RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 queen Kori King is opening up about her kai kai relationship with fellow queen Lydia B Kollins, as their showmance plays out on the current season.
via: Out
RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 star Kori King has confirmed that she's still dating costar and fellow queen Lydia B Kollins after meeting on Mama Ru's werk room and finishing up their duties filming the show. This is the first official Drag Race showmance in the flagship series to last through the post-season filming period.
On Friday, Feb. 21, Jorgeous (season 14; All Stars 9) and Kori appeared as special guests in the Roscoe's Tavern Viewing Party for Drag Race season 17 episode 8. During the live-stream, cohosts Naysha Lopez, Batty Davis, and Kara Mel D'Ville asked Kori about her relationship status with Lydia.
"Y'all are probably the actual first couple that has actually stayed together after the show," Kara noted, and then asked: "When y'all were getting together, were you like, 'We gotta play it cool because they may put us in the bottom together'?"
Kori replied, "You know what's so funny? We were kind of talking to each other, and fighting, and stuff like that… but we weren't thinking about it for the camera's sake, which is probably why they didn't catch as much of it. We were just in a relationship on the show, but we didn't really play it up for the cameras. They didn't really catch all of the nonsense that we were doing."
"So, tell us really quick the extent of your actual relationship," Naysha asked.
Kori answered, "Well, we're together. Yeah. Officially."
"Love to hear that," Naysha added. "Now, did that happen on set, or was something that progressed after you got home?"
Kori explained, "It progressed after we got home. And then it flourished a couple of months after filming.
"I absolutely love that," Naysha said. "That's fierce."
Kori and Lydia have been teasing their relationship and bringing up how things are going between them while still appearing as competitors on Drag Race. But given all the secrecy around each queen's placement and track record in the season, the two queens have mostly kept a low profile on social media… until Kori's stint on Roscoe's Tavern, that is!
The full VIP Early Access video can be seen below. Otherwise, the episode will premiere for free on YouTube (@roscoestavern) this Monday.
Kori faced her first Lip Sync For Your Life in episode 4 after underperforming in a singing challenge that turned iconic Untucked moments into songs. After lip syncing against Joella to "Buttons" by the Pussycat Dolls, Kori got to stay for another week.
The very next episode — episode 5 — had Lydia landing in the bottom two against Arrietty. A groovy performance from Lydia to "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire secured her place in the competition, and Arrietty was the last saved queen in the Badonka Dunk Tank twist of the season.
Kori got another bottom-two placement after "The Wicked Wiz of Oz: The Rusical" as one of two "Flying Monkeys" (playing alongside Lydia), and the Boston queen survived yet again in a lip sync against Acacia Forgot to Adam Lambert's "Wet Dream."
However, while fans can rest assured that this showmance is still going strong in the post-season, the jury is still out on whether Kori and Lydia will make it to the grand finale as the competition heats up and narrows down.
RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 airs new episodes every Friday on MTV.
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