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'Drag Race PH': Veruschka Levels called out for wearing Nicole Borromeo's pageant costume

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Josiah Antonio, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Screenshot from WOW Presents Plus and photo from Binibining Pilipinas Instagram account" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/08/09/20230809-drag-race-ph-1.jpg"/><figcaption>&#x27;Drag Race Philippines&#x27; host Paolo Ballesteros pointed out that Veruschka Levels&#x27; dress for the fringe runway was the same dress that Bb. Pilipinas International 2023 winner Nicole Borromeo wore for last year&#x27;s national costume category. <em>Screenshot from WOW Presents Plus and photo from Binibining Pilipinas Instagram account.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — &quot;Drag Race Philippines&quot; season 2 contestant Veruschka Levels got called out on the runway for wearing a piece already worn in another competition.</p><p>In the second episode of the show, host Paolo Ballesteros pointed out that Veruschka&#x27;s dress for the fringe runway was the same outfit that Bb. Pilipinas International 2023 winner Nicole Borromeo wore for last year&#x27;s national costume category. </p><p>&quot;Maganda &#x27;yang outfit na &#x27;yan kaya lang nakita ko na &#x27;yan eh, sinuot na ni Nicole Borromeo our Binibining Pilipinas Miss International (2023). She wore that as a national costume,&quot; Ballesteros said during the critiques.</p><p>All of the queens pointed out the Veruschka should go home with ØV C--T pointing out her lack of coordination with the other queens about her reveal in the girl group challenge as well as her claims to be wearing couture looks.</p><p>&quot;For a girl who claims she&#x27;s wearing couture, can we ask her to turn around, butas &#x27;yung likod ng skirt niya, so it&#x27;s not couture, it&#x27;s a pull-out,&quot; OV said.</p><p>In the &quot;Untucked&quot; episode, Dee Dee Marie Holiday confronted Veruschka for &quot;sugarcoating&quot; her statements on the show.</p><p>&quot;You&#x27;re sugarcoating, no one is that nice, So, what are you trying to be a beauty queen again?&quot; Dee Dee said. </p><p>&quot;You know, the problem is, with people who talk like that, it&#x27;s like you&#x27;re keeping it to yourself. Like, I don&#x27;t know what you feel about me. I&#x27;d rather you be a c**t than be that sugar-coated &#x27;I&#x27;m so nice I don&#x27;t want to be a villian on TV&#x27; kind of person,&quot; she added.</p><p>Veruschka claimed that she&#x27;s naturally nice as that&#x27;s what she&#x27;s accustomed to during her time in Hong Kong: &quot;There are nice people on this Earth.&quot;</p><p>She ended up safe from elimination, with Astrid Mercury sent home by Hana Beshie in the second episode of the series.</p><p>&quot;Drag Race Philippines&quot; airs new episodes on Wednesdays at WOW Presents Plus and HBO Go along with its &quot;Untucked&quot; segment.</p><p>Precious Paula Nicole was crowned as the first winner of &quot;Drag Race Philippines&quot; at the conclusion of the competition series last year.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/10/12/22/precious-paula-nicole-is-the-1st-drag-race-ph-winner">Precious Paula Nicole is the first &#x27;Drag Race Philippines&#x27; winner</a></li></ul><p>The Emmy Award-winning original series has featured the talents of Filipino drag queens in the US and several overseas editions through the years.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2177170" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

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'Drag Race PH': Veruschka Levels called out for wearing Nicole Borromeo's pageant costume

Josiah Antonio,

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Published Aug 09, 2023 11:43 PM PHT

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