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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Brown and Robyn Vinter

RuPaul’s Drag Race star wins best performance in a musical at the UK Theatre awards

De Campo holding award.
De Campo described the production as a ‘really, really gay Rocky Horror Show’. Photograph: Ian West/PA

A star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has picked up a leading theatre award for her performance as an East German “slip of a girly boy” who lives bitterly in Kansas after botched gender reassignment surgery.

Divina de Campo won the best performance in a musical award at the UK Theatre awards on Sunday, one of three prizes for the biggest winner of the day: Leeds Playhouse.

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