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  • Articles,  Gay Culture,  Reviews,  RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – Meet The Queens

    August 28, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Long live our gracious Queen(s)! The time has come for us to finally meet the pioneering queens who will be taking part on the very first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – and my word has it been a long wait for us to finally get a British season! Not only are we meeting the queens, but we also have a start date! But let’s not fanny about, let’s meet the queens! That’s right, October 3rd (also known as Mean Girls day) is the start of the first-ever UK season. We don’t have too long to wait now! So let’s delve straight into the Meet The Queens video! It’s…

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    RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – S1 Ep3: Car Boot The House Down

    October 19, 2019

    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 Ep 2: Good God Girl, Get Out

    March 23, 2019

    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4, Episode 4: Jersey Justice

    January 11, 2019
  • Lifestyle,  Photography

    Food Photography – Gordon Rhodes’ New Vegan Range

    August 14, 2019 / 0 Comments

    This post maybe a little bit different compared to my usual house rants and Drag Race rambles that you see on my blog, but I thought it was about time I showcased some of my food photography work – after all, it is how I’m paying the bills. I’ve been shooting for Gordon Rhodes & The Dalesman Group for nearly 5 years now and I’ve never once uploaded any of my work onto the blog. That’s about to change as I recently shot a sassy little vegan range for Gordon Rhodes and I thought the images were worth sharing. Branching into new territories, the GR brand has launched a range…

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    Dalesman Christmas 2019 – Food Photography

    December 6, 2019
    Dinner 18:55

    Press Night for Dinner 18:55 at Leeds Playhouse’s Pop-Up Theatre

    February 26, 2019

    Happiest’s Office Christmas Party

    December 16, 2018
  • Articles,  Leeds

    10 Things I Love About Leeds – My Yorkshire Day Tribute

    August 1, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Ee by gum it’s only bloody Yorkshire Day! Much like gay pride, it’s a day to celebrate all things ‘Yorkshire’ but with fewer rainbows and glitter and more flat caps and gravy. To outsiders, an old Yorkshireman may appear to be grumpy, abrupt, miserable and possibly racist(?) but there are a lot of folks with some true northern charm. We’re a rare breed from God’s Own Country that tends to scare southerners, we speak to strangers, we sit with randomers in beer gardens and we’re not afraid to talk on public transport. Sure, Yorkshire may not be the epicentre of the UK’s cultural hub, but that doesn’t mean we’re left…

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    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 Ep 4: Trump: The Rusical

    April 3, 2019

    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 Ep 1: Whatcha Unpackin?

    March 10, 2019

    ASOS x The Simpsons – What Can We Expect To See?

    August 18, 2018
  • Events,  Leeds,  Lifestyle

    Dame Harry’s Big Camp Birthday Bash

    July 31, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Ladies and gentlemen, I have officially turned over to the wrong side of 20. Last weekend I celebrated my 26th anniversary since I touched a fanny and so I had a wee gathering and a venture into town to commemorate my birthmas… and of course, copious beverages. 🍾 I knew I wanted to look sassy (well, as sassy as you can look when you’re one of life’s rotters) and so I had a theme to my social gathering; CAMP. Yes, following the Met Gala’s theme this year, I decided to have a ‘Camp’ themed party. However, I felt that a lot of guests didn’t quite get the ‘camp’ aspect of…

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    Backstage @ Kingston MA Graduate Fashion Show 2015

    November 26, 2015

    RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – S1 Ep1: Queen(s) of England

    October 5, 2019

    Jinkx Monsoon Is Cursed: Leeds

    October 18, 2018
  • Products,  Reviews

    White Choc Coco Pops – My Childhood Dreams Have Become A Reality

    July 5, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Once upon a time, I was a young, impressionable little boy with big dreams and high hopes, I never thought it would be possible that the world would bless us with white chocolate Coco Pops… but those days are over. We don’t need to be dreamers anymore, we’ve put a man on the moon, created a cordless vacuum cleaner and made mobile phones a reality. But a new dawn is upon us. A chance for us to finally create peace around the world. Why? For the first time in Coco Pops’ 59 years, they have finally made a white chocolate version! This isn’t an internet hoax, white chocolate Coco Pops…

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    Moschino Set As Next Brand Collaboration With H&M

    April 16, 2018

    Adventures Of A First Time Buyer – I’ve Finally Bought A Sofa

    September 13, 2018

    Sainsbury’s Christmas Advert 2018 – ‘The Big Night’

