Is Antoni’s season 2 bandana-palooza trying to tell us he’s a top, bottom, into bondage, water sports, reheating leftovers??? I’m so confused. #QueerEye
Regardless, I love him & this show.
If you’re watching Pose on FX, then you know it’s time for the House of Celebrity Dopplegangers Ball.
Blanca, your category is: Fame, Oh What A Feeling Irene Cara Up in Pumps With A Twist.
Elektra, your category is: Do You Know Where You’re Going To As A Legendary Icon Serving 70s Supermodel Diana Ross Vogue. #Mahogany
Angel, your category is: Say Hello To My Little Italian-American Actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Stuntin’ As The Cuban Sis Of ‘ScarFACE’ Realness.
Pray Tell, your category is: Femme Queen First Time In A 90s Sitcom ‘Living Single’ At The Ball.
10s across the board, children. #WalkForMe
The season 10 premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race proved these chilrin are snatched for their lives!
Three things I loved about the premiere: 1. Seeing the all the queens from previous seasons. This is how you launch the first episode of the season. 2. Christina Aguilera giving us drag queen realness. It makes sense since for some of these kids, the Moulin Rouge video was their first introduction to drag. 3. Vanessa Vanje Mateo’s commentary. Someone give her a YouTube recap series stat.
Three things I didn’t like about the premiere: 1. Vanje went home. 2. Vanje went home. 3. Vanje went home. I don’t like these cookies!
Here are this week’s drag superstar twinsies!
Aquaria is a Real Housewife of NY!
She’s lip syncing to this Medley… Dorinda Medley.
Mayhem Miller, how do you like this COOKIE?!
This queen is ready for her Empire.
Miz Cracker, you’re perfect, you’re beautiful, you look like Linda Evangelista.
Sorry Valentina!
Monet X Change is a Master of None.
But she may snatch trophies like Lena Waithe.
Kameron Michaels‘ muscles will VanderPUMP you up!
Yes, SUR.
Vanessa Vanje Mateo — Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty!
Kalorie Karbdashian Williams … with a Z!
The Vixen is looking for a new love! (Jody Watley)
Monique Heart is having a Ball. (Lucille Ball)
Dusty Ray Bottoms — Hey Kitty Girl!
Now & Forever! #Cats
Yuhua Hamasaki wins the Minnie challenge!
Blair St. Clair has shown her evil side. (Ursa)
It’s going to take a superman to beat her!
Eureka O’Hara – This Runway look is a winner.
Let’s hope her sewing skills are half as good as Ashley Nell Tipton’s.
Asia O’Hara has drawn True Blood. (Lafayette)
Side note: I couldn’t find a template with 14 pics so had to pick one queen to leave out of the composite. No shade Asia. It was just the luck of the draw.
ICYMI: Here’s the one drag celebrity side-by-sides I did for All-Stars 3:
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This week’s RuPaul’s Drag Race celeb side-by-sides! #DragRace
Nina Bo’Nina Brown – Lil’ Kim
Sasha Velour – Sylvia Miles (Wall St, Sex & the City, Midnight Cowboy)
(Salt-n-)Peppermint – Sandy “Pepa” Denton
Trinity Taylor – Priscilla Presley
Alexis Michelle – Marge Simpson
Shea Culee – British DJ/promoter Jodie Harsh
Sorry kids, Valentina is gone. Now get over it!
Three things I loved: 1. The club kid herstory & runway. Long live ’90s NYC nightlife! 2. Michelle Visage‘s cape lewk while judging the pilot challenge. 10s across the board, henny! 3. Sasha reading Trinity for finally making a joke. Keep shade alive, children!
Three things I hated: 1. Nina Bo’Nina‘s paranoia. Conspiracy theory killed the drag superstar! 2. Valentina’s laziness. A kween can’t live by face alone! 3. The fan outrage over the Ariana Grande lip sync song choice. Classic or new, hit or obscure, they all get the song ahead of time & can memorize. End. Of. Story. Sashay away!
