Is It Just Me? - DRAG RACE DEBRIEF: Beverly Kills 💃
Episode Date: September 5, 2022Catching up with the eliminated drag queen from Episode 6, Season 2 of Ru Paul's Drag Race Down Under, Beverly Kills!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
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Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of Mitches. Don't fuck it up.
Hello everybody, welcome to Drag Race Debrief. Hello Mitchell Coombs.
He's not here. Doctor's orders, rest for days. Mitchell Coombs isn't here, he's ill.
So he won't be here for the episode, very sad. But listen, we're very excited to bring you
the Eliminator Queen from this week's episode of Drag Race Down Under Season 2.
I love this episode, and it's kind of weird.
I didn't really talk to Mitch about what I'd say, but if I give my opinions, there's no one here to refute it.
So I think I will win Drag Race Down Under Season 2.
Don't you?
Well, if there's no one to contest it, I guess it's true.
I think I will win.
No, it's a great episode.
We, of course, lost, spoiler alert, three, two, one, Beverly Keels. Beverly's gone. I think I will win. No, it's a great episode. We, of course, lost. Spoiler alert.
Three, two, one.
Beverly Keels.
Beverly's gone.
She was eliminated and devastated by that, to be honest.
But it was a great episode.
Bit of drama, to be honest.
I think we saw Hannah Conda rise to the cream of the crop.
She's the top of the litter now.
She's my new pick to win, I will say. Her or Queen Kong.
I don't think Spanky Jackson's going to get there.
But, you know, this is technically a debrief podcast,
so I had to give some notes on the show.
Otherwise, as I live and breathe, let's get her on.
Eliminator this week.
It's Beverly Keels.
Hello, Bev.
Welcome to the show, doll.
Morning.
How are you?
It's not morning.
Is that how long you've been doing press?
You think your time zones are out of whack?
I work on drag time, and this is the start of my 9 to 5.
Oh, true, I guess.
You work late into the day, so this is your 9am rising grind.
I won't be shamed for waking up at noon. It's part of my natural process.
That's me too. We're nocturnal. I do the night show so I work
late so I get it. I have the life of a drag queen. And actually I want to
talk to you obviously about the show. That'd help. But I had an epiphany on the weekend.
I came up with my own drag name,ly spill it hit me so i have been trying to mitchell coombs obviously
who you know yeah and you did a comedy show with mitchell coombs in brisbane yeah we did yeah we
it's called the switch up so it's like the drag queens do comedy and the comedians do drag oh like
you switch that that i get the name yeah that checks. Very smart. Well, Mitchell came up with his, which is Feral Streep,
which I think is a great-
Dreadful but perfect.
Yeah, exactly right.
So mine-
In the same realm as Spanky Jackson, you know?
It's on that-
Yes.
Disgusting, but so fabulous.
They come from the same universe, yeah.
I came up with mine on the weekend.
It hit me while I was shopping.
My drag name will be M Bellish.
Do you get it?
Like I'm an embellisher.
Like, oh, I just really embellish stories.
I get it.
But it's terrible.
I love it.
No, so what's happening now, because drag is everywhere at the moment,
what's happening now is that people are just, like,
just, like, pointing at nouns and then naming themselves, like, the noun.
Like, my name's Cara Board Box.
Yeah, right.
What are you?
My name's Red Bull Can.
If you just say it in, like, the, but, but, but, it works.
Well, Embellish.
Like, her name is Amelia Bellish or Emily Bellish.
I think Amelia Bellish is hilarious.
Oh, and then everyone calls me M. Bellish.
Is that what I need to do?
Yeah, for sure.
Okay.
Oh, I get it.
All right.
See, this is why I needed a pro to guide me through the process.
Amelia Bellish.
All right.
Let's talk about you because I do not have a drag career.
I was so sad to see you go.
You were so great on the show.
And your looks, I think, to be fully honest you're a guy was up there but you were definitely
topping you're a guy which you know is a dream come true for many um your runway looks were so
amazing like they were truly did you make those how did you get those like did you work with
someone in brisbane yes i did um so the person who made most of my costumes, the name is Mandy Moobs. She's my drag sister. She was more of like a drag auntie to me,
to be honest. I, you know, she's the sort of person that you can go to and be like,
hi, I have a thing and I need, you know, about 12 fully realized costumes made in about a month's
time. And I know it's the peak of omicron at the moment yes i've
covered strain but i think you really need to do this can you do it for me and she was like
well it's such a shame because i almost was about to make some costumes for myself but
i don't need to make them for myself anymore she she got close that oh i get it oh oh that's he was
like being like oh maybe maybe i could get on because you know they um you know everyone
auditions and she was like maybe maybe me so i came to like being like, oh, maybe I could get on because, you know, everyone auditions.
And she was like, maybe it could be me.
