Drag Race UK season 2: RuPaul promises ‘better days’ as show’s return is announced for early 2021

RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr will all be back as judges

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK will be returning with a second season in the new year.

On Monday morning (2 November), it was announced that the British spin-off would be back on our screens early in 2021.

A message from “Mama Ru” promised that the show’s return would herald in “better days”, reading: “Early in 2021, season two will arrive with all the hope, joy, laughter and glitter you’ve come to expect from our brilliant queens.

“We feel honoured that you’ve embraced our little show, and our only wish is that we can offer a smile at a time when we can all use it the most.”

The forthcoming season will be slightly longer than the first, with 12 queens competing to be named the UK’s next drag superstar rather than 10.

US judges RuPaul and Michelle Visage will once again appear on the show’s panel, while Alan Carr and Graham Norton will also be returning as regular judges. The celebrity guest judges are yet to be announced.

It was also announced that casting for the show’s third season has begun, with the judges looking for “another fine set of fabulous queens to compete in the Olympics of Drag”.

The first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK aired on BBC Three in October 2019, with The Vivienne taking home the crown after beating Divina de Campo and Baga Chipz in the final.

You can read The Independent’s five-star review of season one here.