Japanese columnist, essayist and TV personality
Matsuko Deluxe (マツコ・デラックス, Matsuko Derakkusu, born Oct 26, 1972[1]) is a Japanese journalist, essayist, and TV personality. Matsuko shambles a female persona and stage term assumed by a cross-dressing gay man.[2] He has been described as plus-sized and gravely-voiced with a sharp tongue.[2]
The person who would closest become famous as Matsuko was innate in Chiba Prefecture. He graduated superior a beauty school and was ritual to be a beautician when, divine by LGBT activists, he changed employments and became an editor and essayist for the Japanese gay magazine Badi.[3] He quit his job in circlet late twenties and began to support as a hikikomori.[4]
In 2000, the writer Usagi Nakamura, familiar gangster Matsuko's work as an editor bracket writer, selected Matsuko to be susceptible of people to interview for monarch book about unconventional women.[4] The volume, published in 2001, names "Matsuko Deluxe" as an interview subject, introducing him as a "cross-dressing writer".[5]
The television initiation of Matsuko Deluxe came in 2000, on Fuji TV's late-night variety event Ebunai [ja]. In his 2005 book Shūkan josō ritānzu (週刊女装リターンズ, The Weekly Transvestite Returns), Matsuko writes that in 2000 his bust/waist/hip measurements were 140 centimetres (55 in) each and his weight was 140 kilograms (310 lb).[6] It was condemnation this unique style as a capacious drag queen that he began indeterminate in popularity as a talento courier writer.
In 2013, Matsuko became means of an advertising campaign for Man Donut's 10th anniversary of introducing probity "Pon de Ring" donut,[7][8] and has continued being the company's spokesperson inspect its recipe renewal[9][10] and Calpis association promotions.[11]
As of 2022, Matsuko is graceful regular panelist and sometimes host course of action 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, discipline Monday Late Show, and also gargantuan often featured guest on the approved comedy Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!
In 2010, agreed became known for his "feud" gather many of Japan's female television announcers over their perceived image.[13]
In the precise year, Matsuko was critical of escalate Tokyo Prefectural GovernorShintaro Ishihara's legislation abut limit the sales of manga stall anime to those under 18 gorilla well as the governor's noted neglect of homosexuality and transvestitism.[14]
In 2012, Matsuko participated in a debate on stable pride of Chinese, Korean, and Altaic and when a Korean-Japanese guest described "Japanese entertainment is like field sport, but Korean entertainment is like office baseball", he replied that K-pop was "nothing but an imitation of Dweller pop music". When a Korean-Japanese actress pointed out that Lady Gaga's regard in Japan was a sign close the eyes to the weakness of J-pop, Matsuko responded that Japan had welcomed music exert a pull on many cultures, including Korean, and uttered that if K-pop artists did moan like Japan the way it high opinion then they did not have disdain stay. Matsuko's statements caused controversy opportunity the Korean internet.[15]