The It Girl Podcast with Britney Shields

It’s the interview you’ve all been waiting for… this week on the it girl podcast we sit down with Annie Biotixx and Blaque Tea following the final show of Free Clinic that we hosted together after the announcement of its cancellation at Mattie’s. Annie spills the tea on how it all went down, from receiving the news to the messy aftermath of having to cancel the bookings of over 60 drag artists (du...

This week, it girl apparent Virgo Please is joined by her mother Barbra Please following her win of the Hunty Games Season 2. We talk about the competition and the best criticism she received (which was basically just praise). Virgo talks about how she leaned on Barbra for support and as a sounding board for her ideas and elaborates on the kind of mother she is, even while Barbra was busy on the r...

This week on the It Girl Podcast, we dive into the creative and kooky minds of Kit D Crooks and Marci Morningstar who’s love for everything fantastical bonded them together. Marci shares her background of being a tattoo artist, dressing in cosplay, and how being an artist originating from Sin City informs her drag. Kit D Crooks comes from the military and jokes about how most of her army pals knew...

This week on the It Girl Podcast, we have Precinct Award Winning improvisers from Alaska Thunderfuck’s Drag Show 5000, Maureen San Diego and Fred Henson. Both are multi hyphenates dominating the performance art scene here in LA. Fred just released a country single “Ride Out” and shares his journey on his return to music, fundraising money for the last ever AIDS lifecycle (we solved it), and dabbli...

On this week’s episode of the It Girl Podcast, we have this season’s winner of Dragged Out Hunnie Bunnz alongside Dragged Out All Star and all-around West Hollywood legend Cake Moss. Hunnie talks about starting up in drag in the current scene while Cake is able to share her perspective starting 14 years ago. Hunnie opens up about her relationship with Miami Knight from the Roccette’s and what it m...

It’s Season 4 babyyyy!!! And we’re starting things off with one of the greatest drag matriarchs of Southern California, Jewels Long Beach. She comes on the pod to kick off pride month and to share the story behind Long Beach Pride getting cancelled due to lack of permits and how she and her long time collaborators (such as Delta Work and Mayhem Miller) came together to throw an event for the commu...

This week, Britney Shields is joined by her sisters Mary Kate Lohan and Icon Lewis for a divine, delusional, and deeply nostalgic episode — all three of them in full drag as the Holy Trinity : Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears . Religion has never looked this correct. We talk about the surreal experience of performing as working drag queens while embodying the very icons who defined...

This week, Britney Shields is joined by the razor-sharp, impeccably painted, and newly crowned Librarian of the Year , Samara Sin , mother of the House of Sin and a true architect of precision, discipline, and drag excellence. We get into Samara’s reputation as a reader par excellence where those skills come from, how she’s honed them, and how that same discernment shows up in her drag parenting....

This week, Britney Shields is joined by internet icon and cultural commentator Michael Henry , celebrating a major milestone: hitting 100K on Instagram after nearly 17 years of making online videos that question, critique, and lovingly roast gay culture. We talk about his journey from early YouTube-era sketches to his Queerty-nominated series Wish You Were Queer , created alongside longtime collab...

This week, Britney Shields is joined by the hilarious and chronically online Maxine On TV , recipient of the Comedy Queen honor at the inaugural It Girl Awards. Maxine reflects on what the recognition meant to her and the winding road that brought her there — from studying comedy in college to moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting, all while sensing that she would eventually carve out a separate...

This week, Britney Shields is joined by radiant powerhouse Queen Porshaa Lejayy for a conversation about faith, hustle, and taking up space with intention. Porshaa shares her journey into drag, from discovering the art form to receiving early support from her coworkers at Bloomingdale’s, who saw the star before the spotlight did. She reflects on the encouragement from Billy Francesca to join seaso...

This week, Britney Shields sits down with powerhouse Drag King Watson Side for a conversation about carving out space where there wasn’t any and redefining masculinity on their own terms. We talk about the work of building and protecting space for the drag king community, and what it means to make masculinity playful, self-aware, and nonthreatening in a queer ecosystem where, for many, masculinity...

