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Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer is a British reality television competition series that premiered online on 27 November 2020. The show features Rebecca More and Matthew Camp on their hunt to discover the next LGBTQ+ icon. Sophie Anderson co-presented the first series; the second series, broadcast after her death, was co-presented by drag performer Fantasia Royale Gaga and featured a tribute to Anderson.
Production
The show was conceived several years before broadcast by Sophie Anderson and Rebecca More, who were better known as The Cock Destroyers. The show was produced after a friend of More offered her large countryside house for a shoot and was filmed in four days during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. The series was co-presented by Matthew Camp, with whom More had commandeered the queer brand Daddy Couture in September 2019, and was intended as a celebration of sex work and as a safe space for people to be themselves. Contestants were described on the programme as Slags in order to reclaim the word as sex-positive.
The first series used many personal friends of the Cock Destroyers as guests, including its narrator Chase Icon, and ran for four episodes. The show was shot on a tight budget and featured specially composed tracks as a soundtrack. Anderson was due to have buttock augmentation just before filming, but delayed it as she felt it would interfere with wearing the lycra suits they had ordered for the show. This series was streamed on Men.com and SlagWars.com, the latter of which had been created for those wanting a safe for work experience. The show featured seven sex workers and OnlyFans creators as contestants.
The second series, broadcast several months after Anderson's death, aired on the LGBTQ streaming service Outflix. It ran for seven episodes and featured the same theme song as the first series. The show was due to feature a reunion between Anderson and More, who had announced their split in May 2021, though Anderson had cancelled at the last minute for health reasons. The series was dedicated to Anderson and its introduced a points system to ensure a fairer competition. Its first episode featured a tribute to Anderson and a documentary on how the Cock Destroyers became famous.
Reviewing the first series, Tim Forster of Vulture described the show as "good, dirty fun, with a healthy dose of camp" and complimented the show for its queer representation, though wrote that Daddy Couture was "heavily product-placed" and that having five contestants out of seven who identified as "he/him" demonstrated an "imperfect approach to diversity". Barry Pierce of Dazed wrote that the series was "a truly glorious celebration of the self with positivity and inclusivity as its central tenets" and stated that one scene, in which Anderson unsuccessfully tried to storm off set in high heels following an inability to send anybody home and ended up crawling off set, was a contender for his "television moment of the year".
Promotional poster