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Drag Race disqualifies contestant in catfish scandal

Producers forced to act on shamed contestant who has already filmed current season.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race has disqualified one of the contestants from the current season after admitting to catfishing allegations.

The move comes despite all episodes, aside from the finale, having been filmed.

Sherry Pie, whose non-drag name is Joey Gugliemelli, apologised after allegations made by several actors.

Gugliemelli is accused of having posed under the pseudonym of Allison Mossey and asking men to film scenes, including masturbation, for alleged HBO projects.

In a Facebook post Gugliemelli wrote, “This is Joey, I want to start by saying how sorry I am that I caused such trauma and pain and how horribly embarrassed and disgusted I am with myself,” the post read. “I know that the pain and hurt that I have caused will never go away and I know that what I did was wrong and truly cruel. Until being on RuPaul’s Drag Race, I never really understood how much my mental health and taking care of things meant. I learned on that show how important ‘loving yourself’ is and I don’t think I have ever loved myself. I have been seeking help and receiving treatment since coming back to NYC. I truly apologize to everyone I have hurt with my actions. I also want to say how sorry I am to my sisters of season 12 and honestly the whole network and production company. All I can do is change the behavior and that starts with me and doing that work.”

VH1 and the show’s producer World of Wonder said, “In light of recent developments and Sherry Pie’s statement, Sherry Pie has been disqualified from RuPaul’s Drag Race.

“Out of respect for the hard work of the other queens, VH1 will air the season as planned. Sherry will not appear in the grand finale scheduled to be filmed later this spring.”

RuPaul’s Drag Race airs in Australia on Stan.

Source: Variety

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    1. They arent about to go back and re-edit an entire series of shows that have been in the can for 6 months – its not as easy as you think, because they would also have to edit our conversations she had with other queens, which would through out the context of the episodes/conversations. Not to mention the fact the publicity (good bad or otherwise) of having her feature drives up viewer numberes… as they say any publicity is good publicity.

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