Drag Race UK fan in tears as Dakota Schiffer shares gender journey: ‘So lovely and important’
Dakota and Sminty have an emotional talk in Drag Race UK. (BBC)
RuPauls’s Drag Race UK fans were left teary eyed and emotional after a rollercoaster second episode of season four.
In Thursday’s (29 September) episode of Drag Race UK saw another queen sashay away, RuPeter badges handed out like candy and Dakota Schiffer share her emotional backstory.
During the episode, Dakota – the first trans woman to compete on the UK version of Drag Race – spoke about the special bond she has with her queer and non-binary identical twin.
“We were both bullied very severely,” Dakota said.
“Those experiences from childhood is such a dark time, I’ve got such bad memories about them.”
She spoke about how hard school years were for her, but how her twin was always there for her.
“But they are not too dark because I knew that everyday leaving school my best friend would be walking home with me.
“They have been there through everything. We’ve helped each other through every major trauma and event in our lives. We came out as queer the same age at 15, together.”
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supportive siblings 💕
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— RuPaul's Drag Race UK (@dragraceukbbc) September 29, 2022
Viewers shared how touched they were, with one person saying: “I’m so glad they’ve given a big chunk of this episode to Dakota discussing her coming out journey as a trans woman and her twin’s coming out as queer and NB.
“So lovely and important for those positive stories to be given space.”
Dakota Schiffer went from Bottom 2 on episode 1 to telling a beautiful story about coming out/her relationship with her twin and curating another ICONIC UK girl group and ultimately winning EP. 2. If this isn't a redemption story, I don't know what is. 💖 #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/4bmyHruHH4— 𝔞𝔭𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔞𝔫𝔶 🪩 (@dragraceher) September 29, 2022
Dakota wowed with her Pokemon inspired runway look to the point where the official Pokémon account itself tweeted a pic in adoration.
😉👌— RuPaul's Drag Race UK (@dragraceukbbc) September 29, 2022
the official Pokemon twitter account being a stan of @dakota_schiffer makes so much sense. #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/sB9YSqc3y4— r (@starfuckar) September 29, 2022
Others shared their love for Black Peppa who continued to stun in this episode and hit the runway with a spectacular neon yellow look.
It's settled. @iamblackpeppa invented highlighter yellow. Look at this face! ✨ #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/dRXSceaf2d
— Laura ❄️ (@omgheylaura) September 29, 2022
talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it. #dragraceuk pic.twitter.com/In6Z8ScVEs— Seddera Side (@sedderaside) September 29, 2022
Joining the judging line-up this week was singer FKA Twigs who ended up developing a special bond with Baby during a classic girl group challenge, where the group was split into teams of six and five.
Find someone who looks at you the way Baby and FKA Twigs look at each other 😍 🥰#DragRaceUK @bby_ldn @FKAtwigs pic.twitter.com/HqMq8l0fnb— RuPaul's Drag Race UK (@dragraceukbbc) September 29, 2022
But bonding with FKA twigs wasn’t enough to help Baby’s team (lead by Black Peppa) secure a win, and it was Dakota’s girls who snatched victory.
RuPaul handed out six RuPeter badges to the winning team, much to viewers’ confusion – not least, the eternally badgeless Cheryl Hole.
Me watching them hand out six RuPeter badges #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/tYaW2RMURx— Cheryl Hole (@CherylHoleQueen) September 29, 2022
And in this week’s runway challenge, the queens took to the runway to dazzle the judges under the theme “neon nights” which, of course, delivered some iconic looks.
We're obsessed with all the runway looks from tonight! 😍 #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/DbGZLDpdFf— RuPaul's Drag Race UK (@dragraceukbbc) September 29, 2022
After a chaotic lip-sync for your life between Starlet and Jonbers Blonde to Sugababes’ “About You Now”, Starlet was booted out.
Starlet even managing to make a dip look lackadaisical while Jonbers looks like you just accidentally made your video game character do a forward roll <3 #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/wQ2TsNFW4w— Ariadne Griffin 🦋 (@Ariadne_Reviews) September 29, 2022
Starlet throwing in a death drop after giving us nothing for the whole lip sync #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/vdFX1WLlIG— Montel (@montel96_) September 29, 2022
Starlet bid her farewells with a typically laid-back final line to Ru: “Thank you for making my dream come true and now I need to go and find another one.”
So with two queen’s gone the race to be crown UK’s ultimate queen continues. RuPaul’s Drag Race UK airs on Thursday at 9pm on BBC Three and is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
