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June Jambalaya (14th)
Age: 29
From: Los Angeles, California
"Grab a fork, ladies. Jambalaya is served."
- 1-Up: Denied. Season 14 features the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-style "Chocolate Bar Twist", whereby each queen selects a bar of RuPaul-branded chocolate, signs it, and is allowed to unwrap it at the point of their elimination. One of the 14 bars is golden, so in a sort reverse Russian Roulette, the lucky queen who unknowingly chose the golden bar is awarded an extra chance to stay in the competition. June's bar is chocolate, and she's therefore sent home.
- Big Beautiful Woman: She's one of three curvaceous girls this season, along with DeJa Skye and Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté.
- Edible Theme Naming: Jambalaya is a paella-style Creole/Cajun rice dish, usually containing sausage, chicken or shrimp.
- Effeminate Voice: June has a very soft, feminine voice, which works well when she's in drag, but can seem slightly at odds with her appearance when she’s masculine-presenting in the Werk Room and confessionals, as she’s not particularly feminine-looking out of drag.
- Her Own Worst Enemy: Sloppy garments aside, June's downfall was also due to her timid, unsure presentation style and lack of confidence on the runway, with Ru noting that even if an outfit is poorly fitted or too voluminous, you can make it work through sheer performance — which June sadly neglected to do.
- Reality Show Genre Blindness: Arrives in the competition with only the most basic of sewing skills (the frequent downfall of many a queen over the years), so when it comes time for the Pair of Balls maxi-challenge, the third runway of which must be self-sewn, she's in trouble. Her tribally-inspired Rummage Sale Reject look and inelegant presentation lands her in the bottom, where her and Maddy Morphosis lip-sync to Kylie Minogue's "I Love It". Ultimately, June's messy performance — featuring a wig reveal, bolts of fabric left on the stage, a dress slipping down beneath her bra, and kicking off her shoes — leads to her elimination when compared to Maddy's more straight-forward performance.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Her Animal Print Bridal Couture ends up being a failure due to its clashing patterns, gaudy color scheme, and overall unfinished look. This, combined with her disastrously sloppy lip-sync against Maddy, sends June packing.
- Simple, yet Opulent: Arrives in the Werk Room looking surprisingly more casual than her fellow queens, in a sweater and tight jumpsuit, though as she's quick to point out, the jumpsuit is Pucci.
- Sugary Malice: After Orion Story is invited back into the competition in episode 3, June is understandably a little pissed off, having already eliminated her in the premiere. She sidles up to Orion in the Werk Room whilst she’s getting ready, under the guise of congratulating her on her good fortune, though her thinly-veiled passive aggressive tone suggests she’s anything but pleased to have her back.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: A frequent occurrence, leading to her early exit.
- She has three in the premiere, the first being her slipping headband in her dance-based CNTs Talent Show number, as well as her visible control-top tights which eagle-eyed Michelle clocks instantly, and thirdly Michelle also spots her darker-coloured biker shorts peeking through her Signature Show-Stopping Drag. Her lack of attention to detail lands her in the bottom.
- For the Pair of Balls maxi-challenge in episode 3, June's "Leopard Evening Wear" lamé jumpsuit is far too voluminous, and she keeps tripping herself on the hem as she walks the runway.
- Having landed in the bottom that same episode, her lip-sync features an intentional wig reveal, an unintentional bra reveal and a more-or-less forbidden removal of her heels partway through the performance — all of which leads to her elimination.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Downplayed. She's the first queen officially out, though seasonal shenanigans meant that Orion Story (who June thought she sent home in episode 1's lip-sync) and Daya Betty were invited back to the competition in week 3 by RuPaul, so June ends up dead last, though we got to know her a little longer than usual.
Alyssa Hunter (13th)
Age: 26
From: Cataño, Puerto Rico
"I hope you guys ready to be slayed, 'cause it's hunting season, bitches."
- Accidental Misnaming: Alyssa thought Willow Pill's last name was Pillow until production made her realize her mistake.
- Hereditary Homosexuality: In episode 4, she's asked about her parents' reaction to her coming out and explains that when she was 15, her father found gay porn on the family computer, sat her down for a chat — and came out to her. Ever since, the pair have shared a close bond. Coincidentally, Synthia Kiss of Drag Race Canada Season 2, airing just a few months earlier, shared the same experience with her own father.
- Hunk: When the first group of queens get out of drag for the first time, Alyssa turns out to be a handsome man with chiseled features, which all the other queens (particularly June and Kornbread) are surprised by, since Alyssa looked so feminine in drag.Kornbread: Daaaaamn. Hey, Miss Alyssa!
- In the Blood: While appearing on Whatcha Packin’ following her elimination, she revealed that her mother had competed in the Miss Puerto Rico pageant a year before Alyssa was born.
- It Only Works Once: Finding herself in the bottom 2 in episode 4, she makes a strong start in the lip-sync to Jennifer Lopez' "Play" against Kerri. However, her decision to fumble about with the Crapola Tech money-gun (which jams) she'd used earlier as part of her J.Lo-themed runway cooks her goose, as it comes across as a stilted, gimmicky break in an otherwise strong performance, and she's sent home.
- Spicy Latina: She’s a downplayed example, though she exaggerates it for the Super Tease maxi-challenge (a Self-Parody of Drag Race itself), in which she portrays a shrill, fiery Puerto Rican contestant. Sadly, her characterization is too one-note to land, being compared to Yara Sofia and not in a good way, and she finds herself in the bottom with Kerri, who sends her packing in the lip-sync.
- That Syncing Feeling: Prior to the CNTs Talent Show maxi-challenge, she builds excitement by claiming to be going out of her pageant-girl comfort zone and playing guitar in a Rock'n Roll performance — except, as the other queens instantly notice, this amounts to lip-syncing to a rock track...playing Air Guitar.
- Whole Costume Reference: For her Signature Show-Stopping Drag runway in the premiere, she sports an opulent, ostrich feather-covered dress in buff pink in tribute to Audrey Hepburn's iconic look from My Fair Lady.
Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté (12th / departed* + Miss Congeniality)
Age: 29
From: Los Angeles, California
"Is you hungry? 'Cause, bitch, I'm baked."
- Accidental Misnaming: She was deeply convinced that Daya Betty was known as "Dayabetica" until production had to correct her.
- Big Beautiful Woman: She's one of three curvaceous girls this season, along with DeJa Skye and June Jambalaya.Kornbread: America, don't adjust your TV. I'm this fat in person!
- Big Sister Instinct: After initial reservations (mostly over her entrance look) she soon takes Willow Pill under her formidable wing, comforting and encouraging her when her health condition starts to cramp up her fingers, making sewing for the Pair of Balls challenge in episode 3 much tougher. Very sweetly, she sources Willow a cup of hot water to warm up her hands so she can keep working.
- In the Reunion, Kornbread notes that Willow is her soulmate, and she's even had a cartoonified image of Willow's arcade-themed promo look tattooed on her thigh in celebration of their relationship.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: As she leaves the Werkroom due to her injury, Kornbread says "my ankle" three times in a similar fashion to Vanessa Vanje Matteo's memetic exit.
- Bruiser with a Soft Centre: Kornbread is a loud and proud, bumptious queen, who barges about the Werk Room volleying banter, though her protective, warmer side is hugely in evidence via her interactions with Willow Pill, whom she instantly takes a liking to.
- Career-Ending Injury: Kornbread sustains a bad ankle injury during episode 4's Super Tease challenge, and at the beginning of episode 5, she appears via video-link, explaining to the other queens that the show's doctors have said she needs to stay off her ankle for 6-8 weeks and she must therefore depart the competition. With valiant stoicism, she says her goodbyes to the other girls, with special messages of love and encouragement for Kerri, Jasmine and Willow.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Kornbread suffers an Heroic BSoD in episode 3, triggered by Kerri (wholly inadvertently) when she details the struggles she's endured with her family coming to terms with her being trans. After walking off-set to cool off, in confessional Kornbread explains that she was driven to an incredibly dark place, sometimes wishing she wouldn't wake up, after her mother essentially abandoned her when her flamboyant side started to become more apparent.
- Dresses the Same: For her Signature Show-Stopping Drag in the premiere's runway, she sports a spray-on, silver look that's very similar to the one guest judge Lizzo is wearing. Justified in that Kornbread is a Lizzo impersonator as part of her act.
- Edible Theme Naming: Took her drag name from the classic staple dish of the Southern United States.
- "I Am" Song: For the CNTs Talent Show challenge in the premiere, she performs an upbeat, original rap written by her especially for the occasion.
- It Has Been an Honor: Due to her broken ankle, she has to be pulled from the competition. Nevertheless, she leaves with her head held high and wishes the remaining queens all the best.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: On the nicer end of this trope — she's an unapologetic Sassy Black Woman who calls it like she sees it, resulting in an infamous throwdown with Jasmine over the latter's tendency to talk over people. However, it's obvious that Kornbread has a huge heart and is very devoted to her sisters, which is exemplified by her coming to Willow’s aid after her fingers begin to cramp up during preparations for the Ball challenge. She gets recognized for this when she's awarded Miss Congeniality.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": During critiques for the CNTs Talent Show, Michelle praises Kornbread's performance but criticizes her lyrics for not being understandable. Ru and guest judge Lizzo however step in and refute her claims, before the latter gives Kornbread a glowing critique of her performance and runway. Kornbread, who made it no secret she idolizes Lizzo, is visibly moved to tears by the gesture, and it makes her win even sweeter.
