# 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 become 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 November 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.

## Production
### Season one

The show was conceived several years before broadcast by Sophie Anderson and Rebecca More, who were better known as The Cock Destroyers, and used the working title "Slag Wars: Finding the Next Cock Destroyer". 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, with whom More had commandeered the queer brand Daddy Couture in September 2019, and was intended as a celebration of sex work and as a safe space for people to be themselves. The series was produced by the queer production company DaddyTV.
   "ASMR sex chat. A slag eating a banana during a confessional in a way that one could only reasonably describe as 'menacingly erotic'. Bondage. Latex. Kinks. Fetishes. Two slags going at each other's necks like vampires. Someone getting lightly slapped while wearing a collar and being gagged by a Granny Smith. It really is fun for all the family." [sic]
Contestants on the show comprised seven sex workers and OnlyFans creators including Nicky Monet, a transgender woman from Los Angeles, Tyreece Nye, a Black non-binary person, five contestants who used "he/him" pronouns, and contestants from Scotland and Mexico. They were described on the programme as Slags, a term in British English equivalent to slut, in order to reclaim the word as sex-positive. Camp and the programme's non-UK Slags had to quarantine for two weeks before filming, while 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.
Shot on a tight budget and featuring specially composed tracks as a soundtrack, the first series used many personal friends of the Cock Destroyers as guests including its narrator Chase Icon and ran for four episodes. Each episode features a foreplay and a passion challenge, each of which explores a facet of the sex industry; one challenge featured contestants trying to steal payment card numbers during ASMR sex talk sessions and another featured rope bondage. The series also featured conversations about tokenism, fetishism, racism, violence against transgender people, and sexual consent and was marketed on its inclusivity, with its confessionals annotated with both the Slags' names and pronouns. The series was streamed on Men.com and SlagWars.com, the latter of which had been created for those wanting a safe for work experience, and was won by Tyreece Nye.

### Season two

In May 2021, More announced that the pair had split up following her receipt of a "viscous email" [sic]; the following month, DaddyTV announced Hot Haus, a show judged by Camp and Monet and won by Fantasia Royale Gaga. More kept abreast of Anderson's life after the breakup and the pair later reconciled. In late 2023, a second series of Slag Wars was produced and was due to be hosted by More, Anderson, and Camp, but Anderson dropped out after no-showing on the first day of production as she was not well enough to film and was replaced by Royale Gaga. Cain, one of the Slags from the first series, returned as a producer and casting director, and had previously worked with some of the Slags he cast including Mama Mamba and Cocoa Kink.
Originally, the Slags were supposed to be in teams, with Anderson and More having four Slags each. Anderson's illness meant that this was aborted and replaced by a points-based system, with eliminations removed; the first episode featured Royale Gaga giving a distracted More a pep talk. In November 2023, shortly after filming, Anderson died; More announced her death in December 2023. 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. This series featured the same theme song as the first series and was won by Mama Mamba.

## Reception

The show became a minor cult hit. Writing between broadcast of the first and second episode, Emma Kelly of i-D described the show as "one of the most genuine representations of sex workers and queer, trans and non-binary people ever seen on TV". 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". 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". Writing in September 2024, Joel Medina of Collider described the show as "a raucous display of LGBTQ+ joy like viewers have never seen".

## Cast

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

## Series 1 (2020)
### Contestants

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 | Runners-up |
| Nicky Monet | She/Her | — | Los Angeles, California | Runners-up |
| 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 progress

| Contestant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Tyreece | BTM2 | SAFE | WIN | Winner |
| Cain | WIN | BTM2 | SAFE | Runner-up |
| Cameron | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | Runner-up |
| Nicky | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | 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.

### Episodes

Slag Wars Season 1 Episodes :
| No. | Title | Original Air Date | Guests |
| 1 | Slag On Arrival | 27 November 2020 | Matt Lambert and Chris Crocker |
| 2 | Safe Word Slag | 4 December 2020 | Sam Morris, Busty Cookie and Emily Balfour |
| 3 | Show Biz Slags | 11 December 2020 | Baga Chipz |
| 4 | Last Slag Standing | 18 December 2020 | — |

## Series 2 (2024)
### Contestants

Contestants of Slag Wars 2 :
| Contestant | Pronouns | Hometown | Outcome |
| Mama Mamba | She/Her | Birmingham, UK | Winner |
| Cocoa Kink | She/Her | London, England | Runners-up |
| Freyja Phoria | She/They | East London | Runners-up |
| Damien Lenore | He/Him | Miami, Florida | 4th place |
| Braxton Cruz | He/Him | Australia | 5th place |
| JV Marx | He/Him | Los Angeles, California | 5th place |
| Oscar (Hotboiyo) | He/Him | London, UK | 5th place |
| Sabrina Jade | She/They | Brighton, UK | 5th place |

### Contestant progress

| Contestant | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| Mama | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | ADV | Winner |
| Cocoa | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | ADV | Runner-up |
| Freyja | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ADV | Runner-up |
| Damien | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ADV | QUIT |
| Braxton | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | Guest |
| JV | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | Guest |
| Oscar | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | ELIM | Guest |
| Sabrina | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | ELIM | Guest |
    The contestant won Slag Wars.
    The contestant was a runner-up.
    The contestant advanced to the final four.
    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.
    The contestant returned as a guest.

### Points Tally Board

| Contestant | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total |
| Mama | 60 | 22 | 24+5 | 18 | 40 | 23 | 192 |
| Cocoa | 50 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 48 | 11 | 166.5 |
| Freyja | 50 | 25 | 25 | 17 | 41 | 10 | 168 |
| Damien | 50 | 20+5 | 23 | 23 | 37.5 | 36 | 194.5 |
| Sabrina | 50 | 17 | 22+5 | 25 | - | | 119 |
| Oscar | 50 | 16 | 20 | 24+5 | - | | 115 |
| JV | 55 | 12 | 25.5 | 17 | - | | 109.5 |
| Braxton | 50 | 18 | 15 | 23 | - | | 106 |

### Episodes

Slag Wars Season 2 Episodes :
| No. | Title | Original Air Date | Guests |
| 1 | Despunking The World: The Slag Wars Story | 17 September 2024 | Joey Mills, Ricky Cornish, Lillian Stone, Jan Sport, Cara Cunningham and Nicky Monet |
| 2 | Revenge of the Slags | 17 September 2024 | — |
| 3 | Seasonal Slags | 24 September 2024 | — |
| 4 | Gold Medal Slag | 1 October 2024 | Cain (Runner-up of Series 1) |
| 5 | Spotlight Slags | 8 October 2024 | Joey Mills |
| 6 | Scruff Slags | 15 October 2024 | Johnny Scruff |
| 7 | Finale Slags | 22 October 2024 | — |