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RuPaul's Drag Race (season 5)
The fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' began airing on January 28, 2013, with a 90-minute premiere episode, and ended on May 6 of the same year. The winner of season five headlined Logo's Drag Race Tour featuring Absolut Vodka, won a one-of-a-kind trip, a lifetime supply of Colorevolution Cosmetics, and a cash prize of $100,000. Santino Rice and Michelle Visage returned as judges at the panel. The theme song playing during the runway every episode is "I Bring the Beat", while the song playing during the credits is "The Beginning". Both songs are from RuPaul's album '' Glamazon''. This is the first-ever series in the show's history to feature a double elimination or a double sashay between two contestants, Honey Mahogany and Vivienne Pinay. It is also the first series to feature a queen, Coco Montrese, lip-sync for their life four times and send 3 people home. This is also the first series where RuPaul allowed fans to vote for a winner. The winner of the fifth season of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul
RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and has received List of awards and nominations received by RuPaul, several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, ''Billboard'' Music Awards, and a Tony Award. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with ''Fortune (magazine), Fortune'' saying that he is "easily the world's most famous drag queen." In 2017, RuPaul was included in the annual Time 100, ''Time'' 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Born and raised in San Diego, California, RuPaul studied performing arts in Atlanta, Georgia, before relocating to New York City, where he became a popular fixture on the LGBTQ cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detox Icunt
Deandra Sanderson, better known by the stage name Detox Icunt or simply Detox, is an American drag performer and recording artist. Detox was a fixture of the Southern California drag scene before coming to international attention on the fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', as well as the second season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Career Detox has appeared in music videos with Ke$ha and Rihanna and is a member of Chad Michaels' Dreamgirls Revue, the longest-running female-impersonation show in California. She is also a member of the band Tranzkuntinental. The band was started by Charlie Paulson and Xander Smith and features drag queens Kelly Mantle, Rhea Litré, Vicky Vox, and Willam Belli. Detox modeled as part of the Tranimal Master Class Workshop at the Machine Project. The event was photographed by Austin Young. In 2011, Detox acted in ''Showgirls in Drag'', a live adaptation of ''Showgirls''. The production was directed by Stephen Guarino and played at the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Beverly Hillz
Monica Dejesus-Anaya, known by the stage persona Monica Beverly Hillz, is an American drag queen, reality television personality, and transgender activist best known for appearing on the fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in 2013, as well as for returning in 2023 on the eighth season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars''. She was the second contestant in the show's history to come out as a transgender woman, on the show, after Kylie Sonique Love of season 2 (who came-out during the show's reunion special). Hillz came-out during the judges' critiques for that episode's main challenge; her coming-out was especially historic, as it was a first for network television or a reality competition show. In 2014, after her run on season five of ''Drag Race'', she was included by the ''Windy City Times'' on their list of "30 Under 30" for individuals displaying the "best LGBTQIA activism, business, culture, non-profit work and more". ''Bustle'' named her one of the "most popular" ''RPDR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivienne Pinay
Vivienne Pinay is the stage name of Michael Donehoo, an American retired drag performer known for competing on the fifth season of the American television series ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. She has also appeared on the ninth season of '' Face Off'' and ''Skin Wars''. Early life Donehoo was born and raised in Atlanta and is of Filipino descent. He became interested in drag at a young age after seeing RuPaul on VH1. Career Donehoo sells wigs. As of 2020, he was also a personal assistant to ''Drag Race'' contestant Alyssa Edwards. Donehoo also appeared in the ninth season of the television series '' Face Off'' in 2015. Drag Donehoo has been a drag performer; he has said of his female persona Vivienne Pinay: "Vivienne is named after my Southern Grandmother. And Pinay means Filipino girl." Vivienne Pinay has been a member of the Haus of Edwards, which has also included ''Drag Race'' contestants Alyssa Edwards, Cheryl Hole, Gia Gunn, Laganja Estranja, Plastique Tiara, and Shan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan ( , ; Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist, John") is the capital city and most populous Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in the Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the United States Census Bureau, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, 57th-most populous city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259. San Juan was founded by Spanish Empire, Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port City"). Puerto Rico's capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496, and is the List of North American settlements by year of foundation, oldest European-established city under United States of America, United States sovereignty. Several historical buildings are located in the historic district of Old S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lineysha Sparx
