Hi ugly it's me Bussy Queen and welcome back to HOT OR ROT! and today we'll be heading to
the great outdoors to review episode 3 of Rupaul's Drag Race UK Season 3. Our queens
were challenged to serve two campy looks on the runway. One they brought: "happy campers"
and the other that they constructed there using leftover camping supplies: "campfire couture".
We'll also be taking a look at some HOT tea in today's video covering Victoria Scone, Veronica's
Instagram farewell message where she let us know how she REALLY felt about returning to Rupaul's
Drag Race UK Season 3. River Medway versus Bob the Drag Queen and Rupaul herself. Seems
like she may be tired of queens blaming things on the edit... We've got a lot to talk about,
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today's video. Now let's pitch a tent... together! First up, "goode" morning campers! It's Krystal Versace!
Her happy campers look is giving us a high fashion girl scout fantasy and I'm not sure
if it was an accident but she has served green all three times that she's hit the runway so far!
The green hometown look, the green look we saw last week and now this one. She may be trying to trigger
Michelle Visage; who knows? But yeah this look is clean, sophisticated, and there's really not a
single badge out of place. That said it would have been really fun to see her take this into a more
campy direction - and not the literal camp - but funny hee-hee-ha-ha camp. I don't know; put 100 more flare
badges on that sash give us a silly reveal under the skirt? I don't know anything silly and fun
would have been appropriate considering the runway category but yes this look is still HOT! "Scout's
Honor!" And concerning her campfire couture look; The fact that anybody can look like this much less
make the looks to make themselves look like this too? Girl i might as well just quit drag. Let's go.
Just kidding. What would YouTube do without me? Anyways, this look is giving me Vivacious, Shangela,
og club kid realness - but make it high fashion and modern. Is it the most unique thing in the world?
Maybe not, but it's effing stunning and looks well-made, I might add. The only critique i think worth
giving to this look is that the nude pump might not have been the best choice but come on i was
pretty gagged that the judges were sitting there on the panel being like we kind of expected this
from you Krystal. I was like... you expected her to come out in THAT? But then again they could have
just been a little burnt out from all the Krystal they've had the past two weeks. I'll take another
hit though, this look is HOT. Next up, it's Kitty Scott-Claus. This look from Kitty is exactly what
I was wanting from Krystal. She took that girl scout uniform, added a little bit of hotness to it
and then added some fun to it. The extra badges the cloggy heels, the high socks, the binoculars
she looks great. This is one of my favorite looks i've seen kitty and so far. She's going camping but
didn't forget maybe the most important thing about camping... CAMP! I think it's no coincidence that the
producers lined up Kitty's girl scout look right after crystals to maybe take some air out of
Krystal's runway. Anyways, this look is HOT. And as far as Kitty's camping couture look, she says she's
giving us Barbarella, which i saw immediately with the little strappies and the way that quilted
bodice is giving us a little bit of an armor fantasy. Meets Judy Jetson or in the words of
Shangela the wise prophet, "Judy Jetson hookah". This again, pleasantly surprised me. the [ __ ] looks
good and she's got great references here. My only critique on this outfit is that the skirt i think
shouldn't have tapered in. Instead flared out a little bit more to give some better movement
to the outfit because she does look a little too robotic and stiff as she marches but still a great
look. and i think it's HOT! Next up, North South East West... River Medway! I immediately saw this and
thought of Dan Levy's ... fiasco ... to put it lightly at the Met Gagla recently. This is what he should have
been wearing. River's giving me Lewis and Clark meets newly rich widow collecting that insurance
check at the husband's funeral; and again I think surprising everybody with the versatility in all
the different silhouettes that she has brought to the runway. "X" marks the spot - this look is HOT!
And as far as her Campfire Couture look... oh girl she is 'serving'! Anything you want! The sky's the limit! Okay
i'm done. It looks like she used handkerchiefs to construct this outfit and the silhouette is
giving flight attendant fantasy which is a very specific reference that i don't necessarily think
lives and breathes high fashion but I like her take on it. It's simple, effective, and i think
demonstrates that River knows her way in, around, and about a silhouette and a sewing machine!
