WARNING: Contestants are listed in order of elimination and there are unmarked spoilers on this page, potentially including spoilers for previous seasons.
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RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs. the World seasons:
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All Stars & Vs. the World
This page lists the contestants competing in Drag Race UK vs the World season two. Some of these queens may also appear in other Drag Race shows, or may return in later seasons, but only tropes specific to this season are listed on this page. Season 2 began on February 9, 2024. All names, ages, and locations stated are at the time of filming.
Mayhem Miller (11th)
Age: 41
From: Riverside, California, United States
Original Appearances: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 (10th) RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 5 (7th)
"The party won't stop... and can't stop!"
- Break the Haughty: Introduces herself as a Drag Race legend and flat out mentions in the confessional that she has no idea who most of her cast members are but they’ve probably heard of her. Comes back to bite her in the ass as she’s sent home first.
- Call-Back: Her exit line is a reference to her All Stars 5 exit line "I am the queen! The queen of the party!".
- Corpsing: Her performance in The Queens' Variety Show is intended to be a comedic guided "May-ditation". Unfortunately, Mayhem cracks up on her own jokes and forgets the rest of her lines.
- Failure Hero: Mayhem is an example of a queen who's legendary and accomplished in her own right, but who just doesn't gel with the Drag Race format. After her middling showings in her original seasons, unfortunately history repeats when she bombs the premiere talent show, just like All Stars 5. Unlike All Stars 5, this time she isn't so lucky and gets eliminated first.
- Game-Breaking Injury: She mentions that she suffered from Long COVID, which has hindered her mobility. That's why she decided to perform a radically different talent show rather than a typical lip-sync and dance extravaganza.
Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha (10th + Miss Congeniality)
Age: 25
From: Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Original Appearance: Drag Race España Season 1 (7th)
"Did somebody order a Spanish loser?"
- Call-Back: Her entrance line references the "Did somebody order a ___?" format employed by her other Drag Race España competitors Dovima Nurmi (season 1) and Venedita Von Däsh (season 2), this time with Arantxa ringing her bell for an uncomfortable period of time.
- Pronouncing My Name for You: Her The Queens' Variety Show skit involves Arantxa repeating her name syllable by syllable, framed as an erotic dream she's having, so that the judges and the other queens learn to properly pronounce it.
- Underdressed for the Occasion: The final category for the Happy Ending Ball the queens had to create a ballgown look from rags and scraps. Being voted as the "neediest queen", Arantxa gets a ten second head start to grab materials, but her gothic-based look, while a great idea in concept, is quite basic compared to the other queens, combined with her lack of seamstress skills showing via hem and sleeve length issues. Arantxa ended up in the bottom where La Grande Dame chose to send her home after winning the lip-sync.
- Whole Costume Reference: For the She-vil Queen runway of the Happy Ending Ball she sports a dragged-up take on the "Burn Book" from Mean Girls. Backfires on her though, as while the outfit is good, it doesn't scream "evil queen".
Jonbers Blonde (9th)
Age: 33
From: Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Original Appearance: RuPaul's Drag Race UK'' Series 4 (4th=)
"Top of the morning to ya!"
- Call-Back: Her promo look is an improved version of her disastrous Bingo She Better Don't! design challenge look from her original season.
- Culture Equals Costume: For her For Queen and Country runway, being this series' Irish representative, her outfit is a dragged-up take on a Leprechaun.
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Jonbers admits that she was "delusional" in her original season, believing herself to be "the fashion queen" but being quickly disproven. This time, she fully leans into this angle and expresses her desire to look stupid and have fun.
Keta Minaj (8th)
Age: 42
From: Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands
Original Appearance: Drag Race Holland Season 2 (4th)
"Hooooo!! It's time to say "yay" to your K."
- Bad Impressionists: Despite winning the Snatch Game in her original season, her performance in the Snatch Game: Family Edition was a major step down. She decided to go with Fran Drescher and while she did have Fran's iconic laugh down, she didn't have any real jokes and the ones she did have fell flat. This put her in the bottom which led to her surprisingly early exit.
- Commonality Connection: Keta is of Dutch-Indonesian heritage, so she bonds with Marina Summers, a fellow South-East Asian.
