Honestly, that would fill my heart with joy. I think I’ll excel in the singing challenges.
I’m first generation born here. I then entered Drag Idol. Yuhua Hamasaki and Sum Ting Wong sat down to discuss racism in the coronavirus age. I want to show you that I’m a queen like anyone else.My housemate started doing drag, and I’m watching him as he puts on his makeup and I thought: "I could 100 per cent do this better than you", and so I did. It’s the best job in the world. I think that’s two pretty strong things. It was my first time on stage and I came third in the UK for my first time in drag. I’m never gonna make it like that so drag helped me, and the 12 year old me, finally live out my dream of performing and singing. “Have you noticed that in the US?”“Totally,” Yuhua replied.
I like sewing, I think I’ll be alright in that. Dancing is not my forte. Tell us about your drag? I wanna try this. Birmingham drag queen Sum Ting Wong has been slammed by India Willoughby over her stage name. This isn’t easy for me doing this.
My drag comes from singing. As the first Asian queen to take part in the UK version of the show. So many people would kill to be in this position! I can’t be a singer out of drag. When I started doing drag five years ago, I wanted a name that was cheeky but also reflected my British Vietnamese heritage, so I browsed the internet and came across a meme about an American news report which turned out to be a prank.
"It … That’s the only reason I put all of this on - so I can perform and sing. RuPaul's Drag Race UK eliminated queen Sum Ting Wong has revealed the show's queens are all still in a big WhatsApp group.. I get on stages across all of the UK, but I’m scared of this because I don’t have anyone else and I can only go on me. My drag comes from singing. I have decided to go against everything that I have been brought up to do, because deep down before I was a drag queen I was unhappy. I entered a small competition run by my rugby team and thought this is kinda cool. SUM TING WONG is the charismatic Brummy drag queen famous for appearing as a contestant on the first series of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK.
I feel like Willy Wonka with the golden ticket to go to RuPaul’s magical chocolate factory. Willoughby took aim at the RuPaul's Drag Race UK hopeful in … People talk about representation all the time, but if a little Chinese homo is watching this at home and sees me and thinks wow I’ve been brought up to do those things too. (WOW)The outbreak of coronavirus has brought with it a wave of anti-Asian hate, with LGBT+ people of Asian descent Sum Ting Wong and Yuhua Hamasaki saw down to discuss the issue over video call for “The recent COVID-19 outbreak has really highlighted that thing have become a lot more heated,” Sum Ting said. It was wrong in so many ways, and that was why I chose my name, as my own act of reclamation!I’m here because I’m a drag queen not because I’m Asian. So many people would kill to be in this position!So, let’s get a few things straight… I’m in a homosexual relationship; I’m a person of colour. Drag Queen | Sum Ting Wong | London | Reading | Cabaret | MUA | Songwriter | Singer | Pop Star | I was a little emo kid at 12 years old and I loved to sing. The campaign has been launched in partnership with RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Sum Ting Wong, who will be acting as a judge for the new social media competition. I live an oriental Chinese Vietnamese background so going from that and being told I need to go to school, university, you need to get good job, you need to get married, have a house, kids.
Especially being a person of colour of oriental descent.
For Sum Ting Wong, appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race was the motivation she needed to finally tell her parents about her sexuality and being a drag queen.
I was a little emo kid at 12 years old and I loved to sing.
I didn’t speak any English until the age of three. So hopefully, I’ll come third in this - or even better. I’m not going to tell you not to go university, I’m not going to tell you not to go to law school, but if you are unhappy then I am going to tell you to do what you love. Yuhua was born in China and moved to the US aged 7.Sum Ting’s grandparents were all born in China, with her parents born in or having lived in Vietnam before moving to Britain, where she was born.Her father owned a Chinese takeaway, where she would help out when she was “really really young”, coming face to face with racism “day to day”.“The best thing that I learned from that [experience] is how my dad dealt with it,” she said.“He’d almost shrug it off and that’s the thing I’ve taken in to adult life. I can’t be a singer out of drag. I’m a strong person, I’m a drag queen for fuck’s sake.
It’s not that I’m scared of doing it alone, it’s that I’m scared of doing it alone badly.I feel like Willy Wonka with the golden ticket to go to RuPaulâs magical chocolate factory. I’m Sum Ting Wong, I’m 30 and I live in Reading.