And here are this week’s Snatch Game wannabe celeb dopplegangers.
1. Valentina is a Twisted Sister.
She’s not gonna take it anymore … because she’s gone!
2. Nina Bo’Nina has a Tiny chance of winning.
But it looks like her hopes have really dyed.
3. Sasha Velour is serving Earth’s first supermodel Janice Dickinson realness.
An eye for an eye!
4. Valentina is a Real Housewife of Orange County.
Goodbye Our Lady of Guadalupe, hello ‘Jesus Jugs’ Alexis Bellino.
5. Nina Bo’Nina Brown is a Real Housewife of New Jersey.
That’s Nina Bo’Nina Brown Gorga Giudice to you!
6. Shea Culee is an American Idol & a Dreamgirl.
And you’re gonna love her!
7. Peppermint goes to the Max!
She’s the HBIC is this House!
8. Trinity Taylor serves a Young Pope.
Sisters are doing it for … Diane Keaton.
9. Alexis Michelle isn’t beating around the (Barbara) Bush.
This lady is getting old fast!
EPISODE 8 Recap & Celeb Side-By-Sides
EPISODE 5 Recap & Celeb Side-By-Sides
EPISODE 4 Recap & Celeb Side-by-Sides
EPISODE 3 Recap & Celeb Side-By-Sides
EPISODE 2 Recap & Celeb Side-By-Sides
EPISODE 1 Recap & Celeb Side-by-Sides
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Second only to the Snatch Game, the annual reading challenge is usually the funniest segment of each season. Usually.
But with no one matching the wit and timimg of Bob the Drag Queen, Alaska or Bianca Del Rio, the season 9 kweens were less comedy and more tragedy.
While Valentina was awarded the reading challenge and Peppermint took the roast of Michelle Visage, in my book, Sasha Velour had the best overall lines. “Valentina is a queen that combines all the excitement of smiling with the thrill of just standing there.” TRUTH!
Three things I loved this week: 1. Nina Bo’Nina‘s elderly drag. “And what’s your name baby?” (to guest judge Fortune Feimster). DEAD! 2. Tamar Braxton looking gorge and serving shade.com. Shantay you stay, gur! 3. Michelle telling the kweens they should have gone balls to the walls in roasting her, because it’s a, um, ROAST! She’s “so Jersey” and you bettah not fugheddabout it!
Three things I hated this week: 1. Farrah Moan‘s alabaster face beat. Apparently, she can only throw shade …on her cheeks! 2. Alexis Michelle getting pissy about weight jokes, yet mock’s Shea’s teeth. Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle FAT?! 3. Just as I’m starting to like Trinity Taylor she crashes and burns with her unfunny hillbilly routine. Shame on me, y’all!
So after two weeks off, here is this week’s Snatch Game wannabe celeb dopplegangers.
1. Shea Culee did it on ’em! #NickiMinaj
Pound the alarm, Shea is about to snatch the whole damn thing!
2. Alexis Michelle has been acting like a Gremlin lately!
Do not body shame …or feed her after midnight!!!
3. Peppermint is every woman! #ChakaKhan
I feel for you, Peppermint! I think I love you.
4. Valentina is a SHORE thing! #Snooki
She knows there’s a fine line between chola and guidette. Gym. Tan. Lip sync.
5. Nina Bo’ Nina Brown is part of your Mama’s Family!
Some say her shtick is getting old, but I think it’s still funny.
6. Trinity Taylor has gone MAD … magazine!
What, she worry? #AlfredENeuman
7. Sasha Velour is so Cruel-lla.
She was very, very Close this week.
8. Farrah Moan — Lord have mercy for serving late televangelist Jan Crouch realness.
Sashay away – & rest in peace – knowing your face was beat for the gawds.
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EPISODE 5 CELEBRITY SIDE-BY-SIDES
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EPISODE 3 CELEBRITY SIDE-BY-SIDES
EPISODE 2 CELEBRITY SIDE-BY-SIDES
EPISODE 1 CELEBRITY SIDE-BY-SIDES
Before we go any further, let us remember that the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is not your average red carpet event.
