When we left RuPaul’s Drag Race star Detox and her friends aboard the Good Ship Meltdown, Lola LaCroix left the dinner table to go downstairs and, uh, do things while waiting for Cloyce to get his shyt together. Cloyce recovered; even Lola was thrilled with the rest of dinner.
But that evening of harmony gave way to days of conflict: between Lola and her friends; between Danni, Diana, and Daisy; and between Glenn and Gary. Let’s recap the highlights and lowlights!
BDSY S5 E14 ‘Rules of En-rage-ment’ recap
Detox boarded Below Deck Sailing Yacht season 5 and brought some life to the shipRun Lola run Starting with the croquette/cheese ball, it seems like Lola LaCroix and her fellow passengers weren’t getting along. “We all would like to push him overboard,” Marc said about Lola. On the final morning, when Diana asked Lola if she needed anything, she said, “to get the fuck off this boat.”
The day before, Lola asked for wine and said, “if these assholes aren’t going to drink, I am” and then greeted her friends with, “I was just telling Daisy how boring you hos are.” “Don’t come to Ibiza to be sober,” Lola said. Or to keep friends.
Bring me my lemon Detox, being the brilliant queen she is, used some of her many looks to pay homage to the 1987 film Overboard, starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell: this one and this one.
Princess “This bitch will prevent me from going to the ball,” Danni said of Daisy. She thinks she’s Cinderella, but she’s actually a stepsister, right?
Chase tries on a skirt for Below Deck Sailing Yacht’s drag show, and discovers that it shows his mastDanni’s luck Chase put on a tight pink skirt for the drag show and, uh, displayed his kielbasa for the cameras. I think we now know why Gary is jealous of him, because I am honestly surprised that fits on such a small boat.
Raise the sails The “fashion” “drag show” the crew put on was the usual ill-fitting Party City discount bin glitter. Glenn…put on a green wig. That’s it. All of those cutaways to the photo of Glenn with big hair in the 1970s and he couldn’t even do that?
Props to Keith for calling his drag persona “Princess LaQueefa,” and though we all know Gary is a dirtbag, his performance did work for Detox: “I’m full mast,” she said.
The drag show may be silly, but on the way off the boat, Detox pointed out why it matters: “I just wanted to say how important yesterday was for me, being a very visible queer person, to have all of you rally behind us in such a fierce way was really spectacular.”
The more you know While the guests and most of the crew was off the boat, Glenn had Cloyce as a captive audience, and shared some of what he’s been learning on his iPad. “You know there’s fucking mites living in our eyelashes and shit, there’s stuff living in our gut that we can’t live without. Certain animals we can’t reproduce without the microbes,” he said. Glenn really should have his own podcast. Maybe: Glenn’s Gripping Gleanings Gabfest?
Sleep deprived Danni told us, “I think Daisy’s used to stews that just shut up and take it.” You mean do their job without whining incessantly? Their latest complaint: Diana was upset she got just eight hours of sleep instead of nine like Danni. Have they even watched Below Deck? Eight hours is like a vacation!
A helluva day at sea Detox and friends wanted to go out with the crew, for reasons. Glenn allowed the guys and Daisy to go clubbing but gave them strict guidelines: two drinks, back at 2 a.m., or else they’d lose their share of the tip.
They didn’t arrive at the club until after 11, and in less than three hours, newly sober Gary had 10 drinks, helpfully counted on screen by the editors. Daisy ended up having four, and Chase just had a beer. Gary said, “I’m going to get shitfaced,” and returned to the boat shitfaced.
The next day, Glenn met with the party kids, and Gary lied about the number of drinks he had, saying just five, and telling Glenn, “I was not drunk last night.” Then Gary threw a temper-tantrum, telling Glenn to keep his tip because “you clearly need the cash.”
I am honestly surprised Glenn seems like he’s going to follow through and withhold their tips, because he’s usually such a pushover. Given this flagrant disregard for simple, generous rules and the following tantrum full of lies, will he actually fire Gary?
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Andy Dehnart is a writer and TV critic who created reality blurred in 2000. His writing and reporting here has won an Excellence in Journalism award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists and an L.A. Press Club National A&E Journalism Award.
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