- Mythology Gag: Among the groceries she brought with her for her "I Am" Song was a milk carton with a missing person on it. The missing person? Merle Ginsberg.
- Nice Girl: Despite leaving the competition fairly early on, Kornbread clearly made quite the impact, as she was crowned this season's Miss Congeniality.
- Non-Gameplay Elimination: In the episode 4 Super Tease challenge, she sprains her ankle, leaving it painful and badly swollen. As a result, the show's doctors demand 6-8 weeks rest and she therefore ends up leaving the competition one episode later.
- Phrase Catcher: Ru almost instantly starts referring to her as "Kornbread with a 'K'".
- Prone to Tears: The most openly emotional of the assembled queens, Kornbread is prone to both Tears of Joy and Cathartic Crying in equal measure, and by episode 4, she's been moved to tears in 3 out of 4 episodes.
- Sassy Black Woman: From the minute she arrives in the Werk Room, she's a whirlwind of sass, clocking looks (poor Willow) and cracking gags, which is exaggerated in her CNTs Talent Show segment; an "I Am" Song rap with mugging so bug-eyed and furious it has the judges and her fellow queens in hysterics.
- Stern Teacher: Jasmine's tendency towards being a Motor Mouth starts to rile her up by episode 4, and she explains to her — calmly at first — the importance of listening, then responding, as part of a normal conversation. However, her advice starts to veer into schooling, and the other queens note that her interjections and disciplining of Jasmine is not only becoming overly censorious and picky, but that it's also stalling their preparation for the maxi-challenge.
- Whole Costume Reference:
- In what is a cute same-series example, for the Reunion show Kornbread recreates Willow Pill's Paris Hilton-inspired entrance look — a sweet choice, as she was initially less than impressed with the look when Willow first walked in — though her top is emblazoned with "Ankle", as opposed to "Angle", as a witty nod to her own Career-Ending Injury on the show.
- Her grand finale Viva Drag Vegas look is an awesome Hybrid Monster of both Belle and The Beast from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Coincidentally (or not), Reggy B from Drag Race Holland Season 2 presented the exact same concept for her proposed Monster's Ball look a year prior.
Orion Story (11th)*
Age: 25
From: Grand Rapids, Michigan
"Hello, RuPaul? Yes, we've been trying to reach you regarding your car's extended warranty? Oh, perfect. Well, then, I just have one more question for you...are you ready boots?"
- Bad "Bad Acting": In episode 5, the queens are challenged to create a Save a Queen PSA spoof featuring first-out queens from previous seasons. The tone is supposed to be delivered with tongue-in-cheek gravitas, despite the ludicrous context (Season 9 first-out Jaymes Mansfield sportingly makes her return to the series as a queen whose busted wig skills desperately require donations), but Orion plays it deathly flat and one-note, which lands her in the bottom 2, where Jorgeous' whip-fast choreography sends her packing.
- Celebrity Resemblance: In episode 3, Ru notes how similar she looks in drag to 80s soap opera queen (and more recently Chandler's mom), Morgan Fairchild.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Orion is definitely an odd duck from the get-go, beginning with her Werk Room entrance line, which consists of a high-pitched Drone of Dread followed by a robocall-esque spiel about extended warranties, all spoken into a hamburger phone, which she explains as an attempt to introduce herself in the most "obnoxious and crazy" way possible. There’s also her strange comedy skit for the CNTs Talent Show, where she plays a trailer-park fitness guru, "Sue Stroker", with a limp cigarette hanging from her mouth. Everyone is completely befuddled by her weird, yet slightly flat style of humor, most of all the judges. It lands her in the bottom, where June sends her home (though she's back in episode 3 — see below).
- Flat Character: Orion's downfall is the fact that she’s always monotonously one-note whatever the occasion, and can never seemingly show any other emotion aside from quiet composure, to the point that Willow wonders whether she's just stoned all the time.
- Missing Mom: In episode 3, she reveals (with valiantly stoic composure) that her mother killed herself via an overdose following a long battle with bipolar depression, and that her performance on the show is in Dedication to her.
- Multi Boobage: For her Signature Show-Stopping Drag in the premiere's runway, she sports a toadstool-themed look that she whips off to reveal three tits, which feature stripper's pasties as a sight gag.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Having crashed out in last place in episode 1 of the split premiere, she originally placed 14th= with Daya Betty, who placed last in episode 2. However, in episode 3, Ru surprises the remaining girls by inviting both her and Daya Betty back to the competition, citing the decision as being "the right thing to do", though stressing that there'll be no more second chances.
- Naïve Newcomer: Her performance in the premiere is judged to be a valiant effort, but not fully-baked when compared to her competitors. The judges note that she has great potential given more time, but also that the immediacy of the competition doesn't allow for that.
- Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: In the Reunion, Jorgeous spills the beans on her and Orion's "showmance", which seemingly went on very much behind the scenes — Kornbread notes that she clocked them holding hands on the bus back to the hotel, for instance — but didn't translate onto the show itself.
- Retraux: Her drag style is heavily 1960s-inspired, with a smouldering Lana Del Rey vibe, and as such she's known as "Michigan's Femmebot".
- The Stoner: Suspected, debated and pretty much confirmed after her languid, less than coherent antics on the Reunion show.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: During her lip-sync against Jorgeous, she starts to lose her wig and her hairline becomes visible. She also commits the final sin of kicking her shoes off (a serious no-no in a lip-sync, as previously mentioned with June) before Jorgeous' expert choreo skills ultimately send her packing.
Maddy Morphosis (10th)
Age: 26
From: Fayetteville, Arkansas
"Get ready to pitch a tent, America. The camp queen is here."
- Camp Straight: Maddy is a cisgender, heterosexual man (very unusual among drag queens, who are most commonly cisgender gay men, as evidenced by the enormous number of cis gay men who have been contestants on Drag Race). Since she is the first heterosexual man to compete on any version of Drag Race, she hopes to inspire other cisgender straight guys to be themselves, relax any preconceived ideas about gender, and embrace their inner queen.Maddy: All the guys out there dressing up trying to be super-masculine? They're doing drag too without even realizing it.
- Coming Straight Story:
- Played straight (no pun intended) in Episode 2, wherein her decision to not be forthright about her sexuality inadvertently places her in a "straight closet" that Ru forces her out of.
- Played for Laughs in Episode 4, in which her character in the Super Tease acting challenge parodies the show's dramatic Coming-Out Stories by tearfully recalling how her gay fathers rejected her for coming out as straight.
- Country Mouse: Maddy grew up on a trailer park with her father and grandmother on the outskirts of Fayetteville, Arkansas and prior to her time in the competition, she was very much a local scene queen.
- Cultural Rebel: Maddy is a straight, cisgender Southern man, who also happens to be a drag queen — something the other queens note they never expected to ever encounter.
- Elvis Impersonator: She presents a dragged-up, Rule 63 version of the global icon and Vegas mainstay for her grand finale Viva Drag Vegas look.
- Milholland Relationship Moment: Maddy is visibly cowed in the premiere, and in confessionals notes that she worries how her fellow queens might react to her "infiltrating" a traditionally queer space. For their part, the girls are onboard, especially Angeria and Lady Camden, who note in confessional how brave and pioneering they think she is.
- Mistaken for Gay: A regular occurrence for Maddy. The other queens are shocked to find out she's a cis, straight guy, and she concedes that it’s understandable most people assume she's gay when they find out she's a drag queen, as it’s a profession that’s typically the preserve of gay men.
- "Oh, Crap!" Smile: How Maddy responds when Ru, intentionally or not, outs (ins?) Maddy as straight to everyone in the Werk Room. Luckily, the queens are more intrigued than anything else.
- One of Us: Maddy confirmed via Cameo that she is a frequent "lurker" on both the r/rupaulsdragrace and r/spoileddragrace Subreddits, and has been for the past couple of years.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Maddy is an earnest, likeable queen, with great comic ideas and comes complete with the interesting and novel point of view of a straight male drag artist. However, by week 6 she fails to stand out in any particular field, always placing safe, low or in the bottom 2 and compared to the other girls, it becomes clear that she lacks a certain eye for detail and finesse, with most of her looks either lacking pizazz, or being outright frumpy. A pattern emerges, and she's sadly sent packing.
- The Power of Rock: For the CNTs Talent Show in part two of the premiere, she hopes to wow the judges with a bluesy rock guitar solo, which she ends by playing the cords with her tongue. She's clearly a skilled guitarist (unlike Alyssa, whose "rock" routine involved some badly synced Air Guitar), but she doesn't make best use of the stage (the judges point out that she neglected to turn sideways while she was playing the guitar with her tongue, so they couldn't see her doing it). She ends up in the bottom three, likely avoiding the lipsync thanks to her inspired runway.
- Pauper Patches: For the Glamazon Prime sewing challenge of episode 6, Maddy's concept is "backwoods girl goes to a square dance in a homemade dress of rags", which in principle is great and very on-brand for her, but her application of the idea is lacking, as her dress is poorly constructed and lacks the design flare required — even when accompanied by "Daddy Morphosis", her blow-up sex doll companion. Despite serving a fun, campy performance in the lip-sync against Jasmine, Maddy can't match the former's incredibly slick, sexy moves and is sent packing. To top it off, the outfit won Maddy the Golden Boot Award for the worst look of the season.
- Punny Name: Her drag name is a play on "metamorphosis", which, in her view, is the epitome of what drag is.
