Michael Marouli reveals that she will ‘come for blood’ on a potential season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK All Stars.
In an interview with GAY TIMES, the Northern entertainer correctly says it’s “about time” for the British franchise to receive an All Stars equivalent (UK vs the World doesn’t count…) because of the sheer “calibre of queens” that have been introduced over six seasons.
“It would go off. I think it would be so successful, so huge. Can you imagine seeing all those personalities back together on our screen? Especially queens that didn’t get the crown?” says Michael, before naming fan-favourites such as season two alumni A’Whora, Bimini and Tayce.
“Yeah, a UK All Stars would be incredible. If the gay gods are listening, the drag gods, the powers-that-be, we want a UK All Stars.”
Michael memorably competed on the fifth season of Drag Race UK, delivering a plethora of iconic moments such as her brutal roast and touching makeover of Switchboard volunteer Peter, as well as her Disaster Class with fellow finalists Tomara Thomas and Ginger Johnson. (Uhh-huh, ergh-huh!)
After winning three maxi-challenges, Michael placed runner-up to Ginger in one of the tightest races the franchise has ever seen.
“I had such a fire in my belly and I wanted it so much,” she explains. “Not winning the crown poured gasoline on the fire. So now I’m like, ‘Get me back on All Stars, get me the crown and let’s have a ball!’ I’m coming for blood, baby.”
However, Michael admits that she would “hate” to participate in the spin-off’s twist, which sees the top All Star of the week send one of the bottom queens’ packin’ with the reveal of their lipstick.
“How do you do that?” she says. “People are like, ‘It’s the game, you play it.’ But how can you physically say, ‘I’m crushing your dreams’? It’s awful.”
Hilariously, Michael jokes (?) that she wouldn’t have an issue chopping her season five and Northern bestie Tomara from the competition: “I wouldn’t even hesitate. I’d be like, ‘I’m sick of the fucking sight of you bitch, off you pop!’”
Michael is currently celebrating the release of her podcast with Tomara, the brilliantly titled OneMikeDoubleTheT. An instant success, the Drag Race UK recap series debuted at number-two on the Apple Podcast TV Reviews chart.
Four episodes in, the podcast has been widely lauded for Michael and Tomara’s chemistry and insightful commentary on season six, as well as their quintessentially foul-mouthed Northern humour.
Before she entered the Drag Race werkroom, Michael says she yearned to find someone she could “bounce off and be stupid and daft with”. She found that in Tomara, the “craziest, wildest, stupidest bitch I’ve ever met”.
“Day one in the werkroom, I sat next to her like, ‘We’re gonna get on like a house on fire.’ So, it was a no-brainer with the podcast. We just talk shite and laugh,” she says. “We’re exactly how we are at home, so let’s do it on camera. Why not?”
As well as the podcast, Michael is re-opening the library for her Christmas Roast Tour, which begins 1 December in Southampton and concludes 12 December in Glasgow. Describing it as “one for the history books”, Michael teases an “absolutely hilarious and no-holds-barred” show for fans, one that will keep the “juice and the filth” that the BBC edited out of her roast challenge on Drag Race.
And, next year, she will continue to spread Northern terror around the UK with Tomara and Ginger for a second leg of their acclaimed and sold-out Angels of the North Tour, and will co-star with Tomara in the adult pantomime, Snow White & the Seven Drag Queens. (Sign us the f**k up, seriously.)
For more info on OneMikeDoubleTheT and Michael’s upcoming shows, visit here.
You can also watch her interview with GAY TIMES in full below!