    November 25, 2018
  • Leeds,  Lifestyle,  Reviews

    Jaymi Hensley stars in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

    June 9, 2019 / 0 Comments

    For a while now, my friend Elisha and I have been saying that we wanted to relive our childhoods by going to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in person. It’s a show we both fondly remember from watching the Donny Osmond film version as children and now it was coming to Leeds and we thought we’d give it a whirl. Our expectations weren’t particularly high as we’ve always seen it as a ‘family musical’. We also thought it would be a tad dated and to be fair, it did come out in 1968 (51 years ago). However, as we were watching the show, we realised that the vocals had…

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    Aquaria ‘The Winners Tour’ @ Tunnel, Leeds

    November 14, 2018

    Dame Harry’s Big Camp Birthday Bash

    July 31, 2019

    Adventures Of A First Time Buyer – Throw A Little Glitter On It

    June 2, 2018
  • Articles,  Gay Culture

    The weird, wacky and WTF ‘Pride’ contributions in the name of capitalism

    June 4, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Strap on (no pun intended) your gayest garments because pride season is just around the corner! And you know what that means… brands are going to act as allies to sell merchandise! Hooray! As you know, LGBT month is prime time for brands to pretend their ‘inclusive’ by throwing some gaudy rainbows on whatever products they’ve got. There seems to be a lot of “pinkwashing” these days. There are a few things in life that boils my piss and seeing brands that don’t really do much for the LGBT community slap a rainbow on some that during pride month is one of them. Not only that but I think it’s really…

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    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 Ep 3: Diva Worship

    March 28, 2019

    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 Ep 6: The Draglympics

    April 14, 2019
  • Events,  Interviews

    *Field Notes by Robert J. Railton – Private View June 7th

    June 4, 2019 / 0 Comments

    I do love championing my friends and their escapades and this weekend I’ll be seeing my good friend Robert J. Railton‘s art exhibition in London. Robert and I first met many moons ago (I think 2012) at London Collections: Men (now London Fashion Week Men’s) in the little Topman sponsored pub. We ended up chatting for quite some time and since then we’ve headed to countless seasons and shows together. As well as being an incredibly fashionable chap, Robert is also a talented artist and I had the pleasure of being the subject of one of Robert J. Railton’s art pieces before. Robert and I bonded over menswear and I…

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    Light Night Leeds 2019

    October 16, 2018

    How Pat Butcher Ended Up On My Christmas Tree

    December 30, 2018

    RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Confirm Alan Carr & Graham Norton As Guest Judges!

    February 14, 2019
  • Articles,  Gay Culture,  Reviews,  RuPaul's Drag Race

    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 Ep 11: Bring Back My Queens

    June 3, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Brace yourself because I have another rant brewing! You thought I was mad last week when Shuga was unfairly sent into the lipsync, well this week’s episode has had me all kinds of vexed. Why? Well, because *spoiler alert* Nina West was wrongly eliminated this week! But I’ll come back to that later, just know that I’m fuming at RuPaul and his illegitimate daughter, Silky, who he keeps saving from elimination. After Shuga’s unjust elimination last week, the queens now know that the competition is hotting up. And there’s nobody who knows that more than Silky after she got read for filth (but saved from lipsyncing… again). I’m going to rush…

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    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4, Episode 3: Snatch Game Of Love

    December 26, 2018

    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race S11 Ep 10: Dragracadabra

    May 22, 2019

    Press Night for ‘Kes’ at Leeds Playhouse’s Pop-Up Theatre

    February 10, 2019
  • Articles,  London,  Styling

    Jocks & Nerds Magazine – Svengali #ThrowbackThursday

    May 23, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Maybe I’m having a midlife crisis, maybe it’s Maybelline. I jest, I’m just reminiscing about the good old days and I thought they’d be worth sharing on my blog as a little ‘throwback’. I need to start sharing some of my old work a bit more as I never really broadcasted it. Anyway, today I thought I’d post a magazine spread of my first printed accreditation as a styling assistant. Way way back many centuries ago, not long after the Bible began, I met a great stylist called Karen Mason at London Collections: Men (now London Fashion Week Men’s). It was back in the early seasons of LCM when the…

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    TV Review: RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4, Episode 2: Super Girl Groups, Henny

    December 23, 2018

    Is Mariah Carey’s Hostel Advert The Greatest Piece Of Satire The World Has Ever Seen?

    April 10, 2018

    Erdem x H&M — Gloriously Floral Menswear

    October 26, 2017
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