In my opinion, a Met Gala dress is a dress that is only appropriate for the Met Gala. You shouldn’t be able to wear it to any other black tie charity event, the Fastest & the Furiousest premiere or the Oscars! It is to be worn to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the first Monday in May … and that’s it.
Avant-garde is highly encouraged. Leave that little black dress at home. If you’re safe or just giving plain old Hollywood glamour, Anna Wintour should make you Uber home and change.
This is the Hunger Games of fashion and we’re in the Capitol, baby. Effie Trinket is your stylist & your muse. Go ahead and be the Girl on Fire. If not, you’ll suffer a fate worse than death, being called boring.
With that being said, here our some MAYJAH lewks that I’m totally going to make light of …whether I liked them or not! 😜
1.Katy Perry went Gaga, but for once she actually got it right. First I can’t get her new song “Bon Appetit” out of my head and now I approve of Katheryn Hudson’s Real Housewives of Kabul couture. This is my new reality in Trump America, people!
2. Category is: Pharrell‘s wife first time in red Teletubby drags at the ball.
3. Kylie Jenner arrives with her drag mother ‘Queen Ravenna’ Versace.
4. Lena Dunham wearing my sophomore year dorm comforter. Looks toasty though!
5. Solange knows air mattress is the new black.
6. Not even a Pepsi can save Kendall Jenner from this AVN Awards chic. She’s XXXtra.
7. If the theme was 1969 Oscars, then Jennifer Lopez nailed it! But seriously loved that she covered up knowing most would be airing out their vadges up and down Fifth Ave. #WhenTheyGoLowYouGoWrapped
8. Spoiler Alert! King Joffrey’s long lost twin sisters have surfaced. The Olsen Twins are representing Full House Baratheon. #GoT
9. GOOP Style Tip: If you can’t find anything to wear to the Met Gala, just repurpose one of your old ’90s Oscar gowns! #GwynethPaltrow
10. Alert Ryan Murphy! There will not be a Feud: Courtney vs. Frances Bean.
11. Come through Celine Dion with this Lady Liberty meets ’80s Cher moment!
12. Call Homeland security, someone TP’d Claire Danes!
13. No one cares, boo. #KimWhatsHerName
14. When your dramatic fashion moment gets derailed by a beige “red carpet” … #TrenchCoatMafia #PriyankaChopra
15. Bella Hadid, 20, is serving pussy-catsuit. Parental guidance is suggested, so luckily her mom, RHOBH‘s Yolanda Hadid, was there too.
16. Speaking of Effie Trinket, Elizabeth Banks is gorgeous … Gigi Gorgeous!
17. Madonna is dressed for battle because of all the attacks she is sure to get in the press. #TheresOnlyOneQueenBitchesAndSheCanWearWhateverSheWants
18. You guys, haven’t the Kennedy‘s suffered enough! Sweet Caroline, good times never seemed so good…
19. Rihanna won the Met Gala … and a VIP membership to Jo-Ann Fabrics!
20. And finally … SCREAMING INTO TRAFFIC is back next week after a three month sabbatical of silence, meditation and home drinking. 
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We’ve got a new lewk & new surprises, but still the same old reads & shade. Season 3 is serving all the latest loud & proud pop culture noize that your weave can handle!
New episode coming next week…but until then binge & purge the first two seasons on iTunes! Come thru podcast kweens and listen, like & share!
Let me just say it up front, I need Kardashian: The Musical to be a real, legit thing. For The Record or Rockwell in LA get on it, stat!
Whether you hate the Kardashians or really hate them, I love a good origin story. And since I was at TMZ when Kim Kardashian arrived on the scene, I have a vivid memory of the first time she was covered in the press. Even before being outed as a Friend of Paris, she was the “mystery woman” on a date with newly single Nick Lachey. ‘Memba that?!