- Rage Breaking Point: She’s a sweet, mellow queen who typically keeps her head down and avoids all drama. However, in episode 6 she lands in the bottom 2 with Jasmine, and perhaps feeling a little more like she has her feet under the table by this point, the previously quiet Maddy engages in an unexpectedly explosive argument with the NYC queen prior to their lip-sync, to the surprise of her competitors.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Her Glamazon Prime outfit, while good in concept, ended up being badly constructed and unflattering. The look not only got her eliminated, but at the Reunion, it ended up giving her the Golden Boot Award.
- Serious Business: Drag itself is this for Maddy. She gives a remarkably articulate speech in episode 2's Untucked, in which she makes clear that she's not just a straight man doing drag for a lark, nor does she necessarily encourage other straight men to do so — it's a community and an art form that she has immense respect for, and wants to do right by. By this point, the other queens have happily accepted Maddy as one of their own.
- Shrinking Violet: Maddy is visibly nervous and quite timid on her first day in the Werk Room, keeping to herself and beavering away quietly — in all likelihood because she wasn't sure how the other girls would react when they found out she was straight. Averted in the episode 6 Untucked when she got into it with Jasmine.
- Starstruck Speechless: When Ru first enters the Werk Room in episode 2 to greet the second batch of queens, most of the queens cheer as always, but watch Maddy — she's so starstruck, she's actually shaking.
- Swapped Roles: Maddy's presence in the Werk Room presents an intriguing role-reversal scenario, whereby a straight person experiences what it feels like for many queer people entering a space that is usually the preserve of straight people. Maddy is at first visibly quite timid, and there's also some slightly heavy-handed editing in play, with the camera cutting to her to serve a Reaction Shot when the rest of the girls are discussing their experiences as queer people.
- The Un-Hug: Practically the second after Jasmine ends their argument, Maddy stands up to give her a hug, but Jasmine brushes her off and tells her she's not the type of person that needs to hug it out after a fight. The other girls encourage Jasmine to take it, but it doesn't end up being a proper hug, just a quick, somewhat awkward side-hug.
- Ur-Example: Across the franchise she's the first, and in the experience of some of the seasoned queens competing with her the only, heterosexual, cisgender male drag queen in the field.
- In her Whatcha Packin' exit interview, Michelle Visage mentions that Maddy is only the third one she's ever met. And Michelle has spent literally decades hanging around with drag queens.
- Whole Costume Reference:
- Her entrance look is a black dress adorned with flame imagery, directly inspired by Guy Fieri's similar-looking signature polo shirt.
- For her Signature Show-Stopping Drag runway, she sports an ingenious, freshly-beheaded Marie-Antoinette look, styled so as to appear as if she's holding her own severed head. Her creativity saves her from the bottom two.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Downplayed. Maddy's lip-sync to Kylie Minogue's "I Love It" is very low-key, with more hand movement than actual dancing. It's not quite a Charlie Hides-esque nothing of a performance, but it's mediocre and normally wouldn't be much to write home about. Luckily for Maddy, June Jambalaya is a disaster beside her, with her shoes flying off, her dress falling apart, and generally just making a mess of the stage, to the point that even Ru looks embarrassed to be watching it. Maddy... well, not so much won per se, but rather survived the lip-sync, just by keeping her dignity.
Kerri Colby (9th)
Age: 24
From: Los Angeles, California
"I have one thing to say...baby, you already know every kiss begins with a K."
- Abusive Parents: Kerri endured an abusive childhood at the hands of her father, who would tell her to leave the room if she entered, and constantly criticized her Effeminate Voice — to the point that she was kicked out of her family home at 15. She's quite objective though, noting to her fellow queens that she didn't think much of her dad to begin with, and is far happier with him out of her life.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": For her Signature Show-Stopping Drag look in the premiere, she glides out onto the runway in a massive fur coat incorporating a gold, leonine shoulder-pauldron, under which she sports a mini-dress made up of a series of bright pink, chain-linked letter 'K's, for Kerri.
- Closet Key: Not in terms of sexual orientation, but of gender identity: Bosco and Jasmine both credited her with helping them realize and accept they're trans.
- Combat Pragmatist: She’s self-admittedly a poor seamstress, so when it comes time for the Pair of Balls maxi-challenge, the third runway of which must be self-sewn, she's in trouble. However, Kerri pulls a low-fi Damsel in Distress ploy, which sees Jasmine (forgetting This Is a Competition) come running to her aid.
- Head-Turning Beauty: As she arrives in the Werk Room in a gorgeous, figure-hugging gown with her makeup looking perfect, Willow is literally dumbfounded, quipping that Kerri's so beautiful, it's like looking at the sun.
- Hope Bringer: Kerri's poise and self-confidence is very much a beacon for not only the queens on her season (Jasmine, Bosco), but also for anyone else (and their parents) outside of the show who are coming to terms with being trans, for whom she's very much an inspiration.
- Impossibly Cool Clothes: For the Night of a Thousand J.Lo's runway in episode 4, Kerri struts down the main stage in the famous green Versace dress that spawned Google Image Search back in 2000, as reimagined for Milan Fashion Week 2019. During the critiques, it's brought up that it is not a recreation but the actual garment Lopez wore — a serious flex and unprecedented for a celebrity-themed runway.note Despite the spectacle, she lands in the bottom 2 that week, and the value and preciousness of the dress hinders her performance in the lip-sync, as she fears what would happen if she were to damage it in some way.
- Knows the Ropes: For the CNTs Talent Show maxi-challenge in the premiere, Kerri delivers an expert, high-energy jump-rope performance whilst lip-syncing to Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda".
- Master of None: Kerri is undoubtedly beautiful and comes packing an enviable wardrobe, though when it comes to comedy, sewing, acting or dancing, she doesn’t stand out in any particular field and is often unwilling to go out of her pretty-girl comfort zone. Overall, she’s a solid queen, but by midway through the competition "solid" starts not to cut it anymore, and she’s outplayed by her competitors.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Kerri explains that her very religious upbringing renders her somewhat blind to secular cultural references on occasion, so when it comes time for the 60s Girl Groups challenge in episode 8, she's less able to tap into the The Supremes-inspired cues than her teammates and competitors, instead going gospel which, as Michelle notes, is the wrong tone for the challenge. Landing in the bottom 2, Jasmine's slicker choreo (despite losing a shoe) ultimately sends her home.
- Pygmalion Snap Back: During their first one-on-one interaction, Ru immediately notices her measured, standard American accent, and questions why a girl who grew up in Texas has no trace of a southern accent. Kerri explains that her strict mother made her iron out her southern twang — though interestingly, when Kerri later chats with fellow southern queen Kornbread, she starts speaking pure southern, just like her.
- Reality Show Genre Blindness: Along with June, Kerri is also guilty of entering the competition with only a basic level of sewing skills, though unlike the former, she starts bleating for help, which has the starstruck Jasmine Kennedie come running to her aid during prep for the Pair of Balls sewing challenge.
- Shout-Out Theme Naming: Her drag surname, which goes back to her drag grandmother and is now shared by a whole drag House, was originally adopted in tribute to the super-rich Colby family of the 80s classic soap opera, Dynasty. For Kerri's first runway, Ru cracks himself and the panel up introducing her as "from ColbyCo, it's Kerri Colby" — 'ColbyCo' being the vast oil empire infamously helmed by Dynasty mega-bitch Alexis Colby.
- Team Mom: Or rather Team Auntie, regardless, despite her blinding beauty and glamour, Kerri is incredibly empathetic and maternal, and often offers words of support, understanding, and compassion to the other queens. Outside the show, she has cultivated a reputation as a mentor and inspiration to trans and queer people.
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Kerri is a transgender woman, and her entrance look is a white dress accented with pink and blue, the colors of the transgender flag. Even her wig is streaked with pink and blue!Kerri: I am wearing the transgender flag colors, so I'm letting people know who I am from my hair down to my toes, bitch. I am white, blue, and pink.
- Whole Costume Reference: Her grand finale Viva Drag Vegas look is an incredibly detailed, Rule 63 version of Marvel Comics' iconic Supervillain, Thanos, complete with her very own Infinity Gauntlet.
- Counts as an Ascended Meme as well, as it references the in-joke among fans that she "collects trans women like infinity stones" and the resulting
Fan Nickname of "Tranos".
- Counts as an Ascended Meme as well, as it references the in-joke among fans that she "collects trans women like infinity stones" and the resulting
Jasmine Kennedie (8th)
Age: 22
From: New York City, New York
"Oh, this, y'all, is just the entry look."
- Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: A quirk of Jasmine's in any acting challenge, she delivers her lines for any character part she plays with a weirdly lilting, galloping cadence — which is either lauded as being funny, or just plain weird.
- A Day in the Limelight: Despite being eliminated halfway through the competition, the Reunion show spent over half its time discussing Jasmine’s story and her clashes with other queens.
- Bad Impressionists: She's amongst the seven queens to land in the bottom, following the worst collective Snatch Game performance in the US series' herstory. The judges find Jasmine's take on the infamously clueless former Republican Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, to be a poorly missed opportunity, noting with wry humor that she appeared to take her impersonation far more seriously and judiciously than DeVos ever took her own role.
- Bookends: Her exit line is a near-verbatim Call-Back to her entrance line, with one crucial word swapped out:Jasmine: Oh, this, y'all, is just the exit look.
