Graham Norton might be respiration a sigh of aid that he’s a choose on Drag Race UK and never the US model of the present proper now.
Kristian Seeber – AKA Tina Burner – is without doubt one of the 13 queens battling it out for the crown on the newest US sequence of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and in addition occurs to be Graham’s ex-boyfriend.
The New York queen and former boybander dated the TV presenter on and off within the early-to-mid-noughties, which Graham has described as a “whirlwind romance”.
Nevertheless, issues didn’t finish properly between the pair, and once they did lastly name it a day, Graham admits he was “heartbroken”.
Writing in his 2014 memoir, The Life And Loves Of A He Satan, Graham recollects the night time he met Kristian at New York’s Barracuda bar, describing him as “tall and broad-shouldered with a straightforward smile that took up half his face”.
However Graham’s pals weren’t fairly as enamoured, and he admits that if Kristian “had been to be judged solely on his behaviour, then I concede he was not nice boyfriend materials”.
He added: “What they couldn’t see was the particular spark that fires inside him: when he decides to shine his mild on you, it makes you are feeling as particular as he’s.”
The romance lasted a number of months earlier than the couple break up, just for them to get again collectively once more when Kristian moved into Graham’s London dwelling.
“The experiment lasted for about six months and it was a catastrophe,” Graham recalled.
“I realise that even to an ideal stranger the result would have been obviously apparent, however when you find yourself in the midst of one thing and you’re determined for it to work, you’ll strive something.”
Finally Kristian broke off the connection.
“The insanity was over,” Graham wrote. “However this time with no shouting or histrionics, just a few sluggish, heavy tears shed over lunch in an empty restaurant.
“I walked dwelling, discovering some consolation in the truth that a person in his mid-forties may nonetheless really feel such heartache.”
Nevertheless, Graham has since seen Kristian performing as Tina Burner in New York saying “it looks like the right job for him… He will get paid to indicate off and drink”.