But Lawrence it's time to find out
a little bit more about your happy space
Hi Susan it's Lawrence Chaney here
and I am living in my happy space
Drag encompasses everything I loved doing growing up
I loved sewing, I loved makeup
Painting, I loved drawing
I loved doing little skits with my sister and my family members
Drag queens are the embodiment of fun
I know so many queens out there who don't want it as a job
They just enjoy it
Drag is something I think we could all learn something from
I think everyone should try it at least once
It seems like you're putting up a mask and you're hiding yourself
but it's a perfect vessel to be unapologetically you
It doesn't hide who you are
it actually reveals who you are
I mean look at me I'm Cinderfella
So drag Lawrence is your happy space
Yeah
Tell me why
You know I'm not someone where
you know going out to the club is my hobby
It's not where I'm at my happiest
No I'm not my happiest with a teasing brush in one hand
and a powder brush in the other you know
Often drag pays tribute to incredible female stars
I mean that's one of the things that it does in terms of the divas
Yeah
That they're representing
When you started on RuPaul's Drag Race UK
one of the moments where I was delighted
was when you said hello to Michelle McManus
I was all cause... do you know what I mean
On RuPaul's Drag Race it's like hello to Cher, hello to Diana Ross
and you went hello to Michelle McManus
and I thought yes!
Finally
This is the thing is you know people say amazing divas
but excuse me I've grown up in Scotland
Michelle McManus is one of ma divas
Absolutely
Absolutely!
I've got a small quiz
It's not a quiz it's an explanation
Yes
The drag scene has its own vocabulary it has everything
and a lot of oddly enough things that we take for granted now
actually started in drag
Yes
And it's a hugely influential cultural movement
Yeah
So here's some things and I want you to tell me the meanings of them
I'm in the hot seat now
You are... there are no prizes Lawrence
There are never any prizes
Apart from...
Not even a badge?
No listen... oh you've got enough RuPeter badges
Bye Felicia
Yeah
What does that mean?
Bye Felicia is like a goodbye greeting
you would give someone that's not very nice
Someone Lorraine wouldn't like she'd go
Bye Felicia
That's right
Yeah
And she'd do it with a smile but you know what she means
Bye Felicia
And you'd be like Lorraine Kelly's angry isn't she
Yes!
Now I am gonna tell you something about this next one
I did try and do this
No?
With Kevin Clifton one night after a couple of sweet sherries
on the Strictly tour
A death drop
And did you drop dead?
It didn't work out
Yes...
You know that way... so what's a death drop?
So a death drop it comes from the ballroom scene
and what it is it's like... it's a dip
So basically it's when you would fabulously fall during a number
but it's graceful
Yes
Don't know anything about being graceful
But you would kind of fall kind of...
you'd bend your leg and fall onto your back
Yes
Without harming anything
Now like you I've tried it before
and I've hurt every bone in my body doing it
It's very important to say if you're watching this at home
with my legal health and safety head on
if you look at death drops on the internet please don't try them at home
because it's very difficult and you could hurt yourself quite badly
as I did
Yes leave it to the professionals
Leave it to the professionals
You know this way you go like that...
At looks easy let's try a death drop
Yeah well literally anything you're like...
I could do that
I know
Yeah
It's really difficult
Finally...
and this is a lovely one for happiness
To slay something
Oh slaying is the best possible thing you could do
Slaying, you've killed it
You've nailed it out the park
Done the best that you could do
So I have slayed the colour pink today
You certainly have
Yeah
And I have slayed not having a lot of cat hair on my trousers
So...
You've slayed matching the background
I'm glad drag is your happy space
and I can see it is your happy space
and it's kind of like Kaylee
what you do makes so many people happy as well
because I think during this lockdown
I couldn't have got through it without RuPaul's Drag Race
Yeah
I couldn't have at all
Thursday nights seven o'clock on the iPlayer
We sit down blanket biscuits
Right let's see what's going on
Come on
And it's incredible so I wanted to say thank you
for making I think a huge amount of people happy
at this point where we needed cheering up
So thank you very much
Thank you it's my pleasure
I love you know making people laugh even when we wanna cry
Absolutely
I feel quite emotional thanking you
but honestly it's been so...
I'll stop it
Right stop now Lawrence let's be professional
What's that?
No, exactly!