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Who is Drag Race UK star Cherry Valentine - and why did she leave the Traveller community?
eliminated after just two weeks, but explained that taking part in the show made them “not take life too seriously” and “not to care what other people think of me”.Now Cherry will be opening up about their childhood in BBC documentary Cherry Valentine: Gypsy Queen and Proud.So who is Cherry? Here is everything you need to know.Cherry Valentine is the drag persona of George Ward, who is from the Romany traveller community in Darlington.George left home and moved away at the age of 18, first to Leyland in Lancashire, then London.George, who is a trained mental health nurse, said: “I left the Gypsy community when I was 18 and closed that part of my life off.“Drag Race helped me find confidence to talk but made me realise.“I’m a queer person and I’m a traveller. I’m proud but I don’t know if I’m proud of both of them together.“My experience of growing up as a queer person and that community really affected me a lot.”In the documentary George speaks about the experience of growing up as a gay person in the traveller community, and goes back to Darlington to see a camp where some families live.Speaking about the traveller community, George said: "I don't really have a relationship with the traveller community.
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