Previously on RuPaul's Drag Race.
You'll be starring in RDR Live.
I would like to be the inner saboteur.
No, no, no, no, no.
Briar wants to be my scene partner.
Bitch, I'm trying to get as far away from you as I can.
First, we start with role playing and poppers.
You and Green.
gag
LA twenty twenty eight Olympics
including
flag football, squash.
Mandy Mango.
You needed to give us demure fundamentalist.
Briar Blush.
More.
You're a drag queen.
Give me more.
Juicy Love Dion.
You had physical choices, you had like subtle choices.
It was awesome.
Condragulations, you're the winner of this week's challenge.
Briar Blush
Shantay, you stay.
Mandy Mango
sashay, away.
Well, shit.
We're back in the workroom and Mandy Mango
has just been eliminated and I am heartbroken.
I love her so much and I don't think that decision was correct.
She just is a better dancer and better performer than Briar in my opinion.
How do you feel about that lip sync?
It is survival of the fittest and I really, really wanted to stay.
I couldn't imagine myself going home right now.
One bad night doesn't mean anything for what a performer has.
Exactly.
Thank you, Darkwing Duck.
Right.
You know, as graciously as I
accepted those critiques, I'm a little surprised.
I feel like what I gave was good
and there were probably more forgettable people that weren't in the bottom.
Congrats, Juicy!
Thank you guys so much and thank you to all of you like for calming
me down and helping me out through this
challenge like I'm a product of my sisters.
And I do have to say a big thank
you to Maiki for being such a great scene partner.
It's my honor.
You owe me a thousand dollars now.
So guys, another elimination complete.
Yes.
I know we've got a lot of feelings going on in the room right now.
I just want to talk about what happened as we were getting ready.
I do realize that I crossed some boundaries that I wasn't aware of.
So we were all talking about our
relationships and I asked Briar if she's single.
Well, I was in a very
happy relationship for a couple years and then things didn't end that well.
Whose fault was it?
Was it yours?
I'm assuming.
You hate me?
She's not just talking to me.
I guess
I offended her and then immediately I apologized.
She didn't
accept my apologies.
I think with you, I don't know where
that boundary is because you play so much.
I think I was trying to cue you that this
was not the moment that I wanted to have that conversation.
- - But you? - And
let me finish.
Okay, girl, keep it real cute because listen, I've been real
quiet all season so far and we not going to do that.
So go ahead.
I didn't want that conversation.
I didn't feel comfortable having it.
Didn't you do the same thing to Athena when
she did not want you to touch her off camera?
So, I didn't want to get into this, but Briar was
saying all sorts of nasty things to me off the clock.
She was making fun of me being in a bad mood, making fun of me being sad.
She was giggling and whispering to Juicy right in front of me.
She even came up to me and said,
"The funniest part about all of this is that Juicy doesn't
even stick up for you when I take you down".
So why is it okay for you to
do it and when somebody that unintentionally does it...
it's an issue.
What's good for the goose, excuse the
expression, is good for the gander, you know.
There have been many times that people have cued you to stop and
it's just a little too far and you just love to take it there.
Briar's in the wrong because she expects other people to respect
her boundaries, but she doesn't respect
anybody else's boundaries in the werkroom.
Privately I did ask Briar to just
tone it down a little bit, I didn't want to make it a thing.
But at the moment, you had to share it in front of everybody.
We've got Nicki Minaj the poodle, we've got Liberace
the owl, a naked black swan, all in an argument.
That scene in Mean Girls where they're
all fighting and the animal scenes are playing...
We're living it right now.
Today, like you staying here.
Personally, I wanted Mandy to stay.
I thought she did better.
It's no love loss, but
moving forward, we don't fuck with each other like that.
I'm not trying to have malice with you, girl.
Okay, and Listen, little girl, we
have a boundary moving forward, and that's it.
Well, period, I do forgive you.
Because the cameras are on, it's when you forgive me.
At that point, I think I'm ready to um...
Undress.
Mia just reached for her earrings, so I
feel like we need to get out of drag...
Bitch.
before anything goes any further.
We all have arguments from time to time,
but never in my life
have I ever had two girls on both sides jump at me like that.
Take it how you want to.
But don't do that fake shit when the cameras are rolling.
I don't play like that.
I just want to reiterate the fact that. You're my best friend
When she said... I know.
But what I was told was,
your daughter doesn't even stick up for you when I make fun of
you and that's the funniest part about it and that felt like shit.
I didn't want to be caught in between a
new relationship and my best friend in the fucking world.
It just is something that was like a dagger in my heart for
somebody to say to me because I have a really close relationship with her.
