SPECIAL THANKS TO JASMINE ALOMA AND SOFIE VAN DE GRAMPEL AT THE BBC

“I’m dead important now,” jokes (?) Lill. Over the course of Drag Race UK’s sixth season, which has been lauded as one of the franchise’s best, the Manchester queen has accumulated a die-hard following thanks to her edgy aesthetic and dry sense-of-humour (as well as her word-for-word homage of Geri Halliwell’s iconic and Oscar-worthy appearance on Sex and the City). “Everyone’s just been dead nice. I’ve loved it,” Lill says of her fan-favourite status. “I thought I’d be getting death threats and all sorts, but no, just marriage proposals!”

To the distress of aforementioned fans, we were forced to say “ta-ra!” to Lill this week following her performance in the roast. While she elicited a few cackles, particularly when she fumbled her joke about La Voix’s “incontinence pads”, Lill faced the lip-sync smackdown with Rileasa Slaves to the beat of David Guetta’s ‘Crazy What Love Can Do’. As a result of being “smothered” by her Marilyn Monroe-meets-gimp ensemble, Lill was unable to deliver a lip-sync to the best of her ability and was told to sashay away.

“Oh my god, that is the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been in drag in my entire life, like, ever,” she tells GAY TIMES. “I felt like I was being smothered and I couldn’t hear anything because, when you have the mask on, it muffles everything. The mask kept filling up with sweat, I’d have to pull up the mouth and empty a pool of sweat out of my face. It was disgusting. But I lived to tell the tale! I’m still here. At least I didn’t suffocate.”

Read ahead (or watch below) for our full exit interview with Lill, where she discusses her “overwhelming” final episode, fan-favourite status and, in a rather surprising turn of events, why she doesn’t think RuPaul should let queens change outfits for the lip-sync.

Lill, I really saw you in the top four…

Well, you’re no psychic are ya?