Drag Queen Nicky Doll Is Suing U.K. Actor Laurence Fox Over Olympics “Pedos” Comment
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Drag Race France host Nicky Doll is suing British actor and political activist Laurence Fox after he called the drag queens involved in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony “deviant little pedos” on social media.
During the July 26 ceremony, Doll and several other drag queens portrayed Greek gods in a performance that some said resembled Leonardo Da Vinci’s iconic painting “The Last Supper,” although organizers noted it was meant to resemble a scene involving the Greek God Dionysus.
The moment soon drew backlash from right-wing figures, including the French Conference of Catholic Bishops, which described the moment as a “derision and mockery of Christianity” in a statement to Reuters.
Fox took things a step further in an X post, sharing a video of the performance and writing, “No point in getting wound up when the child fuckers want to wind you up. Just laugh at the deviant little pedos. Eternity is a bitch.”
On August 3, Doll announced a lawsuit against Fox via a statement from her lawyer, Anne Sophie-Laguens, who notes that the Drag Race host received “an unprecedented wave of animosity and malice” following the opening ceremony.
“These messages go far beyond artistic criticism and for some convey odious and defamatory amalgams, equating drag performance to pedophilia,” the statement continues, per Variety. “These comparisons are serious and unacceptable. It is in this sense that justice has been seized, and that any publication or message equating Nicky Doll’s performance with the encouragement of pedophilia practices will be reported.”
This isn’t Fox’s first time facing legal action for his comments about drag performers. He recently lost a libel case filed by Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. alum Crystal, whom he referred to as “pedophiles” on X during a heated exchange sparked by Fox’s complaints about the supermarket chain Sainsbury’s sharing a Black History Month post back in 2020. According to BBC News, the actor-turned-politician was ordered to pay a total of ￡180,000 in libel damages, ￡90,000 each to Blake and Crystal.
Doll referenced Fox’s previous lawsuit in an X post of her own.
“Since you didn’t learn the first time around when you called my friend @crystalwillseeu a pedo, I’m going to show you that you don’t get to write things like that about queer people for the fun and misinformation of it and go away with it,” she wrote. “See you in court, again, @LozzaFox!”
Doll previously addressed conservatives slamming her opening ceremony performance on social media, including an Instagram post in which she shared a photo of French monarch Louis XIV with the fitting caption, “France has always been DRAG. Get over it.”
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