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'The audience has been hungry for it,' Colby said of trans inclusion on the show. At the forefront of all this was Peppermint who revealed she was transitioning while on season nine of the show that taped in 2016 and aired a year later.

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Other queens - like Gia Gunn and Kylie Sonique Love - competed on the 'All Stars' iteration of the series with Love even winning her season last year. 'Firstly, because I have been a fan of 'Drag Race' for a long time and before I even started my transition, I did observe the stigma and was always like, once upon a time if I ever go I don’t know if I can ever be myself.'Ĭolby follows in the footsteps of Gottmik, the first transgender man to compete on the show, in 2021. 'It’s been so surreal,' she said of the experience.

I didn't realize I would go viral and create a pretty large fandom.' 'I thought it'd be like a smaller following, not the surge of fans that has happened. 'I thought I might have a small cultlike following after the first episode,' Pill, 26, told TODAY. That collective even includes pop star Ariana Grande, who slid into the DMs of Colby and Pill after the season 14 premiere episode. The American version is the OG, and mama RuPaul will never let the fandom forget that.

The franchise has spawned countless successful international iterations as well, including the United Kingdom, Thailand, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Canada. Snatching 24 Emmy awards after 48 nominations, host and producer RuPaul broke a record in 2021 for the most Emmy wins by a person of color with 11 wins. Premiering in 2009, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' quickly became not only one of the most successful pieces of queer pop culture in the 21st century, but it has also captivated the heterosexual zeitgeist as well. RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars returns for season 7 on May 20 on Paramount+ for an all-winners season.TODAY sat down with Colby, Willow Pill and Kornbread Jeté via Zoom to chat about their catapult to stardom in the first few weeks of the new season and the upcoming competition of the VH1 reality hit.

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The end of season 14 is far from the end of Drag Race on TV screens in 2022. “I want to thank my family and friends and most of all I want to thank Kornbread’s ankle,” Willow said after snatching the crown, nodding to the fact that her friend on season 14, early frontrunner Kornbread “The Snack” Jeté, was forced to leave the competition early on doctors’ orders thanks to an injury. The runner-up, Camden, still netted a nice $50,000 cash prize.

In the end, Ru decided the winner was Willow Pill, who walked away with $150,000, a $50 bump up from last season. That meant a lip sync finale face-off to Cher’s ABBA cover of “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” complete with several mid-performance surprise outfit reveals. Based on the performances, Ru decided that the final two competing for the crown would be Willow Pill, wearing a giant oversized pink-and-black-striped suit in the vein of Tim Burton meets David Byrne, and Lady Camden, dressed in white wearing a royal crown and knee-high gold boots.

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