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Forbes
3 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
‘All Stars 10' Reminds Us That Drag Race Verses Are A Brand Strategy
RuPaul's Drag Race, like many other reality competition shows, has recurring challenges that fans eagerly anticipate each season. For example, in addition to Drag Race contestants needing to bring looks to fit their runway themes, there are several challenges that they have to prepare for. Of course, some challenges are meant to be fresh and new to keep the audience engaged, but every fan of Drag Race knows there's going to be 4 challenges that the queens are going to have to survive if they want a chance at winning the crown. The first being the sewing challenge where queens have to make an outfit from scratch, the second being the snatch game where the contestants have to do a funny improved impersonation of an iconic character or personality alongside their competitors, the second being the roast where the queens have to make fun of a particular host, guest, or their fellow contestants, and the final challenge being the girl group challenge where the contestants music work together to make a convincing song with their teammates and still manage to stand out. MILAN, ITALY - NOVEMBER 12: Mistress Isabelle Brooks performs RuPaul's Drag Race: Werq The World ... More Tour at Mediolanum Forum of Assago on November 12, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by) This time around, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10 elected to combine the roast challenge and the girl group challenge, dubbing it the 'Rappin' Roast.' The queens were tasked with performing a song where they rapped and roasted their fellow contestants. This added a new layer to two already iconic staples in the Drag Race franchise that had already shown in prior seasons to be difficult for even the best of competitors in the show. Stacked with masters of shade like Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Nicole Paige Brooks, and Jorgeous, this challenge required not only wit, but cadence and memorable verses. From iconic songs in Drag Race's history like Break Up Bye Bye made famous by the Frock Destroyers in the first season of Drag Race Uk and the legendary Read U Wrote U from the final four of Drag Race All Stars 2, the contestants are no strangers to the opportunities that songs on the show can bring. There isn't a single long-time fan of Drag Race that doesn't know the lyrics 'Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova, but your dad just calls me Katya.' That line, again from Read U Wrote U, gave Katya of Season 7 of Drag Race, All Stars 2, and Unhhh fame a direct link to her fans to show them her persona, creativity, and branding all at once. These songs, which later get added to streaming platforms, keep queens top of mind with fans and keep them engaged for if said queens ever release music on their own. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 1: In this image released on October 1, Shea Couleé is seen ... More onstage during Rihanna's Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 presented by Amazon Prime Video at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California; and broadcast on October 2, 2020. (Photo byfor Rihanna's Savage X Fenty Show Presented by Amazon Prime Video) Shea Coulee, from season 9 of Drag Race and the winner of All Stars 5, released an EP after performing Category Is… with her castmates. Doing that offered her an avenue that inevitably led to her first EP Couleé-D while her season was still top of mind, building upon her brand and showing fans that she versatile in more than just her looks on the runway. With All Stars 10 steady underway and queens teasing new music, alongside other queens, like Megami from season 16 of Drag Race and Ocean Kelly, a well known performer and rapper in the Drag Race orbit, who aren't on the latest season of the show but are branding themselves by admitting they helped write and shape several of the verses fans are hearing on the stage, expanding their platforms and clientele if the verses are well received and future contestants come to them for ghostwriting. What started as a fun and quirky challenge has turned into an entire expansion for queens to build their brands and start their musical platforms. All Stars 10 continues to prove that these challenges are always more than just being about winning or losing; they're a vehicle for reinvention.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Filming on Criminal Minds Season 19 Has Begun: Who Is Definitely Back?
