Charlie Hides

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Charlie Hides
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Hides, circa 2017
Born (1964-07-12) 12 July 1964 (age 60)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Education Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Occupations
Known for YouTube
RuPaul's Drag Race
Spouse
James Hides
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(m. 2004)​
YouTube information
Charlie Hides text logo.png
Channel
Years active2011–present
GenreComedy
Subscribers100 thousand [1]
Total views23.88 million [1]
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2017
Last updated: 12 July 2020
Website charliehidestv.com

Charlie Hides (born 12 July 1964) [2] is a British-American drag queen, impersonator, actor, and comedian. Hides is known for his YouTube channel, and his participation in the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race . Following live performances in London clubs, Hides started a YouTube channel in March 2011. He has produced hundreds of videos satirizing popular culture, and impersonating celebrities such as Cher, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Lana Del Rey. [3] [4] [2]

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Personal life

Hides was born in Boston, Massachusetts [5] on 12 July 1964. [4] He attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He currently lives in London and has multiple citizenship, being a citizen of the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland. [6] [7]

Hides is gay, and in 2004 married his partner James Hides in the town of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Career

Hides began as a successful drag act in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the 1990s. There he would incorporate live singing as well as comedic skits into his act. This success continued when he moved to London in the 2000s where he began performing on the London cabaret circuit in gay-venues, and legendary drag/cabaret venues, such as The Two Brewers and The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. As his success grew, he became a sensation across the United Kingdom and would regularly tour the UK.

Hides started a YouTube channel after high-definition video uploading became available on the website. Following the creation of his channel, he uploaded some of the videos that he used in live performances and comedy routines. Since Hides created the Charlie Hides TV YouTube channel in March 2011, he has uploaded over 200 videos. These include series such as Madonna/Lady Gaga Nightmares and Shit ____ Says. [8]

In 2013, Hides uploaded a sketch that starred Australian singer and actress Kylie Minogue. He impersonated Cher during a telephone call with Minogue. In 2015, Hides starred on the TV show Big Brother's Bit on the Side , where he impersonated celebrities whilst commenting on Celebrity Big Brother contestants. Hides also had a cameo role in the film Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie , as a drag performer. In 2014, The Charlie Hides Show aired on London Live as a pilot show, incorporating elements from his live performances and YouTube channel. [9] [10] [11] [12]

Hides has occasionally drawn the attention of some of the acts that he impersonates. In a 2013 interview with the Herald Sun , Cher said that Hides was her "favourite Cher impersonator". When Lady Gaga was in London, she sent flowers to Hides, alongside a note. Hides has also stated that Liza Minnelli, Elton John and Kris Jenner have been "very kind". [13] [14]

In 2019, Hides' began regularly performing and hosting 'Drag Queen Bingo' and saw instant success with every show selling out that he began taking it across the United Kingdom. 'Drag Queen Bingo' would become Hides' regular show, taking over from his evening cabaret shows, and in 2020 he set up the company dragqueen.bingo.

RuPaul's Drag Race

On 2 February 2017, Logo TV announced that Hides would participate as a contestant in the ninth season of American reality competition RuPaul's Drag Race . Aged 52 at the time of competing, Hides was the oldest contestant to participate in any Drag Race franchise. This record would be broken in late 2023, when it was announced that 57-year-old Kitten Kaboodle would compete on the fourth season of Canada’s Drag Race . The season premiered on 24 March 2017, on VH1. [15] In an interview with BBC News Newsbeat , Hides said:

The label drag queen is not just a cookie cutter, one-size fits all type of label. There's pageant girls, there's comics, there's celebrity impersonators. There's every different type of queen under the sun. That's one of the things that Drag Race has definitely shown over the course of nine seasons. That there's so many different ways to express yourself using this art form. You'd think it's just gay men, but it's got a huge following of women who are watching for the fashion. They're watching for the colourful sense of humour and then they're identifying with us. The contestants are human beings and not just seen as some dancing clowns or as freaks. We are definitely in need of laughter, sunshine, brightness and colour. Drag queens are defiant. We are the counter culture, the opposition party. We are everything that the moral majority and small-minded bigots fear. [16]

Charlie Hides in 2017 Charlie Hides Essex Pride.jpg
Charlie Hides in 2017

On the fourth episode of the show, entitled "Good Morning Bitches", Hides was eliminated from the competition. He was placed in the bottom two by the judges, and therefore had to participate in a "Lip-Sync for Your Life" to Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go" against fellow contestant Trinity Taylor. Hides commented on the lip-sync, saying that the self-described "disaster" was a result of having a fractured rib, due to a cheerleading challenge several episodes prior. In the episode's challenge, Hides was critiqued for his performance in the talk show segment of the episode. The morning after his elimination, Hides uploaded a music video for his new single, "The Dame". [17] [18] [19]

Controversy

In December 2015, Hides was accused of using blackface and ethnic stereotypes to represent one of his characters, Laquisha Jonz. An activist, Chardine Taylor-Stone, launched a petition on the website Change.org, calling for the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, and other venues, to cancel Hides' performances. Taylor-Stone claimed that the character was "a racist act based on misogynist stereotypes of black working class women, it is outdated, offensive, shameful and has no place in the LGBT Community". As a result, Hides stated that he will no longer use the character in his performances. [20] [21]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2014The Charlie Hides ShowSelfPilot show on London Live [12]
2015 Big Brother's Bit on the Side VariousMultiple impersonation sketches [10]
2017 RuPaul's Drag Race Self (contestant) Season nine Contestant- 12th Place [22]
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked Spin-off series on WOWPresents [23]

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2016 Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Drag queenCameo role [11]

Discography and parodies

TitleYear
"The Edge of Glory"2011
"MILF Gone Wild"2012
"Boyfriend"
"Turn Up the Radio"
"Woman's World"2013
"Roar"/"Wrecking Ball"
"Applause"
"Judas"
"Venus"
"Adore You"2014
"Booty"
"All About That Bass"
"Welcome to New York"
"Living for Love"2015
"You Fucked a Bad Gay"
"Don't Call Us"2017
"The Dame"

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2014 Royal Television Society Awards Best Low Budget ProgrammeWon [24]
2016 Boyz Awards Best Cabaret ActWon [25]

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