Ep. 210 – Darlene Mitchell and the Tres Leches Cuck with Icon Lewis

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 early days gogo dancing at Precinct, before she became a drag queen that would live up to her name.We talk drag, destiny, and doing the work…And then—🚨 SPOILER ALERT: The rest of this description discusses topics from the episode that are even more chaotic and delightful when discovered in real time. Proceed with caution! 🚨From here, we dive into the It Girls of the moment:·      Sarah Paulson in All’s Fair and her beautiful tribute to her late friend Diane Keaton·      Spotify Wrapped, and why everyone still needs to switch to Apple Music until Spotify stops running ICE ads·      Britney’s top artist of the year: Rose Gray, and Icon’s top: Lady Gaga, returning triumphantly to form·      The cast announcement of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 18, including the sole LA queen Darlene Mitchell, who once gifted Icon some of her old wigs·      Miss Maamshe’s Mall Drag at Precinct — and why recession-era Mall Drag is the culture reset we needed·      The viral thirst traps infiltrating our feeds at alarming (and appreciated) rates·      The impossibly steamy Actors on Actors interview between Jonathan Bailey and David Corenswet, brimming with homoerotic tension·      The continued rise of Heated Rivalry, whose backlash is only solidifying its status as an It Girl·      A call to resurrect lost pop icon Natalia Kills (Teddi Sinclair)·      A lamentation over Survivor losing the ruthless competitive edge that once made it legendaryIt’s an episode full of sisterhood, storytelling, industry tea, cultural obsession, and the kind of laughter that only happens when you sit down with the girls who know you best.