‘people in theaudiencethink, “i can do that”’

GROWING UP IN FERRYHILL, County Durham, was a struggle for drag queen Tess Tickle. “I would never have dared say that I was gay — being here, it would’ve resulted in two black eyes, broken ribs and pr

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‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi

As the undisputed queen of burlesque, Dita Von Teese has been entertaining audiences in little more than a corset for three decades. Now she’s bringing a new show, Diamonds And Dust, to London. But de

Nikki Lilly started crying when she saw her portrait – a hyper-realistic pencil drawing that captures the slight slope of her smile, the veins around her eyes, the swelling on the right side of her fa

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