- Custom Uniform of Sexy: For the the Chaps on the runway, she sports a sexy take on a traditional school graduation uniform, with her golden-yellow chaps designed to evoke the sash that goes over a graduation gown.
- Hero-Worshipper: She's self-admittedly starstruck by Kerri, and is therefore quick to assist when Kerri bleats for help with sewing her "Bridal Couture" gown for the Pair of Balls maxi-challenge, momentarily forgetting This Is a Competition.
- Motor Mouth: As Kornbread points out in episode 4, once Jasmine gets to talking, it's hard to stop her from blathering on ad nauseam, leaving no room for anyone else to speak.
- Painful Rhyme: Jasmine delivers her speech for the Save a Queen PSA spoof with a weirdly lilting cadence that veers into What the Hell Is That Accent? territory when her rhyming inflection starts to evoke The Count from Sesame Street. She places low, but is ultimately declared safe after a strong runway presentation.
- The Pollyanna: Jasmine exhibits a robust, relentless positivity, and while she may be Prone to Tears and quite emotional, cattiness, criticism and snark seems to bounce right off her. The knockout 7-queen Lip-Sync Smackdown of episode 11 is, somewhat surprisingly, her downfall, though even when asked to sashay away, she never once drops her sunny demeanor.
- She-Fu: For the CNTs Talent Show in part two of the premiere, Jasmine comes in hot, performing an incredibly acrobatic lip-sync, incorporating a death-defying set of moves including, most impressively, a backflip into a scissor-split, that has the judging panel gagging.
- Volleying Insults: Having landed in the bottom 2 with Maddy following episode 6’s sewing challenge, in Untucked the pair engage in surprisingly explosive Trash Talk, in which Maddy shows a previously-unseen fiery side and Jasmine presents an unshakeable robustness she hadn’t previously exhibited.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: For the 80s soap opera-inspired Daytona Wind acting challenge in episode 7, Jasmine portrays a Floridian Grande Dame, and as well as nailing her comic timing (while looking uncannily like Alyssa Edwards), she also performs her lines with a comically bizarre, backwoods "southern" accent — which compounds the comedy and lands her high praise. Bosco (with her tongue firmly in her cheek) declares it to be the best thing she's ever seen.
- Whole Costume Reference: For her Signature Show-Stopping Drag runway, she sports a beautiful, 60s-style golden gown that Michelle instantly notes is a smart nod to Edy Williams' iconic portrayal of Ashley St. Ives in the darkly satirical Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
DeJa Skye (6th=)
Age: 31
From: Fresno, California
"Alright, Season 14, let's get thickening!"
- Big Beautiful Woman: She's one of three curvaceous girls this season, along with June Jambalaya and Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté.
- Big Fun: She’s a sweet, jolly queen, and it’s rare for her not to have a beaming smile on her face.
- Black Comedy: For the Super Tease maxi-challenge (a derangedly over-the-top Self-Parody of the show's own infamously dramatic season teasers), she creates a brutally well-observed and hilarious pastiche of a classic mirror-time sob story, explaining how she "was born at a very young age" and that "for the first two years of my life *sob* I couldn't walk". The judges love her expert comic acting and she places high for the week.DeJa: There would be times when I would wake up...and there would just be shit in my pants.
- Breather Episode: Episode 11 is this for DeJa, as she was the only queen deemed to have performed well in episode 10’s Snatch Game, and is therefore gifted with the opportunity to put her feet up, grab a cocktail, and — in a very rare occurrence across the franchise — sit out for an entire episode to play Combat Commentator from the comfort of the Werk Room while all of her fellow queens take part in the intense Lip-Sync Smackdown.
- Camp: Of the second batch of queens, she most closely adheres to old-school, traditionally campy drag style.
- Commonality Connection: Hailing from Fresno, she and Sacramento's Lady Camden bond over both being NorCal girls, a region they note is sorely underrepresented in the series.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Ru and Michelle dub the Season 14 Snatch Game the worst in the US series' herstory — across the franchise only the queens of Down Under Series 1 have collectively produced such a dire showing — so much so that Michelle launches a mock investigation when grilling the queens over their poor performances. However, DeJa's brilliant take on rapper Lil' Jon is a stand-out success, and provides a merciful comedic interlude amongst the flat performances of her competitors, and she deservedly snatches her first win.
- Double Knock Out: In a franchise first, DeJa and Daya are the first queens in Drag Race herstory to both eliminate each other in the same season. DeJa sent Daya packing in episode 2, only for Daya to return to the competition and then send DeJa home — eleven episodes later.
- Shoulders of Doom: For the Shoulder Pads runway, DeJa takes the theme to its campiest extreme, sporting a gorgeous Chanel-style bouclé jacket and skirt in palest-pink, with vast, boxy shoulder pads that widen her silhouette by a clear foot each side. The judges and her fellow queens love her look, and it receives a unanimous “Toot” in the Reunion show, being declared among the best of the season.
- Stylistic Suck: For the CNTs Talent Show in part two of the premiere, she performs a campy, deliberately crappy Pom-Pom Girl routine, though whilst it's supposed to be bad in a funny way, it ends up being bad....in a bad way, and she lands in the bottom two.
Jorgeous (6th=)
Age: 21
From: Nashville, Tennessee
"Hello-tis! It is gorgeous like Jorgeous. Ow!"
- Badass Boast: After soundly winning her three-way lip-sync against Camden and Angeria (made more impressive by the fact that Camgeria are great performers in their own right), she confidently quips "Are you surprised, America?" via Confession Cam.
- Bad "Bad Acting": In episode 5, the queens are challenged to create a Save a Queen PSA spoof featuring first-out queens from previous seasons. The tone is supposed to be delivered with tongue-in-cheek gravitas, despite the ludicrous context (Season 7 first-out Tempest DuJour sportingly makes her return to the series as an ancient queen who's been shipped off to the Shady Pines nursing home), but poor Jorgeous particularly struggles to realize a character separate from her own drag-persona. Having landed in the bottom 2 with Orion, her excellent Dance Battler skills ultimately save her bacon.
- Bad Impressionists: She's amongst the seven queens to land in the bottom, following the worst collective Snatch Game performance in the US series' herstory. Her Ilana Glazer falls deathly flat, with Michelle witheringly noting that the only thing right about her performance was "the hair".
- Consistent Clothing Style: A sequined bra and panties are a week-on-week go-to for Jorgeous.
- Creator's Pet: Noted in-universe; a rare occurrence, as the show (attempts to) present Ru as objective. But Bosco and Lady Camden manage to sneak those little gems in:Bosco: I don’t necessarily want to lip-sync against Jorgeous. I’m pretty sure RuPaul has signed up to be an organ donor for Jorgeous.Lady Camden: I am excited for tonights runway. Jorgeous will be wearing a headband as a dress and RuPaul will be telling her that she is a superstar.
- Dance Battler: She is, without question, this season’s lip-sync assassin, having won four lip-syncs by week 12 of the competition thanks to her formidable dancing skills.
- Doomed Defeatist: Prior to the Ross Mathews Roast, she loses all confidence and basically gives up, flopping down on a couch and brooding instead of focussing on honing her routine. Her subsequent roast is therefore very shaky and, as Michelle notes, makes for uncomfortable viewing. Landing in the bottom 3 with DeJa and Daya, she brings her usual killer energy to the lip-sync, but it doesn't hit the angry, rocky vibe of Olivia Rodrigo's "Good 4 u" when compared to Daya, and both she and DeJa are commanded to sashay away.
- The Dreaded: She's the consistently strongest dancer of the competition, and when it's revealed that episode 11 will be a 7-queen Lip-Sync Smackdown, literally all of her competitors are quaking in their heels at the prospect of taking her on.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's a pocket-rocket queen, and shows off her whip-fast, ass-shaking moves in a slick lip-sync performance for the CNTs Talent Show in part two of the premiere.
- Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: In the Reunion, Jorgeous spills the beans on her and Orion's "showmance", which seemingly went on very much behind the scenes — Kornbread notes that she clocked them holding hands on the bus back to the hotel, for instance — but didn't translate onto the show itself.
- Signature Move: Jorgeous has a wealth of impressive moves in her lip-sync arsenal, but, as her fellow queens note, she's especially wont to perform a Signature Move — hilariously termed "punching the ghost" — where she whips her arm out to the side rhythmically while shimmying.
- The Stoner: She cements herself as a lover of all things green in Episode 10, where she not only impersonates Broad City creator and avowed stoner Ilana Glazer in the Snatch Game but also walks the runway in an all-green "dope pope" ensemble complete with a massive blunt.
- Textile Work Is Feminine: For episode 6's Glamazon Prime sewing challenge, Jorgeous late-stage abandons her moulting, purple faux-fur look and instead crafts a flimsy, Shakira-esque look from a shower curtain, complete with star-shaped cookie cutters as accessories, and goes on to snatch her first win.
Angeria Paris VanMicheals (3rd=)
Age: 27
From: Atlanta, Georgia
"The name's Angeria, but you can call me Angie. Now let's make it shake, honey!"
- Aroused by Their Voice: When Angeria and Lady Camden meet for the first time:Angeria: I'm from Sparta, Georgia, but I live in Atlanta.
Lady Camden: Oh, that accent, it's just really getting my nipples hard.