Three things I loved this week: 1. Alexis Michelle as Kris Jenner, duh! Knailed it. 2. Sasha, Trinity and Peppermint as the trilogy of terror that was Lindsay, Paris & Britney. The patron saints of Hyde Lounge and of the long lost era of young celebrities gone wild. RIP! 3. That Valentina‘s “quick drag” mini-challenge equals beat for the gawds flawless face. #EditingSayWhat
Three things I hated this week: 1. Meghan Trainor in a onesie. No! 2. Meghan Trainor saying “Hey, gur” to this week’s winner Shea Culee. No! 3. Hearing Meghan Trainor’s song “Woman Up” during the lip sync and actually liking it. Sashay away, Johnny!
Another thing I really hated, Eureka getting sent home because of her meniscus or whatever. Farrah Moan & Cynthia Lee Fontaine were saved from what should have been a double elim. Shante you stay, but by the skin of your cucus, henny.
Now here are this week’s #SnatchGame wannabe celeb dopplegangers.
1. Nina Bo’ Nina is serving Fish … Mooney.
Screw the ATL kweens, in Gotham she’s Nina Bo ‘Nina Brown Pinkett Smith!
2. Alexis Michelle – Oh ‘Nonna she didn’t?!
This Broadway kween is a little bit country.
3. Cynthia Lee Fontaine is getting Desperate.
She should know by now, never take off your clothes and/or wig during the lip sync.
4. Sasha Velour — She’s got Bette Davis eyes!
There may be a Feud if she doesn’t win.
5. Valentina is starting her own Dynasty.
Category is: Emma Samms not Pamela Sue Martin as Fallon Carrington Colby realness.
6. Put your phones down, because Shea Culee is owning the runway.
Naomi Campbell walk!
7. Aja has a lot of Blond Ambition.
But like Madonna at the ’91 Oscars, she ain’t gonna snatch any trophies.
8. Trinity Taylor – Oh Child!
I Don’t Wanna Fall in Love with Trinity, but I do love an obscure Jane Child reference.
9. Peppermint is tickled pink.
Put that super bass in your walk.
10. Farrah Moan is drowning.
Under the sea she goes.
11. Eureka is a funny Dame.
The bright side is she’s already a legendary comedy kween!
Now get all the tea in this week’s UNTUCKED below:
The biggest challenge on RuPaul’s Drag Race this year is finding two kweens who can adequately lip sych. Did they not DVR the last eight 7 seasons (thou shalt not include that Violet Chachki debacle)?!
With this week’s daytime TV challenge – and work room dramz – eating up time, we got a blink and you’ll miss it naughty nighty runway. Wait, was that Aja? Alexis Michelle, where you at?! Valentina, I think I see you.
Three things I loved this week: 1. Nina Bo’ Nina Brown Osama Bin Laden Rodham Clinton Newton John & Eureka‘s ramen weave and ham implants lewks for less segment. “Beef flavor? It’s chicken, bitch!” DEAD! 2. Charlie Hides‘ emotional account of surviving the AIDS crisis. Chilrins, we must never forget! 3. The kween/PA/whoever yelling: “Come on Charlie! Do something, Charlie!” during Charlie’s rigor mortis lip sync of Britney‘s “I Wanna Go.” OBSESSED! I’ve watched it like 10 times. Sashay away, Chuckie baby!
Three things I hated this week: 1. The stunted runway. I need to see the LEWKS! 2. Nina Bo’Nina weirdly edited crying fit on the runway. Huh? What did I miss? Get it together mama. You are the fiercest beyatch in this house! 3. Trinity Taylor‘s fabulous high energy Tawny Kitaen/ Whitesnake (Google her, kids) performance. I hated it because it forced me to like TT! Damn you, RPDR! Shante you stay, Trin … for now.
Now to the #SnatchGame wannabe matter at hand: the week 4 side-by-sides. Enjoy!
1. Nina Bo’Nina Brown doesn’t need no hateration, holleration in this dancery!
What’s the 4-1-1, Miss Nina?!
2. Trinity Taylor — I’m a lawyer!
She better plead the fifth for this Gloria Allred realness.
