Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer

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. The first series, broadcast in 2020 on Men.com and SlagWars.com, lasted four episodes and was co-presented by Sophie Anderson, with whom More had became famous as two halves of The Cock Destroyers. The second series was delayed by Anderson and More splitting up and was not produced until 2023, with Fantasia Royale Gaga replacing Anderson due to health reasons. Anderson died in December 2023; the first episode of the second series, broadcast in September 2024, was dedicated to Anderson and aired alongside a documentary about the Cock Destroyers.

Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer
Promotional poster
Genre	Reality
Judges	Rebecca More Sophie Anderson Matthew Camp Fantasia Royale Gaga
Narrated by	Chase Icon
Theme music composer	Andrew Barret Cox
Opening theme	"Slag Wars"
Composer	Andrew Barret Cox
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	4
Original release
Release	27 November 2020

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] and was won by Tyreece Nye.^[6]

In May 2021, More announced that the pair had split up following her receipt of a "viscous email" [sic].^[9] The second series, filmed in late 2023, was due to be hosted by More, Anderson, and Camp, but Anderson dropped out after no-showing on the first day of production^[10] as she was not well enough to film^[11] and was replaced by Fantasia Royale Gaga of the Boulet Brothers' Dragula. The series scrapped eliminations, as Anderson had struggled with sending contestants home, and instead instituted a points-based system to make the show fairer.^[10] Shortly after filming, Anderson died;^[10] More announced her death in December 2023.^[12] The second series aired on the LGBTQ streaming service Outflix and ran for seven episodes; its first episode featured a tribute to Anderson and was released alongside a documentary on how the Cock Destroyers became famous.^[12] This series featured the same theme song as the first series.^[12]

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

  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.

  The contestant won Slag Wars.

  The contestant was a runner-up.

  The contestant won both the foreplay challenge and the passion project challenge.

  The contestant won the passion project challenge.

  The contestant won the foreplay challenge.

  The contestant was declared safe.

  The contestant was in the bottom two.

  The contestant was eliminated.

  The contestant left the competition voluntarily.

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".^[18]

• Gay icon
• Gay pride
• LGBT culture

• Slag Wars on IMDb