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Fact alert: Mo Heart is one of the most consistent contestants in Drag Race’s ever-expanding herstory. While she may have not advanced as far as fans expected in season 10, due to a lack of budget, she still managed to provide viewers with endless amounts of entertaintment with her confessionals, humour and of course, her catchphrase “brown cow stunning!” The full breadth of her charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent wasn’t witnessed until her All Stars 4 follow-up, where she landed three maxi-challenge wins and cemented her status as one of the supreme lip-syncers of the entire franchise (Mo vs Latrice Royale really was the Gay Super Bowl!). Although she’s only secured one win on the international spin-off, Mo has continued to do what she does best: and that is by flexing her “pussy cunt”.

“Hindsight is always 20/20,” Mo tells GAY TIMES ahead of the UK vs the World finale. “I came in killing All Stars 4, so I was like, ‘I’m going to kill it on this one too.’ I was not worried about anyone coming in, and when I didn’t win like I wanted to win, I was like, ‘What the heck is going on?!’ Then I looked at it and said, ‘If I had won like I wanted to, I would’ve been that bitch.’ I was like, ‘Oh Holy Spirit, you love me, thank you! I’m supposed to be right where I am, girl, back here safe. I’m gonna be in the top four, thank you!'”

The first ever international version of Drag Race has been mothertucking ride. From Jimbo’s hammy clown performance to Janey Jacké’s berserk arm choreo in the Vengaboys lip-sync smackdown, to the highly controversial eliminations, UK vs the World will go down in the herstory books. As we await to find out which competitor will be crowned ‘Queen of the Mothertucking World,’ we caught up with Mo to discuss the drama of the season and her most memorable moments, including her werkroom outfits and insightful conversation about the horrors of conversion therapy.

Mo! How are you?

Hi Sam! How are you, my dear? I’m fabulous. I’m not in drag because my bags were lost, so…

You’ve been killing this season with your werkroom looks, so it’s fine by me…

Thank you! I had to make a quick stop over to Miss Zara. You look fabulous on the show, then you should try to maintain it. I wasn’t going to show up in jeans and a t-shirt, you know what I mean?

I saw someone on Twitter say that your werkroom outfits are just as exciting as the runways and better than another queen’s actual runways…

Look I will tell you this, and please type this in, this is true, two of her designers did screw her. One of those designers I was supposed to work with. My cat look became my cat look because we had the same designer, and they decided to give us the phone call the week before we left. That’s not fair to us, we’re going on Drag Race and you’re going to wait until the last minute? So, she got double-y screwed. Give her a little grace! But the facts are that I did turn, and turn… Facts! But, we did want the record to be known because people were like, ‘Girl, what’s the tea?’ If you get screwed over right before you go, what else are you going to do?

The level of unprofessionalism… Well, I’ve never been so excited to see a queen walk into their werkroom in their normal clothes?!

It’s funny because that’s what I wanted. Here you go, you get the phone call to go and you’re like… This is facts, I’ve been telling everyone this, they cut this out of my story in the confessionals. I watched season 13 on Saturday, it came out Friday. RuPaul comes down in that fabulous look and I said in the depths of my heart, ‘Holy Spirit, if I ever… would you please give me the opportunity to go back just one more time?’ And I got a phone call that Wednesday. So I said, ‘Wait a minute Holy Spirit, you’re playing with my heart! What are you doing?’ So I said, ‘Wait a minute, baby, my confessional look needs to be a look and my entrance clothes, every time I walk into the werkroom, you need to be the international superstar that you are coming in, not at who you are when you finish.’ So that was my mindset.