3. Things are looking Rosie for Aja.
Category is: Boricuas from Brooklyn first time in drags at the ball.
4. Turns out, Charlie Hides is very catty.
Drag Race or not, Charlie gets a lot of work. Jocelyne Wildenstein is my spirit animal.
5. Valentina is living … Lohan.
Don’t get banged up, V. Call an uber!
6. Eureka – You’re terrible, Muriel!
She’s always the bridesmaid …
7. Cynthia Lee Fontaine is a real mutha.
But can we make Keepin’ Up with the KuKu a real thing?!
8. Sasha Velour goes Deeper & Deeper.
She and Shea may have won this week, but there’s only one queen & that’s Madonna.
9. Shea Culee is Robin & stealing from the other gals.
Shea should host GM Heeey!
10. Peppermint is in the spot tonight!
Pepper knows there ain’t nothing wrong with being a Mary.
11. Farrah Moan is still in the running to be America’s Next Top Model Drag Superstar.
But let’s hope she fares better than Rita Ora. #fired
12. Alexis Michelle is a Real Housewife of Melbourne?
Looks like drag is really big Down Under! #GinaLiano
Extra special mention:
Charlie Hides was sent home, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a 50something queen who lip syncs.
Now get all the feels with this week’s UNTUCKED below:
This week RuPaul’s Drag Race was all about the fairy tales.
And while some of the kweens got dragged for their princess lewks, (ahem, Farrah Moan, Aja, Kimora Blac) I think they all failed with that whole come up with an interesting sidekick thing. Well, minus Nina Bo’ Nina Brown, who continues to be fierce AF!
Three things I loved this week: 1. Cynthia Lee Fontaine‘s “cucu” explanation. Culo. Caca. Cucu! By the way, still not sick of it. 2. Alexis Michelle reading the Instagram children for their over-reliance on Facetune. Preach! I’ll say it again, If I can tell you used Facetune, you failed! 3. And, on a serious note, managing to touch on the Pulse tragedy. 🙏🏽
Three things I hated this week: 1. Kimora Blac‘s “adjective” failure. (How about idiot & irritating?) 2. Kimora Blac’s zombie Sheena of the Jungle lewk. 3. Kimora Blac’s lip sync. (Here are some more adjectives: lazy, sad, awful). Sashay away, lady.
Congrats to Aja. She hasn’t won me over, but she did own that performance. Disastah it was not. I’m still holding out for a hero, but Bonnie Tyler would be proud.
And while we are getting closer and closer to Snatch Game, here are the week 3 side-by-sides. This week was the toughest yet. Enjoy!
1.Trinity Taylor has jumped the (left) shark!
She won this week and proved she really is fishy.
2. Shea Culee is werking her magic.
Hocus pocus, she could win it all!
3. Charlie Hides was Absolutely Fabulous, finally.
But she is a sweetie, darling!
4. Eurkea is a screen legend.
Just like Cleopatra, she wants that crown.
5. Valentina doesn’t get out of bed for less than $10K.
V is for Vogue!
Yeah, I know Cheyenne Jackson referenced Linda Evangelista, but it’s what I was thinking too. I swear.
6. Peppermint is out of this galaxy.
Beam her up, Ru!
7. Cynthia Lee Fontaine is a Holly Golightly.
Breakfast at Cucu’s, anyone?
8. Aja‘s hair and makeup is scary funny.
Bride of Frankenstein be damned, being compared to Carol Burnett is always a compliment.
9. Live with Farrah Moan?
Kelly Ripa, shante you stay.
10. Nina Bo’Nina Brown is keeping up with the Jones.
She’s showing some amazing Grace.
11. Alexis Michelle is a plain Jayne.
Jayne Meadows realness, kids.
12. Sasha Velour, you little devil, you.
She’s bringing the Community together with this getup. #JimRash
13. Kimora Blac is Tonto.
Since tonto in Spanish means dumb, she nailed it. Bye gurl, bye!
But if you want to get some feels for Kimora, check out this week’s UNTUCKED below.
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