Outrageously glamorous Charity Kase AKA “The Wicked Witch of the East End” AKA Harry Whitfield is a British drag queen who has further built their already impressive audience by appearing as a contestant on the third series of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK, which began in September 2021. The name Charity Kase is a tribute to her talent for finding cheap clothing and transforming them into wonderfully glamorous and/or grotesque costumes for her routines.
Whitfield was born in Preston in the North-West of England but eventually migrated down to London to pursue a career in drag performing. Charity Kase is a hugely popular drag queen with over 180,000 followers on Instagram and over 7,000 on Twitter – and both numbers are climbing rapidly.
The UK version of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, whose American version has been a worldwide hit for over a decade, has been a huge success with British audiences, even reviving the fortunes of BBC Three, which has returned to television after being made an internet-only channel. Now Charity Kase is poised to become one of the beneficiaries of this success.