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Dragracadabra
"Dragracadabra" is the tenth episode of the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11), eleventh season of the American reality competition television series ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. It originally aired on May 2, 2019. Katherine Langford and Gina Rodriguez are guest judges. Episode For the episode's mini-challenge, the contestants play a game called "Balls to the Wall", where teams of two partner with a Pit Crew (Drag Race), Pit Crew member to transfer as many balls to a basket, using different parts of their bodies. Vanessa Vanjie Mateo wins the mini-challenge. For the main challenge, the contestants team up and perform a magic show in front of the judges and a live audience. Following are the teams: * Team Da Black Magic: A'keria C. Davenport, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, and Yvie Oddly * Team The Mighty Tucks: Brooke Lynn Hytes, Nina West, and Shuga Cain The runway category is "Caftan Realness". Katherine Langford and Gina Rodriguez are guest judges. Brooke Lynn Hytes and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11)
The eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' aired on VH1 from February 28, 2019, to May 30, 2019. The cast featured fourteen new queens and one returning queen; at the time of its premiere, Season 11 featured the largest cast of the franchise, with fifteen queens, though this was later surpassed by Season 15, which featured sixteen contestants. The queens were revealed during a livestream, hosted by Season 10 winner Aquaria and figure skater Adam Rippon, on January 24, 2019. The winner of the eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' was Yvie Oddly, with Brooke Lynn Hytes being the runner-up and Nina West crowned as Miss Congeniality. ''Drag Race'' Season 10's first-eliminated contestant, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, returned to the competition, by popular demand, being the first to enter the workroom and ultimately placing fifth; she later competed a third time, on ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' Season 9, in 2024. Contestants ''Ages, names, and cities stated are at ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuga Cain
Shuga Cain is the stage name of Jesus Martinez Jr. (born November 20, 1977), an American drag queen and baker who came to international attention on the eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Early life Martinez was born in Oakland, California and as a child moved to Northern California, where he grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood. His father was Salvadoran, and his mother was Apache with Spanish ancestry. Career In 2011, Martinez starred in a production of '' Xanadu'', portraying Sonny Malone. He started drag full time in 2017, quitting a corporate job with the Scholastic Corporation to pursue it. In March 2018, Shuga Cain was a part of Max Emerson's ''Drag Babies'' series, hosted by Bob the Drag Queen. She was a Drag Mentor, alongside Peppermint and Chi Chi DeVayne. Shuga Cain was announced to be one of fifteen contestants competing on season eleven of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' on January 24, 2019. In episode 3, she was a part of the historic six-way lip-sync ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Rodriguez
Gina Alexis Rodriguez (born July 30, 1984) is an American actress. She is known for her leading role as Jane Villanueva in The CW satirical romantic dramedy series ''Jane the Virgin'' (2014–2019), for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award in 2015. Born and raised in Chicago, Rodriguez began her career in 2003 in theater productions and made her screen debut in an episode of the police procedural drama series ''Law & Order''. Her breakthrough came in 2012, in the independent musical-drama film ''Filly Brown''. She has gone on to star in such films as ''Deepwater Horizon (film), Deepwater Horizon'' (2016), ''Ferdinand (film), Ferdinand'' (2017), ''Annihilation (film), Annihilation'' (2018), ''Miss Bala (2019 film), Miss Bala'' (2019), ''Someone Great (film), Someone Great'' (2019), ''Scoob!'' (2020), ''Awake (2021 film) , Awake'' (2021), ''I Want You Back (film), I Want You Back'' (2022), and ''Spy Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bring Back My Queens!
