SPECIAL THANKS TO NIALL HAY AND ELOISE LONGDEN AT THE BBC

As the self-proclaimed “Sausage Roll Queen” of Cornwall (by way of East London), Pasty piqued the interest of Drag Race UK viewers with her brand of character comedy, culinary glamour and devotion to Bette Midler’s iconic bucktoothed witch in Hocus Pocus.

Although her heartfelt openness about living with bilateral coloboma was one of the premiere’s most memorable moments — particularly thanks to RuPaul’s confuddled reaction and Marina Summers’ hilariously deadpan response (“wow… werk!”) — Pasty ultimately landed in the bottom and was eliminated by Nyongbella.

While the introduction of the new “Lucky Cow” twist gave her a brief reprieve, her second chance at becoming the UK’s Next Drag Superstar was short-lived: in the staple design challenge, her green concoction resulted in another bottom and she was Pork Chop’d for good.

Here, Pasty speaks with Gay Times about her experience on the seventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK — from the judges’ decision that left her “gagged”, to the bumbling oddball she had in mind for Snatch Game, and why representing queer people from her hometown still means everything.

Pasty, I’m sorry to be speaking with you so soon! How are you?

I’m good. Obviously we filmed a while ago, so to see it all come together and come out, everything that I was worried about… I was very much like, ‘Oh, I’m going to look awful in that green jumpsuit.’ But you know what? I kind of stand by it, considering I don’t sew! I made a fully fledged jumpsuit. I didn’t just stick stuff to a corset. But yeah, I feel good. I’m happy.

A for effort. I’m actually unsure on your bottom two placement. But also, Chai T Grande should’ve been in the top?

I was also gagged that Chai wasn’t in the top! A lot of us were. She doesn’t sew either. And she made the base of it, I think, from bin bags. She used a material that wasn’t, like, tulle. She really jumped into the challenge.