A DARLINGTON drag queen is joining RuPaul and eleven other contestants in season two of the UK show, coming to BBC Three in January. 

Darlington club kid Cherry Valentine, 26, pays homage to the town's clocktower in a video introducing herself as a Drag Race contestant.

Ms Valentine, a qualified as a mental health nurse who also expected to follow in her dad's footsteps and fix cars, says her best drag talent is being in full dress with ten-inch heels and being able to drive 45 minutes to the gig. 

She said: "Of course I'm here to make friends, everyone's my sister. But at the end of the day, it's a competition.

"We're here to win. You do what you have to do, claw your way to the top. Poke someone's eye out if you need to. 

"Snatch the ground girls."

In a typical Cherry Valentine show, she says she will look fierce and her body is going to look "right". 

The second season of the BBC Three competition will return on January 14 and feature Ms Valentine alongside 27-year-old Asttina Mandella from east London, fashion designer A’Whora, 23, vegan Bimini Bon Boulash, 26, the show's youngest contestant Ellie Diamond, 21 from Dundee, improve comedian Ginny Lemon, 31, burlesque-inspired Joe Black, 30, Lawrence Chaney, 23 from Glasgow, Sister Sister, a 32-year-old from Liverpool, Tayce, 26 from Walse, and the all-singing, all-dancing Tia Kofi, 30.

Elizabeth Hurley, Lorraine Kelly, Sheridan Smith, MNEK and Jourdan Dunn are the first names to be Ru-vealed as celebrity guest judges on the second series of hit BBC Three show RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, coming to BBC iPlayer at 7pm on Thursday 14 January.

The new series will showcase the most fabulous drag queens that the UK has to offer, as RuPaul searches for the UK’s Next Drag Race Superstar. The celebrity guest will join RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton, and Alan Carr to make a fierce panel of Drag Race judges.