So I came to her being like, would you maybe be able to help me with this?
And she was like, I'll be cranky, but yes.
Nice that she didn't sabotage you, like make the seams really loose.
Well, she totally could have if she wanted to, like, you know,
ruin my chances so she can get on.
Work with the competition.
She did like the- so we'd sit together and we'd like figure out sketches
and look at designs and try and figure out like what fits the theme, but is also like
in my own brand, I suppose.
Um, and then on top of that, so she would do all the sewing and then I do all the crafting.
Yeah.
So all the headpieces and the stoning and like the, you know, prosthetics and things
like that.
So you look gorgeous.
So many people in Brisbane, you've've got like um hair people or uh
prosthetic people or jewelry people you know you just got to go to your community and i was the
first from brisbane so everyone was very very um excited to help out you represented brisbane well
especially in the or the gsu especially in this um this last episode we had to do like the tourism
commercial which i thought i thought yours was very funny who were you bindi erwin's lesbian
sister or dyke cousin i was cindy erwin bindi erwin's lesbian sister and it's funny
because everyone thought like i was like punching down to lesbians but they cut all of my lesbian
jokes out and i was like no oh no just like make me some of the lesbian jokes can i have some of
the list i don't remember you blocked it out they're all in like a fold i've kept all of my
drag race things they're on a folder over there there. So I might do like a dramatic reading one day.
Oh, my God.
Do a spoken word drag show.
Just sit on a chair with a microphone and a glass of water
and just deliver the lesbian jokes.
I'd pay.
Yeah.
One day in the future I'll share them.
But not just yet.
I'll hold on to them for a while.
Under lock and key.
Smart move, Bev.
I also love saying Bev.
That's just my canteen lady in primary school. Her name was Bev and anytime i think hannah called you bev a lot in the competition
i just i died because bev like a woman named bev in australia it's just so good it's so funny
because like beverly kills like the name i think is quite cool like it's like cool edgy it's, like, cool, edgy, it's fun. But, like, Bev is such a, like, it's, like.
It's the literal antithesis of Beverly Hills.
I'm calling myself, like, Trudy or something like that.
It just doesn't have the same, like.
Wanda.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It doesn't hit.
Now, let's talk about your run on the show.
So, Runways on Fleek every week.
Your arc in the competition was so interesting obviously
it all came to a head in this latest episode that sent you home but what i found really really
lovely was a the way spanky jackson sort of guided you through at the end which you know we i think
we should see more of in the queer community which is i don't want to say queers of another
generation but you know older queens helping and supporting the younger queens. I mean, was she like that for you the whole competition,
a real sort of rock for you?
She really was.
I honestly didn't really get to know Spanky very well until those,
like, later episodes.
Like, we just didn't really cross paths, to be honest,
and only to the later episodes did I realise, like, wow,
Spanky's, like, a really special person.
And, like, she showed me a lot of grace when I really,
really needed it.
And, yeah, I'm always so grateful for her. for her wow well we saw mini say spanky for the
win then yuri said spanky for the win what is spanky doing that the other queens aren't is she
just so fun to be around she is fun and like she was the last person like it was it was a competitive
environment but she didn't treat it as such you know she was having a really nice time still
winning lots of challenges and doing very well but she didn't treat it as such, you know, she was having a really nice time, still winning lots of challenges and doing very well, but she didn't treat it like a competition at
all, you know?
And I did the opposite.
I was ultra competitive and won nothing and should have switched it around, you know?
Do you regret how you played the competition?
Because it's one of those things like, you know, when you play Monopoly for the first
time and you're terrible, like you don't play it well, but then the second time around,
you're always so much better because you've had one go at it do you think you'd do better now
having already done it once my all-stars campaign has already started babe fuck yeah like yes it was
like it was funny because you know again you know they're like oh you're still like you know you're
yet to learn so many things and i'm like i feel like i'm learning like 10 years of drag experience
into like a three-week period like they cram everything in and I'm like, whoa.
So I've gotten back.
I'm literally like, I don't even recognize the queen on TV anymore because it was, it's
a different person.
Like, you know, I've only been doing drag for three and a bit years.
And because of that, um, you know, my, since from now, since drag race, that's like 30%
of my drag career.
Yeah.
And then another 30% was in covert in lockdown yeah yeah yeah like i really like trying to i always try to give myself credit
there because i'm like i'm learning a lot and you have to learn it so quickly totally and you're
magnified and and a it's a competition right so you're all trying to like make each other slip
you all want to beat each other and then b you're trying to work out who you are it's a competition, right? So you're all trying to make each other slip. You all want to beat each other.
And then B, you're trying to work out who you are.
I can imagine it would be like a pressure cooker of emotions,
which is how all the Queen Kong stuff came about.
