Chris Pine (L) and Bobby Moynihan (R) lip-sync for their lives
Funny skit last night as SNL guest host Chris Pine, along with Kenan Thompson, Beck Bennett, Alex Moffat, Bobby Moynihan, all reluctantly admit they love RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Pine seems to know an awful lot about Drag Race contestant Trinity Taylor and her “tuck:’
“I’m guessing it’s when you tape your hot dog down between your buns so that you have that flat crotch illusion.”
And then there’s the fully committed “lip sync for your life” by Pine and Moynihan at the end that’s not to be missed.
What happens when your Season 9 premiere has it’s highest ratings ever?
And your host wins the Emmy Award for Outstanding Host of a Reality Competition Series?
It’s official: RuPaul’s Drag Race will return for a 10th season.
‘As we celebrate a Decade of Drag, we’ll continue to tell universal stories of the tenacity of the human spirit,’ RuPaul said in a statement about the series’ renewal.
‘Now more than ever, we rely on the power of love, laughter and creativity to combat fear and darkness.’
It’s no surprise really. A big boost in ratings (over one million tuned in for the Season 9 premiere), guest judges like Lady Gaga, a move to VH1 on a new night, plus a surge in social media seems to add up to a winning combination.
On the season premiere of Untucked: RuPaul’s Drag Race, the after-show where the queens let down their hair, guest Lady Gaga shared her personal feelings about the “gay men in my life that helped me to become a woman.”
Valentina thanked Lady Gaga for all she does for the gay community.
Gaga, touched, had this to say:
“I appreciate you saying that. I’m not a gay woman, you know? And it’s that touchy sort of subject where can you stand up for people that you are not necessarily fully part of that community in a way that you can understand what you all go through, right?
“But I have always been surrounded by incredibly intelligent, powerful gay men who have lifted me up through lots of changes in my life.”
“Becoming famous was very strange and it’s the gay men in my life that helped me to become a woman. And I don’t know that a lot of people would understand that but it’s because of what you’ve through ― you have survived so much that you inspire me to continue surviving. So thank you for that.”
Watch the full episode of Untucked below. Gaga enters at the 14:40 mark.
Promoting the 9th season of hit reality series, RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul Charles appeared today on talk show Hollywood Today Live. And during the interview, Ru surprised with news about his longtime partner, Georges Lebar.
Talking about their 23 year relationship, which stretches back to 1994, Ru was asked if they would ever get married, and that’s when he surprised everyone.
“You know what?” he said. “I don’t think I’ve said this on television before. We are married.”
“I met him on the dance floor at Limelight in 1994 on his birthday,” he explained. “So we got married on his birthday on the anniversary of when we met… so this year in January.”
Check out this fun clip of Lady Gaga (captured at the invited premiere party) going “undercover” as a Gaga impersonator in the upcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
It looks like the queens are pretty blown away by Gaga’s “impersonation,” much in the vein of Derrick Barry’s “Britney Spears.”
Can’t wait to see the reactions from the contestants when the queens figure it out.
The new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race premieres March 24 on VH1.
Watch the clip below.
Gaga’s drag race cameo starts with her entering the workroom as a gaga impersonator lmaaaoooo too good pic.twitter.com/IvVfXYpTey
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Lady Gaga (L) is set to appear during Season 9 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
RuPaul’s Drag Race, in the wake of it’s highest rated season ever, is sashaying away from Logo heading to greener pastures on VH1.
“Broadcasting the show on VH1 will allow more fans to experience the energy, heart and talent these fierce queens bring to the stage every week,” said Senior VP of Original Programming at Logo.
Logo long ago left it’s original mission of creating LGBT-centric original programming, other than RuPaul’s Drag Race.
At times, Ru’s relationship with the network has been a bit tempestuous. Back in 2014, the drag diva took offense to the idea that Logo would “distance” itself over a kerfuffle over the use of the word “tranny.” Ru took to Twitter to remind folks who was “payin’ the f%kin’ light bill.”
Trust! @LogoTV hasn’t “distanced” itself from me, not while I’m still payin’ the f%kin’ light bill over there
“Coming off RuPaul’s Emmy win and a ratings record-breaking season of All Stars, the fandom around RuPaul’s Drag Race has only continued to swell as we head into season nine,” said Pamela Post, SVP of Original Programming & Development at Logo. “Broadcasting the show on VH1 will allow more fans to experience the energy, heart and talent these fierce Queens bring to the stage every week.”
To celebrate the gag-worthy new season, Logo will exclusively air a Race to the Nines marathon of non-stop episodes beginning on Sunday, March 19, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT leading up to VH1’s season nine premiere on Friday, March 24, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. Throughout the five-day marathon, viewers will be treated to all-new bonus content including never before seen footage from the cutting room floor and interviews with previous contestants, judges and super fans including Michelle Visage, Bob the Drag Queen, Ginger Minj, Jujubee, Todrick Hall, and Lance Bass who will spill all of the “T” on the new queens.
It was recently announced that Lady Gaga will make an appearance at some time during the upcoming season.
The new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race premiere’s March 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on VH1.
Truth be told, the first-time nominee had reason to feel like an Emmy underdog, since he was representing RuPaul’s Drag Race, a fringe show about drag queens on Logo, a niche LGBT cable network.
But Sunday, on night two of the Creative Arts Emmys held at Los Angeles’s Microsoft Theater, RuPaul surprised everyone — including himself — by winning the Emmy, beating out decidedly mainstream reality hosts Tom Bergeron (Dancing With the Stars), Steve Harvey (Little Big Shots), Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn (Project Runway), Jane Lynch (Hollywood Game Night), and even American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest.
Frankie J. Alvarez, Jonathan Groff and Murray Bartlett of LOOKING
Some news stories you may have missed:
• HBO will premiere the “wrap-up movie” of it’s now-cancelled gay series Looking July 23rd at 10PM. I was a big fan of the series, so I’ll definitely be watching 🙂
• 72% of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s own constituents don’t want to see him be Trump’s veep pick. With friends like these…
• RuPaul tells ABC News that he doesn’t think RuPaul’s Drag Race could ever go “mainstream.”
•Donald Trump says he would “protect all people” in the same breath he mentions he would rescind President Obama’s historic directives protecting transgender folks from discrimination. But he loves everyone, don’t you know…
• Frequent homophobe Azealia Banks got her butt booted from Twitter for her homophobic/racist rant on former One Direction member Zayn Malik.
• In addition to a win for Hillary Clinton, last night’s Kentucky primary also produced the state’s first openly gay Democratic Senate candidate.
• Ted Olson, who successfully argued for the demise of California’s Prop 8, has been brought on to author an amicus brief in support of the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s hateful HB2 law.
• Hillary Clinton calls for the decriminalization of HIV. Just one more reason why #ImWithHer