This look is HOT! Now concerning that River Medway versus Bob the Drag queen drama: Last week River
and Bob had people speculating that there may be a little bit of a kerfuffle developing behind
the scenes when river tweeted this, "it's so funny seeing certain Ru girls trash us. have they
forgotten what they looked like on their original season?", followed up by, "being a c word isn't a
personality trait. never forget where you come from. also this isn't even about me or any queens in
particular just a general running theme i keep hearing about." Interesting that she specified
certain Ru girls but that the tweet was "not about anyone uh in particular". And Bob chimed in tweeting,
"I agree with the comments say their names i want to know who these queens being c words are." But
the apparent drama was very short-lived when on the same day Bob later tweeted this, "me and River
Medway are good everyone. Sorry to report." Next up hopping down the camping trail it's Charity Kase!
This look immediately brought me back to my sick twisted demented childhood when I would watch
Happy Tree Friends which, if you're unfamiliar with that, please don't google it! Anyway... this look is
very Charity. As someone who is a fan of her art before the show i think it's really cool to see
what literally looks like one of her instagram posts plopped right out of the internet
and dropped onto the stage of rupaul's drag race. She has spray painted this custom rabbit suit and
she looks absolutely terrifying... and I love it! The more scared I am, the better! I will say my
only critique/criticism that I had looking at this look was, "why is she dressed as a rabbit?" Like, are
rabbits somehow related to camping? I don't know. I've never been, and don't plan to either but yeah
this look is another fatality... it's HOT! Taking a look at her campfire couture look though, my
first thought when I saw this one was 'mad hatter' and then i was like oh maybe she was doing some
kind of like Alice in Wonderland thing where she was the White Rabbit at the beginning and now
she has become the mad hatter? I could be wrong though. Anywho; this look is like 50 amazing 50
a little bit of a letdown. It's definitely a unique silhouette with those giant hips and i like that
it feels fresh with the yellow gingham instead of the typical red plus the hat and shoe covers
show that she's really thinking about all the details. I think it did come off just a tad ... "lazy"?
Isn't the right word, but i can see the judges using that word because when she turns around
there's nothing there. I think she was too focused on giving the judges a little bit of a thrill
that she forgot to keep the thrill a surprise until the last minute. That said this was still
an excellent look and i think it's absolutely HOT! We also got to hear Charity share her story about
living with hiv this episode which I think is really important that Rupaul's Drag Race keeps
reiterating and sharing the story when they can because there are so many people in this
big umbrella of a community that we have that don't know much of anything about it. Which results
in stigma. The important takeaway here being of course that a virus does not define somebody
and more importantly undetectable equals untransmittable. Next up, cookie! Cookie? [laughter]
I just looked at her photo and thought "cookie monster".
Oh "Cookie Choriza Monster May" this is definitely one of the strangest looks on the runway tonight,
but do i like it? I've been saying this thing about Choriza for the past couple of episodes where
she uses so many different textures, pieces and parts in her looks that she's in danger of losing
the message of the outfit on the audience. She has avoided that thus far, but this one girl
had me scratching my head... Stylistically speaking? as like an abstract garment? I kind of like this
look. It's fun. But for the theme 'happy campers'? It just did not deliver. Girl, she said she was a rock
climber then she said she was dora the explorer and i'm like girl i think ms dora got lost while
she was climbing up those rocks slipped fell and died because this look is a ROT. Maybe she should
have called up her friend River Medway and taken a look at that map! Moving on, her campy couture
look. I actually kind of liked this one at first too. It was giving me like evil villain from
k word Bill vibes. It certainly wasn't the best thing on the runway, but i think it could have
been serviceable on the runway given that we had an entirely different cast. Because these girls
did not come to play! And the more you look at it, the more it does look just a tad 'arts and craftsy'
compared to some of the other dress looks that we saw on the runway like from Ella and Scarlett which
we'll get to here in just a minute. Unfortunately this look just was not giving what it was supposed
to have gave, but I'm gonna give her a warming up instead of a rot because of that crazy story about
the ex and the camping and the owl. Next up, may the odds be ever in her favor! It's Scarlett Harlett! We
did find the hunger games stan in the cast tonight... If you remember her hometown runway that was kind
of giving me hunger games like district one this one's giving me katniss district 12. And while I
didn't necessarily see camping like traditionally speaking - i kind of thought about and i was like
yeah when you're fighting for your life and death in the wilderness you do have to camp so it did
ultimately I think fit the theme quite well. I also love that it had this gothy Mad Max vibe mixed into
it and personally i'm just kind of a [ __ ] for an all black goth outfit so i think this look was
hot! And her Campfire Couture look is the perfect foil to her happy campers look. If her first one
was giving warrior princess this one is giving us easter sunday and i'll be totally honest i
did not think that scarlett had this in her. It is a gorgeous look, I also really enjoyed that she did
something relatively simple to what some of the other girls did but ended up winning nonetheless
because of how perfectly executed this dress was. Whoa! This look is hot. Next up... where'd she go?
