![]() “If the pandemic has taught us anything, surely it’s that you don’t have to go into London every day and make loads of money in the City to be a success.Miscarriages and becoming a mother of three changed Beyoncé, not just in her personal life, but in her professional life, and the lines between the two blurred with her raw and brutal honesty that emerged in her later solo albums. “So many people out there can’t be themselves, which is really sad. He added: “There are other options and other paths out there and I really want to be part of changing the conventional narrative for life. He said: “I hope my story shows people that life doesn’t have to be all about going to university after school and being made to decide so young who and what you want to be.” In turn, volunteering for Black Pride led to his current documentary – following a quick interview with him last year for Pride in Protest, talking mainly about his act. He added: “But I went to the wrong stage – so discovered UK Black Pride and thought, ‘This organization needs my help,’ so I started volunteering for them and worked on giving them a digital presence, working on websites, social media and marketing.” To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. “Being asked to make a decision about the rest of my life felt terrifying at that age, so joining the police was a great way to work out who I was, while having a really satisfying job.” “I always worked on the blue light response, on emergency call and I think, being so young – I was the youngest police officer they’d had then – I really did fulfil that role of playing cops and robbers! He added: “Instead, I am completely obsessed with superheroes, so I joined the police, as it was the nearest I could get to being a real life superhero! “At 17, there was no way I felt ready to go to university and to commit myself to what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. He said: “As a young man, I felt like, as a gay person, I was 10 years behind everybody else, because it takes so long to come to come to terms with yourself. Keen to become a positive role model in the black queer community he was part of, as a gay, black man, he also began volunteering in 2018 for the UK Black Pride movement, raising awareness of BAME issues.Īaron pictured here performing for his new documentary, The Beyoncé Experience by Blaise Singh (PA Real Life/Together TV)īut, despite his outrageous appearance and confident performances, Aaron said he was a late developer who felt years behind his straight peers growing up. “But from there I fell into performing, started The Beyoncé Experience show and seven years later found myself travelling the world, performing with a dance troupe.” ![]() He said: “The headlines at the time were along the lines of ‘Police officer becomes Beyoncé drag queen on BGT.’ ![]() It was a life-changing night for Aaron, who had his second drag outing dancing to Crazy in Love by Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé, when he auditioned for ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent in 2015 – although he was eliminated after the next round.Īlready gaining some infamy for being photographed with the late Big Brother star Jade Goody outside her local police station, after she reported a crime, he was ready for all the attention. People were coming up to me saying things like, ‘I have a hotel in Miami, you must come and perform.’” “So, I agreed, thinking, ‘I can have a couple of shots and dance on stage in drag for three minutes.’”Īaron became a police officer at 18 years old (PA Real Life/Collect)He added: “Afterwards, it just went absolutely crazy. “Then the organisers said that if I performed that Saturday, they’d give me, and my friends VIP passes for the entire week. ![]() He added: “We looked atrocious, but as we were walking to the beach in our gear, people kept asking me, ‘Are you the Beyoncé act?’ He recalls being “spotted” as he traipsed to the beach wearing “terrible” drag clothes for an event with his friends, saying: “We went to Primark, bought a plastic wig and wore the most awful clothes to do the drag night walk around a park.” He added: “We were offered VIP tickets for the week if I performed as Beyoncé, so I did it and I’ve never looked back.”Īaron, who left the police force after four years in 2011, despite loving the job, as he did not feel ready to commit to a “lifestyle based on a pretty fixed salary working towards a pension at the end,” was running a media agency and animation company, which he still has, when he went to Sitges. ![]()
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