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I’m sitting in a hotel room in London talking to you. “It’s kind of unreal that all of this is being accepted by the world. The majority of the people that I meet, especially in the US, are girls that are hooked on the show, I think it’s fabulous.” People who are watching it on TV are fascinated by it.

“Gay men have been subjected to it all for so long. First realising his love for costume design and performance in high school, his talents were recognised aged 17 when he won the citywide Big East Entertainment award for best costume design for the Snow Queen: an almost prophetic hint to the character that would give him stardom. The hoards of fans who follower her every move is another.ĭel Rio is the creation of costume designer Roy Haylock, the fourth of five children in a family of Cuban and Honduran descent from New Orleans.

The race to get tickets to her sell-out comedy shows is just one example of this. The queen is deeply grateful, and perhaps a little overwhelmed, by the attention she has received since winning the show in 2014. However, in the two hours that we spend together it becomes obvious that Del Rio doesn’t have an ounce of ego, and takes each day as it comes. She was clearly a force to be reckoned with from the start of the show, and when in one episode RuPaul asks Del Rio if she is being helped by any of the other contestants she smirks: “Well, they're all helping me out by being horrible and making me look better.” Access unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign up

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