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Aired autumn 2025

Series 7 (2025)

Series 7 hands the cast its own power with The Lucky Cow, a new secret-vote twist that lets the queens grant a bottom performer a second chance. Guest judges include Nadine Coyle and Jane Horrocks.

Filmed
Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England
The show's fifth series at this Pinewood soundstage
Premiered
Sep 25, 2025
BBC Three · iPlayer 8pm, BBC Three 9pm same night
Episodes
10
Ten episodes, first series with The Lucky Cow
Format
Standard format · 10 episodes
12 queens, guest panel spans music and comedy
Host
RuPaul Charles
RuPaul, seventh series at the helm
On this page6 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 04What to watch for
  5. 05Adjacent in the canon
  6. 06Also appears in
01The take

The cast gains real power.

The queens get a vote of their own for the first time — The Lucky Cow hands the room real power over who stays.
02The shape of the season

Two platforms, one premiere night.

Series 7 introduces The Lucky Cow, a new twist that lets the cast itself intervene: queens secretly vote to grant a reprieve to whichever bottom queen the room feels deserves a second chance. Guest judges include Nadine Coyle and Jane Horrocks, and the twist keeps the workroom guessing about who actually holds the leverage once the vote goes to the cast itself.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #04 slot.

Slot #04 of 7 in the RuPaul's Drag Race UK Editor's Canon. Series 7 lands at four for introducing The Lucky Cow, a genuinely new piece of game mechanics rather than a scale-up of what came before. The twist lets the cast itself vote in secret to grant a reprieve to whichever bottom queen the room believes deserves another shot, handing real power to the contestants rather than the panel alone. Guest judges including Nadine Coyle and Jane Horrocks bring range across the run, and the real test is whether one new mechanic is enough to keep the room's power dynamic interesting past its debut season. A confident, format-curious entry that keeps the show evolving rather than repeating itself.

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04What to watch for

3 moments, no spoilers.

  • Ep 1 · a new twist enters the workroom

    The season introduces The Lucky Cow before the queens fully understand what it means for them. Watch for how the cast reacts to suddenly holding some of the power themselves.

  • Ep 6 · guest judges from music and comedy

    Nadine Coyle and Jane Horrocks join the panel across the run, part of a guest-judge lineup pulling from music and comedy in equal measure.

  • Ep 10 · Miss Congeniality is named

    The room crowns its own Miss Congeniality, a cast-voted title that rewards how well a queen reads the room's own chemistry.

06Also appears in

Cross-references.