Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap
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Meet Cape Town’s most charismatic drag queens in this eye-opening reality series. New episodes land every Thursday from 18 July 2024.
From The Mommy Club creators POP24, Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap is a new reality TV show about Cape Town’s drag queens, including queen of queens Manila von Teez, Miss Sovereign Western Cape winners Ina Propriette and Maxine Wilde, Miss Gay Western Cape and Miss Cape Town Pride Kat Gilardi, multi-award-winner Emogan Moore, and rival house mothers BB Vahlour and Madisson Scarr.
From Miss Sovereign to Miss Gay Grassy Park, and from Beefcakes to Zer021, Beaulah will take you onto the Cape Town drag scene’s biggest stages.
Told in Gayle with subtitles, it’s an eye-opening and jaw-dropping introduction to a world of extreme transformations, unforgettable fashion, warring houses, opposing queen mothers, wig-gates, and sisterhood.
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Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap
Meet Cape Town’s most charismatic drag queens in this eye-opening reality series. New episodes land every Thursday from 18 July 2024.
Made in South AfricaSee the first-look trailer of Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap
With new episodes landing every Thursday on Showmax from 18 July 2024, Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap is an eye-opening reality series about Cape Town’s most charismatic drag queens.
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