Episode #6 - Michelle Visage's Drag Race
Part Four
As a result of both the runway presentation and the speech, Michelle announces that
Jessica is the winner of the maxi challenge, and therefore Miss International Universe of the World 2018, with
Eva and
Lady Boi joining her in the top three for their efforts.
Honey,
Nicole and
Rafaella are deemed safe, leaving
Big Dee,
VinChelle and
Yvie as the bottom three.
Yvie is then announced safe, and celebrates this news with a mini panic attack before being comforted by her fellow queens.
Big Dee and
VinChelle both seem devastated that they’re in the bottom two, with Big Dee saying she feels as if she’s gone from weeks of steadily uphill climbing to “suddenly crashing to the ground”, and VinChelle saying she feels as though she ruined her one chance to redeem herself.
The Lip Sync
Big Dee vs. VinChelle
One Mistake (Seduction)
As this is, of course, Michelle Visage’s Drag Race, the lip sync is to a Seduction song, albeit one of the many, many lesser known ones. Both queens go into the lip sync outright refusing for it to be their last, and this attitude carries through into their performances: both Big Dee and VinChelle pull out tight, emotive performances that show the judges their passion to stay, and both not only turn it out, but inside out and upside down. Whatever that means. It’s an unbelievably close lip sync and there are a few moments of agonising silence as Michelle chooses the victor.
As she begins to reveal her decision, RuPaul bursts in through the side door, his mouth gagged with tape. As the other queens gasp in shock, Ru removes the tape and reveals that he was kidnapped, and has just escaped from where he was being held captive. Declaring the lip sync null and void and announcing that no queens will be going home this week, to the relief of both Big Dee and VinChelle, he turns to the judges’ table. “The person who kidnapped me, was…” he says slowly, pointing his finger in the direction of one of the judges, “...
Michelle Visage!”
The queens gasp again. Janet Mock faints. Michelle stands up, screams that RuPaul is a liar, and storms off the set. Rafaella, naturally, is still confused.
To be continued…