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Stag and Hen partieS Ooh what a scream! Want a hen or stag night with a difference? psychic drag queen Cherry Darling can make sure your party goes with a bang… or a bump in the night ‘Scream with a Queen came about when I was working with Haunted Happenings and we were having quite a few hen and stag nights coming along,’ Cherry Darling tells Pink Weddings Magazine. ‘drag queens and hen or stag nights go together anyway, so Scream with a Queen is a paranormal investigation run by a drag queen. a lot of it’s tongue in cheek –we don’t take it as seriously as normal investigations.’ Cherry used to be a professional drag queen in Spain, so is used to drumming up a party atmosphere. She’ll get dressed up in her best sequins and get to know the group, teasing them, teetering about on heels and generally glitzing it up. Some of the venues start the evening with a meal – ‘the wine always 8 » pink weddings magazine helps!’ – and if groups want to join up with other groups they can have their party at ‘the big meccas’ like Warwick Castle or alton towers. Once everyone’s in the party mood, Cherry gets her ghostbusting equipment out – ‘vibrators for dowsing rods and flesh tunnels for torches… it’s camp mayhem!’ She takes them off to do some séances, ‘and the more they laugh, the more they raise the energy in the place,’ she says. ‘that’s what the spirits are attracted to, so we get even more activity by having a laugh! it’s a really fun night out.’ ‘We can work with whatever their budget is, and can even throw in a male stripper if they want one.’ isn’t it a bit cold to strip in a castle? ‘Hey,’ she laughs, ‘if i can walk around in six-inch heels with a dress up to my backside, they can walk around with nothing on! ‘What i love more than anything is that they see me as one of the girls. the stuff they tell me needs censoring – it’s outrageous! it even makes me blush – and i think i’ve heard everything.’ Cherry also teams up with duane Wiggle, a geeky technophile, for a alternative evening called Beauty and the geek. ‘He blinds them with science and i take the mickey out of him – we’re like Yvette Fielding and Carl Beatty in Most Haunted,’ she says. ‘i’ve been officially crowned the new princess of the paranormal!’ Book Cherry Darling for your hen or stag night through www.hauntedhappenings.co.uk