At this point, it's not even about me and you, it's about defending her.
I don't want her to feel like she didn't...
You're not defending shit.
I know my relationship with her.
Don't spin it around like I'm defending her right now.
What is happening?
Who the fuck are you defending Juicy from?
From me?
I don't have beef with Juicy.
I have beef with you because what you're doing right now is
running around and dropping little matches
and you're setting this up into smoke.
There's no defending Juicy because no one's attacking Juicy.
Now you can do whatever you want to me and I'll take it.
But now you're dragging in my drag family.
Now it's personal, bitch.
You just crossed a line that you will not cross ever again.
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Good morning werkroom.
Morning.
It is a new day in the workroom and last week there was
a little bit of drama between Briar, Athena and myself.
However, I'm choosing bitch.
Let's move forward.
And just focus on what needs to be done.
How is everybody feeling about how the competition is shaping up?
I definitely find solace in being safe right now.
But I'm ready for my top.
I'm ready for a nice, good. rough, nasty top, bitch.
Oh my God.
Kenya, Jesus can hear you.
She done already done had
- herses. - Herses.
Here we go.
Ru rule number twenty one.
If you lend a friend your lace front,
you'll lose both your friend
and your lace front.
What?
Hello, hello, hello.
Hello.
This is starting to become a thing.
- Yes. - Oh.
How's my dirty dozen doing this morning?
- Dirty! - Dirty!
Now that you've had a chance to get to know each other,
I want you to pair up with the queen you consider
your bestie.
Don't think about it.
Do it.
Who is my best bitch, I just met all you hoes!
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, okay.
I know that Kenya is a good time gal.
She has great energy, so whatever we are
in store for, I know we can succeed here.
I go to grab Juicy and who do I see?
Sorry.
Briar!
Briar just cannot get away from my child.
Like, let her breathe.
So that means Juicy is with Briar,
Discord is with Jane, Mikey is with NiNi,
Ciara is with Kenya Pleaser,
Mia Star is with Vita, and Darlene is with Athena.
Queens, when it comes to fashion,
the red carpet isn't just a runway...
It's a battlefield.
For this week's Maxi Challenge,
you and your bestie will design original show stopping looks
inspired by a mashup of two different legendary red carpet moments.
Oh, wow.
Oh, shit.
I love you.
The fact that I am
Vita's partner, I feel really good and confident.
The last design challenge, she was in the top two.
She's an incredible seamstress.
Now tomorrow on the runway, we'll decide which bestie wore it best.
Bitch,
that's when the diarrhea started.
Now it's time to play Red Carpet Mashups.
Oh, pit crew.
All right, Juicy Love Dion.
Since you won last week's Maxi challenge,
you and your bestie
get to choose your two
fashion muses first.
Pick a number.
I think I want to go with lucky number eight.
All right, so Juicy, your first muse is
Little Nas X at the 2020 Grammys.
Okay, Briar, pick a number.
Number six.
Rihanna at the 2015 Met Gala.
Discord, pick a number.
Seven.
No?
Close?
- That's the one. - Yeah!
Cher at the 1986 Oscars.
I love that that walk you did.
Oh my God!
Jane Don't, it is your turn.
I'm going to go with eleven.
Sarah Paulson at the Oceans Eight premiere.
That's a nice combination, isn't it?
That's a nice combination.
Myki with a Y.
I'll pick two.
JLo wearing Versace
at the 2000 Grammys.
NiNi?
I'm feeling tens, tens, tens across the board.
Nicki Minaj
at the 2011 Grammys.
Oh shit.
All right, Ciara, pick a number.
I think I need a nice big high five.
That's it.
Lady Gaga at the 2010 VMAs.
All right, Kenya.
I I think I'm going to go with number nine.
This is a safe option.
Did you hear that, Theodore?
Point to the nine.
Ok.
Britney and Justin at the 2001 AMAs.
Mia Starr.
Four.
Katy Perry at the 2019 Met Gala.
Vita, it's your turn.
Twelve.
Lil Kim at the 1999 VMAs.
Darlene Mitchell.
Three is calling to me.
Who shot the couch?
Kim Kardashian
at the 2013 Met Gala.
And it looks like she is with child.
All right, so Athena, you're the last to pick.
I think I'm just going to go for number one.
Zendaya at the Dune two premiere.
So I have to mash up
metal
and florals...
for spring.
Groundbreaking.
Now for your final frocks.
You need to incorporate materials
from both red carpet inspiration.
If you're looking for an example of how to sew, don't look at me.
I am trial by fire and now I'm directly
going against the girl who won the first design challenge.
The pressure is on.
Racers, start your engines.
And may the best drag queen win.
