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00:05I am feeling such a sense of relief to still be here.
00:08I feel awful for Lucina, but there was just absolutely no chance that I was leaving.
00:13Fuck you girls.
00:15She remembers for being so damn good.
00:19I'm thankful for each and every one of you and cannot wait to see you all soon, Lucina.
00:24It was her third time in the bottom, so it was time that Luz got sent home.
00:28She was a good person, but I feel like in this competition, she got absolutely swallowed
00:33up.
00:34I'm sure there's someone in the group that's extra happy that you stayed.
00:38I don't want to alarm anyone, but we're going to need a wet floor sign behind the scene just
00:42coming.
00:42Oh my God.
00:43Slippery when wet.
00:47Get this message done, we need to sit the fuck down.
00:50I feel like I have a lot to prove now, and if anything, it has made me want to fight
00:54more.
00:55I don't give up when things get tough, I go harder.
00:58Are we halfway through the season, girls?
01:00Yeah!
01:01Yeah!
01:02Halfway!
01:03Do you feel that the dead weight has now been shipped away?
01:10You could have called them Driftwood.
01:13Yeah, the dead weight is gone.
01:17I feel like the ones that have all gone home up to this point were kind of the correct ones,
01:22so now it is really a strong group of girls moving forward.
01:26So, a huge congratulations to Mandy Moves!
01:31Yeah!
01:31Congrats, Mandy!
01:32Bravo!
01:33Wait, wait, I'll do what Mother did.
01:35Stop!
01:37The Moves has arrived, and I'm fucking here to stay.
01:40I've got that win, so I'll be doing fucking anything to get another one.
01:44Well, congratulations to you, bitch.
01:47You should have fucking jammed your machine.
01:49Yeah, you should have.
01:50I feel like I would have had the win if Mandy was not here.
01:54But actually, though, like, you really came close.
01:58My critiques were great.
01:59I feel like the judges really got the essence of who Nikita is.
02:03But now, moving forward, it's about Nikita and Nikita only.
02:08Can we get out of drag?
02:10Alright.
02:13This is going to take all season long just to get you out of this dress.
02:16Oh, my God!
02:17Nikita!
02:18Going to the next week's challenge, I'm going full throttle.
02:21Oh!
02:22Nikita is the girl at the front.
02:24Nikita is the girl at the top.
02:26Now I know how free I feel.
02:28Oh, so we're doing that this season.
02:29Okay, alright.
02:30I just have to knock these pictures out one by one.
02:34I'm here to win.
02:35I'm here to the end.
02:36So, watch out.
02:42Another day in paradise.
02:43Mmm.
02:44It's a new week in the workroom.
02:46We're up to week five, and I'm feeling really good at my performance this far.
02:49Now we're at the halfway point.
02:51Let's do a tally.
02:52Winner, one, one, two.
02:55Mmm.
02:55Yeah.
02:56We're going by weeks.
02:57I've been top in week one, top in week two, top in week three, and top in week four.
03:04There's something missing there.
03:06In my mind, I've tied first every single week.
03:08I just haven't been announced as the co-winner of every challenge this season.
03:13Who was that person that came second to Cathy Freeman?
03:15No one remembers her.
03:18Wow.
03:19How are you feeling?
03:20How are you feeling?
03:21Win, win, safe, safe.
03:22You started off really strong, and then kind of...
03:24No, it's so important to just get a nice early lead, and then let you girls have a little
03:28fun, and then I'll come back and be there.
03:30You know, you reminded me of all those people that peaked in high school.
03:32Yeah.
03:34Have you topped yet, Matt?
03:36Okay.
03:36Well, I'm going to say I was in the top week one.
03:39Okay.
03:40I was...
03:40Yep.
03:41I was safe.
03:42I lip synced, and safe again.
03:44So, I'm on an upward trajectory from being in the bottom.
03:47So, I'm going to come in for a win this week, I think.
03:48I think you'll find it's more of a whoop whoop.
03:50I go up and down, famously.
03:52Unfair or the competition?
03:55I'm feeling really fired up.
03:57Next natural step is a win, baby.
03:58So, this week is my week.
04:01I was topped last week.
04:02Even though Brinda tried to sabotage me within them.
04:06My God.
04:07She sabotaged herself.
04:08I've had my moment.
04:09I've been in the bottom, and that is a feeling that I am not wanting to get.
