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48th Place: Mrs. Kasha Davis (Season 7) - finished 11th

Pretty much the entire thread up until this point has been a game of "how far can I push Mrs. Kasha Davis up the list?" Because the very idea that she finished 11th, in a cast that was season seven, is one of life's greatest injustices. Eliminated before Kandy Ho and Pearl? Bish, please.

So Kasha's most memorable line is quite ironic since she is actually teetotal now, but I spent most of season seven on here stanning the hell out of Ginger, Katya, Kennedy and Kasha. A dream top four, if you will. As one of the more loveable members of the Bitter Old Lady Brigade, Kasha tread the line carefully between stern mother and supportive friend, but was always ready to provide a talking head that said what we all were thinking.

Her haughty voice and old-fashioned style of drag may have dated her from some and prevented her from reaching out to the youngest of Drag Race fans, but to those of us who love a grand dame, she was TV gold. Whether it was dressing as Joan Rivers, unprovoked, in a mini-challenge where she recreated Bjork's swan dress out of paper with (I think) Katya, or being compared to Ethel Merman in the parodies challenge with her vocal choices, or this scene-stealing moment at the DESPYs.



Speaking of the DESPYS - it was the episode that sent her home. Now, judging on this show is often suspect, but... she fluffed one joke at the start of the show... whilst Miss Fame, Jaidynn and Violet all visibly struggled with any comedy whatsoever. It was infuriating.

Especially when her run up to that point had been so good: I will argue to this day that she was robbed of the Glamazonian Airways challenge and absolutely destroyed Ginger, let alone anyone else. Her and Katya's chemistry manifested excellently again later in the series with the conjoined twin challenge, as a pair of casino-going alcoholics who were somehow from different cities. We were also robbed of a Liza Minnelli Snatch Game that would've put Alexis Michelle's to shame


Memorable quote(s): "There's always time for a cocktail!"
"Anybody can be a girl, but it takes a lot of balls to be a lady."
Best Runway(s): I vote for her green runway, where she wore a dress covered in dollar signs
Best Moment(s): I want to go and rewatch the conjoined twins challenge again just because of their backstory.


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Acid Betty - Adore Delano - Alaska - Alexis Mateo - Alyssa Edwards - Aquaria - Asia O'Hara - Bebe Zahara Benet - Bendelacreme - Bianca Del Rio - Bob the Drag Queen - Chad Michaels - Chi Chi DeVayne - Coco Montrese
Courtney Act - Darienne Lake - Detox - Eureka - Ginger Minj - Jinkx Monsoon - Jujubee - Katya - Kennedy Davenport - Latrice Royale - Manila Luzon - Mariah - Mimi Imfurst - Monet X Change - Monique Heart - Nina Bo'nina Brown
Nina Flowers - Phi Phi O'Hara - Raja - Raven - Roxxxy Andrews - Shangela - Sharon Needles - Shea Coulee - Stacy Layne Matthews - Tammie Brown - Tatianna - Thorgy Thor - Trinity the Tuck - Trixie Mattel - Willam - Yara Sofia
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47th Place: Aquaria (Season 10) - finished 1st

I change my mind about Aquaria pretty much every other day so I've resolved to oust her from this list at a pretty respectable position for someone who can occasionally just get properly on my tits.

Season 10 began with Aquaria as the villainesque counterpart to some vague, boring Miz Cracker drama (that was mercifully cut short by the Vixen's no-nonsense approach) and her talking heads certainly helped to build her up as this snooty, awkward figure with a limp sense of humour and a head lodged firmly up her own arse. As someone going into Season 10 with already six digits of Instagram followers, though, I guess that's somewhat understandable - but that's something that lingered throughout season 10 in my head, of why the idea of her winning was such a tired set-up from the get-go: she was friends with Amanda Lepore, frequently in contact with previous winners Sharon Needles and Alaska, in social circles with Lady Bunny and presumably even RuPaul herself... it just... goes against the sort of reality TV story that I love. But she was pretty, young and white so the fans loved her anyway.

