Category: Drag Queens
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Winner Yvie Oddly Calls Out Producers For Being “Culture Thieves” And For Taking A Year To Pay Her Winnings
Drag queen Yvie Oddly won the eleventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and later competed in the all-winners season of Drag Race All Stars. She’s best known for her lip-synching skills, freaky fashions, and bendy dance moves (she has Hypermobility Ehlers-Danlos syndrome). Now, Yvie has something to say. And she’s gonna say it! The 29-year-old took to Twitter to call out Drag Race producers for being “capitalist culture thieves” who take advantage of the “sleep-deprived, depressed, and DRASTICALLY underpaid” contestants. Yvie also reveals that it took over a year for her to get her $100,000 prize. RuPaul has yet to address these accusations, but if he does, he’ll likely blame that shit on Yvie’s “inner saboteur”.
Shangela Has Been Accused Of Sexual Assault By A Crew Member From HBO’s “We’re Here”
HBO’s award-winning show We’re Here follows former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants Eureka O’Hara, Bob the Drag Queen, and Shangela as they pack up suitcases of glitter, make-up, and love to spread around the nation. Their mission is to turn small towns into One Night Only drag shows before sashaying away to another location to repeat the process. What they’re NOT supposed to be doing, however, is becoming Harvey Weinsteins in wigs wreaking havoc on their co-workers. And unfortunately, this is what’s being alleged by a former crew member who claims he was sexually assaulted by Shangela. But Shangela is lip-syncing for his innocence by refuting these claims as utterly untrue.
The Queens Of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8” Have Been Announced
The regular season of RuPaul’s Drag Race ended last week, and you know what that means: more RuPaul’s Drag Race! Specifically the eighth season of All Stars. Entertainment Weekly reports that the cast of twelve was announced today, and some of these queens are less “~*ALL STARS*~” and more, “Oh shit, I forgot about that one. Didn’t she get kicked off third like four seasons ago?” However, this is not to say RuPaul’s unexpected picks won’t surprise us (or, at the very least, provide us with shady-ass dramatics and/or fodder for memes).
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Contestant Shannel Accused Of Stealing $700 From An Audience Member’s Purse
Drag queen Shannel, best known for appearances on the first seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race and RPDR All Stars, caught shit over a comedic bit where she “steals” tips from the audience. Audience member Megan Gerber has accused the queen of taking $700 out of her purse during a drag brunch performance in Vegas. Megan uploaded footage of the alleged theft to TikTok and so far it has 5 million views. The video shows Shannel rifling through Megan’s purse, fishing out some cash, and returning the purse to her table. Wow! Right in front of cameras and a packed house! To quote Drag Race UK’s Tayce, “The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption” (IF SHANNEL IS GUILTY).
“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” Announces The Queens Of Its All-Winners Season
The seventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars will debut May 20 on Paramount+, and, for the first time in the show’s herstory, it will be an all-winners season! Eight former Drag Race champions will duke it out for a prize of $200,000 (the most ever), the title of “Queen of All Queens,” and probably a “sickening supply” of makeup from Anastasia Beverly Hills. And when RuPaul says “sickening” he means it literally; those cheap-ass cosmetics will give the winner a full-face rash!
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Thora Birch Won’t Reprise Her Role In The “Hocus Pocus” Sequel, But Ginger Minj Will Appear
Almost thirty years ago (heh?!) a then-10-year-old Thora Birch starred in Hocus Pocus. She played Dani, the cute kid who’s being chased by the Sanderson Sisters, three evil witches who wanna suck out Dani’s soul so they can be young and hot forever (an excruciating process called “Madonna-ing”).
Filming for the sequel began in October 2021, and it’s set to premiere on Disney+ this fall. Since Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy all signed on to reprise their roles, some Hocus Pocus fans hoped that Thora would return as well. Now a source has informed Entertainment Weekly that while Disney offered Thora, now 40, “a good supporting role” as an adult version of Dani, she couldn’t make the scheduling work.