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Maltese stand-up comedian and drag queen
Chucky Bartolo, a Maltese drag performer at a stand-up show in Glasgow.

Chucky Bartolo (born Andrew Bartolo; 5 July 1986) is a Maltese stand-up comedian and drag queen. Currently based in Glasgow, his career breakthrough came as a writer and journalist for Lovin Malta after years of garnering a small following on YouTube as a vlogger. Bartolo is openly gay and uses his platform to speak out against ] and fight for reclamation of derogatory slurs.

Since November 2018, he has written and starred in four stand-up specials, and was the closing speaker of TEDx University of Malta's 2019 edition, 'Quirks'. In 2018, Bartolo also starred as the Dame in Malta's National Theatre (Teatru Malta)'s first pantomime and returned to the role in 2019 and 2020. To comply with COVID-19 safety regulations, the pantomime was moved to air on select national radio stations and is the only one taking place on the island in 2020.

In 2020, Bartolo also collaborated with the Government of Malta's Children's Festival, Żigużajg, to put on a digital show encouraging children to write creative stories and bring a modern twist to old fairytales. The digital programme was then brought to Malta as a live theatre production of the same name, "Fab Fantasy Fables with Chucky", in 2022.

Bartolo will be the narrator and voice-over artist of the first-ever season of reality TV drama Love Island Malta which aired in 2023.

In September 2023, Bartolo hosted and performed at EuroPride 2023's official drag show, The Drag Spectacular, in Valletta.

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