'The BAU is back on the case,' the Criminal Minds Instagram announced on Friday afternoon, along with a BTS photo signaling that filming on Season 19 has begun. The news comes almost midway through Season 18, which is dropping new episodes every Thursday on Paramount+. (Season 19 was greenlit back on March 5, more than two months ahead of the current season's premiere.) More from TVLine Criminal Minds: The Surprising Story Behind That Shocking Will Scene Criminal Minds: A.J. Cook Opens Up About JJ's Loss, Her Real-Life Sons Playing 'Big Emotions,' and Negotiating That Brief Cameo All Stars 10 Is the Best Drag Race Season in Years - and It's About to Get Even Better (Exclusive Sneak Peek) 'The BAU is back on the case!' the crime drama's IG trumpets. 'A new season of Criminal Minds: Evolution has officially started filming.' To look at the clapboard photo above, Joe Mantegna, Aisha Tyler, Kirsten Vangsness, Adam Rodriguez, A.J. Cook, Paget Brewster and Ryan-James Hatanaka will be back as series regulars for next season — meaning, David, Tara, Penelope, JJ, Emily and Tyler all are safe to buy some green bananas. Might the slippery Sicarius aka Elias Voit (played by Zach Gilford) make it out of this season alive, to taunt the BAU for a fourth straight time? That remains TBD. Season 18 of Criminal Minds: Evolution kicked off on May 8 and picked up six months after prisoners attacked the notorious Sicarius, leading the serial killer's restless followers on the dark web to begin wreaking havoc all over the country. In order to stop this group from killing more innocents, the BAU has been forced to work alongside an increasingly unpredictable — and seemingly amnesic? — Voit, who surely is harboring his own sinister agenda. Other Season 18 cast includes Lucifer alum Aimee Garcia as Dr. Julia Ochoa, a leading neuropsychiatrist assigned to help Voit recover from his injury-induced brain trauma, while franchise vet Matthew Gray Gubler recently made his first Evolution appearance as Dr. Spencer Reid. What are your wishes, hopes and dreams for Season 19? Share 'em in comments! Want scoop on , or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine 'Missing' Shows, Found! Get the Latest on Ahsoka, Monarch, P-Valley, Sugar, Anansi Boys and 25+ Others Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More
Forbes
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Nicole Paige Brooks' Raw Authenticity Shines On ‘Drag Race All Stars'
'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars' is on it's 10th season, and fans are overjoyed to see so many returning faces, especially this time around with a whopping 18 queens returning for this season. To break things up and to make sure fans stay engaged, All stars 10 has broken the 18 queens up into 3 groups of 6, with each group sending 3 finalists to the semi-finals to compete for the crown. Now that the first rotation of queens has finished and chosen their final 3, the next rotation has taken the stage by storm, but one queen in particular has managed to stand out long before her All Stars episodes even aired. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 08: Nicole Paige Brooks attends RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10 Red carpet ... More & Premiere Party at Gitano on May 08, 2025 in New York City. (Photo byfor Paramount+) Nicole Paige Brooks, of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 2 fame, has managed to capture the hearts of fans through a rare currency in the world of reality TV: Authenticity. Nicole's return to Drag Race brings back of era of contestants that existed before Drag Race had become the multi-Emmy award-winning reality competition show that it is today. While social media was still prevalent, with she show using hashtags for fans to interact when it still aired on Logo TV, the Drag Race fandom was nowhere near the juggernaut that it is today, with the season 2 premiere having 301,000 and the latest season on MTV having its series peak at 3.2 million viewers as an example. Fans have noted that in earlier seasons of the show, when the social media presence of the fandom was nowhere near as strong, queens didn't seem like they were 'self-editing.' With several queens across the franchise receiving threats and unmitigated amounts of hate, it's no surprise that newer contestants deliver an onscreen persona to protect themselves and their brand. Still, this is what has driven Nicole Paige Brooks to the forefront of fans' discussions of contestants. She just doesn't care. With clips resurfacing on social media of Nicole's original season, press conferences for the latest season, and queens talking about her larger than life personality while talking to fans on social media; Nicole has endeared fans to her by showing that she embodies the raw and unfiltered spirit of early seasons, even a decade after the fact. Nicole comes across as a polished performer, but she also shows that she isn't trying to manufacture a moment, and her interactions with other contestants don't feel like she's rehearsed in hopes of having a viral moment; she's just naturally funny and entertaining. Even outside of Drag Race, fans of other reality television shows have talked about how they crave authenticity from the casts of the shows they're watching. Nicole Paige Brooks reminds us that Drag Race is about more than serving looks, building your brand, and winning the competition; it's also about community and vulnerability, everything else is just a bonus. As her bracket of All Stars 10 continues to unfold, fans can only hope that Nicole is chosen as one of the 3 queens to go onto the semi-finals, but even if she isn't picked she's managed to endear herself to a whole new generation of fans that have been craving authenticity like hers for seasons on end. 'I haven't had to change my fact to change my career,' Brooks said on the latest All Stars episode. 'My pronouns are icon and legend.'
