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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 a Japanese columnist, essayist, and TV personality.
Matsuko is a female persona and stage name assumed by a cross-dressing gay man.[2] He has been described as plus-sized and gravely-voiced with a sharp tongue.[2]
Before Matsuko Deluxe
The person who would later become famous as Matsuko was born in Chiba Prefecture.
He graduated from a beauty school and was training to be a beautician when, inspired by LGBT activists, he changed careers and became an editor and writer for the Japanese gay magazine Badi.[3] He quit his job in his late twenties and began to live as a hikikomori.[4]
As Matsuko Deluxe
In 2000, the writer Usagi Nakamura, familiar with Matsuko's work as an editor and writer, selected Matsuko to be one of people to interview for his book about unconventional women.