04:14ever again.
04:15It will forever haunt me, but that's the last time I'll be in the bottom, so...
04:20Famous last words.
04:21I've got to win, so I'm not worried at all.
04:22Oh, good.
04:24Oh.
04:25Ah!
04:26Oh, all right!
04:32Halar, halar, halar!
04:35Ready for a day in the office.
04:37Good morning, Queen!
04:39Good morning, Chelle!
04:41For today's mini challenge...
04:43The library is about to be open!
04:45Oh!
04:47I love you all, but not today.
04:49Look, if there's one thing I know how to do, it is read a bitch.
04:51And I've been planning and practicing for this moment basically my entire life.
04:57Because reading is what?
04:59Fun and mental!
05:01Oh, pit crew!
05:03Yes!
05:05Yes!
05:05Hi!
05:08Close your mouth.
05:10All right, Brenda Brest, you're first.
05:14Miss Mandy Mooch.
05:16The seamstress of the competition.
05:19Now that the sewing challenge is done, I'd seamstress too!
05:24Up next, Vibe!
05:26Ah!
05:27Lazy Susan!
05:28The star of Embarrassing Bodies is here!
05:31No!
05:32When you popped up as a suggested friend online, it also suggested I buy a stepladder and some
05:37rope.
05:40Lazy Susan!
05:41Now, darling Vibe, you remind me a lot...
05:46Wait, fuck!
05:47Find your words, find your words.
05:49Vibe.
05:50It hasn't been this depressing to see a woman hide this many weeks in a row since Amy Winehouse.
05:56Max Drag Queen!
05:58Brenda Brest.
05:59Brest in show.
06:00Just not this one.
06:04Maxine.
06:05The only thing your Snatch Game character had in common with Reese Witherspoon is the tissue
06:09box you call a chin.
06:13Nikita Iman.
06:15Lazy Susan.
06:16The eagle of Drag Race Down Under.
06:18I guess you don't have mirrors in your bow tower.
06:21At least he had a job, bitch.
06:24Ah, Nikita, Nikita, Nikita.
06:27The only prep you did for this season was Truvada.
06:32Now, after watching your Snatch Game, I have decided to take up an active role in destroying
06:37the planet, so thank you.
06:40Freya Armani!
06:42Max Drag Queen, now I do love getting to sneak a little kiss with you.
06:45Your lips are just so smooth.
06:47Just like that brain.
06:51Freya, the god of love and war.
06:55And Freya, for the love of God, look at what she wore.
06:59There is something beautiful and talented inside of you.
07:02Max.
07:03Oh, you think I'm topping?
07:04That's so great.
07:06Freya, I hope you're incredible in bed.
07:09Because the only thing fucking Max Harder is life itself.
07:16Mandy Moves.
07:18Freya Armani.
07:21Style like Armani.
07:23Face like George.
07:25What?
07:27Oh, I thought that was good.
07:30Mandy Moves.
07:31Last week you did win with a gorgeous, cheap, shiny, assless outfit.
07:36So Max, you might have a chance.
07:39Miss Mandy Moves.
07:41The reason the Brisbane River runs brown.
07:44Now let me say, your chances at winning anything else in this competition are thinner than those fibers you call
07:51hair.
07:52Oh!
08:00Okay queens, it's time to grade your shape.
08:04The winner of today's mini-challenge is...
08:09Vibe.
08:10She won some!
08:13Look, if I can't win a maxi-challenge at this stage, I will take a mini-challenge.
08:17You have won a Singer C-430 sewing machine.
08:22It's fine, I know how to use it now.
08:25I think that was a read in itself, honestly.
08:28So thank you so much for my gorgeous sewing machine.
08:30I think I'm actually gonna use this one.
08:32Now, for the first time in Down Under Herstory, the library is about to be reopened.
08:41Officially.
08:43Please give a warm drag race welcome to some real-life librarians.
08:48Oh!
08:50Shhh!
08:52Oh!
08:53Hello!
08:56Hello!
08:57They all look so...
09:00Librarian-y.
09:03Fucking love that.
09:06Librarians, please introduce yourselves.
09:08Kia ora ti whānau.
09:10Kōng Morgan toko ingoa.
09:11My name is Morgan.
09:12Hello, my name's Laura Siwane.
09:15Kia ora, whakalofa la hiatu.