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Breaking down the drama between Bob, 'Drag Race' fans, and Nehellenia
Paramount+/World of Wonder;for The Recording Academy Nehellenia on RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars; Bob The Drag Queen at the Grammy Museum in April 2025. RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 winner Bob the Drag Queen has been at odds with fans and queens of the series since sharing rather negative opinions on non-U.S., All Stars-esque spinoffs like Global All Stars and Versus the World. The intense back-and-forth — which now spans several days — has also involved queens like Angeria Paris VanMicheals and Nehellenia. On Thursday, May 15, the Sibling Rivalry podcast shared a new episode in which Bob and guest cohost Naomi Smalls recapped the grand premiere of All Stars 10. During the episode, Bob urged queens to "say no" to international All Stars seasons, which led to an epic feud between Drag Race fans and queens from non-U.S. franchises. Now, Out breaks down the latest Drag Race discourse between queens and fans — which started as a discussion about the cast size of All Stars 10 and turned into a worldwide feud about Versus the World spinoffs and the continuation of Global All Stars. The Sibling Rivalry coverage of All Stars 10 has started with a bang. This season, Naomi Smalls joined Bob the Drag Queen as a cohost in the Sibling Rivalry podcast — filling in for Monét X Change as she hosts the franchise's official recap web series, The Pit Stop, in 2025. This particular Sibling Rivalry episode recapping the first episode of All Stars 10 started out with praise for the new "Tournament of All Stars" twist. However, Bob noted that the format could potentially run its course too quickly due to its large cast size. If All Stars 11 were to maintain this format, Bob argued, it would mean that two season of All Stars (each with 18 queens) would burn through 36 queens from one year to the next. "You really run the risk of exhausting your All Stars pool" of potential competitors, the season 8 winner explained. Jacob Ritts, a producer on Sibling Rivalry, chimed in to say that other shows that include alumni, like RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World and Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs the World, would also contribute to this potential issue with casting. Bob agreed, and brought up returning queens who do back-to-back regular seasons, like Vanessa Vanjie in seasons 10 and 11. Even though this hasn't happened for a while in flagship U.S. seasons of Drag Race, Bob recalled that Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté wanted to compete in another regular season before doing All Stars. This is the beginning of the rest the mess. On Thursday, May 15, X user @KINA2_2 shared a clip from this Sibling Rivalry episode (as seen above) that started right in the middle of Bob and Naomi discussing Kornbread's potential return onto the show. Bob's understanding was that Kornbread declined an invitation to All Stars, but Jacob — Sibling Rivalry producer — alleged that Kornbread seemingly declined doing a season of Versus the World, not that she had declined a U.S. season of All Stars. Nonetheless, Bob reacted to Jacob's clarification by sharing negative opinions about queens who accept the invitation for non-U.S. All Stars-esque spinoffs. "I would never… Let me tell you something right now: Any queens, if you're being offered Versus the World, say no," the season 8 winner started. "We have to stop them from even offering it as an option. If you all just keep saying no, they'll stop offering it. There's no way you would ever convince [me], and I know I won Drag Race…" "We all know," Naomi replied, teasing Bob and making the two of them laugh. "We all know." Bob continued, "But if I was [season 4's first-eliminated queen] Alisa Summers, you could not convince me to do a Versus the World. Logo TV Alisa Summers on RuPaul's Drag Race season 4. "What about Global [All Stars]?" Naomi asked. Bob replied, "No! Even worse! Even worse." "See, for me, I just want… I'll do whatever is there," Naomi said, acknowledging that factors like lower viewership than U.S. seasons could impact her decision. But Bob wasn't convinced, "You would not accept a Versus the World. Stop lying, bitch." "What if the prize was a million dollars?" Jacob asked, off-camera. "OK, I'm back in," Bob instantly replied. Naomi asked, "What if it's $500,000?" "No," Bob answered. While some fans agreed (or at least understood) Bob's perspective, a wave of non-U.S. queens and fans felt insulted by Bob's point of view. That pushback has gotten the clip to cross 3.1 million views on X as of this writing, and an intense debate in the worldwide Drag Race queendom was carried through the weekend. The original poster of this viral clip wrote, "I don't understand why being so harsh on a platform showcasing amazing non-U.S. and especially drag artists that aren't from English-speaking countries? Have you seen Marina Summers? Nehellenia? etc. And if those stop existing, including Global, where are we gonna see it?" Besides reaching 3.2 million views, the original post has accumulated 5,000 likes and hundreds of exchanges discussing Bob's remarks. "'Where are we gonna see it?' Baby, go to a drag bar," Bob wrote in her first response to this Drag Race controversy. Another X user shared a similar opinion to the original poster, asking: "How would you see the drag cultures of so many countries outside the US by going to a drag bar in the US?" "Wait until you find out about YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram," Bob replied. A Drag Race fan commented, "Bob this is a weird hill to die on." "Girl I don't like the fucking show. Y'all have to get over it," Bob replied. Another X user responded, "Love u Bob, but because [you're] An American queen [you're too] good to be around the ones that are not from USA to