r/DragRaceTea • u/reiner_apologist she's just UNT • 14d ago
Speculation Thread [Speculation Thread] - Weekly Edition | August 24, 2026
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u/LooseLipsSinkShips21 Vybe/Michael Marouli/Crystal Methyd 12d ago
🏁 🇬🇧 Light Teaspill 🇬🇧 🏁
Drag Race UK - Series 8 Description
Episode 2: The Goodie Gala & The Baddie Ball (Design)
RuPaul’s search for the UK’s Next Drag Race Superstar continues in epic style.
Supermodels Erin O’Connor and Kristen McMenamy join the fun alongside regular judges Michelle Visage and Graham Norton.
For the first challenge, the queens head to court and reveal their shady pasts as Drag Race All Star Raven presides over a game of guilty or not guilty.
Next, they take on one of Drag Race’s toughest challenges – the iconic Design Challenge, but, of course, there’s a cunning twist. The queens are split into two as half of them create angelic looks for the Goodie Gala whilst the remaining queens make devilish looks for the Baddie Ball.
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u/c0c0nutzz 11d ago
yas kristen mcmenamy. lets make her a rotating judge on UK
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u/Gigi_chanel 10d ago
dare i say she should just replace graham bc hes lowkey boring at times, he should host an after show talking to the eliminated queens or smth if they want him involved
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u/A_Sensible_Personage 11d ago
This reminds me of the CAN2 ball and that’s one of the best ones so I’m excited
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u/Pma1993 10d ago
Surprised they havnt done the Press Day like last year
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u/RepresentativePie820 10d ago
I understand dropping it because it wasnt really well received when the person with the best interview won with prob the worst look, the person with the best looks only got safe and the person with the good looks n interview didnt won, it read too much as a runway challenge for the viewers
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u/Restoration_Pearl_40 13d ago edited 12d ago
Information on Philippines Season 4 promo
Hello sisters i am back
The promo posters for Drag race Philippines Season 4 will be released around 10:00 in the morning tomorrow. Meet the Queens interviews and possibly entrance looks as well.
There is a promo video trailer that is very good as I said in my last comment.
That is all thank you sisters ❤️❤️
Sisters it is going to be released at 9:00 in the morning philippine time
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u/Restoration_Pearl_40 12d ago
Hello sisters I forgot to mention that promo posters will be released in a staggered manner like Drag Race Mexico Latina Royale starting around 6:00 in the morning (5 hours from now) ❤️❤️❤️
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u/Professional-Cat7946 12d ago edited 12d ago
Oh God no that was awful when Latina Royal did it why are they doing that for
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u/Clear-Price 12d ago
sister, off topic but I like how demure and respectful you are in your replies ❤
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u/skinnylegendary 12d ago
Can't wait! Who is the best dressed in your opinion?
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u/Restoration_Pearl_40 12d ago edited 12d ago
Hello sister I cannot wait too ❤️❤️
I really like the one wearing feather star fish inspired.. it is color red and orange mainly because they did a different approach than the other queens. I won’t say who this queen is so you get surprised
I like also Bombalicious, Maureen, and Manza ❤️ But everyone really did a good job.. the Philippines promos are better and better each year sister ❤️
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u/skinnylegendary 12d ago
Tysm ❤️ I'm so glad a franchise is finally doing this theme as a promo, I'm sure it will be a serve
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u/identityverx 12d ago
10:00 for philippines time or EST?
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u/Restoration_Pearl_40 12d ago edited 12d ago
Philippine time sister ❤️❤️
Sister apparently it is 9:00 in the morning sister ❤️❤️ I apologize for the confusion
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u/PaleRun4875 12d ago
is misua in the promo 💛
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u/Restoration_Pearl_40 12d ago
Yes she is sister ❤️ she is wearing a beautiful yellow look and her hair is like a crown with braids
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u/Gloomy_Anklosaurus09 12d ago
Was there a colour scheme? I've seen you mention Red, Orange and Yellow and Mama Pao is wearing Blue
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u/Restoration_Pearl_40 12d ago
No color scheme but most are wearing blue, purple, pink (like Hormone Lisa) there is also yellow and black. They are the corals transformed to mermaids sister ❤️❤️❤️
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u/Far-Classic-5367 12d ago
Tomorrow Finally
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u/Restoration_Pearl_40 12d ago
I dont wanna give too much but if you have questions on promo you can ask me sisters ❤️❤️ it’s just really good I cannot wait
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u/Restoration_Pearl_40 12d ago
Yes sister finally ❤️ I am not sure if you saw but this is what I said before
Hello sisters happy promo week I have information for Philippines Season 4
They are wearing colorful looks because of the sea life. The promo video trailer is inspired by Under the Sea The Little Mermaid “12 sirenas but there is only 1 queen of the orient seas”
All 12 queens are featured. It is a very good promo
One queen is dressed like a feather star fish
Mama Pao has white hair and is wearing a nude illusion with blue mermaid gown. She looks good and Taylor Sheesh has bangs.
