Who is Courtney Act? Celebrity Big Brother 2018 contestant profile

Celebrity Big Brother 2017 contestants: Courtney Act

Twitter: @courtneyact

Instagram: courtneyact

Best known for: Being the runner-up in season six of RuPaul's Drag Race

Bio: Australian drag queen Courtney Act shot to international fame when she finished in second place on season six of smash hit Reality TV series RuPaul's Drag Race.

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When not in drag Courtney (whose birth name is Shane Janek) identifies as gender fluid and prefers to use they/them pronouns.

As Courtney she’s also teamed up with fellow Drag Race alumni Willam Belli and Alaska Thunderf*** to form super group AAA and has a successful YouTube channel, too.

They saw in 2018 with a performance at G-A-Y in London on New Year’s Eve.

Australian news website Junkee snapped up Act to serve as a foreign correspondent. She covered the 2016 US Presidential election, attending political rallies for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. She also marched in – and reported on – the 2017 Women's March.

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She also finished 13th in the first series of Australian Idol in 2003.