WATCH: Drag Race’s Tia Kofi releases official ‘Heartstopper’-related song

British drag queen Tia Kofi has today dropped a new single with a Heartstopper connection. Kofi has been chosen to host a new, official Heartstopper podcast, which will debut on September 2nd. Kofi’s new track, “The First Time (Heartstopper Mix)” will be its official theme song.

Here’s Netflix revealing details about its new Heartstopper podcast. It will feature Kofi (of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and Drag Race UK vs The World) and all the stars of the show.

🍂 We've got some news 🍂 The first episode of Heartstopper: The Official Netflix Podcast drops on 2 September, with new episodes every Monday throughout the month.

Hosted by Tia Kofi it's packed full of exclusive interviews with the cast as we dig in on what you can expect from… pic.twitter.com/EIWtftQpJx

— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) August 19, 2024

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And here’s Kofi announcing her new track.

The First Time (Heartstopper Mix) is out now! So excited for you to get all the feels from the song and the lyric video! Yaaaaaaay! 🥹🍂

Stream: https://t.co/m5KA2RJXdD
Lyric video: https://t.co/AIa2pQhBHU pic.twitter.com/KNurChuEKC

— Tia Kofi (@TiaKofi) August 30, 2024

You can watch the full lyric video here.

Heartstopper season 3

Stop reading now if you wish to avoid mild spoilers for Season 3 of ‘Heartstopper’.

The third, eagerly-awaited season of Heartstopper drops on Netflix on October 3. The show premiered in 2022 and is based on the beloved graphic novels by Alice Oseman. The series centers on the romantic relationship between two school boys, Charlie and Nick (played by Joe Locke and Kit Connor).

Until now, the relationship has been fairly chaste. However, Locke told Variety this week that the third season will show more of Charlie and Nick becoming sexual with one another.

“The show is growing up,” Locke said. “The second half of the season is about sex.”

It seems that it won’t just be Charlie and Nick getting it on. Netflix has dropped details about forthcoming episodes of its Heartstopper podcast. Internet sleuths have spotted that at least two other couples on the show talk about having sex and their experience with intimacy coordinators on set.

This includes Kizzy Edgell and Corinna Brown (who play Darcy and Tara) and Yasmin Finney and Will Gao (who play Elle and Tao).

so turns out this season is a LOT more mature than i expected 😭

well ig it made sense bc of the age rating change plus cori and kizzy even said certain scenes didnt even feel like heartstopper (still excited nonetheless! just a bit of a shock) pic.twitter.com/gLwEbYYG3i

— anakin 🍂🍉 OCTOBER !! (@nakisprings_) August 29, 2024

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“It matures a little bit with the audience, and as the characters grow up, you start to see them exploring more adult topics,” Connor said.