I had trouble getting my mouth and my brain to work sometimes because I was just so tired. I arrived jet-lagged, then started doing these 19-hour days, day after day. It's called Drag Race, and I knew the "drag" bit I could do, and do it very well, because I slayed the runway every single time. But the "race" bit-I was surprised how exhausting it could be. How do you think the age gap between you and the other queens affected your performance? ![]() You mentioned that you knew some of the older songs, but not Britney Spears. But 99 percent of girls in the UK do sing live. No, not at all! It's just a cultural difference-I'm not saying one is better than the other. We heard you say on the show, "Well, most performers in the UK don't lip sync." It seemed like a dig on the other girls and the tradition of lip-syncing in general. Well, you have to know what the songs are going to be. If I had gotten "Love Shack," I would have at least gotten the lip sync, but I still wouldn't have been able to move.ĭid you think about practicing lip syncing before going into the competition? I knew the words to, say, "Holding Out For a Hero" or B-52's "Love Shack" because I bought that record on vinyl. I've lip synced twice in my life, and those times were to get on Drag Race. I'm a live performer. Throughout the show, every time I was on the runway, I looked amazing. How do you feel about your performance now, looking back? Then again, nobody is as hungry as Eureka. ![]() There was a side of me that just thought, "Watch the show! Enjoy it." I didn't have as much drive as someone like Trinity or Shea. My knees were killing me because I was wearing those damn 9-inch heels. There was a side to me that just wanted to sit down at that point and enjoy her performance because I knew that there wasn't a chance in hell I would win without knowing the words. No. In my head, I knew that I didn't know the words, and that Trinity was a fabulous performer. You didn't hear that while you were performing? So who was screaming "Go Charlie!" in the background while you were lip-syncing on this episode? And I think they're actually afraid of having a lawsuit from AARP. Obviously we filmed for 16 hours and only 20 or 40 minutes make it into the show. I told them that I was duct-taped up rather than corseted. I did get asked about it on the runway while I was in my lingerie. I'm surprised we didn't hear more about that! It seems like it would be good drama for the show. If you saw me in the Untucked aftershow after last week's episode, I'm practically catatonic, because I was corseted and I was in agony. ![]() As I was lifting him up, I just felt this sharp knife to my rib and I knew what it was-me cracking an old injury. During rehearsals in that episode, I had to lift Shea-who, by the way, is half my age-not once, not twice, not 10 times, but 30 or 40 times. It happened during the cheerleading episode. I had already cracked it twice before in the past. But I thought I could still offer authentic 2007-era Spears, because I was dressed like a slut, I was dead behind the eyes, and I lip sync terribly. VICE: My biggest question for you is, why didn't you lip sync for your life?Ĭharlie Hides: Because I had never heard the song before, I didn't know the words, and I had a cracked rib. Sadly, when it came to filming a mock morning show in this episode's challenge, Hides didn't show nearly the poise or comedic timing he did in his homegrown videos, leading the contestants and judges to say he was "too controlling." And for that, he was sent packing. Season nine's oldest contestant, Charlie Hides made his name in very new media, by doing celebrity impersonations of people like Cher, Madonna, and Lana Del Rey on his YouTube channel. According to Charlie, it wasn't that he had no desire to save himself-he told VICE he was sporting an injury that made it hard to move. Still, his fate seemed to have been sealed long before the lip sync even started.
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