COVER
If you’re looking for glam camp vamps, look no further
than the gorgeous Michelle Visage. An LGBT ally like
no other Visage has become a bit of cultural icon. For
most, she’s famous for her stint on 2015’s Celebrity Big
Brother, where she managed to nearly reform Katie
Hopkins into an almost acceptable pundit and for her
role as RuPaul’s second hand woman on RuPaul’s Drag
Race. However Visage has a legion of fans harking
backing to her time as one of New York’s original club
kids of the 80s. She was also lead singer for The
S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M and Seduction selling millions of
records globally. THEGAYUK’s Glasgow correspondent
George McPhail caught up with Visage during a recent
stay in Scotland to spill the T on “SheMailGate”, boob
jobs and why Ru can’t remember her children’s names.
GM: Does it annoy you that Ru always gets
the names of your children wrong?
MV: No it makes me laugh. I notice there’s a whole
subreddit on people who get upset as Ru can’t
remember my children's names. He actually can, he
just can’t remember which one’s which. He’s going
to be 55 bless his heart. My kids are Lillie and Lola.
I know it’s similar. if I’d had a third girl she would
have been Lana so it would have just sealed the
deal, but that said, no of course it doesn’t bother
me. He can’t even remember what he had for lunch.
GM: I have to ask. You want to take your
implants out?
MV: Yeah, I want them taken out. I’m going
through this time in my life where it’s like I’ve
become this more natural organic person and I have
this autoimmune disease and so why not make it
better? There’s nothing wrong with them, I don’t
need to get them out, but why keep them in? I know
people love them. Trust me my husband’s like ‘are
you sure you want to...’ look it’s not gonna happen
anytime soon but I’ll give the community fair
warning.
Drag is
irreverent. If
a drag queen
can’t take a
f**king joke
then you’re
in the wrong
industry
bitch.
GM: I just want to say what a pleasure it is to
meet you because I love Drag Race and I’ve
been watching since the first series.
MV: Yeah, we don’t really talk about the first two
series. I wasn’t on them, (laughs). They came into
their own in season three and it felt like everything
really started to gel.
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