Bob the Drag Queen is proud to have held his personal towards ‘Boston Rob’ Mariano at The Traitors roundtable.
PEOPLE caught up with the previous RuPaul’s Drag Race winner at REACH LA‘s third Annual Celebration Gala on Saturday, Feb. 16 to speak all issues The Traitors.
When advised that Boston Rob mentioned he eradicated him “out of huge respect,” Bob replied, “To be honest, I gave him no selection however to respect me.”
Bob was blindsided when his fellow traitor Boston Rob betrayed him and introduced up his title for banishment in episode 4 as an alternative of a devoted’s.
“I believe there was an enormous canine eat huge dog-type of vibe occurring in there, and there may solely be one king of the fortress,” Bob advised PEOPLE solely of his and Boston Rob’s dynamic. “And I believe it gags him to see this queen ended up being the king. He was like, ‘This bitch is actually working issues.’ “
Regardless of his bravado, Boston Rob was finally himself banished in episode 7.
And as spectacular as Rob’s 5 aggressive appearances on Survivor are, Bob says one other traitor is much more spectacular.
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“Danielle is an absolute icon on the earth of actuality TV,” Bob mentioned of their fellow traitor Danielle Reyes, who stays within the sport. “I do not suppose y’all studying at house understand how a lot Danielle Reyes has modified the sport of actuality TV. You actually do not know. They do actuality in another way due to how [they] impression.” (Reyes has competed on Massive Brother thrice and is commonly considered the best participant by no means to win.)
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Talking of impression, Bob was readily available on the occasion to honor Peppermint, the primary trans contestant and Drag Race alum to look on The Traitors, with REACH LA’s Trans Vanguard Award for her efforts in supporting and advancing the trans group.”
“People like me within the trans group are identical to everybody else. We’ve the identical needs and wishes: entry to honest housing, vitamin, well being care, security, job safety, all these, most of these issues,” Peppermint mentioned of her activism.
“Once you boil down the issues that persons are combating for, regardless of who they’re or what their id is, it boils all the way down to these issues,” the RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 runner-up continued. Responding to the present anti-trans political local weather, she warned, “Issues are a lot extra prescient, and the urgency is certainly right here.”
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REACH LA’s mission is to have interaction, empower, and have a good time LGBTQIA+ individuals of coloration and their communities by way of social enterprise, inventive arts, private growth, and well being and wellness.
“We’re going to discover methods to be much less reliant on federal funding,” REACH LA CEO Miguel Bujanda advised PEOPLE. “However extra importantly, [we need] to get the group to mobilize. The homosexual group has finished that for a few years. We mobilized with out the help of the federal government. We are going to proceed to mobilize to make sure we constantly present companies wanted by the group.”
New episodes of The Traitors stream Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Peacock.