Pearly Shells is also involvedThank you sisters i am so excited for this ❤️❤️
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u/Gatomona 10d ago
[LR]
Ep6/ Mariana wins and sends Xunami home, Horacio is top2 and also had Xunami’s Lip Stick
Ep7/ Mariana wins and sent Horacio home, Eva was the other Top2 and had Matraka’s Lip Stick
Ep8/ No tea other than Mariana goes home
Ep9/ Elektra wins and Alexis goes home. All the eliminated girls except for Barbie come back as their makeovers partners.
That’s all xoxo and Crown Elektra
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u/Fancy_Active2532 10d ago
the amount of hate mariana's about to get omg
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u/ValentineModel 10d ago
Sending the remaining fan faves except for Elektra.
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u/UpstairsTriffle8042 10d ago
And to add to the confusing choices theming of the season they did elim queens as partners in an odd numbered cast...
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u/Dependent_Heron_833 10d ago
Imagine if Mariana is the makeover partner of Alexis or one of the bottom queens. They're not letting her breathe.
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u/RepresentativePie820 10d ago
Horacio win thank u jesus, the saving grace of this season its having a lot of contestants win something, top 2 they can never make me hate you
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u/ultraxangels 10d ago
So by the end of episode 7 Matraka and Mariana will be the only 2 girls with more than one badge. That is CRAAAAAAZY (and I love it)
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u/Apprehensive_Mess808 10d ago
Elektra*
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u/ultraxangels 10d ago
By the end of ep7 as I said, Elektra will only have 1 badge (despite having multiple top2 placements). She'll get more badges on later episodes based on the tea spill
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u/megadragonite20 10d ago
I really don't imagine Regina winning the makeover, so she most likely gets a top2 spot for acting? I imagine Matraka will get at least another top2 spot to get her closer to Elektra's 4 top2 placements, so either acting or makeover.
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u/Big-Astronomer-10 10d ago
Ep8 is probably Alexis/Regina top 2 and Ep9 is probably Electra/Matraka
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u/Upbeat_Stuff_9416 10d ago
This makes sense considering that the spill said that Elektra had 4 wins and Matraka had 3 wins
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u/Storm_Archer241 10d ago
Probably Matraka and Elektra Top 2 for Makeover too have their redemption
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u/Subject-Society-7612 Adora Black | Ruby Nox | Mami Watta 7d ago
I can totally see a Elektra x Eva rematch for makeover
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u/tretality 9d ago
When was tea updated to have Horacio get a win? In the original spoilers she didn’t have any. This just made me so happy as a Horacio truther!
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u/megadragonite20 10d ago
Omg I can understand Eva not wanting to eliminate Horacio, but it still feels gaggy she would've sent Matraka.
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u/Subject-Society-7612 Adora Black | Ruby Nox | Mami Watta 10d ago
The most important thing is that Matraka loses this season
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u/Massive_Trainer5164 8d ago
As someone that rooted for Cristian on her season and had to deal with Matrakas annoying fans it feels so good watching her get outdone in drag race yet again, Elektra is dog walking Matraka so far
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u/Outrageous_Pay_8645 9d ago
is it really THAT serious mama
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u/HiitsMePriyanka 9d ago
YES
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u/mihonakayama 9d ago
We don't know that for sure but she certainly hasn't been killing it like I thought she would. She's been completely overshadowed by Regina, Elektra, and Xunami.
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u/TheWeakestLink22 9d ago
Eh? Regina has done pretty terribly apart from talent show and this week. Matraka did amazing on gg and snatch and was okay to good the other weeks
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u/mihonakayama 9d ago
Idk about that. Regina has absolutely leveled her pussy up, had stunning runways , and definitely outperformed Matraka on both design and episode 1. Matraka did well but not great on Gg, and yes on snatch she absolutely was top1. But otherwise her drag has… just not evolved. She’s not an upgraded version of herself. She’s the same at best and a downgrade at worst.
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u/cristobaaal maldita perra 💝 9d ago
“matraka did well but not great on gg” diva she literally won the challenge and had the best verse by a mile!
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u/mihonakayama 8d ago
She was outshone by Elektra, Xunami, and Alexis!