Angeria: [clearly feeling the same way about Lady Camden's own accent] We can, like, find us a room, and just talk to each other all day. - Bad Impressionists: She's amongst the seven queens to land in the bottom, following the worst collective Snatch Game performance in the US series' herstory. Angie goes with one of the OG Drag Race queens (and one who's ripe for an Affectionate Parody), Tammie Brown of Season 1. Despite nailing a few fun Tammie-isms, the judges find her performance to be a missed opportunity and all too one-note, lacking breadth of character, especially given the fact that her subject matter is one of the kookiest queens ever to grace the show. Sadly for Angie, Snatch Game ends her success streak in the competition, as she'd never previously placed below safe and had an excellent track record, with two wins and four high placements.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: She instantly bonds with Lady Camden over a shared appreciation for each other's accents, and the pair enjoy a relationship built on good-natured banter, with Lady C cracking herself up by constantly imitating Angie's southern drawl, and Angie threatening to whoop her ass back to Camden.
- In the Reunion, Angeria admits that over the course of the season, there might have been a mutual crush brewing, though the pair are still "working on" whether that blossoms into a fully-formed romance.
- Costume Porn:
- Special mention must be made of Angeria's "All In White" runway — a beautiful white gown/jumpsuit — for the Pair of Balls challenge in episode 3, as fashion-expert Carson singles it out as being amongst his favorite looks ever since he began judging back in 2015 on Season 7.
- Her Mirror Mirror runway — an exquisite geode-inspired gown in azure blue — is singled out as "perfection" by the judging panel, with Ross noting that ALL drag queens should take note.
- Country Mouse: Despite now living in cosmopolitan Atlanta, Angeria is as country as it gets, with a charmingly thick accent and a church-going, choir-singing background.
- Curtain Clothing: For the Glamazon Prime sewing challenge of episode 6, Angeria creates an incredibly beautiful, perfectly constructed cocktail dress out of stiff black curtain material, incorporating two concertina blinds to present dramatic, fanned shoulder details.
- "I Am" Song: For the CNTs Talent Show in part two of the premiere, she delivers an energetic lip sync to her own original song, "Call Me Angie", and along with a beautiful showing in the follow-up runway, she deservedly snatches the win.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Angie is absolutely bowled over to be meeting and performing for her idol, guest judge and singer Alicia Keys.
- My Nayme Is: It's VanMicheals, not VanMichaels. But even her official website misspells it at one point.
- So Proud of You: She and Lady Camden make special mention of how brave and pioneering they think Maddy is, being the first straight male queen in the franchise, especially since Maddy grew up in the South, where most other straight cisgender people are not so open-minded towards the LGBTQ community.
- Southern Belle: Self-described — she's very much a classic pageant girl, exuding charm and glamorous poise, and has a marvellously thick Southern drawl to match.
- Her beautiful wine-coloured gown for the Signature Show-Stopping Drag runway is pure southern belle pageant magic, and the judges love it.
- Her Holy Couture runway is a gorgeous “Southern black lady in her Sunday best” ensemble in buff pink with a matching silk hat. Ru, who grew up around women just like the type Angie depicts, loves her look.
- Sweet Home Alabama: Personified — she presents all of the associated positive qualities of the American South; poise, genteel manners, and a slick, glamourous sense of old-fashioned style.
- Unlocking the Talent: Prior to the Super Tease maxi-challenge (a derangedly over-the-top Self-Parody of the show's own infamously dramatic season teasers), Angeria notes that she's never acted before and quails a little at the prospect, being a poised pageant girl. However, her performance is a stand-out riot, and as well as exhibiting excellent comic timing and a total lack of inhibition, she also puts her own spin on some of the series’ iconic quotes — "Bitch, I will whoop your ass, I am from SPARTA" and "This is not RuPaul's Southern Hospitality Race!!" being exemplary. She goes on to deservedly win the week.
- Viva Las Vegas!: Classically and extravagantly presented for her Viva Drag Vegas grand finale runway via a sumptuous purple look, complete with a huge feathered shoulder piece that fans out clear metres around her as she struts down the runway.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Exaggerated and conversed — Ru actually says "What is that accent?" in response to Angie's Tammie Brown impersonation in the Snatch Game, which exaggerates Tammie's already-bizarre speech patterns to the point of near-incoherence.
Bosco (3rd=)
Age: 28
From: Seattle, Washington
- 1-Up: Granted! Season 14 features the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-style "Chocolate Bar Twist", whereby each queen selects a bar of RuPaul-branded chocolate, signs it, and is allowed to unwrap it at the point of their elimination. One of the 14 bars is golden, so in a sort reverse Russian Roulette, the lucky queen who unknowingly chose the golden bar is awarded an extra chance to stay in the competition. After a below-par performance in the Moulin Ru Rusical, and having lost the lip-sync to Jorgeous, she's miraculously saved when the much-anticipated bar finally makes an appearance.
- The Atoner: All but stated. After the debacle that was casting roles for the Moulin Ru Rusical, Bosco willingly goes first for the Ross Matthews Roast challenge — a historically daunting position. It works in her favor since she lands her third win.
- Bad Impressionists: She's amongst the seven queens to land in the bottom, following the worst collective Snatch Game performance in the US series' herstory. Choosing to portray an inherently unfunny subject like Gwyneth Paltrow was a risk to begin with, as Michelle notes, and Bosco sadly fails to deliver, with a performance that's too dour and lacking the "joy behind the eyes" that Paltrow exhibits, as well as an over-reliance on schlocky sight-gags.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: In episode 12, she grabs the Villain Ball from Daya and is utterly unbending in her desire to win the role of "Saltine", the lead in the Moulin Ru Rusical, exhibiting a previously unseen stridence when Lady Camden also notes that she wants the role. In the end, with neither queen budging, it goes to an all-queens vote, and Bosco wins the role. However, in practice her performance underwhelms the judges, as she doesn't fully embrace the role, essentially just playing Bosco, and struggles to portray Saltine as an individual character — which lands her in the bottom.
- Burger Fool: Has a day job as a barista, and notes that her customer service skills have come in handy a couple of times in the competition.
- Burlesque:
- For the CNTs Talent Show maxi-challenge in the premiere, she performs an elegantly titillating striptease, beginning her act in a Garden Garment formed of large rose petals which she plucks off to reveal a Gaultier-esque corset. With Kornbread enthusiastically screaming "Take it off!" from the sidelines, she then removes her corset to reveal a crystallized merkin and matching pasties, presenting one of the briefest looks yet seen on the runway — more than living up to her drag maxim of "equal parts naked".
- Her performance of Diana Ross' club classic "Swept Away" for the final round of episode 11's Lip-Sync Smackdown is sultry, sexually-charged, and heavily leans into burlesque, which saves her bacon and snags her the final safe spot of the week when she's pitched against one of competition's most formidable dancers, Jasmine Kennedie.
- Call-Back: She references Trixie Mattel's reaction to Milk's melodrama about being safe back in All-Stars 3 when Jasmine has similarly overdramatic complaints.Bosco: To quote somebody very wise, "A lot of emotion for safe."
- Carried by the Host: Bosco acts as the moderator for her team's panel during the Menzes Drag-Con challenge, and whilst her team — consisting of Jorgeous, Jasmine and Daya — are judged to be ok-ish, or just inmemorable, she stands out as a funny, slick and highly competent hostess, and deservedly snatches the win.
- Catchphrase: Parodied in one episode: when the queens enter the Werk Room, they're all saying their own catchy lines. Bosco, one of the last to enter, cheerfully exclaims, "Catchphrase!".
- Consistent Clothing Style: For episode 12’s runway, she sports the same bra, belt, and panty combo she’s sported for the last four weeks and is chastised by an unimpressed Michelle for not daring to show something different.
- Deadpan Snarker: Her humour is drier than the Sahara, which serves her well in the Menzes Drag-Con challenge, with her introduction to the topic of men being hilariously unenthused:Bosco: When I think of men, so many questions come to mind. Questions like: "Why?" "For what?" and "Honestly...?"
- Devilish Hair Horns: Bosco frequently incorporates horn imagery into her looks as part of her "evil Satanic slut" persona, and incorporates horned wigs into her Signature Show-Stopping Drag runway and her look for the Save A Queen challenge.
- Evil Eyebrows: Her prominent spiked brows form part of her Signature Style and were inspired by some of her favorite Anime villains.
- Gorn: For the Tutu Much runway, she darkly twists up the Tutu Fancy concept in a look designed so as to appear as if she's been pierced by multiple buzz-saw blades, including one large blade slicing her in half at the waist in place of a classic tutu.
- Hot as Hell: Her Signature Style.
- She even features horns projecting from her breasts for her Signature Show-Stopping Drag in the premiere's runway.
- She presents a beautiful succubus-themed look for the Viva Drag Vegas grand finale runway, complete with two draconic wings and a wig that incorporates curved ram's horns.
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends: She is one of the season's most cutthroat queens alongside Daya Betty and embraces it. She even says that she's not looking for friends... though by the end of the season, she admits she found good friends in the other queens anyway.
- Insult Comic: Having landed in the bottom the week prior, been dubbed the queen that should go home next, and only remaining in the competition by a twist of chocolatey fate, Bosco goes into the Ross Mathews Roast challenge with a lot to prove. However, from the very get-go she absolutely nails it, opening the Roast with an easy confidence and a quickfire routine that leans into Self-Deprecation, and stays on the right side of shitty when rounding on the judges and Ross himself. She deservedly wins the week.
- Light Feminine Dark Feminine: The dark feminine to Lady Camden’s light feminine. Made explicit during the Moulin Ru Rusical challenge, where the two vie for the lead role of Saltine. Bosco embodies the sex, Lady embodies the romance. During Untucked, they admit to being each other's biggest competition, since they have similar looks and aesthetics, but distinctly recognizable styles.