- My Greatest Second Chance: While this applies to almost every All Stars and Vs the World competitor, it's particularly prominent for Keta. As she puts it in her Meet the Queens, she's known as a "robbed queen" after having been controversially eliminated from her original season despite having been the statistical frontrunner at the time.
- Perky Goth: Keta has a penchant for witchy and dark looks, which she says provide a contrast to her sunny personality.
Gothy Kendoll (7th)
Age: 25
From: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Original Appearance: RuPaul's Drag Race UK Series 1 (10th)
"Get ready ladies...I hope you like it "roar".
- Bad Impressionists: Her impression of Kim Woodburn in the Snatch Game: Family Edition could've been a way for Gothy to finally come out of her shell, as Woodburn is known for being over-the-top and loud. But due to Gothy's nerves, her impression had lacked the energy and hamminess that Kim is known her. Coupled with an underwhelming runway look, and Gothy landed in the bottom where just barely avoided being eliminated.
- Fatal Flaw: Her lack of confidence. It's what sent her home first in her original season and continued to haunt her here. While her style and looks have evolved, her timidness hindered her and sent her home (though she did place much higher than last time).
- Shrinking Violet: Gothy lands in the bottom 2 in the premiere for her lack of confidence during her talent show, almost looking as if she was waiting for it to be over, and being amazed that her own fire trick worked. Marina comments that such behaviour is unjustifiable on the international stage of UK vs. the World.
- It's also what sends her home during the Rusical challenge, where she looked unsure of herself and just wandered around the stage not knowing what to do.
Choriza May (6th)
Age: 31
From: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England
Original Appearance: RuPaul's Drag Race UK Series 3 (7th=)
"Now you can hate me 'cause I'm beautiful... 'cause the glow up is real baby!"
- Call-Back:
- She references her famous "Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful, hate me because I'm an immigrant" entrance line with her new one for the season.
- Her first line in confessional is "What's my story, you may ask?", the same introduction to the rambling explanation of her one-eyed, owl-witch look for the Campfire Couture sewing challenge.
- Her Britannia look for the For Queen and Country runway features the RuPeter badge which she originally won for the Girl Group challenge of Drag Race UK series 3, pinned on her chest.
- Child of Two Worlds: Choriza is officially representing the UK, where she lives and works, but she's originally from Valencia, Spain. This means that, despite being immediately included in the "British Council" with her other Drag Race UK representatives, her bond with her friend and fellow Spaniard Arantxa is just as strong.
- Immigrant Patriotism: It was already present in her original season, but it's made much more explicit when she walks the For Queen and Country as the UK's national personification Britannia, and later on states that she wanted to show her pride for the country that adopted her.
- Incoming Ham: She bellows "RULE, BRITANNIA!" as soon as she steps on the catwalk for the For Queen and Country runway.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Tells Keta Minaj that she isn't upset about Keta choosing her to be eliminated over Arantxa in episode 2, which in the edit is instantly followed by a confessional about how pissed she is, and her distrust of Keta is brought up again in Untucked as a reason that the winners of the week might choose to send her home.
- Whole Costume Reference: Her Ruveal Yourself! runway is a lawyer-friendly and burlesque version of Marge Simpson from The Simpsons.
Scarlet Envy (5th)
Age: 30
From: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Original Appearances: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 11 (10th) RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 6 (9th)
"I've been robbed! No, really... Where'd my sausage roll go?"
- Continuity Cavalcade: Her talent show performance is an original song where Scarlet purposely gives out bad advice, including recalling Joe Black's H&M fiasco in Drag Race UK series 2, the many queens of the franchise mentioning the phrase "snatch the crown" in their RuMix verses, and Jujubee's recurring competitor status.
- Living Statue: Paying tribute to her New York roots, Scarlet decides to portray the Statue of Liberty for the Snatch Game: Family Edition and she does a really good job with tons of witty jokes. She managed to place high that week.
- Took a Level in Badass: During her first two seasons, she only a single challenge (and even then, it was a shared win) and hadn't won a single lip-sync. Then came episode 3, she manages to win the Drag World advertising challenge and her first lip-sync.
- Whole Costume Reference: Her For Queen and Country look includes the Mount Rushmore headpiece worn by Denise Richards in Drop Dead Gorgeous.
La Grande Dame (3rd=)
Age: 23
From: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Original Appearance: Drag Race France Season 1 (runner-up)
"La Grande Dame, FRAAAAANCE!"