As the season progressed though, Aquaria continued to surprise the cynics and managed to put in solid, memorable performances in comedy and acting challenges; she won Snatch Game with an excellent Melania Trump impression, somehow honing her often-wayward speech pattern into a few clever one-liners ("no wonder my husband goes on about hating Chyna all the time :/"). She did great in the Bossy Rossy episode opposite a winning Eureka, and also put in a great performance in the Breastworld episode as a cyborg hostess (I personally would've placed her above Asia for the performance, but she messed up the runway so Asia won fairly).

On the subject of runways, obviously Aquaria was mostly faultless. Her only bad critiques were for the "completely different runway" 50 years from now look, but I will still argue that she was vastly overrated in some regards. That "evil twin" look which was basically just a "Prehistoric Runway" outfit repurposed for this challenge, being labelled "top 5 of all time" by RuPaul.... really? I cannot endorse that at all. But otherwise, sure, she burned the runway frequently. She could also put in a strong lipsync, and undeniably defeated Kameron and Eureka in the final lipsync (but I still argue Eureka beat her in the semi-final! and so does the unedited live reception, sweetie!)

So all of this should mean she's a winner that's well-respected, beloved and should've finished top 25 in this list, right? Well... the problem is Aquaria is still an awkward, kinda embarrassing asshole at times! Take her stint on Fashion Photo RuView: she knows a few references but oftentimes her opinions are just wildly off-base and prone to a few whiny, "we've already seen it " moments that just sets drag at a ridiculously unattainable "I can afford £20,000 gowns" standard. She's had a fair few spats on Twitter that have had mixed results: on the plus side she called Theresa May out and told Bebe Rexha to suck a dick or whatever, but on the downside she fatshamed Darienne Lake for disliking her MET Gala look and "achieving something for once"

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And, well, there's probably around 50 more examples on the Drama reddit of her lashing out and making a bit of a fool of herself. And I know she's incredibly young, and impetuous, or whatever, but I guess I just like my queens with a little more decorum.

We won't mention the "Meet the S11 Queens" video but she tried. Also I'm still mad she won the Evil Twin challenge when Asia was RIGHT THERE.


Memorable quote(s): "I said: Lady Bunny is a wonderful entertainer, a humble kween, and she keeps the show going, and is a handsome and smart gentlemen Close? Ah. Any hole is a goal."
"Turning looks, stunting pretty - I'm the bitch from New York City."
Best Runway(s): I mentioned the overrated 'evil twin' look because I would actually argue her 'good twin' look was comfortably her best. Amazing colour palette. The mermaid is a close 2nd.
Best Moment(s): Nearly falling on Jinkx Monsoon in the very first minichallenge, giving Jinkx, and us, the line "I was just happy for the airtime"


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Courtney Act - Darienne Lake - Detox - Eureka - Ginger Minj - Jinkx Monsoon - Jujubee - Katya - Kennedy Davenport - Latrice Royale - Manila Luzon - Mariah - Mimi Imfurst - Monet X Change - Monique Heart - Nina Bo'nina Brown
Nina Flowers - Phi Phi O'Hara - Raja - Raven - Roxxxy Andrews - Shangela - Sharon Needles - Shea Coulee - Stacy Layne Matthews - Tammie Brown - Tatianna - Thorgy Thor - Trinity the Tuck - Trixie Mattel - Willam - Yara Sofia
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I diiiiid find the Alyssa/Coco drama irritating in S5 yeah, and she was obviously a non-starter in AS2, but I would be foolish not to put her high for the lipsyncs alone!