And were you guys actually as tense as it kind of looked on screen,
or are you guys all good now?
Oh, we're fine now.
She was literally 12 hours ago at 3 in the morning.
We were at the balcony of my local club having a drink together.
Oh, my God, I love it.
Yeah, all the way. And Minnie was there too, too ironically the three most polarizing people of the season sitting together on a balcony just drinking and laughing our heads off
like you should have got a photo like all just sipping martinis like laughing
but i think we were like we were just too drunk at that point to really give a fuck yes yeah yeah
fair and and deservedly so you guys have had a long season. Did you enjoy it, though?
Like, you don't look back on it and go, yeah.
Oh, my God, I had the best time ever.
Like, what a dream to get to do something like that, you know?
I always say, like, you know, experience can't buy it
and money can't buy it.
So it's just sometimes it's just luck.
And sometimes you fit the brief of the cast and sometimes you don't.
And the fact that I got on was just, like, it meant the world that I got to just have a go at something so,
so,
so special and so cool.
It was just such a privilege.
Yeah.
And there's not many Aussie Roo girls,
you know,
you're part of a very small club now.
No.
Well,
you know,
one of 20.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If that.
Now,
what about the interaction with Roo?
Because that was,
was it as intimidating as it looked?
Because I know Bev sliding down into a chair, don't fall off, don't.
Because, I mean, that looked so intense.
And what do you say to RuPaul when he's like questioning your personality
and your life and who you are and where you're at
and the whole Muriel's wedding of it all?
That would have been terrifying, Bev.
Well, I look back on the episode and he said, he's like,
I wonder if because he's a handsome boy he hasn't really understood that so I think that might just be RuPaul's
really like strange way of flirting with me and RuPaul I accept it well Ru's in an open
relationship so you never know maybe you could be yeah he loves an Australian apparently so
you know god would you ever sleep with RuPaul that'd be weird. Did I just get off on an interview with our fucking RuPaul?
Yes.
I think it's a valid question.
Everyone, who's the trade-in season?
RuPaul out of drag.
RuPaul's hot.
RuPaul could get it.
I put you in a compromising position.
I really have.
Okay.
RuPaul seems like a lovely man with a lot of great um family
friendly morals yes but answer your question i would not fuck rip paul i love my boyfriend all
right right right okay well um on that note before i let you go mitchell coombs and kill me if i
didn't ask you we ask all our guests okay so it's um a list that we've been compiling for years we
ask every one of our everyone that comes on the show.
We've asked Fofur, we've asked Obra Have, Mini Cooper, Uruguay.
The question is, Beverly Kills, a list of things better than drugs and dick, because
we have a lot of young listeners and we want them to know that there's more to life than
partying and boys.
So for example, Uruguay said a a good a good hangover day in bed
minnie cooper says her hey you account she loves hey you came out uh came out sushi maker is what
faux fur said what would you like to add to the list oh my god okay i love this drugs or dick yeah
um okay sort of similar with yuri's do you ever like pre-plan having a hangover so you give you so you
get your things like your powerade and your fruit and your water so when you wake up and a baraka
and it's all just sitting on the bedside table for you and you look at yourself this was me
yesterday morning hung to the bone drunk as a skunk like absolutely take all the water out of
my system so hungover and i look at
my bedside table and my water and my barocca and my fruits just sitting there and i'm like
thank you past self thank you yes i do that all the time but i have barocca to barocca
and a hydrolite in a glass of water and then i always order myself mackers hash brown like a
hash brown to soak everything up yeah and be And be thankful for your past self, you know. Okay.
So it would be setting yourself up for a big night out and then just, like,
being so – knowing you're going to get absolutely obliterated,
but looking after yourself.
Yeah.
Meal prepping for the hangover.
I love it.
That is –
Literally hangover prep.
Hangover prep.
Oh, Beverly Kills, you're a superstar.
I can't wait to see you at the finale viewing.
I will see you.
I'll give you a big hug.
And truly well done on the season season you should be very proud of supporting
the and representing the gsu oh thank you yeah i can't i can't wait to meet you we'll get to do
it we'll get we'll get so drunk that we have to have brocker in the morning as well yes oh and
we'll pre-plan it yeah we'll plan it out it'll be beverly kills it'll be amelia bellish and f
feral strength reunited all right see you doll Thank you for coming on. All right.
That's Beverly guys here at drag race debrief.
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Um,
my predictions just so it's,
you know,
out there and on the record,
I think we're going for a Henna con to win and a spanky Jackson runner up. That's, just so it's out there and on the record, I think we're
going for a Henna Condor win and a Spanky Jackson runner-up. That's the gut. That's the feeling,
and we'll see if I'm right. All right. Thank you for listening, guys. Mitchell Coombs,
get better, darling. We'll see you next week. Is it just me? You can follow the show online.
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