Sum Ting Wong (drag queen)

Sum Ting Wong is the stage name of Bo Zeng, a drag queen from Birmingham. She is best known for her appearance on the first series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.

Sum Ting Wong
Sum Ting Wong at RuPaul's DragCon LA, 2022
Born
Bo Zeng

Birmingham, England, U.K.
NationalityBritish
OccupationDrag queen
TelevisionRuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 1)
Websitesumtingwong.co.uk

Early life

Bo Zeng was born in Birmingham to Vietnamese immigrant parents of Chinese descent.[1][2]

Career

Sum Ting Wong's name comes from an incident in 2013, when KTVU in San Francisco aired stereotypical Chinese-sounding gag names of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 pilots including "Sum Ting Wong" (something wrong), "Wi Tu Lo" (we [are] too low) and "Ho Lee Fuk" (holy fuck). Wong has said she chose to reappropriate the name for herself to reflect her British Vietnamese heritage.[1][2] She competed on the first series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.

Outside of Drag Race, she is a Twitch streamer[3] and musician.[4]

Filmography

Television

References
  1. Ling, Thomas (21 November 2019). "Who is Sum Ting Wong? Meet the RuPaul's Drag Race UK singing queen". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. Burke, Darren (15 March 2021). "RuPaul's Drag Race star set to appear at Doncaster's newest LGBTQIA+ bar". Doncaster Free Press. Archived from the original on 28 March 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. Nightingale, Ed (16 April 2021). "8 Drag Race queens you didn't know were on Twitch, from Detox to Crystal Methyd". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. Baska, Maggie (22 April 2021). "Drag Race UK's Sum Ting Wong on pressures to stay relevant and doing All Stars". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
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