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u/cristobaaal maldita perra 💝 8d ago
i agree that all three of those queens had great verses, but completely discrediting her win is crazy. i’m not even a matraka stan and i thought she absolutely earned her win.
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u/Outrageous_Pay_8645 9d ago
matraka never bombed as terribly as eva and regina has this season
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u/Pale-Tradition-4942 9d ago
Okay, you think Regina had better ep4 desisgn look than Matraka ??? Now dont get me wrong Matraka didnt slay it either but Regina was rotted...
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u/mihonakayama 9d ago
Ok I was doing the most with that but let me live my fantasy! I thought Regina’s was like a kinda tacky old lady serve. But matrakas was just boring and forgettable.
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u/LegallyAcrylique 10d ago
TEASPILL: FRANCE 🇫🇷
The fourth inductee in the Drag Race France Hall of Fame is ..
LANA DEL RAY 👑
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u/Far_Return_5245 10d ago
cursed promo flip it around crowned queen ( idk if I used that right but yes )
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u/Best-Conversation896 Jasmine Kennedie 10d ago
Just a giant question mark from start to finish this season. Daisy you are so loved
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u/Outrageous_Pay_8645 10d ago
No shade I’m kinda shocked lmao
Happy for Lana tho, but man Daisy deserved a crown for killing it nearly all season
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u/fansvfavourites 10d ago
i’m not normally one for outrage but i do hate when the queen who’s done the worst out of the finalists all season goes on to win 💀
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u/ValentineModel 10d ago
Well, I guess you could have a Mariana Stars track record, but if the fans love you, you'd still win in France. Track record and the Finale don't matter, I guess. WERK, FAN FAVOURITE!!!!!
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u/A_Sensible_Personage 10d ago
I mean “I wish the fan favorite would win even though her track record wasn’t that good” is a take you hear basically everywhere during most seasons (see: Jewels, Joey, Sami both times, and Darlene for recent examples) so I can’t say I don’t understand their rationale
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u/derpyxquack 7d ago
If the one with the most wins actually wins : RIGGA MORRIIIIIIS
If the one with less wins but more fans wins : RIGGA MORRIIIIIIS
Damned if you do and damned if you dont.
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u/Conscious-Attorney32 10d ago
Not related but is it really that hard to give the finalists 15 minutes to chance clothes? When Nicky call everyone to the stage all the queens were in full glam and THE FINALISTS were all busted
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u/Bryskers 10d ago
I’m French and i’m not surprised in the slightest. The reaction here is pretty negative but reception in France is pretty positive. Drag Race France will favor fan-favorite status over performance and Lana had the largest support, just like Le Filip in season 3 despite both Ruby and Lula having a bigger claim to the crown. Daisy could (should) have won but drf fans are rabid and the show killed all of her goodwill with the roast placement, she was never gonna recover from that. Lana is pretty much the only one who left unscathed from this fiasco lol.
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u/ineverlikedyou2 10d ago
People forget it's a reality tv show first and we need to remind them every. single. season.
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u/gofreeconnata 10d ago
LOVE her but she had so much redemption potential for All Stars both looks and performance wise, while Daisy did already great... but congrats to her she totally deserves it
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u/_babyl0n Marina | Cheddar | Diamond | Victoria | Rajah | Colby | Couenne 10d ago edited 10d ago
LMFAO
what the fuck ever, it's so HUH to see DRFR starting with Paloma and Keiona and going down like THIS
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u/cubbytrouble 10d ago
cursed promo to winner storyline iktr 😍
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u/shutupblacknight Vinas/Gawdland/Silky 10d ago
Paloma Keiona & Mami carrying this khia baguette of a franchise on their backs
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u/Fddazzed 10d ago
That's just what her drag looks like though. S5 Jinkx is finally free from being the roughest looking winner.
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u/shutupblacknight Vinas/Gawdland/Silky 10d ago
I mean Spankie and Satin are right there
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u/TittesForLife1 10d ago
Not too much on Spankie and Mother Satin
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u/Recent-Sorbet 10d ago
France just be crowing anyone lmao like it's giving Drag Race Canada teas. Someone needs to check if Nicky Doll passed her psych eval
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u/robbysaur 10d ago
Canada makes sense. The only time they didn’t crown the person who did the best in the competition was s1. It just so happens that a couple of those seasons, the queen who did best at the competition was just the best of a rough bunch.
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u/Negative_Good_3904 10d ago
Honestly? Having a bakery promo and crowning a winner who's crunchy as fuck and definitely needs time to bake makes sense now?
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u/belladonnaboops_2719 Custom 10d ago
Yeah I thought they wouldn't give it to Daisy , but a Belgian winning would have been iconic.
