To say Blu Hydrangea is a Drag Race fan would be an understatement. She was only 11 when she started watching the show on a small screen and a low volume to ensure her mother would not hear. “I wanted to ingest every single second of drag content I could,” she says over Zoom, looking like an out of this world vision in an orange costume and a choker in her signature blue.
“Back then, I had to wait a whole year before getting new Drag Race. I can never have enough of it, and I've watched every season, Down Under, Thailand season two, I just finished Italy, I love them all.” Ahead of returning to the franchise to compete in BBC Three’s upcoming Drag Race UK vs The World, she was even an admirer of fellow-competitor Pangina before they met in the werkroom. “Pangina Heals was so mysterious; we did not know what she could do as she was a judge before and has never competed. We did not have a point of reference. But I definitely clicked with her because I'm such a massive fan-gina. I was the only girl on the set who had watched Drag Race Thailand, and I adored it. It's another level — they set themselves on fire on that show literally.”
