Lipsync1000 – Meet The Finalists

Words by Jack Cullen

The Lipsync1000 final is landing with a crash, bang and a WALLOP at The Clapham Grand on 11th July! Never heard of Lipsync1000?! Go to @TheGloryLondon’s instagram and pack a lunch.

It’s a quick-fire, no-wigs-barred, no-holes-closed drag talent contest where each contestant gets just ONE PERFORMANCE to impress, digress or undress the judges. This year the pool of talent was so good that there are TWENTY-EIGHT finalists. That’s the thing about London, it’s a real melting pot, y’know? Just too much good stuff.

For this year’s final, the celebrity judges are Queen of Ireland, Panti Bliss! Doyenne of delicious delicacies, Grace Dent! Kelly Osbourne, from Sharon Osbourne! And someone from the radio, Nick Grimshaw!

So have a peruse of the finalists and hotfoot it down to the Grand on 11th July for a slice of the pie. 

AURORA KILLS

This gorgeous overgrown twink rocking Ridley Market heels is like if Eton did Rocky Horror on a seven pound budget.

CAMILE LEON

We found her at Latitude festival hanging off a sycamore hissing at school children. Bitch better have my Tarot.

BOOBDICKA

Less Ru Paul, more Night At The Museum meets PornHub.

STARFIST

This WelcomeBreak supervisor, Janice, works off the M4 and her drag name is also her hidden talent. She’s the lorry drivers’ favourite. 

BIMINI

This pole-dancing yoga teacher lives on the Regent canal selling dairy free oestrogen smoothies and bad blowjobs.

CARMEN GETIT

Carmen is 100% of the Enfield gay scene. Think Pete Burns meets Verucca Salt.

CASSANDRA

Aw! The lovely Cassandra! Just ask any taxi driver in town. She’s a sharing platter of love, cosmology and carpet burns.

DALLAS CARRINGTON

If Doreen from Birds of a Feather had a baby with Jafar. Don’t accept her on Facebook.

BOPA RHYS

Lead-drinking, gerbil-dating factory worker. Drew Barrymore’s bought the rights.

VI DA LOCA

This tequila-necking primary school teacher is living her dream! She’s missed assembly twelve times – but fuck the kids, let’s PARTY! Is that Ricky Martin over there? Is this Camden? What day is it?

YSHEE BLACK

Her name is a bold statement about Zara’s disappointing summer range, she has a residency on their 2nd Floor escalator. She’s a deep witch.

STELLA MELTDOWN

When she’s not shoplifting in Wasabi, falling over piles of Shortlist, going down on drunk sixth formers in the park or attacking postmen, Stella is actually pretty chill.

ELECTRA FANTASY

This hula-hooping twunkbot will use his butt cheeks to get anywhere!

EVA WONDER

She’s been planted in the final as an advert for Bon Marche. She’s also fully armed though so keep smiling.

FLICK DE’BEAN

If Dorian Gray were set in Telford and featured a rabbit’s painting of Catherine Tate. She’s just waiting for Pixar to make a film about confused cinnamon lattes.

FKA

F is for Fashion! K is for Ketamine! A is for Abridged Canterbury Tales upon which her fast-paced slutty R’n’B numbers are very loosely based.

LICK VON DYKE

We’re lucky we still have the Final because it nearly went up Lick’s nose. Keep your hands on your wallet during this one! Marie Antoinet-a-Porter.

GINGZILLA

You know when you’ve double-dropped and the photos on the KFC menu have eyes and are talking at you?

HASEENA FILANJI

When you’re drunk in the clinic and realise you’ve been reading the Comic Sans posters aloud.

JACK SEARS

Based on a retracted “Grow Your Own Kate Moss” toy line from the early 90s. Sea monkeys meets DHS Sale in this dusty disco siren.

MARGO MARSHALL

This high-kicking, pirouetting, marriage-wrecking stage school monster is actually five goldfish in a man suit.

GRACE SHUSH

Vintage Hollywood – i.e. She chain smokes, she’s evil and she loves a hat! By day she’s actually an Amish beekeeper.

RHYS’S PIECES

Power bottoming reaches Angela Merkel levels in this ballroom badass.

NAT WEST

More like Rose West, if she worked at Metro Bank and drank Tip Ex in the mornings.

SHANDY LEAR

Used to be a plant on a window-ledge in Delia Smith’s conservatory. Watered with gin for twenty years she somehow learnt to walk and enter competitions.

RILEASA SLAVES

There’s a pop star Rileasa looks a bit like .. who is it again .. Oh yeah, Jane McDonald.

SHAKONA FIRE

Shakona rose to fame in the 2009 MP expenses scandal when it turned out she’d spent £38,000 of Loughborough tax payers money on Pokemon-themed sex parties.

SOROYA MARCHELLE

This Daily Express field day is wickedness personified. Do not accept sweets from this disgraced dental nurse. That ain’t Swarovski, she’s wearing babies teeth.

Lipsync1000 – The Grand Final is on Wednesday 11th July at Clapham Grand, 21 – 25 St John’s Hill, SW11 1TT. Doors 6:30pm, show 8pm. Tickets £10 from outsavvy.com.

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