Meet Mark, one of the contestants on the British reality competition show SAS: Who Dares Win, modeled after the Special Air Service training program.
The show puts 25 competitors through two weeks of intense and rugged physical challenges. For Mark, the show is personal — his dad served in the SAS.
He spoke about it during a recent appearance on Good Morning Britain.
“The SAS is something that has been part of my family for my entire life, but it’s so secretive,” he said. “But my dad just went to work, that’s how I saw it. You knew he was in the SAS, but you didn’t know what that meant.”
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But that was hardly the most memorable part of his appearance on the show. Mark, who identifies as gay, is also a drag queen who goes by Cybil War, and that’s who really showed up for the interview:
“My dad is ever the stoic army colonel,” Cybil explained. “I had to turn the TV off to have a serious chat with him. I spent an hour in my bedroom walking around going, ‘Dad, I’m gay,’ trying to find that perfect way to say it.”
And while his coming out went fairly well, drag wound up being a higher hurdle. “Being gay is one thing for your parents to deal with, being a seven foot drag queen is not something most SAS guys probably come across very often.”
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rustyiam
Hard pass!
toddfashion
Bravo! Very cool,
GayEGO
Hot dude! Nice drag!
justgeo
NO THANKS!
jerkinns
“hard pass” “no thanks”… as if he’s trying to impress you to get to bed with him. Wait ’til he sees you. *Rolleyes*
laurent7465
LMAO. You nailed that one completely! Thank you.
Imwiththedogs
OMG is this guy hot! He could put me through two weeks of intense and rugged physical challenges. Drags fun but damn, want the man!
he>me
puke…. these queens are driven by the need for acceptance from a queer society who will not remember them tomorrow. sad.
Terrycloth
Makes a very ugly woman..looks like Dee Synder of Twisted Sister in drag….scary looking
jsteinbee
He is very hot look and she very beautiful
nm4047
I will give credit where it is due. drag artist do a lot of good fund raising for many varied causes, howere, I’m not a fan of drag. If this is what these ‘men’ think women aspire to look like then maybe they need to checkout their own mother’s wardrobes. PS, certainly doesn’t make for an attractive woman (I guess that’s a good thing for him).
gothvixen
That’s so funny. Nobody in their right mind thinks that drag is that to which any woman aspires! Wherever did you get that notion? 1820 something? She’s exquisite. You’re quite ridiculous.
ShowMeGuy
Honey. . . . Drag is SATIRE. It isn’t making fun of women. It isn’t trying to BE a woman. It takes minor details from some random woman’s persona and flamboyantly over-does it to the extreme….. because that shit is funny.
RyanMBecker
That’s a hunk…??? Seriously?
Ok, I’m straight but I have no problems admitting that a man is attractive or hunky. I have several male friends and patients who are actors, models or ex-models so yeah, I’m surrounded by attractive men. I also live in Soho, NYC, where many models/actors make their home. But I’m sorry, this guy just doesn’t fit the mode. In fact, he reminds me of the homeless men I encounter in my outreach work. And yes, many of them have decent bodies, having just come out of prison (and lots of tatoos). But hunk? Nope.
j41005
To each his own, but he definitely does nothing for me. If he were my only option, I’d turn straight.
gothvixen
Luckily nobody needs your affirmation. Keep staring into that mirror.
glennglenn
This just proved that drag is not for everyone. I give him a kudo for the effort but no, he is better looking without the drag.
Wheelerman
I find drag queens scary…like I do clowns. So, I distance myself. However, this guy out of his drag is very good looking and sexy.