it's Vanity Milan! Okay um, hmm, the blue camo cape blanket thing I think could have worked
had she totally reworked the idea. I think the main problem with it was that when she turns around
it looks like just a giant duvet cover that she pulled off of her bed and it looks heavy like it's
sagging and dragging her silhouette down instead of lifting her up or looking flowy and elegant. The
other issue of course being that under that crazy blue camo blanket she has on like a pink power
rangers morph suit which was a very bold choice. I don't know what she was doing here; I didn't get
camping. I really didn't get anything besides confusion from this one. This looks gotta be a
ROT. And as for her couture look? She can't come to the phone right now... she's all tied up!
She had me screaming when she was listing off her references of what inspired this
look including quote, "tribal african princess realness" and "early Nicki Minaj".
I don't know exactly what she was going for, but I think this actually could have been really
successful that she had more time and more rope for example getting rid of that orange crinoline
thing under the rope and layering the ropes so that there was just like cascades of different
colors of rope down to about that same length would have been really sickening. In my mind's
eye I'm seeing like the camping rope version of Roxxy Andrew's candy ball outfit she did that
was like twirling and moving as she came down the runway. The other problems being of course that she
needed to cover those corset buttons and i think needed to reconsider the styling of this look.
I'm not going to get too knotted up about it though... this look is a ROT. Next up she was
saved, by a flying wild man in a loincloth! It's Ella Vaday. This look of course is an obvious reference
to Jane from the Disney movie Tarzan. I think it was also one of the more interesting choices for
this category that we saw on the runway tonight. I think she and Kitty were the only ones to really
get 'campy' in the 'camp' category which was kind of a shame. That said I do want to say i feel like this
look is a tad costumey. And there's nothing wrong with wearing a costume. There's nothing wrong with
costume drag at all, but i do think when you have something that is so exact to a reference that
it looks like a costume, you do lose personal elements of what your drag is and could be.
Instead of seeing Ella Vaday, I'm seeing jane of the jungle. But i do still think this look is hot!
In her couture runway i was really happy to see her in this look. I think the dress was perfect
for her. The blonde hair? Sexy. She looked hot and i think for one of the first times dressed - i
don't want to say age appropriately - but she has on the past couple of runways i think made her drag
character look a bit older than she needed to. Unfortunately the look was not perfect though, those
two raincoats that she put together to create the giant shoulder silhouettes looked a little
not thought out; unfinished, mismatched. It doesn't really make a lot of sense. Had she instead taken
one raincoat maybe cropped it at the chest and then a little like shoulder jacket maybe it could
have worked. So the dress and everything without the raincoats gets a HOT; but as presented... ROT.
Next up: looks like she woke up on the wrong side of the 'bag' today, it's Veronica Green! This look
is special, unique and I have no idea what the [___]'s going on here! In her confessional she's explaining
that this look is a girl who's been at a festival and partying all night long but i'm getting more
'prisoner escapes from solitary confinement and is on the run'. 'Cause the thing is, there's a way to do
bad or intentionally ugly looks in a fashionable way however I think intentionally smudging your
makeup not perfectly constructing a dress from the sleeping bag and then pairing it with mismatched
hiking boots just didn't take us all the way to Paris. Instead we were left out in the cold. This
look's a ROT. And as for her campfire couture look, It was not the metamorphosis that she had hoped it
would be, to put it lightly. I think she had a really great idea for this look i've gotta say,
butterfly coming out of darkness? Brilliant. The sister look to this of course being
Jasmine Masters iconic butterfly coming out of a chrysalis runway. Like this, Jasmine's runway and
then A'Keria's butterfly runway are like the three horsemen of the apocalypse. Ultimately I
think Veronica was just a little too ambitious; she put wings on the back of the dress
to be the butterfly wings but unfortunately they look just more like broken pieces of an umbrella,
and the ruffles on the body part of the dress are pretty, but they don't have any actual shape.
