For all of five months, getting cast in “RuPaul’s Drag Race” was, by Bosco’s own admission, the worst-kept secret in town.
“Most of the queer community has known since I’ve gotten back in June,” the artist said in a recent phone interview. “In true Seattle fashion, no one’s that impressed by anything anyone’s ever done. So it was very much like: ‘That’s cool. What’s next, girl?’ ”
The immediate answer, she discovered, would be little else beyond a wholesome, uneventful return to business as usual. After filming for the show’s 14th season wrapped, the Emerald City’s self-anointed “Demon Queen” beelined for her Central District apartment and picked back up with the regulars over at Capitol Hill’s Queer/Bar, a place she affectionately refers to as her home base. (Bosco recently started co-hosting a recurring late-night show there called “Mothership” with fellow drag performer Irene Dubois.)
“Really not much has changed since the announcement,” the artist said. “It looks like we will be able to tour through omicron, fingers crossed. However, it’s still a bit slow … Nothing feels very tangible quite yet.”
This, of course, will likely change as the season debuts 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 7, on VH1, officially elevating Bosco and her signature eyebrows into the national spotlight. “I am looking forward to, yet very apprehensive of, the exposure,” the artist conceded. “I’m really excited, though, to just kind of be boosted up to the next level.”
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