Warning: This text comprises spoilers for RuPaul's Drag Race season 17, episode 5.
How's RuPaul's Drag Race star Lydia Butthole Kollins' head? Properly, the reply is true in her runway look this week.
The Pittsburgh-based horror queen's newest Principal Stage providing poked and probed the boundaries of what could be proven on TV, as Lydia got here onscreen overtly dressed as a penis for the "Tickled Pink" runway class on Friday's episode.
"This week, I'm impressed by one of many issues that introduced me into this world: A penis!" Lydia mentioned in a confessional, referencing the enormous, bulbous pink hat on her head, and the lengthy, furry coat that additionally had giant, puffy balls made of cloth dragging down by her heels. "That is precisely what Lydia does. It has a schtick to it, it’s outsized, irreverent, and just a little sticky."
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From the panel, visitor decide and Hacks mastermind Paul W. Downs noticed that Lydia is "a grower and a bathe," whereas Mama RuPaul quipped, "If her runway lasts longer than 4 hours, please seek the advice of her physician."
Lydia's penis look comes weeks after the season 17 contestant beforehand teased the runway presentation in two separate unique interviews with Leisure Weekly.
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"I don’t know if it’s potential to utterly blur out a search for profane imagery, however I believe I might need accomplished that [on the Main Stage]. I didn’t ask for permission; I requested for forgiveness, and by the point I used to be on the runway, it was too late, you realize?" Lydia mentioned throughout a one-on-one chat with EW, later elaborating in our group preview dialogue: "If it appears to be like the way it appears to be like, I really feel like there's no method they will minimize round it and make it look presentable," Lydia observes. "Let's simply say the competitors was stiff, I used to be just a little stiffer."
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Whereas Lydia's runway is bound to land with fun among the many present's followers of camp couture, the look — spoiler alert — wasn't sufficient to avoid wasting her from showing within the backside following her efficiency within the present's Saturday Night time Reside-inspired RDR Reside! sketch comedy problem.
Lydia in the end received the ensuing lip-sync in opposition to fellow contestant Arrietty, who was saved by the present's new Badonka Dunk Tank twist after pulling one among 10 random levers connected to large dunk tank. Arrietty's selection despatched decide Michelle Visage plummeting into the water beneath, saving the queen from elimination.