- Lucky Seven: Bosco is set to be eliminated in seventh place in the competition…until she reveals to have the coveted gold bar.
- Naughty Nuns: Her Holy Couture runway presentation sees her taking to the stage in a full-body habit, then immediately ripping it off to reveal a salacious leather ensemble, complete with cloven hooves, describing her look in confessional as a "sexpot, succubus, blasphemous nun."
- Out-Gambitted: In the Lip-sync Smackdown, Willow chooses her as her opponent, hoping that Bosco will pick the song she would have liked to lip-sync to. Sure enough, Bosco does and is promptly defeated by Willow.
- Perky Goth: She's the only queen this season exhibiting any kind of gothic sensibility (though with her tongue firmly in her cheek), and is predominantly inspired by villainous characters.Bosco: I'm here to show the world that I'm not some skanky alternative girl from Seattle. I'm THE skanky alternative girl from Seattle.
- Pixellation: For the Heart On runway of episode 8, she presents a deliciously evil-looking Vampire's Harem look which, when she turns to exit the runway, is revealed to be backless, fully exposing her naked ass for the judges, though said ass is pixelated for the viewers at home.
- Rhymes on a Dime: In episode 5, the queens are challenged to create a Save a Queen PSA spoof featuring first-out queens from previous seasons (Bosco's designated queen is Season 13 first-out Kahmora Hall, who sportingly makes her return to the series as a queen whose time management skills are so shockingly bad that she desperately requires donations). Bosco nails the challenge, perfectly exhibiting the tongue-in-cheek gravitas required, despite the ludicrous context, and creates a message that not only rhymes well, as is required, but is also brilliantly funny — ultimately snatching her her first win of the competition.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: She revels in all things slutty, and is on a mission to bring slutty drag back to the competition, feeling that it's all become a bit too clean cut.Bosco: My drag is equal parts evil and naked.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Out of drag, she acknowledges (with wry Self-Deprecation) that she "looks like a piece of peeled string-cheese", however in drag, she's a gorgeous, vampish queen.
- We Named the Monkey "Jack": She took her drag name from her dead family dog.
Daya Betty (3rd=)*
Age: 25
From: Springfield, Missouri
"You Betty be ready!"
- Always Someone Better:
- Her downfall and (initial) early exit derives from the fact that she came across like a store brand version of her drag-sister, Crystal Methyd, with no particular characterization of her own, despite the fact that Ru warned her to show off her own personality during their first one-on-one chat.
- By episode 6, Daya still can't escape the constant comparison to Crystal and becomes increasingly tetchy and anxious when the judges and her fellow queens bring it up. Despite asserting that she's far more "edgy" and "grunge" than Crystal, she does so while wearing Crystal's signature lip, which doesn't exactly help her case.
- Bad Impressionists: She's amongst the seven queens to land in the bottom, following the worst collective Snatch Game performance in the US series' herstory. The judges find her impersonation of the legendary British Rockstar, Ozzy Osbourne, to be far too flat and literal, feeling more like an exact impression, as opposed to a comedic, dragged-up parody.
- Berserk Button: Being compared to Crystal Methyd is clearly this for her.
- Brutal Honesty: Daya is self-admittedly "unfiltered", and is the queen most likely to share her (often unsolicited) opinions and critiques, with Jasmine and Jorgeous being on the receiving end most frequently. In the Reunion, Daya's unrepentant, and the queens are seemingly divided in defending her bluntness (for which she's been dragged mercilessly online), or taking her to task over it, which culminates in an explosively emotional argument on stage with Jasmine.
- Competition Freak: The format of the show brings out her insecurities and she's easily the most openly competitive of the queens, exhibiting a very huffy attitude over any negative critiquing she receives — and it's a near Berserk Button if any of her competitors (especially Jasmine) receive positive feedback if she feels she performed better (a constant occurrence).
- Covert Pervert: Invoked in the Super Tease acting challenge. Her character gropes Angeria's breasts while holding her back during an Untucked fight.Tease!Angeria: Girl, get off of me!
- Defecting for Love: Daya's resentment for Jasmine morphs bizarrely into lust as she witnesses Jasmine's seductive lip-syncing skills in Episode 11 — her perfect bend and snap being of particular lustful fascination — which ultimately causes Daya to do a Heel–Face Turn and start rooting for her former nemesis.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Daya is pretty open about her "big fat lesbian crush" on Lady Camden and even how hot she finds Jasmine, despite her "pure hatred" (as Bosco jokingly describes it) for her.
- Double Knock Out: In a franchise first, Daya and DeJa are the first queens in Drag Race herstory to both eliminate each other in the same season. DeJa sent Daya packing in episode 2, only for Daya to return to the competition and then send DeJa home — eleven episodes later.
- Dresses the Same: Defied; during preparation for episode 6's Glamazon Prime sewing challenge, she overhears Willow planning a similar babydoll look to her own and calls Willow over to her station, sternly demanding that she abandon her concept — which she does.
- Eat That: In episode 3, Kornbread dares her to eat a huge dead dragonfly that's somehow found its way into the studio, noting that she promises to give her a thousand dollars if she goes through with it. Daya chomps it up with ease, hilariously quipping, "I eat ass you guys, I can eat a bug."
- Green-Eyed Monster: By episode 6, Daya becomes more and more anxious to bag a win, yet for the Glamazon Prime sewing challenge, she only places safe with her Consulting Mister Puppet babydoll look. She's visibly and verbally furious, and in the Werk Room, she lashes out at the other girls (especially challenge winner Jorgeous), accusing them of just hot-glueing a bunch of stuff together.
- Incendiary Exponent: For her I'm a Winner, Baby best drag, she sports a beautifully deconstructed Princess Classic gown, which not only features a smartly designed and novel front-bustle, but the entire ensemble (and her wig) is singed and covered in burnt patches, as if she just escaped from a fire at a cocktail party.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Although Daya is a gay man in real life (as to be expected of most Drag Race contestants), she frequently exhibits attraction to her fellow queens' drag personas and has confirmed that the character/drag persona of Daya Betty is "very attracted to women in general." She's also quite feminine, though of course in a Camp way.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Having crashed out in last place in episode 2 of the split premiere, she originally placed 14th= with Orion Story, who placed last in episode 1. However, in episode 3, Ru surprises the remaining girls by inviting both her and Orion Story back to the competition, citing the decision as being "the right thing to do", though stressing that there'll be no more second chances.
- One Degree of Separation: Her drag sister is Season 12 finalist Crystal Methyd, which is immediately apparent as she exhibits a number of Crystal's house codes, especially her Signature Style clownish lip.
- The Pig-Pen: She cheerfully acknowledges that she's a stinky, sweaty, slovenly girl who rarely washes her tights and abstains from doing so in order to invigorate all of her audiences' five senses.
- Punny Name: Her drag name is a play on "diabetic", and is a wry nod to her struggles as a Type 1 diabetic.
- The Resenter: She exhibits a jealous, defensive side that boils over midway through the competition, and she becomes increasingly tetchy and confrontational, bristling any time a fellow queen receives praise.
- She takes particular exception to Jasmine, rolling her eyes and snarking at literally anything she says or does, and is positively constipated with indignation if she ever receives positive feedback from her fellow queens or the judges.
- So Okay, It's Average: In-universe. Whilst her circus-themed lip-sync for the CNTs Talent Show was fine, she was up against competitors who either focussed on more interesting skills (guitar playing, original comedy) or who also chose lip-syncing, but performed to a much higher standard.
- Statuesque Stunner: At an Amazonian height of 6’5” even before the heels, she's this season's tallest competitor and amongst the tallest queens across the franchise as a whole.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: When Ru asks how she and Jasmine are getting along when they're forced to work together on the Menzes Drag-Con challenge, Daya doesn't sugar-coat her response, noting that Jasmine is like a little sister — one whose head she'd like to smash into a concrete floor, that is.
- Took a Level in Badass: The Daytona Wind soap opera acting challenge of episode 7 finally gives Daya a chance to step out from Crystal Methyd's shadow, and as well as delivering a hilarious Valley Girl performance in the challenge itself, she follows it up with an elevated "business-chaps" look that Michelle absolutely loves for the Chaps on the Runway segment which follows. She and Lady Camden perform a winners' lip-sync which, although she doesn't win, helps her shake off her self-doubt. On the next episode, she finally manages to snatch a win in the 60s Girl Groups challenge.
- Viva Las Vegas!: Like Angeria, she also goes with a classic showgirl look for her Viva Drag Vegas grand finale outfit, via a top hat and tails number in soft pink sequins that also doubles up as a smart Call-Back to her CNTs Talent Show look weeks prior.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: For her Signature Show-Stopping Drag look in part two of the premiere, she sports a punkish, figure-hugging dress made up of woven ribbons, which unfortunately splits up the back and is instantly noted by the judges.
- Weight Woe: Although she is nowhere near fat or chubby, she is very tall and thus not petite and has a bit of a broad body type. At one point, she laments that she can't get away with outfits in the way that super-skinny queens can, with minimal effort. (She doesn't specify who she's talking about, but perhaps it's not a coincidence that she's frequently so heated towards Jorgeous and Jasmine, who fit this rail-thin, petite description.)
