During a short but very memorable run on The Traitors season 3, Bob the Drag Queen unexpectedly opened the library to read Zac Efron’s acting skills, and now the RuPaul’s Drag Race star is opening the film archive to explain why.
Back on episode 4 of the reality competition, Bob got into a heated exchange with Dylan Efron after the younger Efron sibling tried to convince the group that the loquacious drag star was a Traitor who’d pulled the wool over their eyes, while Bob firmly defended himself against the charge.
Dylan reasoned, “Bob is an amazing actor. I grew up with an actor.”
“Not a good one,” Bob fired back.
Now, the comedian and former We’re Here host, who was in fact a Traitor, tells Entertainment Weekly what led to the shady remark.
“I actually don’t have any vitriol for Zac Efron. I just really wanted to be biting in the moment,” Bob says, revealing that he’s only ever seen two of the actor’s films, High School Musical and Baywatch.
“I haven’t watched any Zac Efron films since I said that, but I’ve been told to watch Iron Claw, so maybe I’ll give it a check, I’ll give it a once over,” he says when asked if he stands by the assessment.
Bob says he’s not sure if the elder Efron — whose credits also include 17 Again, Hairspray, The Greatest Showman, and Neighbors — is aware of catching a stray on the show, but he finds it unavoidable.
“We’re both getting tagged all the time,” Bob says. “So if Zac Efron is running his own social media account, there’s no way he hasn’t seen it. I’ve been tagged in so many videos, so many memes, so many ridiculous things of me and Zac Efron.”
Although Bob hasn’t spoken to the actor about the jab, he has conversed with Dylan — whom he previously dubbed “Miss Guided” on the show — since their on-air confrontation. “He has not taken it to heart,” Bob says. “He knows that I was just in the moment being a drama queen.”
Ultimately, Dylan’s Roundtable argument prevailed — with the help of Survivor mastermind and Bob’s fellow Traitor, Boston Rob — and the majority of the cast voted to banish the Drag Race season 8 winner. Dylan received a lot of credit from costars and fans for helping uncover the season’s first Traitor, but Bob says it’s undue.
“His reasons for me being a Traitor actually didn’t make sense. I think he kind of got lucky,” Bob insists. “In my humble opinion, he’s not that great at the game.”
He continues, “He trusts Boston Rob with his heart and his soul. He is a Boston Rob fangirl. I don’t think that Dylan is eating the way people think he is. He had one good guess and he was right about it.”
Bob — whose debut novel, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert, publishes next month — argues that Dylan’s reasoning that he was a Traitor was flawed as it was based purely on boisterousness, a quality he possesses regardless of whether he’s on a murder spree or not.
“I would’ve been loud if I was a Faithful. I would’ve been loud if I was a Traitor. I’d have been loud if I was the director of photography. I would’ve been loud if I was the P.A. driving the vans. I would’ve been loud if I was watching from home,” Bob maintains. “There is no scenario where I would go on this show, or go anywhere, and just be quiet. That’s not a thing. So he thinks because I was loud, I was a Traitor. No girl, that’s not what it was.”
