Homegrown queen Etcetera Etcetera has been eliminated in the latest round of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.
The alter ego of 22 year-old of former Daramalan College dux Oliver Levi-Malouf was cut from the reality television show in episode five, after allegedly pushing the boundaries of toilet humour a little too far.
In a challenge which called for the drag queens to conceptualise a marketing campaign for yeast extract, American host RuPaul was reportedly unimpressed with Levi-Malouf. In RuPaul's defence, Etcetera Etcetera's ad campaign did involve a cup of urine.
"Etcetera Etcetera your runway was high fashion but your commercial was lowbrow," RuPaul informed before announcing Etcetera Etcetera was in the bottom two.
In an attempt to avoid elimination, Levi-Malouf went up against Maxi Shield in a high-drama lip sync-off to Vanessa Amorosi's Absolutely Everybody.
Despite lip syncing her heart out during the high-energy performance, the battle seemed lost from the start when Ms Shield pulled a prop microphone from inside her sleeve.
"I have a trick up my sleeve, literally," the Sydney queen told the cameras.
Eliminated from the spinoff of the American reality show which seeks to find the best drag queen from Australia and New Zealand, Etcetera Etcetera will no longer be in the running for the $30,000 prize.
At her now home in Sydney this week, Levi-Malouf said they had no regrets.
"Australians have a very different sense of humour to Americans," they said.
"What Ru' thought was crossing the line, I thought was holding back, I wanted to make the ad much filthier," they said.
Levi-Malouf said at the end of the day it's RuPaul signing the cheques.
sudden endings ,, but bright beginnings 💫 it’s time to regenerate ,, to learn ,, to rediscover my own self love and spawn my own process of creation❕ pic.twitter.com/al0mlsB9Pa
— etcetera ɐɹǝʇǝɔʇǝ | STREAM #FLUSH (@glamourbug) May 29, 2021
"To me, pissing in a cup will always be funny when a drag queen does it," they said.
"I would like drag to stay a little bit edgy and a little bit rebellious 'cos I think without that it doesn't have the fun."
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Levi-Malouf said they were and remain "unapologetically me" going into the show and coming out of the show.
"If RuPaul couldn't tone me down, who can?" Levi-Malouf said.
Etcetera Etcetera will be onstage at the Canberra Theatre alongside all the contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race on September 28.
Tickets are available through Canberra Ticketing and the Canberra Theatre Centre.