Cold Hearted Snake is obvs the most-respected but 'I'm So Excited' is in my top ten of all time
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Yaaaaas, Coco is an underrated gem in Drag Race lore.
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Gutted Aquaria is out so soon, she definitely deserved a higher placing than some of these queens just for her run in the show alone.
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Yeah, she's also got about a hundred one-liners that're still Drag Race iconography to this day (I mean, the GET HER JADE gif alone is enough to secure top 50)
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I was pleasantly surprised when I watched the most recent RuCap* to find not one but three Mrs. Kasha Davis references shoehorned in (there's always time for a cocktail, welcyum, and of course wHaT tHe hELL?!?!), which means she's slowly but surely becoming the one true meme queen of season 7. Watch out, Jasmine!

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Also, of the queens remaining I'm pulling for randomly high placements for Mariah, Bebe and Chi Chi, and randomly low placements for Manila and Bianca, because sometimes I just like to watch the world burn
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46th Place: Mimi Imfurst (Season 3, All Stars 1) - finished 11th and 11th/12th place respectively

Sure, on the face of it placing Mimi this high is going to raise a few eyebrows but have you ever considered the fact that she's unarguably one of the most iconic queens of all time? You haven't? Act a fool, girl. Act the fool.

For someone who's only appeared in four episodes (excluding reunions), Mimi sure packed a lot of drama into the Drag Race lore. She entered season 3 with a tray of cookies and aiming to make friends, but by the halfway point of the episode she was breaking down and crying over her blue sheets falling apart. She mercifully pulled it together and delivered one of the best looks that week, as the Mother of Christ herself (no, not Rylan's mum), but her volatile emotions quickly saw her become the butt of the editors' joke. The next episode would see a dramatic close-up shot of her expecting to win the "Drag Queens from Outer Space" challenge only for it to be delivered to Alexis/Shangela instead, and pave the way for the greatest Untucked moment of all time



Ugh. So many quotes. "I saw the fishnets and they were ripped". Ugh. We were blessed.

Moving on, Mimi then delivered another iconic moment by deciding to pick India Ferrah up and throw her over her shoulder in the lipsync in episode three, to Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way", and then had the nerve to present India with a t-shirt at the reunion that said "I got picked up by Mimi Imfurst and all I got was this lousy shirt" a petty mess



As if that wasn't enough, Mimi then - like the saint she is - went on to deliver the SECOND most iconic Untucked moment of all time on her return to All Stars. She might not have been the highlight of it, but she facilitated it and that was enough. Was she bullied? Absolutely, and it was uncomfortable as hell, and if this aired today she might get the redemption she clearly deserved, because Pandora Boxx was a ****ing petty **** with a ****ty attitude and TIRED DRAG and TIRED HUMOUR and SHOULD DIE but that's immaterial and I'm over it (really). But god damn. What an episode.



And if that weren't enough - I place Mimi this high for her post-show shenanigans. Anyone who has ever enjoyed the Roast episodes of Drag Race will be absolutely blown away by this clip here, where she absolutely DESTROYS the rest of the girls (and this is a lineup with Bianca, Jinkx, Alaska, Detox, Pandora, Shangela and Willam). I won't spoil the best zingers, but the joke about Detox being born is quite possibly the best delivery of a joke I have ever heard.



She's also turned major looks at recent finales/reunions, with that Carmen Sandiego outfit I mentioned and some crazy wicked-stepmother thing from the S9 finale. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that she would boss a future All Stars, but um... the attitude would definitely be a problem and also the sexual harassment allegations


Memorable quote(s): "And if I have to lipsync... I'll mother****in' lipsync my life off "
"They're all fools, 'cause I have an acting company! Their loss... if they don't pick me."
"The ship is surrounded by a forcefielduuhhuahuhhAHhahahhHAHH"
Best Runway(s): I did like pretty much all of them, but I'd give the title to the S3E3 one she went home in.
Best Moment(s): Picking up India Ferrah again in a Carmen Sandiego outfit at the Season 10 live finale


