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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Paul McAuley

Liverpool's Danny Beard current frontrunner to win RuPaul's Drag Race UK

Eight became seven in this week of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

The BBC reality competition sees drag queens up and down the country compete against one another in a bid to be crowned the UK’s next Drag Race superstar. Currently, as it stands, Liverpool’s own Danny Beard is the frontrunner having just won her third maxi-challenge and RuPeter badge.

After delivering a comedic performance as the eponymous character in Lairy Poppins, a parody of Mary Poppins, the 29-year-old self-proclaimed “sassy, shady, singing cartoon clown” was in the perfect position to be named this week's challenge winner. And after walking down the main stage as a larger-of-life version of Audrey II, the plant from Rocky Horror Picture Show, it was clear to see Danny, from Halewood, was about to secure another win under her belt.

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