Now, Pearl is transcending the bounds of the RuPaul Industrial Complex to become a cottage industry in her own right. While other queens might insist that they stand out for their humour or their dancing or their really good wigs, Pearl rose above the rest with her refusal to fake it, even in drag. When, inevitably, the show did break her down, she expressed herself in a way that was fully raw, making no apologies for feeling totally fucked up. Week after week, as the show’s ageing judges tried to build a storyline around her not expressing her emotions enough to snag a mainstream audience’s attention, an army of online fans proved them wrong by flocking to her anyway. The classically beautiful look she painted on to her face each week was tinged with a kind of emotion not politely packaged for public consumption, and as the other contestants revelled in telling tidy, tiresome sob stories, Pearl remained steely and calm.
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Like most reality TV shows, Drag Race humiliates its stars as much as it celebrates them, but while other queens were falling over themselves with thirst to pander to the production, Pearl remained unfiltered and unflappable.
She was beautiful, flawless and bored out of her mind. When she appeared on season seven of the reality spectacular RuPaul's Drag Race in March, she presented an inscrutable persona quite unlike any that had gone before her on the series. Pearl Liaison, AKA Matthew James Lent, is a walking sensation. Taken from the autumn/winter issue of Dazed:
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