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Acid Betty - Adore Delano - Alaska - Alexis Mateo - Alyssa Edwards - Asia O'Hara - Bebe Zahara Benet - Bendelacreme - Bianca Del Rio - Bob the Drag Queen - Chad Michaels - Chi Chi DeVayne - Coco Montrese
Courtney Act - Darienne Lake - Detox - Eureka - Ginger Minj - Jinkx Monsoon - Jujubee - Katya - Kennedy Davenport - Latrice Royale - Manila Luzon - Mariah - Monet X Change - Monique Heart - Nina Bo'nina Brown
Nina Flowers - Phi Phi O'Hara - Raja - Raven - Roxxxy Andrews - Shangela - Sharon Needles - Shea Coulee - Stacy Layne Matthews - Tammie Brown - Tatianna - Thorgy Thor - Trinity the Tuck - Trixie Mattel - Willam - Yara Sofia
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The pure Curb Your Enthusiasm moment of "oh screw it, let's have two winners..."



"...congrats Alexis and Shangela!"



Shame her Precious joke has been copied by so many other queens since, but judging by Alaska and Willam's podcast, a good 75% of pre-Monét X Change/Madonna-gate Hater's Roast drama apparently involved Mimi doing the same to other queen's jokes
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45th Place: Chi Chi DeVayne (Season 8, All Stars 3) - finished 4th and 8th place respectively

Season eight panned out in such a dissatisfying way that it made the trajectory of Miss DeVayne all the more confusing: she started off as a major underdog, but by the time the likes of Betty, Robbie and Thorgy had been culled in surprise results, the very idea of Chi Chi not making the final three became all the more unpalatable. Season 8 highlights for Chi Chi include: literally neck-popping and lipsyncing perfectly in an upside-down handstand-split in the Bitch Perfect challenge which earned her the win, a pretty great Eartha Kitt impersonation on Snatch Game, a strong 'Shortbread' in the Empire acting challenge, and an excellent Paper Ball performance with that crazy jagged ballerina look in the GIF above.

Unfortunately for Chi Chi, the season was so heavily orientated towards design challenges to try and hide Kim Chi and Naomi Smalls' lack of charisma, so she also put in a pretty abysmal Dorothy look in the Oz Makeover challenge. She landed in the bottom two twice and I'm not sure she deserved to both times: in the first, she threw her team under the bus in the RECTANGLE GIRLS OF THE WORLD performance and had the most basic runway of the three of them, so no excuses there, but did she really do worse than Kim Chi in the political campaign? No. No she didn't. Still: both results gave us jaw-dropping lipsyncs and for that alone, she should've been top 3 over Naomi.


Genuinely the only solo-performance in a lipsync that comes close to Dida Ritz's. Magical.

The weird season eight edit should've been a hint that her All Stars one would be just as puzzling, really: there was definitely a strong sense that Chi Chi was "not all there" and aching to go home by the end of her run, but I'm still pretty pissed that she was given such a rough time of it by the judges. She deserved to be in the bottom for the Talent Show, sure, and there was no defending her Snatch Game as Maya Angelou, but that performance as Patti LaBelle in the VH1 Divas challenge should've landed her in the top, not the bottom. Absolutely confounding.

As of right now, Chi Chi is still battling scleroderma and whilst I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on that disease, from what I've heard of her interviews with Hey Qween and other places, it's a pretty devastating one and forced her into severe changes with her drag (no more cartwheels and jump-splits). It's a pretty heartbreaking thing to witness one of the most talented and physical performers of Drag Race herstory go through, and the fandom's willful ignorance of anything a black queen does unless it's a death-drop on TV, means I fear for her drag future... but hopefully her charm, circle of friends, and impressive peers can help her into other styles of drag. Because if we're talking "look queens", then well... it doesn't get more gag than this.



