RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is set to return to BBC iPlayer and BBC Three this autumn, and among the fresh new cast of drag queens are three performers hailing from the West Midlands. Staffordshire’s KY Kelly, Dudley’s Naya Thorn, and Birmingham’s Anita Piss will hit TV screens in series 8 of Drag Race UK, competing for the title of the UK’s next drag superstar.

An undercover BBC investigation claims that legal advisors have been helping migrants ‘pose as gay’ to gain asylum in the UK. Micro Rainbow, the leading UK non-profit providing safe housing, integration and social inclusion support for LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers, with housing in London, the North West and the West Midlands, has issued a statement responding to the BBC article which they say is “deeply misleading and risks harming those genuinely fleeing persecution.”

The make-up competition series, Glow Up, is set to return for a seventh series and among the announced contestants are several hailing from the Midlands.

Stephen Parkes, a Birmingham-based contestant on The Great Pottery Throw Down, speaks all things clay with Midlands Rainbow.

The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals returns in 2025, with numbers from some of the UK’s best West End and touring productions