EXCLUSIVE: RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under star Rita Menu reveals major Snatch Game regret and backstage drama viewers didn’t see

Rita Menu was sent home in episode four of Rupaul’s Drag Race Down Under season three on Friday, which is currently streaming Stan.

Episode four featured the infamous Snatch Game, where the queens compete on a game show while performing their best celebrity impressions.

Rita, 24, initially chose women’s suffrage activist Kate Sheppard, but in the walkthrough segment, Rupaul wasn’t convinced, so the Queen from Hamilton, New Zealand switched to rapper Cardi B.

However, her impersonation of the hip hop star was not well received by the judges and pushed her to the bottom, before being defeated by Flor in the lip sync.

As she left her departure, Rita Menu spoke exclusively to the Daily Mail Australia about what she would do differently when she had time for the show again.

‘Probably take some acting lessons! That was the battle for most episodes for me,” she said, referring to both her unconvincing Snatch Game and her performance in past acting challenges.

“Snatch Game is something I’d love to do again, but in the right way,” she continued.

Rita joked that if she had another chance, she’d like to pose as a fellow contestant.

The latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under is currently streaming Stan.

“I make a really good Hollywould impression,” she laughs, referring to rival Hollywould Star, her Sydney castmate.

“I think I would have stood my ground and gone with what I was already planning, which was Kate Sheppard.”

Rita added, “I had a lot planned for that. It definitely took a lot of effort for me to change characters. I hadn’t planned anything at all.’

Episode four’s runway theme was “Night of a Thousand Kylies,” and the queens served up looks inspired by Kylie Minogue.

Rita and Ashley Madison both served up looks inspired by Kylie’s In My Arms video.

“We had the same look, but in a way it was different. Hers was definitely very Kylie, like an exact replica, while I went bigger with the squares to compliment my body a lot more and show off more of my shape and I think we both marketed it differently on the catwalk.”

Meanwhile, Flor and Isis each did an interpretation of Kylie’s “green fairy” absinthe-colored character from Moulin Rouge, and Rita let it be known that there was some tension between the queens over this.

“Isis had the absinthe bottle and I think Flor didn’t originally have it,” implying that Flor didn’t come up with this detail himself.

While she lost to Flor in a lip sync battle to Kylie Minogue’s classic single Secrets, Rita’s favorite Kylie song to perform is more recent.

Supernova, no doubt. It’s a good dance, disco song. I play my tricks here and there and amuse myself.’

In episode three, Rita sent home two queens in one day because her lip sync opponent Ivory Glaze passed out and the battle was postponed until the next episode. That same episode, she also sent home Ivanna Drink.

“Having to do two lip syncs in one day was insane, but those were the two songs I wanted to do all season and luckily I got them”

“I love lip syncing, that’s what I do day in and day out, so I loved every second of it.”

However, one of the Kiwi Queen’s regrets about her time on the show is not being able to further show off her dancing skills.

“I would have loved to do a girl group number, because I like to dance, as we can see from (my) lip syncs.”

“Drag Race was a huge learning curve for me,” said the Hamilton-based drag queen.

“I know what I’m doing right because I’m from a small town. I like to say I’m on top of my game in Hamilton. But going into the game, I thought of it as a learning experience.’

The most important lesson she says she took from this experience was to have fun.

‘Don’t be afraid to be silly. Because when people vibrate, they enjoy every second of you being as dumb as possible, and I learned that after Snatch Game.”

But will Rita Menu add Cardi B to the usual list of divas she mimics at her shows?

‘No not at all. Maybe a few songs here and there, but definitely not the epitome of her!’