Sussex drag queens win girl group challenge on Drag Race UK

In this week’s episode, contestants had to form girl groups as they became “headliners” at the “Yass-tonbury festival”.

Team captain Dakota Schiffer, from Horsham, piloted her group “Queens of the Bone Age” to victory after narrowly avoiding elimination last week.

Among the queens joining her team to perform a rock-style song to the judges included Brighton’s Pixie Polite, one-third of a drag cabaret act The Vixens along with former Drag Race UK star Tia Kofi.

Pixie raised some eyebrows with the lyrics for her verse: “Choke them out but they might like it using only my thighs”.

Giving her thoughts, singer-songwriter Cathy Dennis said: “Wow - it’s quite visual.”

Along with singing, the drag queens also had to create their own choreography for their performances.

Dakota Schiffer is the first trans woman to compete on the show: credit - BBC/World of Wonder (Image: BBC/World of Wonder)

Dakota, the first trans woman to compete on the UK version of the show, was moved to tears after hearing her team had won the task - with all six band members winning a “RuPeter badge”.

“I cannot believe we won this challenge - I feel like I am going to burst into tears any minute,” she said.

Pixie said she felt they were “overwhelmed” by the win and said: “This challenge meant everything to me because it felt like my entire drag career had been building to this exact moment, and I just didn’t want to mess it up.

“I don’t think I have words to describe how much of a dream-come-true moment this is. It just feels perfect, basically.”

It comes after Pixie avoided falling victim of the show’s “Brighton curse”, which has seen two previous contestants from the city - Joe Black and Anubis Finch, eliminated from the competition in the first episode.

She said: “May you rest in peace Joe Black and Anubis Finch - here’s Pixie and she’s going to do Brighton proud.”

Starlet, 23, from Surrey, became the second queen to be eliminated from the competition after losing a lip sync against Sminty Drop.

Also in the episode, Dakota spoke about the challenge that coming out to her parents posed and said: “My parents have had to deal with a lot of the coming-out process. Coming out as a trans woman at 19 was certainly the most difficult of those journeys for my parents and myself.

“They’re so good with it now and I think with them seeing this show they’ll be able to see that this was my strength all along and this is a good thing.”