Memorable quote(s): "Girl... face crack."
"Hey everybody, I'm Bob the Drag Queen. JOKES JOKES JOKES JOKES. "
Lucian: "I don't really have anything negative to say about y-"
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Best Runway(s): That Allstars "wigs on wigs" runway was jaw-dropping.
Best Moment(s): Thinking that her prize for winning the Bitch Perfect Challenge, a getaway in "New England", meant she got to go on holiday abroad


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Acid Betty - Adore Delano - Alaska - Alexis Mateo - Alyssa Edwards - Asia O'Hara - Bebe Zahara Benet - Bendelacreme - Bianca Del Rio - Bob the Drag Queen - Chad Michaels - Coco Montrese - Courtney Act
Darienne Lake - Detox - Eureka - Ginger Minj - Jinkx Monsoon - Jujubee - Katya - Kennedy Davenport - Latrice Royale - Manila Luzon - Mariah - Monet X Change - Monique Heart - Nina Bo'nina Brown
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44th Place: Trixie Mattel (Season 7, All Stars 3) - finished 6th and 1st (allegedly) respectively

Another placement that I'm sure will disgust some, but hear me out: Trixie sucked at Drag Race. She's great at other things. Before we address those good things, though: a list of reasons why she doesn't beat the likes of Alexis Mateo or Tatianna in my rankdown. In season seven she was already one of the strong fan favourites and I couldn't really understand why; she bombed at pretty much all of the challenges she featured in and her only good episode was the comeback "conjoined twins" challenge with her "good evening, distinguished panel of judges " moment. She was easily outshone by stronger comedic talent (Katya in the 'Tan With You' episode, Ginger in the 'EGGS EGGS EGGS' episode) and just didn't really know how to land a punchline or steal a scene. Her entrance line for Season 7, too, was pretty much an unfunny copy of Courtney Act's "is this America's Next Top Model? no? ok -walk out-" from the season directly before


"This isn't Maury Povitch?"

You'd have thought, coming back into All Stars as one half of the most beloved Drag Race duo of all time, she'd have managed to seal a convincing challenge win or two - especially when there are two winners for each challenge. Instead, she TANKED impersonating RuPaul in Snatch Game, was visibly frustrated and unable to finish a line when paired with Milk in the Bitchelor episode (and I'm sorry, but even if she wasn't interrupted by a rabid Milk, she wouldn't have defeated Kennedy or Dela that week. Not by a mile.), put in a pleasant but bland performance of her song 'Moving Parts' in the talent show (that could've gone either way, really, but when you had Aja and Kennedy slamming the ground, Dela doing a great burlesque routine, and Bebe losing her wig, it was never going to steal the show), and only really managed to pick up two arbitrary wins for performances I cannot even recall. One was for that horrific Drag Wedding acting challenge that she pretty much only won by virtue of "not being Kennedy, Bebe or Morgan", and the other was for that disaster of a Warhol Ball that was judged...bizarrely, and the other??? It wasn't for IQ Kitty, I know that much.

Trixie also has the honour of losing the most lipsyncs of all time on the show, against Pearl, Ginger, Bebe, Shangela and Kennedy in the final. And she had the Roxxxy verse in Kitty Girl and I won't hear otherwise. "Long thick legs a tarantula"? Please.

THAT SAID... Trixie is obviously a superstar off the show and has proven herself to be one of the funniest, most captivating queens. 95% of her fanbase might be the annoying rabid fangirls I try to dissociate myself from ASAP, but it's hard to deny that she's actually the glue of the webseries 'UNHhhh' and comes up with most of the best one-liners and steers the conversation away from Katya mentioning something about tube-socks of lunchmeat, or the movie Contact, again. Musically, too, Trixie has broken the mould and released (so far) two albums of strong, personal and emotional material that have been a world away from the usual Drag Race Alumni fodder.

TLDR: Trixie sucked at Drag Race but is one of the funniest queens to emerge from the show, and someone who I'll watch religiously from now on.


