RuPaul's Drag Race UK: Cheryl Hole Met Cheryl Cole – But Some Fans Are Crying Foul After This Week's Result

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This article contains massive spoilers for the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

This week’s Drag Race UK served up the moment that Cheryl Hole had been seemingly waiting her whole career for – the moment she came face to face with the actual Cheryl Cole.

However, their encounter left some fans feeling a little suspicious after the episode debuted on Thursday night, with claims Cheryl Hole had an unfair advantage over Blu Hydrangea when they both landed in the bottom two.

Cheryl Cole and Cheryl Hole met on this week's Drag Race UK

The latest episode of the BBC Three series saw the queens challenged with marketing their own brand of bottled water and filming a comedy commercial to sell it.

Both Cheryl and Blu’s ads failed to impress judges RuPaul, Michelle Visage and Graham Norton – although we should note that Cheryl was markedly more impressed by her namesake’s efforts.

.@CherylHoleQueen finally met her idol @CherylOfficial and it was emosh. #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/9KPQuCMm6f
— RuPaul's Drag Race UK (@dragraceukbbc) November 8, 2019

BE STILL MY HEART 🥺🥺🥺 @cherylholequeen @bluhydrangea_ #DragRaceUK https://t.co/f9SbTLjCtV pic.twitter.com/G5lNpxbhYQ
— World of Wonder (@WorldOfWonder) November 7, 2019

Both queens were then forced to lip sync to Call My Name in the special guest’s honour, in order to avoid being sent home.

However, some fans were unimpressed at the supposed head-start Cheryl Hole had, as she plays Cheryl in a Girls Aloud drag tribute act, and even performs a lip sync to the same song as part of the show.

And as the show ended with Blu ultimately being shown the door, there was a lot of reaction online...

putting blu in a lip sync with cheryl in front of her idol, to a song by her idol

production really said bye miss hydrangea... fuck blu lives, if u will
— WARREN 2020 😌💗 (@Officialbrotato) November 7, 2019

So they knew @CherylHoleQueen would slay whoever else was in the lip sync because it was a Cheryl song in front of Cheryl she's been preparing for that moment her entire life They didnt want to lose @ChipShopBird so @BluHydrangea_ was sacrificed. #DragRaceUK
— nina howard (@ninalamiehoward) November 8, 2019

It was a fix that Cheryl would lip sync to Cheryl in front of Cheryl hahah #RuPaulsDragRaceUK #DragRaceUK #RuPaul
— Lee Cee (@lee_cee_) November 7, 2019

This show did Blu really dirty. Like pit her agianst Cheryl Hole to a CHERYL COLE song ummm yea okay #DragRaceUK
— 🤡Adam Parry🤡 (@ItsAdamParry) November 8, 2019

Blu was robbed, total fix a Cheryl lip sync with a Cheryl wannabe in bottom ffs #dragraceUK
— Mikee (@MikeeP1981) November 7, 2019

I mean Blu may as well have just walked out once she heard it was a Cheryl song and Cheryl Hole was up against her. No chance love #DragRaceUK
— Aysha (@AyshaWeir) November 7, 2019

another unpopular opinion maybe: but i don’t think cheryl deserved bottom 2. i think it was just so she could lip sync in front of cheryl #RupaulDragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/8DskxnoGGa
— Ben Chidley🏳️🌈 (@benchidley_yt) November 7, 2019

Did she though? Her death drop was a bit of a death flop. She was always gonna win the lip sync with a Cheryl song. The lip syncs have all been a bit poor this season I think!
— Charlotte ºoº (@CharlotteLRuff) November 8, 2019

It def wasn't worse than Blu's... but could see an argument about Cheryl's but then they would always have wanted Cheryl to do a lipsync in front of Cheryl
— Adrian Bradley (@adebradley) November 8, 2019

This may be an unpopular opinion, but Bagga really should have been in the bottom two - but Cheryl was put there purely because Cheryl Cole was there! Not fair on Cheryl hole and REALLY not fair on Blu! They clearly want Bagga, the Vivienne and DDC as the final 3 😤 #DragRaceUK
— Louise Roberts (@lou_e_oc) November 8, 2019

Speaking after her exit, Blu said she knew her fate was sealed when she discovered she’d be going up against Cheryl in the lip sync.

“I knew that I wasn’t going to be saved – it was a Cheryl Cole song, in front of Cheryl Cole, and I was up against Cheryl Hole,” she said in an interview with HuffPost UK.

“I wouldn’t have wanted to see her go, she was my closest person in the competition. But at the same time, I didn’t want to see myself go, and that’s why I had to put up a fight, even if I kind of knew what was coming.”

Four queens now remain in the competition with next week’s semi-final will see them tasked with giving their mothers and sisters a drag makeover in the hope of making it through to the final.

A new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race drops on BBC iPlayer next Thursday at 8pm.