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Glitzy’s performances include live singing, lip-syncing, dancing and acting, among many other things. Part of the sets she delivered at both Oasis and Manchester Pride involved her giving birth on stage – a bit which has its origins in gigs she used to get booked for very regularly. She explains: “And that’s been something that’s been very organic because I got asked to do a pregnancy baby shower, so I bought a bump. So I was like, well, how do I make a baby shower more drag? I was like, I’ll turn up pregnant. And then I saw the reaction and I realised how much people were enjoying the whole thing.” Glitzy shares that she “enjoyed the camp of it” so much that she ended up doing “drag pregnancies for two months” non-stop. “So anytime Glitzy was out anywhere she was pregnant and it became a performance art sort of thing and it culminated in a baby shower, which we filmed with some creative people that I work with and gave birth to my puppet and she’s now in my show,” she adds.

Being able to “fully embrace” Glitzy over the last few years has been a “full circle moment” for the queen. “I’ll tell you what the biggest dream has always been,” she says. “When I would listen to music, I would always imagine myself performing it in my head, but I never imagined myself as a boy doing it. I would always be the girl and I would like, I would like imagine what all the dancers wearing, what I’m wearing, what the production was, all of that.” She hopes to one day get to showcase her talents on RuPaul’s Drag Race: “I know loads of queens are like, ‘Oh, no, no, I’m too cool for that’ – however, I’m like, no! I’m obsessed with the show. I’ve watched it since day one. I watch all the iterations, I watch all the international ones, I watch the YouTube things, I listen to the podcasts, I fully stan the drag and I stan it in all of its forms.” In the meantime, however, Glitzy is content. “I don’t want to do anything else at this point, I’ve found my calling,” she states. “This is my purpose.”



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