Confidential’s Breathless ‘Sytycd’ Coverage Hampered By Laughable Knowledge Of Melbourne Drag History

News Ltd’s Confidential, in this instance its Melbourne-based Herald Sun incarnation, love to think of themselves as the all-seeing, all-knowing orifice oracle of entertainment gossip, and get particularly excited about themselves when they think they’ve got the scoop.

So it was that they breathlessly started going on about So You Think You Can Dance Australia contestant Rhys and his apparent double life as a drag performer:

Melbourne’s Rhys Bobridge who made the cut on So You Can Think You Can Dance, has been slogging it out as a real-life Priscilla.

Bobridge, whose drag queen alias is Zowie Knox, has been working at Prahran’s Market Hotel in Commercial Rd for seven years.

As well as doing drag, Bobridge, 26, was a regular dancer at the pub for its mid-morning shows.

Isn’t that camp?!

What a pity, then, that Confidential haven’t done a jot of research.

Zowie Knox is indeed a well-loved drag superstar and show producer who did the hard yards on the live circuit… in the mid-’90s.

Rhys’ alter ego is the beautiful and glamorous Miss Regime Dettol, as we hinted rather heavily when we got word that he’d made it to the Top 20, and as anyone who knows anything about Melbourne’s drag scene would be well aware.

As for describing Miss Dettol as a mere “Priscilla”, those gossip folk better wash their mouths out with soap and learn a thing or two about how to talk to a lady.

Then again, those hilarious gays and their make-up and spangles – they’re all the same, aren’t they Confidential?