Memorable quote(s): "Milk, your talent can't be Velcro. "
"Oh my god, get out of my station"
Best Runway(s): It'd have to be something from All Stars and I think I'll opt for either the 'Red Runway' (that latex dress with an apple on top of some books on her head) or, more convincingly, her Flowers runway
Best Moment(s): Challenging Acid Betty to a fight in the parking lot at the Season 8 finale


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Darienne Lake - Detox - Eureka - Ginger Minj - Jinkx Monsoon - Jujubee - Katya - Kennedy Davenport - Latrice Royale - Manila Luzon - Mariah - Monet X Change - Monique Heart - Nina Bo'nina Brown
Nina Flowers - Phi Phi O'Hara - Raja - Raven - Roxxxy Andrews - Shangela - Sharon Needles - Shea Coulee - Stacy Layne Matthews - Tammie Brown - Tatianna - Thorgy Thor - Trinity the Tuck - Willam - Yara Sofia
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Chi Chi seeming genuinely worried that Robbie would be hanged by the city of Seattle for her poor Snatch Game performance is a season highlight, tbh

And yep, everything about Trixie (well, everything but her fanbase, as you mentioned, and even then I don't think her fans are as notoriously unbearable now as they were, say, two years ago) is so much more fun away the show than on it. I think my opinion of her as a Drag Race queen will always be tainted by her randomly OTTN turn in the AS3 premiere, when she had about half a dozen uncharacteristically bitchy confessionals in the space of the first ten minutes, several of which were about how omg Chi Chi and Kennedy are ~the same person~
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43rd Place: Coco Montrese (Season 5, All Stars 2) - finished 5th and 10th respectively

Going into the second All Stars, Coco and Tatianna were the only two queens I wasn't too thrilled about returning. The latter managed to steal the show in the first episode, whilst the other...committed suicide.

Why wasn't I thrilled? Despite Season 5's reputation as "one of the best seasons ever" (6, 4, 3 and 10 are all comfortably better ), it was just so suffocating and draining to watch at the time. With time, of course, a lot of that season has gone on to become iconic, and there are so many staple Drag Race Quotes per episode that it's undeniably a pivotal season, but it was essentially a cast of six queens with a whole bunch of disposable filler. Why? Because of the freight train that was the Coco/Alyssa storyline.

It didn't help, of course, that both of them were phenomenal lipsyncers and sending home everyone in their paths when they inevitably tanked challenges - but putting aside the unjust and premature demises of the likes of Lineysha Sparx and Ivy Winters, the editing between these two as they confronted each other in the Workroom or on Untucked was honestly insulting to the viewer. Scenes were so choppy and reworked that it made whatever backstory and history there was between the two completely hazy.

I'm also not fully in love with Coco because she displays quite a few layers of 'ugly personality' in the season; notably eviscerating the likes of Jinkx and Alaska for their drag appearance and not really getting what it means to be a comedian (until, of course... she won the comedy challenge).

All of that noted, I put her in the top 50 on the strength of her four lipsyncs alone. She didn't do brilliantly at "It Takes Two" vs. Detox, but every other one was just... frighteningly good. I choose this as one of my favourites of all time merely for how much the judges and everyone else are enjoying themselves.



Coco also managed to beat Jinkx and Alaska in the best ever RuPaul Roast episode, with some quips that prompted reactions from Ru that've never been seen since, but otherwise her good episodes were fleeting Luckily, Coco's presence as one of the show's greatest ever villains and most quotable queens means she's surely a shoe-in for another future AllStars, and hopefully this time she doesn't experiment with an old Hollywood number.


Memorable quote(s): "And just for the record - LADYBOY - this outfit is what I wear on a Las Vegas stage every single night, people pay over a hundred-something dollars to see me every night, so whenever you get through trying to say that *I* don't look the part, I ain't doing my job? I've been doing my job since 1992 - was you even born yet? Don't TRY it little boy. MONICA, SEND HER ASS HOME."
"How can I put Jinkx? Well... Hot. Garbage."
"She's competing for the same title that I am right now. In that muumuu? Girl. She looked like a pumpkin. Oh hell to the naw."
"OH I'M NOT JOKING BITCH."
"Girl... find the note."
Best Runway(s): 100% that telenovela episode where she's flailing in some insanely-sleeved mango dress
Best Moment(s): OH. AT ALL.