- Whole Costume Reference: Her Mirror, Mirror look is a tribute to KISS, complete with the band's signature white face paint.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: When Lady Camden and Bosco clash over the starring role in the Rusical and ask for the other queens to vote who gets it, Daya maneuvers to tie the scores to make it all come down to Willow's vote. Notably, Willow didn't want to have to make a choice and now she had to make the final decision, and also Willow Pill is widely regarded as The Chessmaster of the season, but in this instance Daya outgambitted her in a split second.
- Zero to Hero: Daya has a less than auspicious start to the competition, being the first queen out in her group (before being invited back in), exhibiting something of a chip on her shoulder — especially over any comparison to her drag-sister Crystal Methyd — dogging on Jasmine, and just generally being a bit of an overly-competitive cow. However, in the final stages of the competition, she massively steps up her game, drops the bitter-Betty persona and her insecurities, and deservedly snatches a place in the grand finale.
Lady Camden (runner-up)
Age: 31
From: Sacramento, California
"Hello, you sexy bitches!"
- A Hero To Her Hometown: Although Camden resides in Sacramentonote , she claims San Francisco as the birthplace of her drag. Considering the abysmal performance of past queens from the city, the fact that she became runner-up is worth celebrating. Camden even posted a San Francisco version of "Drag Excellence"
to celebrate her community and show viewers what the city has to offer. - Aroused by Their Voice: When Angeria and Lady Camden meet for the first time:Angeria: I'm from Sparta, Georgia, but I live in Atlanta.
Lady Camden: Oh, that accent, it's just really getting my nipples hard.
Angeria: [clearly feeling the same way about Lady Camden's own accent] We can, like, find us a room, and just talk to each other all day. - Bad Impressionists: She's amongst the seven queens to land in the bottom, following the worst collective Snatch Game performance in the US series' herstory. Being British, she goes with a dragged-up take on the beloved British cultural icon, William Shakespeare. Her performance, while not great, is dubbed to be amongst the best of a bad bunch, with Ru noting that it was fun, just not funny.
- Ballet: She's a classically trained ballet dancer and worked at a professional level prior to her drag career — a skill which comes in handy for the CNTs Talent Show, where she performs her own high energy take on traditional ballet, making it more fun and campy, pirouetting around the main-stage in six inch heels.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: She instantly bonds with Angeria over a shared appreciation for each other's accents, and the pair enjoy a relationship built on good-natured banter, with Lady C cracking herself up by constantly imitating Angie's southern drawl, and Angie threatening to whoop her ass back to Camden.
- In the Reunion, Angeria admits that over the course of the season, there might have been a mutual crush brewing, though the pair are still "working on" whether that blossoms into a fully-formed romance.
- Brits Love Tea: For the Spring has Sprung runway, she leans into her heritage, presenting a beautiful flared dress that forms a picnic tea table around her waist, complete with a teapot-shaped fascinator.
- Call-Back: She re-creates her famous pratfall from the Chaps On The runway in the grand finale lip-sync in order to do a wig reveal, only to turn around and find Willow doing a reveal of her own.
- Camp: Lady Camden mixes traditionally British, high-camp theatricality with American high-energy performance.
- Camp Gay: As Bosco wryly points out, it was probably no surprise when the younger Lady Camden came out to her father — as he dropped her off at ballet boarding school.
- Commonality Connection: Hailing from Sacramento, she and Fresno’s DeJa Skye bond over both being NorCal girls, a region they note is sorely underrepresented in the series.
- Death or Glory Attack: Her pratfall for the Chaps runway. Runway gimmicks and reveals are notoriously difficult to pull off successfully, and anything other than perfection almost certainly dooms the racer. Lady Camden manages perfection all right.
- DreamWorks Face: A cheeky, eyebrow-raised smirk is her go-to facial expression, particularly when posing or doing a runway. Her image on this page is just one of countless examples. This works especially well to her advantage when she plays the dastardly Mama Z in the Moulin Ru Rusical.
- Fake American: The basis of her character in the Super Tease acting challenge. She's known as the season's UK queen, so of course she plays an exaggerated, country-fried American caricature, though to compound the hilarity, she serves a couple of Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping gags and an Aside Glance to indicate she’s playing a Brit who (unlike her) has infiltrated the competition in secret.
- Gayborhood: Twofold; her hometown of Camden is second only to Brighton (or Bristol) nationally as the UK hub of alternative and queer culture, and as her father was a nightclub manager, she notes that she enjoyed a very fun, gay upbringing. As she now frequently performs in San Francisco, she's enjoying the USA's very own equivalent.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: One of her three Grand Finale ensembles is a dainty, purple ballerina's dress.
- Homage: Her grand finale Showgirl Showdown performance is a celebration of her love of the iconic British rock-group Queen — whose smash hit "I Want to Break Free" inspired her to first embark on her drag career — complete with a massive Union Flag emblazoned across the main-stage's video screens.
- I Am Very British: She notes that most Americans assume that she's posh and educated due to her (moderate) RP accent, though as she also cheerfully notes, she's actually a bit of a "dumb bitch".
- Light Feminine Dark Feminine: The light feminine to Bosco’s dark feminine. Made explicit during the Moulin Ru Rusical challenge, where the two vie for the lead role of Saltine. Bosco embodies the sex, Lady embodies the romance. During Untucked, they admit to being each other's biggest competition, since they have similar looks and aesthetics, but distinctly recognizable styles.
- Location Theme Naming: She's the fourth UK import in the US seriesnote and while she's now based in Sacramento, she originally hails from London, taking her drag name from her home district of Camden Town, an area in the north east of the city commonly associated with alternative culture.
- Love Is Like Religion: Played with; while her fellow queens largely pull from Christian imagery for the "Holy Couture" runway, Camden instead serves a Spice Girls-inspired look, explaining that her admiration for the iconic girl group is akin to religious worship.
- Named After Somebody Famous: "Lady Camden" is a real title in the English peerage, and is used by the wife of the Marquess of Camden.
- Peacock Girl: For her Signature Show-Stopping Drag runway in part two of the premiere, she sports a Cyber Goth-style peacock-themed look in pearlescent pink, complete with a fantail reveal, that the judges note perfectly encapsulates her drag style.
- The Pratfall: As she strides down the mainstage for the Chaps on the runway, dressed as a Joan Jett-esque rock chick, she suddenly stumbles violently, seemingly face-planting the runway. The judges all gasp, as it looks as though she may have seriously hurt herself — however, it's all just a gag, and she springs back up, to reveal a slick Freddie Mercopy look complete with short dark hair and thick mustache. The judges love it, and having landed in the top 2, she goes on to slay the lip-sync against Daya and snatch her first win.
- Princess Classic: For her I'm a Winner, Baby best drag, she sports a beautiful ice princess look in silver-blue, inspired by her childhood love of Walt Disney princesses.
- Quirky Curls: She sports a mop of thick, auburn curls out of drag.
- The Runner-Up Takes It All: In episode 12's Moulin Ru musical challenge, Camden and Bosco get heated over who gets the lead role, going back and forth over it for a while, and Camden finally loses out on it when it's put to a group vote. Camden is crushed, but after a talk with Angeria, she goes into the emcee role she does get with a renewed outlook, and lends her performance some of her natural dancing abilities and showmanship. The judges love it, and she's rewarded with her second win, while Bosco falters in the lead role and winds up in the bottom.
- Self-Deprecation: In the Reunion show, when Ru asks her what her “worst moment on the show” was, with her tongue firmly in her cheek, she replies that it was when she discovered she looked like a yassified Herbert, the creepy neighbourhood pervert from Family Guy, in her 60s Girl Groups look.
- Sexy Whatever Outfit: For the "Viva Drag Vegas" finale runway, she dresses as an anthropomorphised version of the carriage from Cinderella, complete with a large headress and tail, and a horse mask to reveal a bit mouthpiece.
- So Proud of You: She and Angeria make special mention of how brave and pioneering they think Maddy is, being the first straight male queen in the franchise, especially since Maddy grew up in the South, where most other straight cisgender people are not so open-minded towards the LGBTQ community.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Her adorable mum had flown over from England to support her at the grand finale, and after a quick chat with Ru, the mother-daughter resemblance was immediately apparent — to the point that fans joked that Camden and her mum are in fact the same person.
- Tutu Fancy: Being a former professional ballerina, she presents the concept of the Tutu Much runway to beautifully literal effect in a stunning off-pink, Gem-Encrusted tutu complemented with glamour-hair to drag things up a notch.
- When Life Gives You Lemons...: After an uncomfortably tense casting session for the Moulin Ru Rusical, she's left crushed to have lost the lead role of Saltine to Bosco, and takes herself off to brood quietly. However, following a pep talk with Angeria, she sets her jaw and plays the part of "Mama Z" (a Dastardly Whiplash-style Repulsive Ringmaster) to absolute perfection, nailing the beard-stroking, Evil Eyebrows-twitching haminess the part demands from the get-go and deservedly wins the week.
Willow Pill (winner)
Age: 26
From: Denver, Colorado
"...Where am I?"
- Animal Motifs: Rats and Mice. In addition to her "rat princess" I'm a Winner, Baby! best drag look, Willow compares herself to a little sewer rat having to scavenge for the other queens’ scraps due to her debilitating condition. True to the trope, Willow was overlooked as a competitor until she proved herself cunning, resourceful, and a major threat in the competition.
