Going from trained lawyer to drag queen is an unusual career trajectory, but the British-born Nigerian-raised baritone and cabaret performer known as Le Gateau Chocolat is used to defying convention.

Born George Ikediashi to a deeply religious African family in East London, he was bullied at school when they returned to Lagos to live and knew that as a young queer boy he had to find a way to survive.

“From very early on, I knew my sexuality didn’t really have a place in Nigeria or in my culture,” he says.

To fit in, he became a master of disguise, which was fine until he returned to boarding school in Britain and was again bullied as he grew to become a “six-foot-tall black man – six-and-a-half foot in heels”.

“I just prayed very hard that I would get a good singing voice, so I could s

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