Actress and comedian Kathy Burke has also been announced as a guest judge. <\/p>
Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse and Great British Bake Off co-host Matt Lucas have been announced as two of the guest judges for the third season of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n Actress and comedian Kathy Burke will also appear on the judging panel as a guest, while we can presumably expect some more big names to be revealed in due course.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, regular judges Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr will all be returning to the show once again.<\/p>\n The third season will begin on BBC iPlayer next month, with a new line-up of queens hoping to follow in the footsteps of previous winners The Vivienne and Lawrence Chaney.<\/p> And it looks like it will be another stellar line-up, with Mabuse saying she \u201cadored\u201d this year\u2019s queens.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re so funny, so talented but even more than that they are real and it\u2019s beautiful to see them really come out of their shell,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Lucas revealed, \u201cIt was on my bucket list to be on the show, but my years of wearing tights are behind me, so I was both relieved and delighted to be asked to be on the panel!\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cI was hugely impressed by the brilliance and invention on the show, and it was one of the most entertaining days I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n And Burke \u2013 who joked that her drag name would be Pan Demic \u2013 was also delighted to be a part of the show.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a big Drag Race fan, so it was absolutely brilliant to meet RuPaul and Michelle Visage,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I loved the very-kind-to-old-ladies\u2019 lighting.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s previously been reported that Spice Girl Emma Bunton, Little Mix\u2019s Leigh-Anne Pinnock and former Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan are all in line for a guest-judge appearance during the series, but none of them have been confirmed by the BBC as yet.<\/p>\n Actress and comedian Kathy Burke has also been announced as a guest judge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3408,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/oti-mabuse-and-matt-lucas-to-guest-judge-rupauls-drag-race-uk-season-3.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/oti-mabuse-and-matt-lucas-to-guest-judge-rupauls-drag-race-uk-season-3-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/oti-mabuse-and-matt-lucas-to-guest-judge-rupauls-drag-race-uk-season-3-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/oti-mabuse-and-matt-lucas-to-guest-judge-rupauls-drag-race-uk-season-3.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/oti-mabuse-and-matt-lucas-to-guest-judge-rupauls-drag-race-uk-season-3.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/oti-mabuse-and-matt-lucas-to-guest-judge-rupauls-drag-race-uk-season-3.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/oti-mabuse-and-matt-lucas-to-guest-judge-rupauls-drag-race-uk-season-3.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Actress and comedian Kathy Burke has also been announced as a guest judge.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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