Drag Race star Kerri Colby has opened up about what her reaction was to the fan backlash caused by the 15th season of the show.
In case you missed it, fans have been expressing their displeasure at MTV for cutting down the runtime of this season's Drag Race episodes from an hour and twenty minutes to an hour. Which is really only 40 minutes if you don't count the ad breaks.
In an interview with Digital Spy, Kerri weighed in on the matter, saying: "It's a different journey. When I watched our season, it was very different in terms of... it was more like a reality TV show than a competition at times. I think that was partially because no one went home for so long.
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"With this one, it's like all the drama, all of everything, all at once. It was like a firework grand finale, every episode so far.
"We're definitely going to get more intimate as we get lower and lower on the queen count after we had 16 to start. Once we get past that halfway mark, we're going to start to get more intimate with everyone. This truly is putting into perspective that it is a race," she said.
"We're on a new network with MTV. There's things that change naturally with going to new networks, but I think they're doing a really great job at keeping up the engagement and keeping the pace.
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"You never know what's going to happen next, so baby, you got to come back next week or else you are lost," she added.
According to Deadline, the reason for these shorter episodes is to accommodate and launch MTV's new reality show The Real Friends of WeHo, which stars LGBTQ+ celebrities in a Real Housewives-style setting.
Will it take off like Drag Race did? Only time will tell.
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In 2019, David moved to London to join Digital Spy, where he could indulge his love of comics, horror and LGBTQ+ storytelling as Deputy TV Editor, and later, as Acting TV Editor.
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