East Lancashire’s RuPaul’s Drag Race UK contestant had a “breakdown” on the latest episode but received high praise from guest judge and comedian Alan Carr.
After being given an award for being ‘the biggest hot mess’ Sminty Drop, from Clitheroe, was tasked with creating an runway-ready outfit from a mystery box of fabric and materials.
When Sminty and her partner, Le Fil, opened the box they were met with a sea of blue sequins and spandex.
On the show Sminty said: “I feel like I’ve stitched myself up here.
“I hate metallics, don’t like sequins and I don’t like all of this horrible spandex.”
At one point Sminty admitted defeat and lied down on the floor.
She said: “That’s not coming anywhere near my body.
“I am throwing in the towel.
“I want to throw the box into a river and watch it go down the stream and I want to cry in a bush.”
Despite the touch challenge, Smity and Le Fil managed to pull two ‘swimming costume chic’ costumes together and were praised by the judges Alan Carr, Michelle Visage and Leomie Anderson.
Michelle said: “You two complemented each other so well. This is vintage, model, swimwear. It is simple but the construction is wonderful.
“There are so many ruching moments in this which is so difficult to do.
“Sminty – the skirt; the only thing that would have made it 100 per cent perfect is not seeing your [underwear] under it.”
Alan had high praise for Sminty’s appearance.
He said: “Blue is such a ‘meh’ colour and you made it sexy, icy yet firey.
“Sminty if I had a body like that I would be wearing that to take the bins out – where do you get abs like that?”
Sminty said she couldn’t have created an outfit like this without the help of their partner.
She said: “I can’t sing Le Fil’s praises high enough. I was having the biggest breakdown of my life when I opened that box.
"I don’t know if I would have had the outfit I had if she didn’t tell me to pull it together.”
Sminty and Le Fil sailed into the next round of the competition, which aims to find the UK's next top drag queen.
Copper Topp, from Cheltenham, became the third queen to sashay away from the competition.
She faced Black Peppa as both queens lip synced for their lives to This Is Real by Jax Jones featuring Ella Henderson.
You can watch RuPaul’s Drag Race on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.
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