09:17I'm Diana Lee.
09:18Hi, I'm Ryan.
09:19Kia ora, my name is Brie.
09:20Kia ora, ko Trevor toko ingoa.
09:22My name's Trevor.
09:23Kia ora, my name's Hannah.
09:26Queens, for this week's maxi-challenge, you need to make over these lovely librarians
09:31while telling a compelling story using products from Anastasia Beverly Hills Cosmetics.
09:38I'm feeling really good about this week's challenge.
09:41I get to do something that I like doing.
09:43Yeah, I'm excited to live up to the Avis Loren dynasty.
09:46Hashtag Drag Race Down Under.
09:49Vibe.
09:50As the winner of the reading challenge, you get to pair up each queen with their librarian.
09:55Oh!
09:56And you'll choose your librarian, Blast.
09:59Okay, alright.
10:00If I was Vibe, I would definitely play it strategically.
10:04I would pick the best person for me, and if there were some people that wouldn't necessarily match up,
10:10then I might, you know, give them a little sabotage.
10:15Okay Vibe, who do you choose for Brenda Breast?
10:18Well, for my gorgeous sister Brenda, I think I'm getting a very good energy between you and the incredible Hannah.
10:23There you go.
10:26And who would you choose for Lazy Susan?
10:28I'm going to give you our incredible Brian!
10:34Vibe, who do you choose for Max Drag Queen?
10:37Well, Max, I'm going to give you the incredible Bree!
10:40There you go!
10:44Vibe, who are you going to pair our Freya with?
10:47The gorgeous Dinah Lee!
10:48Yay!
10:52Vibe, who are you going to match Nikita Iman with?
10:55Alright, Nikita, I'm going to bless you with a new sister, the incredible Lois!
10:59Yay!
11:01My love!
11:02And Vibe, who do you want for Mandy Moves to partner with?
11:06I see that very strong jaw and very gorgeous nose profile, and I'm like, I have to get Trevor.
11:11I think I am going to give you...
11:16Trevor!
11:18Go on, Trevor!
11:20And that means Vibe, you have chosen...
11:23Morgan!
11:24Welcome to the family!
11:27How are you, my love?
11:28I've really got my sights set on winning this week, and winning it the right way, in a fair way.
11:33So, I'm not going to set anyone else up to fail, because I truly believe that I've got this one
11:37in the bag.
11:37Now, you could use your own drag, plus any of the fabulous footwear provided by Shoe Me!
11:43Oh! Very nice!
11:45As always, the judges will be looking for a strong drag family resemblance.
11:53Racers, start your engines!
11:56And may the best drag queen, win!
12:00Yay!
12:06Well, welcome to the work, friend.
12:10Is this what your work looks like?
12:14I'm close.
12:16Welcome to our home.
12:17Welcome, welcome.
12:18Thank you so much for joining us.
12:19Our pleasure, literally.
12:20You've never done drag?
12:22Never, ever.
12:24Go on!
12:25Sort of.
12:26We had a work do a while ago, and I decided to show up with a big old bra, and
12:30stuffed it filled with chocolates and things like that.
12:33You really are my drag daughter.
12:35That's like perfect.
12:37So you're Samoan.
12:38My dad's the Samoan one.
12:39He had a nice palangi lady.
12:40Oh, she's Afakasi.
12:42Yeah.
12:42She's an Afakasi girl.
12:44I love that.
12:44You know, classic love story.
12:45Parents met in the nightclub.
12:47The rest is history.
12:48Oh, I love.
12:50Sitting down, talking to Lewis and connecting through our heritage.
12:53It's a no brainer for me to go to my cultural roots.
12:58Why not take advantage of that when I have my Samoan sister here?
13:02So my mum's from Rockhampton.
13:04Oh, I love that.
13:04And I love that you guys are showcasing your culture.
13:06Pirate.
13:08I want to know about the library.
13:10What's it like working in a library?
13:11You get every walk of life coming in through the door.
13:14Technology is the now.
13:16People come in because they don't have internet.
13:18They don't have a printer.
13:20We do story times and things like that.
13:22Have you had any drag queen story times?
13:24I've worked it.
13:25I've also taken my kids to it.
13:27I love them.
13:27It really wants my heart that Brie takes her children to drag queen story times.
13:31She feels like the type of mum that like a kid deserves.
