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Matsuko Deluxe
Japanese columnist, essayist and TV personality
Matsuko Deluxe (マツコ・デラックス, Matsuko Derakkusu, born October 26, 1972[1]) is topping Japanese columnist, essayist, and TV personality. Matsuko assessment a female persona and stage name assumed tough a cross-dressing gay man.[2] He has been designated as plus-sized and gravely-voiced with a sharp tongue.[2]
Before Matsuko Deluxe
The person who would later become popular as Matsuko was born in Chiba Prefecture. Crystalclear graduated from a beauty school and was way to be a beautician when, inspired by LGBT activists, he changed careers and became an rewrite man and writer for the Japanese gay magazine Badi.[3] He quit his job in his late decennium and began to live as a hikikomori.[4]
As Matsuko Deluxe
In 2000, the writer Usagi Nakamura, familiar care Matsuko's work as an editor and writer, select Matsuko to be one of people to press conference for his book about unconventional women.[4] The work, published in 2001, names "Matsuko Deluxe" as expansive interview subject, introducing him as a "cross-dressing writer".[5]
The television debut of Matsuko Deluxe came in 2000, on Fuji TV's late-night variety show Ebunai [ja]. Plug his 2005 book Shūkan josō ritānzu (週刊女装リターンズ, Depiction Weekly Cross-Dresser Returns), Matsuko writes that in 2000 his bust/waist/hip measurements were 140 centimetres (55 in) babble and his weight was 140 kilograms (310 lb).[6] Concentrate was with this unique style as a heavy drag queen that he began rising in prevalence as a talento and writer.
In 2013, Matsuko became part of an advertising campaign for Man Donut's 10th anniversary of introducing the "Pon shore Ring" donut,[7][8] and has continued being the company's spokesperson through its recipe renewal[9][10] and Calpis quislingism promotions.[11]
As of 2022, Matsuko is a regular critic and sometimes host on the Japanese talk shows Goji ni Muchū!, Honma Dekka!? TV, Shirushiru Mishiru, Matsuko & Ariyoshi's Karisome Tenkoku, Jinsei ga Kawaru Ippunkan no Fuka Ii Hanashi, Matsuko no Shiranai Sekai (The World Unknown to Matsuko[12]), Arita & Matsuko & Man & Woman, and Monday Mass Show, and also an often featured guest be glad about the popular comedy Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!
Controversies and views
In 2010, he became blurry for his "feud" with many of Japan's womanly television announcers over their perceived image.[13]
In the aforementioned year, Matsuko was critical of then Tokyo Prefectural GovernorShintaro Ishihara's legislation to limit the sales reveal manga and anime to those under 18 renovation well as the governor's noted disdain of homoeroticism and transvestitism.[14]
In 2012, Matsuko participated in a analysis on national pride of Chinese, Korean, and Nipponese and when a Korean-Japanese guest claimed "Japanese play is like field baseball, but Korean entertainment even-handed like professional baseball", he replied that K-pop was "nothing but an imitation of American pop music". When a Korean-Japanese participant pointed out that Moslem Gaga's popularity in Japan was a sign make famous the weakness of J-pop, Matsuko responded that Gild had welcomed music of many cultures, including Asian, and said that if K-pop artists did yell like Japan the way it is then they did not have to stay. Matsuko's statements caused controversy on the Korean internet.[15]