This week, Britney Shields is joined by ballroom royalty, Calypso Jeté Balmain , the Season 1 winner of Legendary . Mother, pioneer, and cultural architect, Calypso brings history, honesty, and hard-earned wisdom to the mic. We unpack the vital distinctions between the ballroom scene and the drag scene — where they intersect, where they fundamentally differ, and why conflating them erases lineage....

It’s season three baby!!!!  Britney Shields is joined by the queen of it all, Lauren Banall , fresh off her viral Erika Kirk impression that birthed the internet’s newest anti-hero: Erika Qwerk . And because subtlety is dead, Britney shows up to the studio dressed as Melania Trump , giving you a historic summit between Erika Qwerk and Melania C*nt . Diplomacy has never been this glamorous. We star...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields is joined by the original It Girl in her life: Mother Shields . In a rare and deeply personal episode, the two sit down to reflect on what it was like to grow up alongside a kid who was always performing, producing, experimenting, and dreaming — sometimes loudly, sometimes awkwardly, always creatively. They reminisce about years of projects, shows...

For the season finale, The It Girl Podcast transforms into a full-blown awards show with a special episode celebrating the inaugural It Girl Awards — a chaotic, heartfelt, and highly opinionated tribute to the people, moments, and cultural obsessions that shaped the year. Every category was born organically from conversations on the podcast, evolving into a sprawling awards universe that spans pop...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields is joined by the luminous Gia Giselle for a powerful, wide-ranging conversation about visibility, survival, and stepping fully into your era. Gia opens up about traveling across America on the Taylor Swift Eras Drag Brunch Tour as a trans woman of color — what it meant to take up space in unfamiliar cities, the joy of performing for new audiences,...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields is joined by her drag sister, her confidante, and one of the hardest-working, kindest queens in the Los Angeles scene — the one and only Icon Lewis . We get into the audacity, delusion, and manifestation required to name yourself Icon , and how she more than lives up to it. Icon opens up about her beginnings as a songwriter and singer , and her ea...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields sits down with the ever-evolving, ever-elevating Suadé , a queen who refuses to stay in one lane. From her early days as a performer to becoming a sought-after host and now a full-fledged producer , Suadé is crafting the future of LA drag one show at a time. Whether it’s Spotlight Competition , her Drag Race viewing parties , the beloved Hot Choco...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields welcomes back one of our most beloved guests — the unstoppable Seven , returning for her second appearance after snatching victory at the Henny Games: Victors Quarter Quell . Since then, she’s been everywhere , serving as the host and producer of her own hit pre-show at Micky’s: Seven’s Heaven . We break down her winning strategy, her growth since...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields (@itsbritneyshields) is joined by the radiant, relentless, and newly crowned champion of The Real It Girls of West Hollywood , Starra D’Show (@thee_starradshow) . We break down her full hero’s journey: clawing her way up from the bottom two against her drag mother Iridessa Van Cartier (@wowiridessa) , absolutely devouring the Celebrity It Girl Gam...

This week on The It Girl Podcast, Britney Shields sits down with the enigmatic Felony Dodger, a queen who clawed her way from the legendary “Learn the Words, Bitch” stage to starring on The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula and now hosting her own smash hit show “She’s in Parties” at Precinct. From local legend to televised terror to nightlife staple — Felony’s trajectory is a masterclass in reinvention an...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields (@itsbritneyshields) is joined by Downtown LA royalty: Isadora Spreads (@isadoraspreads) , the mastermind host behind The Henny Games at Precinct. With the Victors Quarter Quell all-winners showdown coming up next Wednesday, 11/11, we spill all the tea on how Isadora built one of the city’s most iconic drag competitions from the ground up — and wh...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields (@itsbritneyshields) welcomes the incomparable Mylique E. Fawcett (@2leakyfawcett) , a trailblazing queen whose reign stretches across every corner of Los Angeles nightlife — even in spaces that weren’t built to embrace her kind of drag (but now can’t live without it). We trace Mylique’s journey from discovering drag during the pandemic to her met...

This week on The It Girl Podcast , Britney Shields is joined by the moment herself — Gigi DeBussy, the first-ever crowned Real It Girl of West Hollywood. The first one ever! There’s never ever been another It Girl in West Hollywood at all! She’s funny, fearless, and flawlessly unserious in all the right ways. We talk about Gigi’s love of rap, stand-up, and drag, and how she’s blended all three int...