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The reigning Queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK "blows off" in Brighton!
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03/11/2024
The reigning Queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Ginger Johnson admits he couldn’t resist the title he’s adopted for the show he’s bringing to Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange on Friday, November 15 at 8pm.
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Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Now, if
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there are an award for the best title of any show, the gentleman opposite me would win
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it. Ginger Johnson, reigning queen at RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Ginger, you're heading to Brighton
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with a show called Ginger Johnson Blows Off. Now, how can you get away with that? And also,
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in what sense is it blowing off? Well, the show, believe it or not, the show ostensibly
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is about art. So it seems like it's a content warning in itself that we would call it Ginger
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Johnson Blows Off, which has been a surprise for some people when they've arrived. I think
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maybe it's a phrase that people don't use that much anymore, but it just made us laugh
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that when we were first putting the show together and that was one of the titles we came up
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with.
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But the wider context, this is you showing yourself off as a daredevil, isn't it, basically?
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Yes, that's right. The show is me chasing a new dream of becoming Britain's most dangerous
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woman. So it's a series of escalatingly ridiculous stunts as I try harder and harder to live
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up to the memory of this amazing circus performer that I saw get fired out of a cannon when
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I was younger.
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Wow. And what does it say about you that you're seeking out these dangerous situations live
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on stage in front of an audience?
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I think it says that I'm seeking attention. That's my full time job, you know, if you're
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not getting people's attention, what are you doing?
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Absolutely. But are these stunts actually dangerous? Is there risk?
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Yes. Yeah, they really are. And in fact, the ones that appear to be less dangerous are
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the most dangerous. And I think that's because while I'm doing them, I'm really concentrating
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on making sure that they don't go wrong, you know?
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So is that the approach when you're approaching danger? It's concentration, is it? You've
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got to be in that moment.
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Oh, yeah. Well, it has to be for my safety and for the safety of the audience as well,
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because the audience are not spared in this show. They get in their own amounts of danger
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throughout the show as well. Nobody is safe.
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So it's a fabulous thing to be doing, especially as you come to the end of your year as the
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reigning RuPaul's Drag Race UK champion. How have you enjoyed that?
02:25
Yeah, well, I've got to leave a lasting impression, haven't you? And if that involves farting
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in front of a room full of strangers, then that's what I'm going to do.
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You were saying winning the title did change your life, inevitably.
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Oh, absolutely. It's changed my life. Yeah, I'm having the best time. It's just opened
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up so many doors and I'm getting to meet so many amazing people and work with people that
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I have idolised for years and years and years. And I think one of my friends said it to me
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the other day, and I think he described it best. He was saying that winning Drag Race
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has just given me the opportunity to realise the most ridiculous ideas that in the past
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maybe I didn't have the time or the budget or the platform to do. Now, nothing is stopping
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me and that's how you end up with Ginger Johnson Blows Off.
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Nothing is stopping you and this is what you do. Ginger Johnson Blows Off. It sounds brilliant
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and it's coming to Brighton. Lovely to speak to you. Thank you very much.
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Thank you. Thanks so much.
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