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“I caught up with the perpetrator and promptly started laying into him, with bracelets flying and people prising me off saying, ‘That’s enough Maude!'”

“Be yourself. Don’t copy other queens, try to be original. And most importantly be nice. There is a difference between being sassy and being outright rude.”

“No-one in a club wants to see a ballad after 11pm. And put some damn colour in that cheek, y’all are starting to look like corpses.”

“I used to mime to the song “Sugar Sugar” by The Archies when I was little. So when I grew up I became Candy.”

“Aaahhhh tucking, I remember doing it as a kid and showing everybody on my street from my front veranda.”

“The beauty of Frock being gender neutral is that I leave the tucking to the female impersonators and just get queerer and queerer.”

“Tucking? What’s that? Haha. I don’t necessarily ‘tuck’ – I just keep putting on undergarments until it ‘goes away’.”

“During my performance, my left breast, which in those days was a small bag of birdseed, fell out and hit the floor”

“I remember being on stage and sitting on a box prop and I fell straight through it. But I laughed it off and kept going.”

There was a scene of chaos in the Star Observer office when in-house drag fanatic Shannon Power found out two of the biggest stars from the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise would hit Australia this summer. To restore some balance in the office, Shannon was sent off to chat with Jinkx Monsoon and Alaska Thunderfuck ahead of their respective national tours. Here’s her interview with Alaska.