{"id":5987,"date":"2020-01-20T03:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2020-01-20T03:41:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:41:35","slug":"mayhem-at-dragconuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/mayhem-at-dragconuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayhem at DragConUK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a great few years for <strong>RuPaul<\/strong>.&nbsp; She\u2019s everywhere.&nbsp; OK, perhaps not on <em>FOX<\/em>, which took a hard pass on Ru\u2019s daytime talk show.&nbsp; But it certainly isn\u2019t slowing the drag diva down.&nbsp; She\u2019s starring in <strong><em>AJ and the Queen<\/em><\/strong>, which has a 10-episode commitment from <em>Netflix <\/em>and producer <strong>Michael Patrick King<\/strong>.&nbsp; And she\u2019s got another season of the award-winning <strong><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Then there\u2019s a Las Vegas residency coming up at the <em>Flamingo Hotel <\/em>(formerly the home of <strong>Donny <\/strong>and <strong>Marie<\/strong>).&nbsp; And <strong><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race: UK<\/em><\/strong> was a huge hit.&nbsp; Alas, that also led to some woes.&nbsp; Last weekend, the UK hosted their first-ever <strong><em>DragCon <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 a popular event for drag queens and their fans.&nbsp; Alas, <em>DragCon <\/em>was a victim of its own success, with too many tickets being sold and people queuing in lines for hours.&nbsp; Photos at the <em>Olympia London <\/em>(the venue) show hordes both inside and out.&nbsp; <em>World of Wonder <\/em>(the producers) issued a statement offering to honor tickets the next day, or offer refunds.<\/p>\n<p>With all this hoopla, more producers are cashing in on the drag craze.&nbsp; <em>TLC <\/em>has announced a new show \u2013<strong><em>Dragnificent!<\/em><\/strong>, which will star <em>Drag Race<\/em> alumnae <strong>Jujubee<\/strong>, <strong>Bebe Zahara Benet<\/strong>, <strong>Thorgy Thor <\/strong>and <strong>Alexis Michelle <\/strong>as sort of a drag version of <strong><em>Queer Eye<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The ladies will travel around and try to make people\u2019s lives better.&nbsp; I hope they let them loose on some of those people from <strong><em>My 600-lb Life<\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; The show debuts in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a great few years for RuPaul.&nbsp; She\u2019s everywhere.&nbsp; OK, perhaps not on FOX, which took a hard pass on Ru\u2019s daytime talk show.&nbsp; But it certainly isn\u2019t slowing the drag diva down.&nbsp; She\u2019s starring in AJ and the Queen, which has a 10-episode commitment from Netflix and producer Michael Patrick King.&nbsp; And she\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}