Marcus Wratten

1 week ago | thepinknews.com | Marcus Wratten

Charlotte Church spent much of her childhood hanging out in gay pubs and drag bars in her home city, Cardiff, watching her cabaret artist auntie Caroline perform. “I felt held by the community,” she remembers. “There’s just such fun and joy and play and delight and discovery and naughtiness and irreverence,” she adds breathlessly, speaking from her home in Barry via Zoom. Charlotte Church is always speaking at pace, lifting her words with helium-like fervour.

1 week ago | thepinknews.com | Marcus Wratten

RuPaul has consulted with the fans, and while the final decision is hers to make, there’s a very clear fan favourite for the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17 crown. At the end of episode 14, following the heartbreaking (and controversial) elimination of Suzie Toot, the final four was confirmed to be Onya Nurve, Lexi Love, Jewels Sparkles, and Sam Star. RuPaul then passed the power over to the viewers, asking them to share their support for who they want to win the season 17 crown.

2 weeks ago | thepinknews.com | Marcus Wratten

Queer Eye’s new interior design and home organisation expert Jeremiah Brent has revealed why he was initially “really nervous” about joining the Fab Five. Say I Do star Brent joined Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Karamo Brown as the fifth member of the Netflix makeover hit for the ninth season at the end of 2024. But the decision wasn’t one he felt wholly at ease with at first, he tells PinkNews while promoting his new partnership with bug repellent brand STEM.

2 weeks ago | thepinknews.com | Marcus Wratten

Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has been given a formal warning by Celebrity Big Brother producers after “homophobic” comments about and to JoJo Siwa. In scenes that will air in tonight’s Celebrity Big Brother episode (9 April), The Wrestler star Rourke suggests to “Karma” singer Siwa that he would be able to turn her straight. After she rebuffs his insinuation, he then tells fellow housemate and former Love Island star Chris Hughes that he will be “vote the lesbian out real quick”.

2 weeks ago | thepinknews.com | Marcus Wratten

Updated Eurovision Song Contest 2025 betting odds indicate that this year the legendary singing competition could be won by a history-making country. We’re around one month away from the return of Eurovision, this time in Basel, Switzerland, following on from the historic victory from non-binary star Nemo and their song “The Code” in 2024.