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Darienne Lake - Detox - Eureka - Ginger Minj - Jinkx Monsoon - Jujubee - Katya - Kennedy Davenport - Latrice Royale - Manila Luzon - Mariah - Monet X Change - Monique Heart - Nina Bo'nina Brown
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42nd Place: Adore Delano (Season 6, All Stars 2) - finished 2nd and 9th respectively

Another placing I'm sure will raise is a few eyebrows is this one - but I'm quite resolute in getting Adore out of the way now. It's quite simple really.

Obviously, Adore Delano is a talented singer (although I thought her tone in both her AS2 performance and the Shade the Rusical performance was a little...offkey?) and artist and has commanded the hearts of hundreds of thousands of viewers. She had an infectious personality in season six and had the show's most obvious "underdog" story arc to date. There are countless soundbites, and she did well at a handful of challenges.

Why am I placing her this low, for a finalist? Because... I just get the impression her attitude stinks.

Adore has been the focus of a lot of post-Drag Race attention for a long time, and her diva antics have rubbed a lot of fellow queens and fans the wrong way. She had a big falling out with her production company, PEG, because she failed to read what was - in fairness - a pretty horrific contract that left her footing the bill for any wardrobe, touring and promotional costs herself. She's left all sorts of childish bad tastes whilst touring, notably here:



And then there's her Instagram Lives which are just....incredibly uncomfortable, and open to all sorts of interpretation (most seem to agree she is using meth, which is, erm... party?)



Idk. I don't want to rat on someone who's going through substance abuse but I guess the story of Adore Delano is that Drag Race girls can let a whole lot of preteen fans go to their head and think it gives them license to be the most obnoxious, immature bratty celebrity in the name of "punk rock".

And she was carried to the final, idc what anyone says. Season six was fantastic for a lot of reasons but the one niggling gripe I have with that season is how many free passes Adore was handed. That first sewing challenge with the Honey Boo Boo look was a PINK RIBBON. AROUND A PIECE OF FABRIC. AND SHE DIDN'T LAND IN THE BOTTOM TWO? HOW?

But... her Anna Nicole Smith was great, and I did feel for her on Allstars 2. But she just needs to grow up.


Memorable quote(s): "I'm polish remover, bitch "
"She's everything I wanna be when I'm 57... she's gonna kill me."
Best Runway(s): I GUESS that diamond ballerina thing in the Jewel ball.
Best Moment(s): falling off the chair haha i do that Adjusting her wig after the Vibeology lipsync


Remaining queens
Acid Betty - Alaska - Alexis Mateo - Alyssa Edwards - Asia O'Hara - Bebe Zahara Benet - Bendelacreme - Bianca Del Rio - Bob the Drag Queen - Chad Michaels - Courtney Act - Darienne Lake
Detox - Eureka - Ginger Minj - Jinkx Monsoon - Jujubee - Katya - Kennedy Davenport - Latrice Royale - Manila Luzon - Mariah - Monet X Change - Monique Heart - Nina Bo'nina Brown - Nina Flowers
Phi Phi O'Hara - Raja - Raven - Roxxxy Andrews - Shangela - Sharon Needles - Shea Coulee - Stacy Layne Matthews - Tammie Brown - Tatianna - Thorgy Thor - Trinity the Tuck - Willam - Yara Sofia
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41st Place: Phi Phi O'Hara (Season 4, All Stars 2) - finished 3rd and 7th, respectively

A lot of time has passed since people felt strongly about Phi Phi O'Hara and her status as the most-loathed queen of all time has long been handed to various other substitutes. But when Drag Race was a little more real, and queens weren't so heavily self-aware and fearful of coming across as a sociopath bitch with rage issues, Phi Phi was by far the biggest monster the show created. And a lot of the fan response was justified, but naturally, many others took it far too personally on Willam/Sharon's behalf and just... yeah, silly things.