13:36And that like, that in itself really wants my heart.
13:39Oh, I feel great about this.
13:41I know.
13:41I want to know more about you.
13:42You obviously work in a library.
13:44I became a librarian when I was 17.
13:46So I've been a librarian for 16 years now.
13:48But I was a kind of shy queer kid that loved libraries and books.
13:52And they were my safe spaces.
13:54Back in my day we didn't have the internet.
13:55So it was where I learned to go.
13:56Oh yeah.
13:57I'm sort of the same.
13:58I had that big, big old set of encyclopedias on the wall.
14:00You had to go page by page.
14:02Absolutely.
14:02Now have you ever done drag before?
14:04Absolutely not.
14:04My first impressions of Morgan are definitely that he is more reserved.
14:08So I think I've got a really, really big responsibility here.
14:11And like, I need to sort of mold Morgan into, into being a more confident version of himself.
14:17Now.
14:18Oh.
14:19You ready?
14:21Oh.
14:23You're going to hit up.
14:26You are going with the R2s.
14:28Six, seven and eight.
14:33And then, and then they come in here.
14:35You come in here.
14:36You say your entrance line.
14:36You've got a hole.
14:37And then they have funny line.
14:38Yeah.
14:39It's that funny line here.
14:39It's a witty catch face here.
14:41That's a bit high.
14:42No, no.
14:43I can do that.
14:44You can do that.
14:44Totally.
14:45Really?
14:45Yeah.
14:46Yeah, sure.
14:46Oh, look at you.
14:48Oh.
14:49Me and Hannah are getting along so well.
14:51Hannah has such an amazing personality already.
14:54And that is half of drag, is your personality.
14:58I'm feeling really, really happy.
14:59And I think we've got the perfect match.
15:00Give me some attitude.
15:03Yes.
15:04Oh, my God.
15:05Yes.
15:06I love it.
15:07It's honestly like a heel and toe moment.
15:09I think, trust the shoe.
15:11They're stronger than you think they are.
15:12So, literally, yeah.
15:14I would honestly, like, just focus.
15:16Slight little cross.
15:17Oh, my God.
15:17You know, we're going to have to walk really slowly.
15:20I mean, Morgan walking in heels, he definitely was the definition of a little bit stiff, a little bit uptight.
15:26And some of the girls in the workroom are literally running circles around Morgan.
15:30Steve.
15:30Get out of the way.
15:31Steve.
15:32Margaret.
15:33Got that Margaret.
15:33Get out of here.
15:34Get out of here.
15:34Get out of here.
15:34Get out of here.
15:35Yes.
15:36Yes.
15:37Oh, oh.
15:38Okay, vodka red balls for everyone.
15:40You know, we're meant to unlock something during this challenge.
15:47Part of what we do is not just helping us progress in the competition.
15:54We have to literally take care and show these people who have never done drag before why we do drag.
16:03And what it brings out of someone.
16:10It's a lot of pain, 100%, but of all, it's pure fucking joy.
16:21Welcome to the main stage of drag race down under.
16:23Come through.
16:24Come through.
16:24Come through.
16:26I really want to bring our Samoan culture.
16:28So I want to do a Samoan Siva.
16:30Go out, do our bow, and then we'll.
16:34Yeah.
16:36And family gatherings, siblings and cousins, we all get together and we do a Siva for the family.
16:43The one girl that does not Siva when I'm at home is still on the main stage.
16:46And Siva is something that I haven't done since I was a little kid.
16:49And so Lewis is teaching me, which I am really, really grateful for.
16:57Oh, is it one, two, then three, or is it one, two, three, four?
17:00Is it left or four?
17:01One, two, three, four.
17:02I am.
17:02So start on the left, yeah.
17:04And then bow again.
17:11Yeah.
17:13Choosing to showcase our culture on this main stage is very vulnerable.
17:17And for me, Siva Samoa is not something that I'm most confident in.
17:21But watching Lewis and learning from Lewis, I'm very confident in what we're going to deliver.
17:27I think our foundation is there.
17:30Just going to go practice and practice and practice and practice.
17:34Welcome home.
17:36Her dreams are made of and ankles are broken.
17:38I feel like Morgan feels very intimidated by the moment.
17:41And we have, you know, a short time on the runway to make an impact.
17:46I'll let you take the lead.