Jaylene Tyme is the stage name of Jaylene McRae, a Canadian drag queen who was profiled on the fourth season of ''

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.'' She then competed on the fifth season of ''

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,'' where she was awarded Miss Congeniality.

Career

Jaylene Tyme first discovered drag in

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before moving to

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. In June 2024 she was featured in the final episode of season four of ''

'', a

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which profiles various drag performers across Canada. By the time of her episode she had been doing drag in Vancouver for over 30 years. In October 2024 she was announced to be one of the eleven queens competing on season five of ''

.'' She received a rose in the first episode for having the best Entrance look of the season, which paid tribute to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People. However she was not chosen to

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for the win as one of the top two contestants in the episode. During her run on ''Canada's Drag Race'', she also received praise for bringing a kind, compassionate and motherly energy to the often drama-filled Werk Room, particularly when she responded to fellow competitor

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's emotional breakdown over her disconnection from her own Métis heritage by giving Xana a traditional Métis

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. Jaylene was ultimately eliminated in the fifth episode of the season after underperforming in the girl groups challenge and losing a lip-sync to Love Inc.'s "Here Comes the Sunshine" against Xana. She had previously been saved from lip-syncing for her life in the third episode by The Virgo Queen. She placed eighth overall. On social media she expressed regret that she was unable to reach the

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challenge, which took place in the episode immediately following her elimination, and revealed four planned celebrity impersonations:

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and

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. In the final episode she wore a dress dedicated to the

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movement, which she received blessing from the designer

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to wear. She was then awarded the title of Miss Congeniality by the season 4 winner

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Personal life

Jaylene Tyme is a

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and

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. She is a survivor of the

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, where she was removed from her Indigenous home and placed into a settler family. She was separated from her brother at age three and lived in five different homes before age four. She discussed her story of being a Sixties Scoop adoptee in the second episode of ''Canada's Drag Race'', where she connected with fellow contestant Xana whose grandfather was also a Sixties Scoop survivor. Jaylene Tyme is

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, having been in recovery from

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and

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since the late 1990s. She is based in Vancouver as of 2024. Members of her drag family include Kendall Gender, Chelazon Leroux, and ''Canada's Drag Race'' season 4 winner

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. In a post-''Drag Race'' interview on

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's talk series '' Q'', she spoke of the importance of using her platform as a performer to educate and raise awareness of both LGBTQ and indigenous issues.Vivian Rashotte
"'It's bigger than me': Jaylene Tyme on using Canada's Drag Race to raise awareness of the Sixties Scoop"
'' Q'', January 29, 2025.

Filmography

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Career

Personal life

Filmography

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