So I won't sugar-coat the Season 4 edit: it was horrific and she did and said awful things. Repeatedly calling Willam and Sharon talentless, setting Jiggly Caliente up to fail in the Dragazines episode, and going absolutely mental on most Untuckeds made her TV dynamite, but also gave us probably the only ever "finale" episode where more than half of the audience are actively rooting for a queen to fail. Sure, most probably hated Silky in S11 but the reception at the finale was civil enough (whether the boos were edited out, or not, remains to be seen). But there is no purer form of schadenfreude than the wooping and screaming in the S4 finale when Willam coughs the word "bullshit" over Phi Phi's half-assed apology. A truly iconic moment, and not just for the cut to a then-largely-unknown Alaska in the audience looking completely shellshocked



So yeah, aside from all of the drama, Phi Phi just... didn't shine anywhere near as much as Chad and Sharon and was always doomed to be the trailing finalist; having only won two episodes and one of those was the disastrous Dragazine challenge (I sincerely hope every single person involved with editing those front covers was fired on the spot, that was a MESS). I also question her win of the Bitch Ball since she wore Kenya Michaels' Nicki Minaj outfit for a "daytime doggy park realness" look that is just...what? Huh? Sharon won that episode hands down. But Phi Phi did well at the wrestling challenge, was snubbed in the Rupocalypse premiere (my top 3 from that first challenge were Sharon, Milan and Phi Phi. Lashauwn just looked weird and the Princess' was too clean) and did fine in the other performance challenges... bar Snatch Game.

It just all gets a bit murky and unfortunate with All Stars 2 because she could've - like Roxxxy - come in and redeemed herself and really set herself up for a boost in popularity. But she seemed too neurotic, too cautious and paranoid of what everyone was saying and doing, and a background in pageant drag meant that she was always naturally going to play a few mindgames with the other girls since it was still a competition. I will say in her defence, I think she was right about most "controversial moments" that arose on the show: Alyssa Edwards is and was handed too many free passes "because she's Alyssa" and is otherwise a bumbling fool who isn't trying as hard as the other girls. Roxxxy Andrews was probably making a dodgy choice with Sofia Vergara for Snatch Game, and whilst she did change her mind and bomb as Alaska partially due to Phi Phi's advice, it's harsh to lay the blame for that at Phi Phi's feet.

The story of Phi Phi on Drag Race is largely unfortunate because the talent is undeniably there: her 365 Days of Drag on Instagram was incredible, she can sing and dance and is pretty quick-witted... she just got put in two of the best seasons of all time where there were clearly bigger talents on display and more likeable ones too. Was she right to send a big middle finger to the shady production? Absolutely, but she also brought a lot of it on herself and needed to just... either take it easy, or play up a ridiculous loudmouth-bitch character that the fans could've responded to. Like Yvie Oddly.


Memorable quote(s): "AT LEAST I AM A SHOWGIRL, BITCH. GO BACK TO PARTY CITY WHERE YOU BELONG."
Best Runway(s): Oh, hands down the "2-in-1" look from All Stars 2. She had some KILLER runways in All Stars but that shift from Prince Charming to Belle was astonishing. Close 2nd: her space-age blue alien with the massive gold gun
Best Moment(s): I still get a little tingly feeling in the Lee Dawson recap (back when they were good) of the Alyssa vs. Phi Phi fight with the simmering kettle sound effect and explosive I SAID I FELT moment


Remaining queens
Acid Betty - Alaska - Alexis Mateo - Alyssa Edwards - Asia O'Hara - Bebe Zahara Benet - Bendelacreme - Bianca Del Rio - Bob the Drag Queen - Chad Michaels - Courtney Act - Darienne Lake
Detox - Eureka - Ginger Minj - Jinkx Monsoon - Jujubee - Katya - Kennedy Davenport - Latrice Royale - Manila Luzon - Mariah - Monet X Change - Monique Heart - Nina Bo'nina Brown - Nina Flowers
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