There's no cinching. And then they randomly stop at her thighs and turn into those like
billowing sheets of satin fabric. And then of course there's the makeup that doesn't actually
match the rest of the look. This butterfly has seen dark days but hopefully there are only
bright ones ahead. This look is a ROT. Now, let's talk Victoria Scone. The pun finally makes sense.
because she's gone. On doctor's orders though. This was really unfortunate, but girl we all saw this
coming. No doctor in their right mind is going to look at somebody with a knee injury and tell them
that they should, for the next like what? Six to ten weeks continue to walk on six-inch heels and
compete in performances where you're going to be dancing your ass off. The thing that was confusing
for me though, was that Ru said 'we probably haven't seen the last of her', although didn't
mention that she had an open invitation to return like they did for Veronica last season. So when
will we see her again? Who knows. Hopefully soon though because she is talented as hell and we're
gonna miss her in this competition. Our bottom two tonight are Vanity Milan and Veronica Green, which
are also my bottom two. Makes perfect sense here, and I did react to this lip sync and
the entire episode over on my patreon at patreon.com/bussyqueen - That's my members only
website where my patreon family gets exclusive member benefits like early access to my videos,
exclusive videos, access to the busy queen discord server, and more! Click the link in the description
of this video to join today. See you there! Overall, this lip sync was good but Vanity was the obvious
win here for me. So Veronica Sashay's away, but I actually was kind of surprised to see Ru
eliminate somebody tonight considering we are a girl short which means she could have not done an
elimination, or maybe it means she'll fix the count in another way later by bringing somebody back?
Or perhaps a double Shantay down the line? Who knows. But let me know what you think will happen
down in the comments below! No spoilers though. But concerning Veronica's farewell... The day the episode
aired she wrote this on instagram, "That's it party's over! I can't say how much i've loved
being on Rupaul's Drag Race UK. I'm so grateful to Ru and the entire production team. When production
shut down on season 2 in March 2020 I came home to a world that was changed forever and
i lost all of my work over the summer i fell into uncontrollable debt and spiraled in the depression.
With no way to get myself out, how could I even think about improving my runways and i was on
the verge of bankruptcy? In retrospect i shouldn't have accepted Ru's invitation to season three.
At the time I was under so much pressure with season two just being announced, was thrust into
a worldwide spotlight, and wasn't prepared for season three." Finishing this whole message with, "I
really do believe everything happens for a reason though, and I'm in a much better place now. Thank
you to everyone that supported me, my love to you all XVeeX". It is pretty crazy to see somebody
regretting their choice to come back to Rupaul's Drag Race but it's really nice to see that she
has overcome that feeling and is ultimately doing better now. Now onto our winner this week, the win
went to Scarlett Harlett - which was a surprise - and also not a surprise because I watched the episode
and was like oh well Krystal's probably gonna get another win. However you could see the judges not
wanting to give another win to Krystal, telling her that they expected her to basically kill it
on the runway tonight which i don't really know how that's a critique but that's what they said.
It was obvious that they were looking for somebody else to pass a win on to, or else this was quickly
going to devolve into 'Krystal Versace's Drag Race. So all that considered, I think Scarlett was a great
choice for the win but i was surprised to see them totally overlook Charity Kase... again. But let
me know what you're thinking down in the comments below. Who were your tops? Who were your bottoms? And
who would you have given the win to and sent home? In other 'hot tea', Rupaul just dropped this single
called 'Blame it on the edit', which feels a little strange. The lyrics rupaul posted to his instagram
read, "she wouldn't blame it on the edit blame it on the edit she want to blame it on the edit
you the one who said it edit go on and take the credit b-word you the one who said it b-word
how are you gonna regret it blame it on the edit blame it on the edit". And i'm not sure where this
was coming from or who it could be directed at - of course there's many queens in the franchise
who have talked about not liking the edit they received from the show including queens like Ilona
Verley, Jaremi FKA PhiPhi O'hara, Max and others. The reason it felt interesting to me, was this song was
released off the back of Canada's Drag Race about to start with Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman not returning;
blaming his not returning on how the fans responded to his edit, and it gets even stranger
considering that Rupaul was good friends with Jeffrey and of course talked with jeffrey while
all this was going on last season according to an interview that he did with the hollywood reporter.
So it seems that Ru was kind of a bit at odds with how production treats people on the show
and how people feel they are treated by production on the show - if that makes any sense. But anyways
we'll be doing a deep dive on the truth behind JBC and Canada's drag race coming this week so
stay tuned for that. As for my Hottest Hots: my hottest happy campers look goes to Charity Kase!
I also asked my patrons to vote for their hottest happy campers look and they chose Ella Vaday!
My hottest campfire couture look is Krystal Versace and my patrons chose Scarlett Harlett!
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