Kate Butch calls out a Drag Race guest judge for joining the new Harry Potter project
'It puts money in the author's pocket'
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Kate Butch is calling out guest judge Cush Jumbo for supporting J.K. Rowling’s new Harry Potter project. She claimed that the “author hates trans people and working on anything to do with that series puts money in her pocket.”
After it was revealed Cush is a narrator for a seven-book series of Harry Potter, Kate announced on X: “I think if you were a guest judge on perhaps the least cis season of drag race uk you shouldn’t be doing this idk (incredibly disappointed at the rest of them and them all).”
When she was questioned about her opinion, Kate revealed that it’s “disingenuous” for Cush to work on the project, while other actors on the project involve Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Riz Ahmed, and Michelle Gomez, who will voice the characters.
Some people are on Cush’s side, with one person writing: “Harry Potter is a beloved book series, created by an author who recognises that women’s rights don’t stop where your ideological belief in ‘gender identity’ begins. Get some perspective.”
The Drag Race season that Cush appeared as a guest judge on featured one trans and at least two non-binary contestants. One person wrote, “Thought it couldn’t get more disappointing than Michelle Gomez and then I read CUSH’S NAME. Noooooo.”
She gave her own perspective on the Rusical episode during series five in 2023, where the queens took part in a pantomime musical for the latest maxi challenge. Cush told Ru: “I’m so excited to be here and this is the best seat in the house.”
Many people seem really surprised to see her name on the cast list considering her friendship with David Tennant, who she appeared on stage with in Macbeth in 2023, and Deadwater Fell in 2020, as he’s known to be an ally of trans people, and has criticised J.K. Rowling.
Reality Shrine has contacted Cush’s representative for comment.
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