do a TV show? Explain queen maybe I understood wrong." "You got all of that out of what I said?... Interesting," Bob wrote. New responses kept coming to this X thread, including one that has since been deleted. "Girl shut the hell up," Bob replied. On Saturday, May 17, the temperature of this discourse rose slightly when a fan told Bob to "just own an opinion without being xenophobic" — prompting the Drag Race winner to write a longer statement in response to that allegation. "Xenophobic?!?! Sometimes the Drag Race fandom is the very definition of 'go touch grass.' Y'all have truly lost the plot," Bob wrote. "All this because I said I wouldn't compete on [Versus the World] or [Global All Stars]. I've also stated that I wouldn't even compete on an all-winners season. When you boil 'xenophobia' down to 'Bob said she wouldn't compete on Versus the World,' the word begins to literally mean nothing." An X user argued, "It was not you would compete, you said even if you were Alissa Summers, you wouldn't even answer the call for Versus the World and you want them to stop making it that got people pissed. Literally no one even expects you to be on Versus the World or Global, you are obviously above that." "Honestly. I still stand by how funny that was," Bob wrote in response. Another fan chimed in, "The backtracking here is insane [crying emoji] cause what you ACTUALLY said was 'Even if I was Alisa Summers, I would NEVER go on a [Versus the World] season.' And you also said no U.S. [queen] should EVER accept the invite to go." "The Alissa part was funny and I stand by that," Bob replied. "I said NO queen should go on. I beg of you to find the clip where I specifically said that 'no U.S. queen' should do it. I'll wait… No please take your time. I'll just be waiting here." A half hour later, Bob wrote another X post into this thread that read, "Still waiting over here. Been 30 minutes already." After an extended period of time and a few new responses, Bob circled back to the X user who had claimed that Bob was urging U.S. queens to say no to Versus the World and Global All Stars. "Okay, it's been about 6 hours, and you haven't found the clip of me saying that no US queen should compete. I'm just going to assume it doesn't you were too busy at work, but had time to tweet and retweet 38 times. Yes, I counted, because I do have the time. Just admit it. I made your day. This was the highlight of your day. You texted all of your friends and said, 'I'm in a Twitter fight with Bob the Drag Queen' and they gagged. They rushed over to check and see. Some of them even had to redownload Twitter after swearing it off just to see the main event of your week.I'm going to go ahead and leave this conversation alone, but tbh happy that you're fighting for your life in the comment section. Frankly is what you deserve. Be well. Or don't. I really don't care." Angeria Paris VanMicheals, who won All Stars 9 and entered the Drag Race Hall of Fame last year, re-shared the original post and chimed into the discourse: "I actually told my best friend that if I didn't win All Stars 9 and was asked to do UK vs the World or Global, my answer would be 'yes.' I wanted a new experience. Competing with non-American queens sounds so fun to me." Bob replied, "BOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" Nehellenia, a queen first introduced to fans on Drag Race Italia who made it to the grand finale of Global All Stars and became a new fan-favorite within the franchise, also entered the discourse as someone who could literally speak about how beneficial that opportunity was to her. "TV shows like [Global All Stars] or [Versus the World] not only give the opportunity to drag queens who otherwise could not have the same visibility on a global level," Nehellenia wrote in her first X post. "[To] show the public how artists with different backgrounds and styles can compete together, proving to have the same talent…" "…and sometimes even more than American artists," Nehellenia added. "Try to do what you do in a language that you do not master perfectly! Why denigrate something that tries to praise the art of drag instead of supporting it? Why take away value from something so humanly and artistically unifying?" Nehellenia concluded, "Every drag is valid… some ideals instead are not." is streaming on . New episodes of drop every Friday on .
Buzz Feed
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Drag Race All Stars Season 10 Queens Take A Trivia Quiz
Hello, hello, hello! Are you feeling a fierce rush of eleganza in the air?! Well, that's because Mama Ru is sashaying back to our screens for another gag-worthy season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. And for Season 10, Ru brought back her fiercest girls yet — 18 of them to be exact (the most queens competing for the crown ever). Now, of course, we know that it isn't All Stars unless there's a twist. For this season, the queens will be divided into three groups of six, each werk-ing their way through their own bracket across three episodes. At the end of each bracket battle, the top three queens serving the most charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent — and racking up the highest point totals — will shantay to the semi-finals. There, they'll go wig-to-wig with the other top divas in another round of competition spread over two more, I am very sure, drama-packed episodes. In celebration of the premiere, we invited the entire All Stars 10 cast to the BuzzFeed studio to play Drag Race trivia All Stars edition. So, did these queens know who won the Reading Challenge on Season 4? Or which queen was eliminated first on Season 5? Well, you'll have to watch the video to find out: Do you want to find out which of these fabulous queens will make it out of their bracket, snatch the crown, and win $200K? Then make sure to catch Season 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, streaming Fridays on Paramount+.
