Daily Star Sunday

NOW RU’S A DRAMA QUEEN…

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RUPAUL reckons filming his new drama AJ And The Queen was far more revealing than any of his outfits.

The series, which is available on Netflix, sees him draw on his real-life career as a drag queen.

Ru said: “I feel like I’ve lived my whole life to be able to do this show. It is so fulfilling, but so hard.

“I have been in this business for a long time and this was the most challengin­g thing I’ve ever done.

“I was afraid of revealing so much of myself and so much of my vulnerabil­ity.

“I’m 38 years in this business and there’s a certain protective shell that you develop so that you don’t get yourself hurt.

“People have all this stuff to say on social media. I had to remove that shell and be completely vulnerable, so it was scary.”

RUFUS Sewell was thrown in at the deep end filming Agatha Christie two-parter The Pale Horse. The actor said: “This has been a great experience and quite intense because we had to start with really big scenes.

“I like that because if you start with an incredibly important

LAUREN Goodger has criticised the BBC for targeting her in an undercover investigat­ion about celebrity endorsemen­ts. The former Towie star was secretly filmed agreeing to promote a fake drink containing cyanide – and then exposed in a BBC Three documentar­y.

In a chat with new magazine, Lauren said: “I got completely set up by the BBC. They told me they were looking for influencer­s and celebritie­s to promote the product and they really sold it to us. “I walked into that meeting and I tried to sell myself. They led me on.

“This meeting went on for two hours and all they managed to scene on your first day, day two is easier than usual because you’re already really blooded.”

It starts tonight at 9pm on BBC One.

Scotland, which is full of the stuff, so for those who don’t like being cold and wet...they were screwed.

“And with this show it doesn’t matter where it is... we will break the recruits and if we don’t, I guarantee it will be the hardest 11 days of their life.”

The final is tonight at 9pm on Channel 4. get was two bad lines out of me.

“The bottom line is, I said what I had to say to get the job. They totally set me up.

“I trusted the company and the product because they assured me it was fine. It was heartbreak­ing and I’m disgusted. They tried to ruin my life and I have to live with it now.

“I was totally and utterly set up by the BBC. They f***ed me over.”

A BBC spokesman said: “This satirical undercover entertainm­ent series set out to illustrate the fast-evolving, lucrative business around digital influencer­s. “All those involved were given a right of reply and their responses were included in the final

show.”

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