🎙️ What’s This Episode About?

Shania Pain is a Manchester-based drag queen with Scouse, theatre-kid roots, big pop energy, and a healthy sense of humour about the expectations placed on her.

Shania joins John to talk about her early ambitions of being a full-on musical theatre boy... followed by the realisation that drag let her do all of that… and more. They chat about finding her feet on the Liverpool scene, the running joke of being “The Vivienne’s replacement” when she moved to Gran Canaria, and what it actually means to carve out your own lane in a city that loves its legends.

From relocating to Manchester to thinking about what’s next, this is a conversation about ambition, identity, and allowing yourself to evolve without losing your sparkle.

It’s funny, reflective, and full of future-facing energy, just like Shania.

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