"Bring Back My Queens!" is the eleventh episode of the eleventh season of the American reality competition television series ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. It originally aired on May 9, 2019. Wanda Sykes and Lena Waithe are guest judges. Episode For the episode's mini-challenge, the contestants have a fake slapping contest. Brooke Lynn Hytes wins the mini-challenge. For the main challenge, the contestants makeover the eliminated queens. Following are the pairs: * A'keria C. Davenport and Honey Davenport * Brooke Lynn Hytes and Plastique Tiara * Nina West and Shuga Cain * Silky Nutmeg Ganache and Soju * Vanessa Vanjie Mateo and Ariel Versace * Yvie Oddly and Scarlet Envy The runway category is "Drag Family Values". Wanda Sykes and Lena Waithe are guest judges. A'keria C. Davenport, Brooke Lynn Hytes, and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo receive positive critiques, and Brooke Lynn Hytes wins the challenge. Nina West, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, and Yvie Oddly receive negative critiques, and Yvie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, sometimes known as Vanessa Vanjie, Miss Vanjie, or simply Vanjie, is the stage name of José Luis Cancel, an American drag performer known for competing on the tenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and placing fifth on the eleventh season of the show. In addition to competing on ''Drag Race'', she has also appeared in many of its spin-offs, including '' RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race'', '' RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue'', ''Canada's Drag Race'', and ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'', the latter of which she appeared as a contestant for its ninth season, where she placed runner-up along with season five and All Stars 2 contestant Roxxxy Andrews. Early life Vanjie Mateo was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Kissimmee, Florida and Texas, and is of Puerto Rican descent. He started doing drag when ''Drag Race'' season three and ''All Stars'' alumna Alexis Mateo hired her as a backup dancer. Career Vanessa Vanjie Mateo was announced as one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina West
Nina West is the stage name of Andrew Robert Levitt, an American drag queen, queer activist, actor, and singer-songwriter based in Columbus, Ohio. She rose to national prominence with her appearance on the eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', where she placed sixth and won Miss Congeniality. In 2024, she competed in season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars. She was named the Top Local Artist of 2019 by ''Columbus Underground''. Levitt has also created three EPs—'' Drag Is Magic'', ''John Goodman'', and '' The West Christmas Ever'', which were all released in 2019. Education Levitt was raised in Greentown, Ohio. He graduated from Denison University with a degree in theater. He planned to pursue acting, but decided not to move to New York City, due to the September 11 attacks. Career Levitt began dabbling in drag in 2001. Nina West is the name of his drag persona. Her drag mother is Virginia West. Nina West hosts the annual "Heels of Horror" show at Axis Nightclub, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul's Drag Race
''RuPaul's Drag Race'' is an American reality competition television series, the first in the Drag Race (franchise), ''Drag Race'' franchise, produced by World of Wonder (company), World of Wonder for Logo TV (season 1–8), WOW Presents Plus, VH1 (season 9–14) and, beginning with the fifteenth season, MTV. The show documents RuPaul in the search for "America's next drag queen, drag superstar". RuPaul plays the role of host, mentor, and head judge for this series, as contestants are given different challenges each week. Contestants are judged by a panel that includes RuPaul, Michelle Visage, one of four rotating judges (Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews, Ts Madison, or Law Roach), as well as one or more guest judges, who critique their progress throughout the competition. The title of the show is a play on drag queen and drag racing, and the title sequence and song "Drag Race" both have a drag-racing theme. ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' has aired for seventeen seasons and inspired the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke Lynn Hytes
Brooke Lynn Hytes is the stage name of Brock Edward Hayhoe (born March 10, 1986), a Canadian-American drag queen, ballet dancer, and television personality. After working as a dancer with Cape Town City Ballet and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Brooke Lynn Hytes achieved international recognition for competing on the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11), eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''; Brooke Lynn Hytes placed second, only to winner Yvie Oddly. Brooke Lynn Hytes is the first Canadian to compete in the series. Since 2020, Brooke Lynn Hytes has been a main judge on the spin-off series ''Canada's Drag Race'', and is the first ''Drag Race'' contestant to become a full-time judge in Drag Race (franchise), the franchise. Early life Hayhoe was born on March 10, 1986, in Toronto. He attended high school at Etobicoke School of the Arts. When he was 15, he was accepted into the Canada's National Ballet School, National Ballet School of Canada, where he trained for five year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun '' the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lip Sync
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced , like the word ''sink'', despite the Hard and soft C, spelling of the participial forms ''synced'' and ''syncing''), short for lip synchronization, is a technical term for matching a Speech, speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals. Audio for lip syncing is generated through the sound reinforcement system in a live performance or via television, computer, cinema Loudspeaker, speakers, or other forms of Audio signal, audio output. The term can refer to any of a number of different techniques and processes, in the context of live performances and audiovisual recordings. In Filmmaking, film production, lip syncing is often part of the post-production phase. Dubbing foreign-language films and making Animation, animated characters appear to speak both require elaborate lip syncing. Many video games make extensive use of lip-synced sound files to create an immersive environment in which on-screen characters appear to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary J
Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a female given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religion * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blessed Virgin Mary * Mary Magdalene, devoted follower of Jesus * Mary of Bethany, follower of Jesus, considered by Western medieval tradition to be the same person as Mary Magdalene * Mary, mother of James * Mary of Clopas, follower of Jesus * Mary, mother of John Mark * Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents * Mary of Rome, a New Testament woman * Mary the Jewess, one of the reputed founders of alchemy, referred to by Zosimus. Royalty * Mary, Countess of Blois (1200–1241), daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois * Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy * Queen Mary of Denmark (born 1972), wife of Frederik X of Denmark * Mary I of England (1516–1558), aka "Bloody Mary", Queen of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No More Drama (song)
"No More Drama" is a song by American recording artist Mary J. Blige. Written and produced by duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, it was initially intended for Blige's fourth studio album ''Mary'' (1999) before she insisted on making it the title track of her fifth studio album of the same name (2001). The song embodies portions of " ''The Young and the Restless'' Theme" (1973), written by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. Lyrically, the song is about going through hard times and moving on from pain. The song was released to acclaim from music critics who called it one of her finest recordings yet. It was issued as ''No More Drama''s second single in the United States on October 30, 2001, and as the third single in certain European markets, where " Dance for Me" had served as the second single instead. It became another hit for Blige, peaking at number 15 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number nine in the United Kingdom. The video for the song won Blige her first MTV Video M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
