(10 Jan 2025)
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London – 10 January 2025
1. Various of drag queens waiting
2. Wide of RuPaul arriving
3. UPSOUND (English) RuPaul, TV personality
"Hello everybody. You all right, mate? You all are in London, U.K.. We are here to celebrate life and celebrate love and to spread it around. Ain’t that right? This great. And you’ve done quite a bit of spreading , haven’t you? (unclear) We are here to start these festivites. But before we do that, we want to focus on love and we’re going to remember our dear The Vivienne with love and life and laughter. That’s what she was all about. She would love for you to live your lives and to be free and to have a lot of fun and to spread it around. Isn’t that right? Yes. All right. So apparently there was a ribbon somewhere? Yeah. Okay. All right, spread it around honey. Does this remind you of anything? You’re going to hold my mike for me, okay? All right. So, you guys ready for the official start of DragCon UK? So just remember when you do your social media, tag us at DragCon. Is it RuPaulDragCon?"
Woman: "Hashtag DragConUK."
RuPaul: "Yeah. All right. You just do that. Here we go, everybody. We’re going to do this thing. "
4. Various of RuPaul cutting ribbon
5. Wide of RuPaul leaving
STORYLINE:
RuPaul paid tribute to drag queen The Vivienne at the opening of DragConUK in London, Friday morning.
"We want to focus on love and we’re going to remember our dear The Vivienne with love and laughter. That’s what she was all about. She would love for you to live your lives and to be free and to have a lot of fun and to spread it around," he said.
The Vivienne (birth name James Lee Williams), who won the first series of "RuPaul’s Drag Race UK" in 2019, died on January 5. A cause of death is yet to be announced.
Queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race and worldwide Drag Race franchises are taking place in the weekend-long event at the ExCeL center.
"RUPAUL’S DRAGCON UK" is open until 5pm on Saturday 11 January 2025.
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