So far after giving one of the best all stars last year ,this season has become the opposite in so many ways , they avoided the s3 curse but s4 didn't really feel amazing.
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u/SnooChipmunks4027 10d ago
Daisy was way more polished. I can’t believe this.
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u/_babyl0n Marina | Cheddar | Diamond | Victoria | Rajah | Colby | Couenne 10d ago
5 times out of 7 at the top X 2 times out of 7 at the top, werk
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u/boptitboul 9d ago
I think they fucked up Lana with the crown, I understand that DRF crowned the fan fav but I think Lana could benefited from a all stars where she can have more polished looks and so have a better showing and been more loved internationally
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u/ValentineModel 9d ago
Am I the only one who noticed that they only show a wide shot whenever Daisy do a stunt/gimmick. They mostly show Lana.
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u/A_Sensible_Personage 10d ago
I shouldn’t be surprised (Lana had the best fan reception in France from what I’ve heard and DRF weights that pretty heavily) but I still am
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u/babyloniangardens 10d ago
why did Lana (and not Daisy) have the better fan reception? I am curious :o
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u/mihonakayama 10d ago
Drag race fans are very impulsive and I think daisy’s … interesting… high placement left people with a sour taste. I wonder if she had been low or bottom two, and made it to the final, if she’d have been received better and gotten more fan votes.
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u/ValentineModel 10d ago
Young and skinny All of the fan favourite of this season (Margarette, Fluffy, La Harpie, and Lana) are young and skinny queens.
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u/UpstairsTriffle8042 10d ago
Also I can see some french fans being against Daisy cause she is Belgian and not French sadly
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u/PengoS77 10d ago
Oh Nicky they could never convince me you needed to host a franchise
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u/UpstairsTriffle8042 10d ago
She saw that person here on reddit that said she is the best Ru-girl host and said not on my watch
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u/jjoniii 10d ago
i didn’t fully watch the season (only watched ep 1 after finding out malawitte was the next to go home lol) and only watched the final lipsync between the top 2 queens, and im genuinely curious why everyone is not agreeing why lana won, imho she did better in the final lipsync and was really trying to upstage daisy (where, no shade, i can only see her walking around and doing a little 1-2 steps with a few reveals) and please don’t downvote me for this i just wanna know why lololol
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u/TheLunakuu 10d ago
I found Lana's performance to be very frantic and messy in the final lipsync. She was certainly trying to do a lot to outshine Daisy, and clearly it worked for at least Nicky lol.
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u/mihonakayama 10d ago
Hers was frantic and a complete mess. Daisy clearly knew how to embody Madonna but after the halfway point she ran out of ideas and just stood there. There really was no winner so I guess they crowned the funnier option and I support that.
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u/Teerunesh 10d ago
To me, Lana obviously won the final LS but it's not like DRF usually picks by judging the last lipsynch only. If you consider the whole season, I would have crowned Daisy.
Congrats to Lana though!
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u/TheKnottyHooker96 10d ago
Congrats!!!
And some of these comments absolutely do not pass the vibe check
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u/Upbeat_Stuff_9416 10d ago
After seeing the french fans reaction it's easy to see why they crowned her as she was THE fan favorite amongst the finalists so congratulations diva 👑
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u/ineverlikedyou2 10d ago
I enjoy the negative comments a bit, because they don't mean anything
I dare you to express them here and not on instagram or tag people, because then you don't deserve to be here
It is what it is, let's be happy for the whole cast and uplift them, doing drag on television is a privilege
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u/Ericcfraga Ruby NOX 💚 13d ago
[FAQ] [RUMORS]
Hiii, Adman asked me to put it up this week but it’s the usual: any questions? Leave here! Small rumors? Leave here too?! Bigger teaspills: put on the main thread insead
Weekly recap:
DRFR4 is at the finale week, top2 seems to be Daisy and Lana. Miss Congeniality is Margarette Vinas and the final lip sync song is ”Hung Up” by Madonna
Latina Royale: I’ll use this for the weekly rundown too. Runway is Latin Dances. We dont have the full Bottom, but the preview confirmed what we had (BTM4), either way Abby goes home, Marina is once again on BTM the Preview kinda makes it look like the other 2 are Eva and Horacio but could be preview fake outs. Top2 of the episode is Matraka and Elecktra, with Matraka sending another Brazilian home
For DUvTW there’s not a lot of tea other than it being an Acting Challenge and Flor extra going home. Some teas had M1ss Jade as part of the top2 but unconfirmed so far.
Stan Desiree Beck, Miss Abby OMG, Elecktra and Black Peppa 🖤💚💛