RuPaul's Drag Race UK | Series 6 Preview (BBC Three)

International drag icon, RuPaul, is back in Blighty with his cult competitive reality show. Rooted in camp, British pop culture, and famed for its unpredictability, Drag Race UK fans will be delighted with a rambunctious new cast, and a competition with even more twists, more laughs and more sass.

So start your engines, and control your excitement as a fresh new set of amazing drag queens compete to be crowned The UK’s Next Drag Race Superstar in one the world’s most unpredictable, glamorous, and fiercely entertaining races.

The competition sees hopeful drag queens compete across ten weeks in a variety of spicy challenges and iconic games designed to test their drag mettle, with the winner of the week being awarded a coveted RuPeter badge, and the bottoms of the week facing a lip sync for their life and the risk of elimination.

RuPaul, affectionately known as Mama Ru, leads an esteemed judging panel that includes regular judges, Michelle Visage, Alan Carr, Graham Norton and a bevy of celebrity guest judges. Together, they deliberate the fate of the queens but it is queen of queens, Mama Ru, who has the final word on who shantays or sashays away from the competition.

The celebrity guest judges this series are: Singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, Alison Goldfrapp; TV presenter, Amanda Holden; Singer, songwriter and actor Beverley Knight; Lead singer of eighties legends, Duran Duran, Simon Le Bon MBE; Singer, songwriter Mabel; Supermodel and fashion icon, Kristen McMenamy; Actor and presenter, Derry Girls’, Siobhán McSweeney; TV presenter AJ Odudu; Singer and Steps member, Claire Richards.

RuPaul's Drag Race UK returns Thursday 26th September at 8pm on BBC Three and iPlayer.