Lineysha Sparx is the stage name of Andrew "Andy" Trinidad, an Afro–Puerto Rican drag performer who competed on the fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Career Trinidad competed as Lineysha Sparx on the fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', which aired in 2013. She placed ninth overall and won one main challenge. On the third episode (" Draggle Rock), she and Alaska Thunderfuck created the drag doll named Lil' Poundcake for the Miss Junior Drag Superstar mini-challenge. The doll went on to be sold commercially by Alaska and Lineysha Sparx as a plush toy. The queer music artist Chappell Roan would go on to cite Lil Poundcake as her inspiration for her drag looks and for her NPR Music List of Tiny Desk Concerts, Tiny Desk Concert performance. Eventually, Lineysha Sparx was eliminated from the competition after placing in the bottom two of the Snatch Game challenge, during which she impersonated Cuban-American singer Celia Cruz, and losing a Lip sync, lip-sync against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022. It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area, Florida, Gainesville metropolitan area with a population of 350,903 in 2022. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the List of largest United States university campuses by enrollment, third-largest public university campus by enrollment in the United States as of the 2023–2024 academic year. The university is represented by the Florida Gators sports teams in National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA competitions. History There is archeological evidence, from about 12,000 years ago, of the presence of Paleo-Indians in the Gainesville area, although it is not known if there were any permanent settlements. A Deptford culture campsite existed in Gainesville and was estimated to have been used between 500 BCE and 100 CE. The Deptford peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jade Jolie
Jade Jolie is the stage name of Jules Green, an American drag queen and impersonator of Taylor Swift, known for competing in the RuPaul's Drag Race season 5, fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and the The Boulet Brothers' Dragula season 4, fourth season of ''The Boulet Brothers' Dragula''. She featured in Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" music video and joined her at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards in the opening act, as well as receiving two awards with Swift, including MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, Video of the Year. Early life Jolie was born on November 2, 1986, and raised in Fort Myers, Florida and Alachua, Florida. She started doing drag at the University Club in Gainesville, Florida. Her drag mom is Dana Douglas and her drag father is Bob Taylor. The name Jade Jolie is a combination of the ''Mortal Kombat'' character Jade (Mortal Kombat), Jade and Angelina Jolie. She originally auditioned for RuPaul's Drag Race season 5, season five of ''Drag Race'', whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County with portions extending into Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman County. The population was 150,108 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, and making it the List of municipalities in Texas, 22nd-most populous city in Texas. Mesquite is positioned at the crossroads of four major highways (Interstate 30 in Texas, Interstates 30, Interstate 635 (Texas), 635, Interstate 20 in Texas, 20, and U.S. Route 80 in Texas, U.S. Route 80), making locations such as downtown Dallas, Lake Ray Hubbard, Dallas Love Field, and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, DFW International Airport accessible. According to legislative action, the city is the "Rodeo Capital of Texas". In 2016, Mesquite received a Playful City USA designation for the fourth year in a row. The city has been named a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation for over 25 years. The city of Mesquite holds the 10th-longest r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyssa Edwards
Justin Dwayne Lee Johnson (born January 16, 1980), best known by the stage name Alyssa Edwards, is an American drag queen, drag performer, choreographer, and businessperson. Edwards was known for competing in drag pageantry (notably Miss Gay America 2010) before rising to international attention as a contestant on the RuPaul's Drag Race season 5, fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', becoming a fan favorite during and after her time on the show. Edwards subsequently appeared on the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 2, second season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' and starred in her own web series, ''Alyssa's Secret''. She won the first ever season of RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars, making her the first queen to be inducted into the "Newly Constructed International Pavilion At the Drag Race Hall of Fame". Johnson lives in Mesquite, Texas, where he owns and operates a dance studio, Beyond Belief Dance Company. Johnson and his dance studio are the centerpieces of a docus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