- Bad Impressionists: She's amongst the seven queens to land in the bottom, following the worst collective Snatch Game performance in the US series' herstory. She takes a risk going with actress Drew Barrymore, a subject not exactly ripe for comedic impersonation without resorting to chronic exaggeration — which she fails to do, and the judges find her performance to be flat and lacking confidence. Sadly for Willow, Snatch Game ends her successful streak in the competition, as she'd never previously placed below safe.
- Batman Gambit: For the Lalapa Ruza, Willow selects Bosco as her opponent, guessing that she’ll pick Luther Vandross’s “Never Too Much”, the only song on the list that she wants. The gambit pays off: Bosco chooses “Never Too Much, and Willow cruises to victory in the lip-sync.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: As she points out, she's very secretive about her own talents, strengths, and ambition — unlike the other girls, who mostly like to brag about theirs. Across the franchise, there aren't many winners as inconspicuous and seemingly low-key as Willow.
- Black Comedy: Willow's trademark. She has something of a demented sense of humor, amplified by how she's so cute and small in stature. For her winning speech at the grand finale, she thanks her friends, her family — and "Kornbread's ankle."
- Celebrity Resemblance: It's been playfully remarked that she looks a lot like Canadian actress Caroline Rhea (AKA Aunt Hilda) both in and out of drag.
- Costume Exaggeration: For the lip-sync for the crown against Lady Camden, she sports one of the most creative looks ever to grace the main-stage; a massively oversized zoot suit in pink and black stripes that initially allows her only the briefest of movement when she puppeteers its huge, dangling arms. However, she soon discards the suit jacket — revealing comically huge trousers that completely engulf her — before finally whipping it all off to reveal a much more practical leotard that allows her to match Camden’s energy and ultimately snatch the crown.
- Creepily Long Arms: For episode 6's Glamazon Prime sewing challenge, Willow goes with a “little girl’s stuffed toy nightmare” theme and sports a teddy-bear look with huge, overly long arms made out of a fluffy brown blanket, complete with unsettling fabric talons.
- Competition Freak: In a confessional, Willow notes that she and Daya Betty aren't so different in terms of their shared competitive spirit — but Willow is significantly more quiet about it.
- Dedication: A few days before the finale, Willow posted a heart-wrenching dedication on her social channels for her sister, Elizabeth, who died following years of severe complications from cystinosis (Willow's own condition) and kidney failure a few months after filming wrapped.
- Delicate and Sickly: She suffers from cystinosis, a kidney disease that causes problems with her eyes, throat, and muscles and requires frequent blood draws and multiple types of medication. She therefore picked the drag surname "Pill" to turn her condition into something more positive.
- Fast-Forward Gag: For the Moulin Ru Rusical, she plays Saltine's absinthe-induced, Julie Andrews-voiced Fairy Godmother, who helps Saltine to be herself via an increasingly manic and sped-up medley of Ru's classic hits.
- Generation Xerox: She's the drag sister of Yvie Oddly, and just like Yvie, she’s chronically ill, won one main challenge, bombed Snatch Game, and ultimately won her season after beating a foreign-born Dance Battler queen in the final lip-sync.
- Genre Refugee: Wittily invoked for the Super Tease maxi-challenge (a derangedly over-the-top Self-Parody of the show's own infamously dramatic season teasers), in which she portrays an Obnoxious Entitled Housewife (complete with prerequisite bobbed hairdo) who's accidentally found herself on the Drag Race set, mistakenly thinking she was on The Bitchelor.Willow: I was promised a chance at love and a daily meal voucher — WHERE'S JEFFREY?!
- Hates Everyone Equally: The basis of her original song, "I Hate People." It's about... well, you guessed it, hating people. She loves lots of things, but hates people — "big or small, short or tall," as long as they're people, she hates them!
- Heroic Spirit: Despite suffering from debilitating chills and finger-cramping brought on by her illness, Willow pulls out all the stops for the Pair of Balls maxi-challenge in episode 3, serving two beautiful pre-prepared looks and a final self-sewn gown that snatch her her first and only win of the competition, and considerable praise from the judging panel. She carries that spirit all the way to the end.
- History Repeats: A Denver queen with a disability gets to the finale with only one win, despite bombing the Snatch Game, then defeats a non-American Dance Battler with three wins to snatch the crown. That's an odd coincidence.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: Midway through the competition, her fellow queens observe that Willow plays her cards very close to her chest, being careful not to reveal too much of her skill-set unless required — as seen during rehearsals for the 60s Girl Groups challenge, where literally all of the observing queens are shocked by how good a mover she reveals herself to be.
- "I Hate" Song: Performs the song “I Hate People” at the finale.
- I'm Cold... So Cold...: A serious example, as Willow's chronic health condition (cystinosis) leads to her developing chills and cramped fingers while she's trying to sew her garment for the Pair of Balls maxi-challenge in episode 3. Luckily, Kornbread is on hand with encouragement and a cup of hot water to warm her hands up and ultimately she goes on to win the challenge.
- In-Universe Factoid Failure: During Snatch Game as Drew Barrymore, she tells Ru she's pleased to finally meet him. Ru amusedly reminds her that they worked together for an entire summer. They were co-hosts on The World's Best in 2019, so it wasn't even some obscure 90's reference.
- Multi-Armed Multitasking: For the Chaps runway in episode 7, she sports a black latex look that incorporates two additional arms projecting straight up from her shoulders, which are not only holding up her long pigtails, but at the same time wrenching up her thong, giving her a chronic atomic Wedgie.
- Mushroom Man: For the Holy Couture runway, Willow strays away from the expected Christian imagery, instead walking the runway as an anthropomorphic mushroom, due to her religious-like experience with shrooms.
- Nice Mice: For her I'm a Winner, Baby best drag, she sports an adorable "mouse princess" ensemble in beautiful grayscale, with just the merest pops of accent color in her eye-makeup and mauve velvet gloves.
- Nightmare Fetishist: She describes her drag as sitting somewhere between "nightmare" and "slutty”, and admits to being inspired by the “darkness” that occasionally overwhelms her.
- Older Than They Look: She's 26 at the time of filming, but when de-dragging for the first time, her fellow queens note that she looks much younger, with Kerri joking that she's about to call CPS.
- One Degree of Separation: Willow is the drag-sister of fellow Coloradoan and Season 11 winner, Yvie Oddly, and the pair frequently appear together on social media.
- Our Hydras Are Different: For her grand finale Showgirl Showdown song and dance number — amusingly titled "I Hate People" — Willow reveals an incredible drag-hydra look, with two mannequin heads either side of her own projecting snakily from her shoulders, and a final reveal of a fourth head covering her crotch (whom she christens Michelle, naturally). Doubles up as a sweet Shout-Out to her drag-sister and fellow winner Yvie oddly's grand finale look from Season 11, which also featured multiple heads, but via a mirrored headpiece.
- Out-Gambitted: By Daya Betty. After a season of holding her cards close to the chest, and being as neutral as possible, Daya manipulates the cast vote for the Rusical so that Willow is forced to cast the deciding vote to decide who’ll land the lead role between Bosco and Camden.
- Phrase Catcher: Due to her petite stature and youthful looks, Ru instantly starts saying her name as "Wiwwow Piw" in a Childlike Voice.
- Plastic Bitch: She presents an unsettling, Amanda Lepore / Pete Burns-inspired look for the Tutu Much runway, with grossly inflated lips, stretched dead eyes, and overly-filled cheeks. Her runway is dubbed the best of the evening by Ru and the judging panel.
- The Protagonist: While it is difficult to pinpoint a "main character" in a reality television show, much of the season focuses on Willow, her struggles, and her relationships.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: Invoked for her entrance look — a cutesy, early 2000s, Paris Hilton-inspired ensemble, complete with a t-shirt amusingly emblazoned with the word “Angle”, as opposed to “Angel”.
- Sad Clown: Willow has gone through some serious shit in her life, especially due to the chronic health condition she suffers from (cystinosis), which has caused her kidney failure, dependence on dialysis, and the need for a transplant operation. She admits feeling "swallowed" by the darkness, but uses her Black Comedy to get through it — something Ru notes she is fully onboard with, and proud of her for.
- Shout-Out Theme Naming: The name 'Willow' was chosen in tribute to Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as she always fancied being a "lesbian witch".
- Surreal Humor: Willow's CNTs Talent Show performance in the premiere is delightfully twisted, incorporating a foamy bathtub that she proceeds to fill with wine, spaghetti, meatballs, and a plugged-in toaster, before getting in - all set to "Only Time" by Enya. Ru loves it, since he himself has roots in that similar kind of twisted humor. Guest judge Lizzo's reaction speaks for itself.Lizzo: What the fuck am I looking at?
- Underestimating Badassery:
- When she arrives in the Werk Room, both Kornbread and Alyssa clock her look, and make it clear that they don't "get" her quirky drag style — which in the context of the series feels trite given the perennial nature and success of quirky queens across the franchise — though in the end, Willow ends up with some of the best judges' feedback received in a premiere.
- What Kornbread and Alyssa couldn't have known then is that Willow's goofy sense of humor would eventually win her the crown.
- Viva Las Vegas!: For her grand finale Viva Drag Vegas look, she darkly subverts the typical showgirl fodder via a twisted, asymmetric ensemble in which her left arm has been replaced with a huge cleaver-like blade.
- Whole Costume Reference: For her winning Photo-bomb mini-challenge in episode 9, she pulls on a Stars and Stripes-patterned leotard to evoke a washed-up Mary-Lou Retton — darling of the '84 Olympic Games — doing a handstand on Jake Gyllenhaal's dog. (It makes sense in context).
