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Danny Beard

Gok Wan is back hosting with Scott, and this week’s guest is a dear friend of the show: Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard. Danny tells us how a £100 pay gap with the drag queen on the next shift at a Canal Street bar started his drag career, and how a “fake agent” called Gordon got him better money. Danny has dyslexia and had never finished a book, until he was cast as Paul O’Grady in Jonathan Harvey’s new play Savage. He tells us how The Savage Years became the first book he couldn’t put down, what it’s like recording Paul’s memoir At My Mother’s Knee as an audiobook, and why standing on Holly Grove in Birkenhead brought him to tears. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Gok Wan is back hosting with Scott, and this week’s guest is a dear friend of the show: Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard.


Danny tells us how a £100 pay gap with the drag queen on the next shift at a Canal Street bar started his drag career, and how a “fake agent” called Gordon got him better money.


Danny has dyslexia and had never finished a book, until he was cast as Paul O’Grady in Jonathan Harvey’s new play Savage. He tells us how The Savage Years became the first book he couldn’t put down, what it’s like recording Paul’s memoir At My Mother’s Knee as an audiobook, and why standing on Holly Grove in Birkenhead brought him to tears.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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