The drag queen competition and its regional franchises never stop, and that means more and more glitz and sass straight from the United Kingdom in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK version.
There’s now a King in that country, but that isn’t stopping these men from participating in the Drag Race to become crowned the Queen in RuPaul’s regional drag race spin-offs.
Each episode is a bomb, full of competitiveness, demanding challenges from the judges, and as usual, there’s always a bag of cash, lots of free makeup, and a shot of becoming the UK’s Drag Queen with a shot at participating in yet another international Drag Race show.
After the episode’s debut, we prepared for you a brief recap as well as all the necessary details to get your Drag Race viewing —UK-style— on the go.
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 5 Episode 1 Recap
The debut episode for this kicked off meeting the contestants they are Alexis Saint-Pete from London, age Banksie from Manchester, age 23.
Cara Melle, age 26, from London. DeDeLicious from Royal Tunbridge Wells; Ginger Johnson, 34, from Lanchester; Kate Butch, age 26, from Buxton; Michael Marouli, 39, from Newcastle upon Tyne; Miss Naomi Carter, age 23, from Doncaster; Tomara Thomas, 25, from Hartlepool and lastly, Vicki Vivacious from Redruth.
After meeting and greeting everybody, we followed the same structure as most Drag Race shows do: there’s a runway show, and the two picked up for the Lip syncing contest were Cara Melle, and Vicky Vivacious, who did the best during the runway. The song was Gina G’s “Ooh Ahh… Just a Little Bit”, with Vicky being the winner.
There were no bottoms in the episode, just the top two that we mentioned earlier, but the judges told us that starting from the next episode, there might be an elimination. So these participants better bring out their A-game because it’s only going to get tougher from here on.
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 5 Episode 2 Release Date
RuPaul’ Drag Race UK Season 5 Episode 2 will be broadcast by BBC Three on Thursday, 5 October 2023 at 16:00 hrs Eastern Time, United States. Each episode lasts around 70 minutes. In the following list, you’ll find the regional time release dates for this program.
- Pacific Time (PT): 13:00 hrs (1:00 PM) PT
- Central Time (CT): 15:00 hrs (3:00 PM) CT
- Mountain Time (MT): 14:00 hrs (2:00 PM) MT
- British Summer Time (BST): 21:00 hrs (9:00 PM) BST
- Central European Summer Time (CEST): 22:00 hrs (10:00 PM) CEST
- Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST): 06:00 hrs (6:00 AM) AEST on October 6th
- Sydney Time (Australia): 07:00 AM on October 6th
- Melbourne Time (Australia): 07:00 AM on October 6th
- Brisbane Time (Australia): 06:00 AM on October 6th
- India Standard Time (IST): 01:30 hrs (1:30 AM) IST on October 6th
- Singapore Time (SGT): 4:00 AM (11:00 PM) SGT
- New Zealand Standard Time (NZST): 09:00 AM NZST on October 6th
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 5 Episode Guide
This season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK consists of ten weekly episodes that began airing in late September all the way up to late November 2023 via BBC Three. Consult our episode guide, mark your calendar, and don’t miss a single moment of this show.
- Episode 1: “Tickety-boo” – Thursday, 28 September 2023
- Episode 2: “TBA” – Thursday, 5 October 2023
- Episode 3: “TBA” – Thursday, 12 October 2023
- Episode 4: “TBA” – Thursday, 19 October 2023
- Episode 5: “TBA” – Thursday, 26 October 2023
- Episode 7: “TBA” – Thursday, 2 November 2023
- Episode 8: “TBA” – Thursday, 9 November 2023
- Episode 9: “TBA” – Thursday, 16 November 2023
- Episode 10: “TBA” – Thursday, 23 November 2023
- Episode 11: “TBA” – Thursday, 30 November 2023
Where To Watch RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 5 Episodes?
Catch the latest episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 5 on Thursday nights via BBC Three if you live in the UK. You can also stream the show from the UK via BBC iPlayer, which is free to subscribe if you reside in that country, and all you need to provide is your TV license and email address.
Furthermore, if you live outside the UK and still want to watch this show, there are many ways to do it because of its popularity. Firstly, MTV broadcasts the show, but depending on your location, you have to consult their website to find out when it airs.
Furthermore, Wow Presents Plus also distributes this program, and it is a very popular platform that also distributes all the regional variants of this show in different parts of the world. Lastly, Paramount+ also distributes this program.
