than in,
I always say.
-I have to ask as well, if you were to
do the comedy challenge again,
would you have stuck with
the same running order?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely!
I mean, looking back at it,
when I was there, I was like,
I was like, probably shouldn’t have done that.
Looking back at it now,
girl, should have done it even worse.
Should have done it even worse,
just 'cause it's like this,
and especially the reception
I have had because of that,
because I have,
I did go back and, sort of, retreat and go, I shouldn’t have done that,
people have reached out and been like,
"No, like, that's so true,"
like, I've heard like,
Drag Race queens, or whatever, be like,
"No, this is a game play it."
And I was very
strategic with my walk
through with Ru and Michelle,
because they were like,
"What’s your biggest regret?"
And I was like, "Doing the running order" -
girl, I knew they were gonna say no to that
and try to make me, like, back track
so that's why I said it,
so I could get their validation
to be like, nope, it is fine,
so that I could use
that against the rest of the girls.
So, do you very much feel like you spent the whole,
the whole series
really, sort of, like, playing the game,
you were like,
you were in it to win it?
Honestly, no.
Like, I said going in, I was like,
I really don't care if I win,
that's not what I'm here for,
I'm not here to be the winner,
like, that's wasn't what I was coming in for.
I came in to have fun,
challenge myself in different areas
where I didn't think
I would have been as good at,
like Snatch Game,
have fun and
my goal was to make it to the top four
and I made it to the top four,
so I was happy with that, you know what I mean.
And also, you were,
you were really this season's,
sort of, like, beat-for-the-gods-queen, like,
makeup-wise was just, like, impeccable.
So, if you could give one
of your fellow queens a makeover,
who would it be and why?
I would have really of loved
to have done A’Whora’s makeup,
not that she needs it, but, like, that,
I would love to see her in, like,
full, like, clown beat, like, big, big, big,
but she does sometimes do that,
but it’s a lot smaller
and a bit more like model-esque.
-And now you're so,
you're so young and you've done
so, like, top four
on RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
Your family must be just so proud.
What does, what does your mum make of it all?
-She's just like, well, we were,
we were at the
finale crowning together,
you could bring a big plus-one,
so I brought my Momma Diamond with me
and she was just in
awe of everything, she was enjoying it
so much like,
meeting Bimini and meeting Lawrence
and meeting Tayce, and stuff,
she was just like in so much awe
and she just loves every moment of it
and she's obviously, like, so proud
and just, like, over the moon
at everything that’s happening
and that will happen in the future.
-You opened up a bit
about having a difficult relationship
with your dad on the show,
which I can relate to myself as well.
Do you know if he watched Drag Race?
Has he seen it and been in touch?
-Yeah, he had cried when I told him,
so I think that was, kind of, a breaking point
there and then,
like, he's watched all the episodes,
he’s watched everything.
The episode that
I spoke about him,
we haven't spoke about that episode yet,
but we spoke
since then and we've discussed,
like, the top four and he congratulated me for that.
So, he has watched this season
and I’m sure he's proud of me,
he just haven't said it yet.
-I'm sure he is.
Yeah, he's probably
still processing the,
what you were saying on the,
that episode maybe, or something?
-Yeah, totally.
-Do you feel like maybe it, sort of,
brought you a little closer,
your relationship?
Oh, definitely,
I think that,
I mean for him, the biggest thing for me
was - the best thing for him was drag
and it was like, that
was the breaking point.
Being gay, I think he was OK with that,
kind of, but, like,
drag for him is probably the overall
and end all -
the iceberg that hit the Titanic.
-Like, this is the exact same situation
with my dad,
so I can totally like relate to this.
-And I think
now that there is actually something
that I'm able to make money from,
have my name known,
as well as, just, sort of,
like, something that's, like,
I guess, a goal for a lot of,
a lot - for me anyways,
it was a goal for me
and that's why I started doing drag,
I was like, I would love to drag to be
creative, be artistic,
and then eventually, hopefully, get
to the stage of Drag Race,
and so I think after him seeing that,
I have achieved that,
I think he's been like, OK, he can do this
as like a legitimate job,
and if you're able
to make money from this I guess -
'cause I mean no one wants, like, no one
wants to see their kid, like, not succeed and do well.
OK, and then the BBC held
a private viewing party
for the finalists.
So, can you give us any gossip from that,
like, what was, for example,
what was the reaction in the room
when Ru announced the winner?
Well, the entire day,
not she said it on separate interviews as well,
so I'm able to say it,
the entire day
Lawrence was just in her room by herself,
didn't speak to anyone.
She was just
out of it completely,
which I understand because
knowing Lawrence personally,
I know when she's in a rough patch,
whatever, she likes to stay separate
and just, like, keep herself
calm and collected.
She didn't think she was gonna win
at all.
At all.
she was, like, ready to take her
makeup off and go to bed.
So, then we were all in the viewing
just, like, sitting down
waiting for it and the winner is,
I was, like, so I was like,
"Team Bimini, Bimini, Bimini"
and then it came in, it was Lawrence
and I was like, what the ****?
I was, like, none of us expected that
because she didn't
even expect that herself either,
but it was just, sort of, a thing
where it was like, I love, love,
love seeing people succeed,
so whether it was Bimini,
whether it was Tayce, whether is was Lawrence,
I was just so proud to see them
achieve their dreams.
-Final question,
would you ever do All Stars UK
if that, if that ever happens?
-Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
I mean, I didn't take away the crown,
but, like, looking back at it now, there's
so many things I wish
I'd done differently.
Maybe not differently, but I wish I had a bit
more of diversity
to some of my runways,
as A’Whora likes to put it,
but I mean I'm proud
of everything I done on the show,
and yeah I would love to be in All Stars,
anything, anything.
-I'm sure we haven't seen
the last of you yet,
can’t wait.
Babe, thanks for chatting to us today
and best of luck
for everything that you're doing.
Can't wait to see what you do next.
Thank you so much, bye.
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