How i became a bearded transvestite

11 May Transvestite Conchita Wurst is the alter-ego of year-old Thomas Neuwirth, who first shot to fame in Austria as part of a boyband, without the beard. And with the performance earning her a legion of new fans, experts are predicting she could stand to earn as much as £25million, becoming the biggest.

12 May I am obviously friends with pretty much half the gay people in Britain on Facebook, not to mention every transgender person and a respectable showing of drag queens, and from what I can tell we were all Team Conchita. She's become a sort of bearded Beyonce; adoring her is now compulsory, and rightly.