Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer

Narrated byChase IconTheme music composerAndrew Barret CoxOpening theme"Slag Wars"ComposerAndrew Barret CoxCountry of originUnited KingdomOriginal languageEnglishNo. of seasons1No. of episodes4Original releaseRelease27 November 2020 (2020-11-27)

Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer is a British reality television competition series that premiered online on 27 November 2020. The show features Rebecca More and Matthew Camp on their hunt to discover the next LGBTQ+ icon. Sophie Anderson co-presented the first series; the second series, broadcast after her death, was co-presented by drag performer Fantasia Royale Gaga and featured a tribute to Anderson.

The show was conceived several years before broadcast by Sophie Anderson and Rebecca More, who were better known as The Cock Destroyers.^[1] The show was produced after a friend of More offered her large countryside house for a shoot and was filmed in four days during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. The series was co-presented by Matthew Camp,^[1] with whom More had commandeered the queer brand Daddy Couture in September 2019,^[2] and was intended as a celebration of sex work and as a safe space for people to be themselves.^[1] Contestants were described on the programme as Slags in order to reclaim the word as sex-positive.^[3]

The first series used many personal friends of the Cock Destroyers as guests, including its narrator Chase Icon,^[4] and ran for four episodes.^[5] The show was shot on a tight budget^[6] and featured specially composed tracks as a soundtrack.^[7] Anderson was due to have buttock augmentation just before filming, but delayed it as she felt it would interfere with wearing the lycra suits they had ordered for the show.^[1] This series was streamed on Men.com and SlagWars.com, the latter of which had been created for those wanting a safe for work experience.^[5] The show featured seven sex workers and OnlyFans creators as contestants.^[8]

The second series, broadcast several months after Anderson's death, aired on the LGBTQ streaming service Outflix. It ran for seven episodes and featured the same theme song as the first series.^[9] The show was due to feature a reunion between Anderson and More,^[10] who had announced their split in May 2021,^[11] though Anderson had cancelled at the last minute for health reasons.^[10] The series was dedicated to Anderson and its introduced a points system to ensure a fairer competition.^[10] Its first episode featured a tribute to Anderson and a documentary on how the Cock Destroyers became famous.^[9]

• Rebecca More (2020–present)
• Sophie Anderson (2020)
• Matthew Camp (2020–present)
• Fantasia Royale Gaga (2024)

Contestants of Slag Wars

Contestant	Pronouns	Age	Hometown	Outcome
Tyreece Nye	They/Them/She/Her	20	London, England	Winner
Cain	He/Him	25	London, England	Runners-up
Cameron Smith	He/Him	26	Manchester, England
Nicky Monet	She/Her	—	Los Angeles, California
Gustavo Ernesto Escobedo	He/Him	30	Mexico	5th place
Kevin Scott	He/Him	25	Aberdeen, Scotland	6th Place
Levi Jed Murphy	He/Him	24	Manchester, England	7th Place

Contestant	1	2	3	4
Tyreece	BTM2	SAFE	WIN	Winner
Nicky	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	Runner-up
Cain	WIN	BTM2	SAFE	Runner-up
Cameron	SAFE	SAFE	ELIM	Runner-up
Gustavo	WIN	WIN	ELIM
Kevin	SAFE	ELIM
Levi	BTM2	QUIT

  The contestant won Slag Wars.

  The contestant was a runner-up.

  The contestant left the competition voluntarily.

  The contestant won the challenge.

  The contestant was declared safe.

  The contestant was in the bottom two.

  The contestant was eliminated.

Slag Wars Season 1 Episodes

No.	Title	Original Air Date
1	Slag On Arrival	27 November 2020[12]
2	Safe Word Slag	4 December 2020[13]
3	Show Biz Slags	11 December 2020[14]
4	Last Slag Standing	18 December 2020[15]

Reviewing the first series, Tim Forster of Vulture described the show as "good, dirty fun, with a healthy dose of camp" and complimented the show for its queer representation, though wrote that Daddy Couture was "heavily product-placed" and that having five contestants out of seven who identified as "he/him" demonstrated an "imperfect approach to diversity".^[7] Barry Pierce of Dazed wrote that the series was "a truly glorious celebration of the self with positivity and inclusivity as its central tenets" and stated that one scene, in which Anderson unsuccessfully tried to storm off set in high heels following an inability to send anybody home and ended up crawling off set, was a contender for his "television moment of the year".^[16]

• Gay icon
• Gay pride
• LGBT culture

• Slag Wars on IMDb