- Absurdism: For The Queens' Variety Show, she makes use of a loop box to create a soundscape out of random noises — including an impression of Ru's famous laugh — and then plays it for comedy, including a Brit Crew member holding a saxophone and topping it off with a strut down the runway. Michelle praises her for being so entertaining without having said a single word.
- Affectionate Nickname: All the other queens call her Dada, which means "dad" in childish French, being rather appropriate considering her surrealist tendencies.
- Call-Back: Her beaded promo look is one to her original Drag Race France promo look — they were even made by the same designer.
- The Fashionista: As this season's only French competitor, she rares to showcase the fashions that make her country's drag famous. It goes off to a great start in the episode 1 For Queen and Country runway, where she steps out in a campy-chic look featuring a frog impaled on the Eiffel Tower.
- Shout-Out: Her entrance line references the 2018 Miss Universe beauty pageant when that year’s Miss France representative, Eva Colas, screams out her country's name.
Marina Summers (3rd=)
Age: 26
From: Makati City, Metro Manila, The Philippines
Original Appearance: Drag Race Philippines (runner-up)
"Mabuhay, bitches. It's time to give these colonizers... the chop!"
- The Ace: From the very first challenge, Marina has proven to be skilled in challenges as well as delivering incredible fashion looks. This shows in the track record, as she’s the only one of the top four to win multiple badges.
- Culture Equals Costume: Her For Queen and Country look has her outfit be inspired by Banaue Rice Terraces in the Philippines.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: At around 5'6'' (164 cm), Marina is the shortest queen of the cast and barely reaches the shoulders of the tallest one, La Grande Dame. Despite this, she's no less fierce and demonstrates it right away in the premiere with a high-energy performance that includes lip-sync, dance, and poi
.Marina: Big surprises come in small packages.
Hannah Conda (Runner-up)
Age: 31
From: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Original Appearance: RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under Series 2 (runner-up)
"I have a feeling we're not in Oz anymore, but you girls are gonna click your heels three times 'cause you're going home! [chuckle]"
- Adults Dressed as Children: After a slightly underwhelming start to the competition, Hannah manages to shine in the Snatch Game: Family Edition with her impression of Shirley Temple being a hilarious Affectionate Parody, completecwith a deranged tap dancing break. This performance results in her second Snatch Game win.
- History Repeats: Given that Hannah aced the Snatch Game the first time around, she unsurprisingly does well here with her performance as Shirley Temple.
- Pun: Hannah's entrance line is a clear reference to The Wizard of Oz, but "Oz" is also a nickname for her native Australia.
- Swarm of Rats: For the Drags to Riches Eleganza look of the Happy Ending Ball, Hannah creates a gown with colored fake mice attached to it. While the concept is fun and the dress is well made enough, the way the mice are hot glued onto the dress makes it quite distracting. As a result, Hannah places low that week.
- Whole Costume Reference: Her For Queen and Country frilled-neck lizard looks is inspired by the outfits worn by the protagonists of beloved Australian cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Tia Kofi (Winner)
Age: 32
From: Clapham, South London, England
Original Appearance: RuPaul's Drag Race UK Series 2 (7th)
"I've been stuck backstage for three years, and not one of you came to look for me."
- Black Comedy: After failing the Snatch Game the first time she played, Tia redeems herself with her performance as a freshly beheaded Anne Boleyn whose more or less annoyed that her head was chopped off. With tons of darkly humorous jokes and snark, Tia managed to gain her second win of the season.
- In Memoriam: In-universe example. For all three of her Happy Ending Ball looks, she predominantly uses the color red to honor her fellow Season 2 queen Cherry Valentine, who had died in 2022.
- Took a Level in Badass:
- Tia shone in her original season (which, given how stacked the cast of Drag Race UK Series 2 was, is no small feat) thanks to her wit and charisma, but a succession of naff looks held her back performance-wise. This time, Tia's had a massive glow-up in the aesthetics department and it shows with her For Queen and Country outfit, a gown of Nigerian-style fabric in the colours of the UK flag, in reference to her mixed heritage.
- Her improvement especially shows in the challenge that sent her home last time: the Snatch Game, where she redeems herself with her hilarious Anne Boleyn impression, as well as getting her first badge.
