If you’re offended by drag these days then it’s probably best just to stop watching this wonderful show
The story is starting to become a seasonal staple, like the pretence that anyone actually enjoys mulled anything, or wondering why so many Christmas sandwiches taste like jam, when cranberry sauce is clearly the least essential part of any Christmas dinner. (In fact, as we trudge through a gloomy December, navigating panic-buying, worrying about the sniffles and staying indoors, it strikes me that 2020’s overall mood has been quite December-esque.)
Strictly Come Dancing, as festive as tinsel all autumn long, has once again been seen to test the limits of taste, of which it is a noted paragon. For musicals week (ah, musicals, notoriously only loved by straight people), its male dancers donned a touch of drag to perform a routine inspired by the film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which contains drag queens, and also a bus.