Oh, wow.
Sickening.
This week's Maxi Challenge is another design challenge.
It is red carpet mashups.
Is this real meat?
I do feel like there's pressure on me to do well in this
challenge, especially because some people didn't
think I even deserved the first win.
So, I've really got to prove to these girls
that you should not underestimate what I can
do when it comes to a sewing machine.
Green.
Everything's green.
We are given materials that correspond to our red carpet inspiration looks.
This challenge has a lot of levels to it.
We are being asked to sort of mash up two red carpet looks.
But the idea is not to recreate the looks.
The idea is to reinterpret them in a signature drag look.
Look at this.
Put your fabrics out.
Darlene's been somebody that I've connected to the most from
the Q-pop group and from just the competition in general.
And, you know, coming into this competition with Juicy,
I don't think either of us wanted to be
cuffed to the other.
But I'm interested to see as close as Briar
is trying to get to Juicy, if she's going to
be a sister and help out or back up
because it's a competition now between you and your bestie.
It is
interesting.
I mean, these together.
I mean, that is just
- Mmm. - Oh, God,
It's so good.
It's a little obnoxious.
We have to mash up the two red carpet looks we got.
I got JLo's Versace dress.
NiNi gets Nicki Minaj at the VMAs.
So we have tropical greens and blues
and we have
golden brown leopard print.
Where the hell do we go with this?
We're going to be finding a new side of ourselves today with this lovely...
I just love it.
I love it.
- I love this so much. - I love it.
Oh, Ciara, look.
Scenbird has so many great fragrances.
I might wear this with my red carpet look tomorrow.
Oh, that smells so good.
Obviously, I want to use some of these, but I don't want to use as much
of them because I don't want to mimic
what I did in the first runway challenge.
I mean, I do think that you have done a lot of black.
Yes.
I'm excited that we got this color combination.
I am a little irritated to be paired with you only because...
Why?
- Because we can both sow. - Because we can both do things.
Yeah.
I'm sweating a little bit here.
Maybe four other people will go in front of me
and like look worse and I can bank on that.
I literally have to stand next to
whatever she makes and be judged against it.
Kenya, how do you feel about this meat fabric?
Oh, it's God awful.
This is non-stretch.
It's.
It's non-stretch?
Girl...
Do you know what?
This is why you can't be lusting after
men in front of God and everybody else.
God really struck down with this one.
But it feels like we have to use it, right?
Yeah.
Like The Gaga dress is made of meat.
- Totally. - Totally.
I mean, Ciara, the meat dress lives in your world, very obviously to me.
Yeah.
Kenya, you don't strike me as the type of
girl who's walking around South Carolina dressed in meat.
No, no.
The dogs and crows might get me, girl.
Could you imagine that smell when I start sweating?
Swamp ass 2.0.
No.
I'm not putting meat on meat, but I know I have to be
the fiercest, fiercest diva that will drag
that has never dragged so hard before.
Well, you know how to sew when it's fabric.
Yes.
Which I'm very excited that we don't have trash.
Well...
Oh, Jane, that's enough, that is... -I don't know, I don't know about...
We're both stars.
So we're gonna shine.
We gotta do that.
Our materials look like it came out of the same box.
They're both sequin.
You have your purples, you have your whites, you have the
jewels, but what the fuck am I gonna do with this chandelier?
What would Jowella do?
What?
Just what the fuck am I supposed to do with this?
I do want to do a whore
elegant kind of gown.
Mia...
you're a whore.
How do you become a whore?
I'm just gonna draw some tits.
I thought it was a pair of eyes.
It's actually Athena's owl costume.
Yeah, it looks like the little googly eyes.
That's how I'm feeling right now.
Maybe I'm just drawing my feelings.
Get away from me.
How you feeling?
I feel great.
Do you have any ideas?
I shouldn't tell you this.
The nice thing about this mesh, I've worked with this kind of thing before,
is, you can...
just cut this
and turn this into trim.
Yes, I love that.
No, no, no, no, no.
Why?
Not too much.
Why?
That's what I want to do.
Oh.
Oh, okay.
- What was that? - Never mind, bye.
I have to go.
This?
Bitch, you holding out on me, ho?
No.
I had to flip my page when she came over here.
I'm known for sewing so the pressure is so high.
And Jane, she's strategic.
So I'm trying to hold my cards close to my chest.
What has put Vita on the map is that I replicate celebrity looks.
So I've done exact replica of Janelle Monáe, her look from the Met Gala,
Beyoncé, Coachella, and sometimes even better than the celebrity itself.
So my eye, especially for like going for like baby shower,
Yeah.
like immediately went to this.
So like I think I want to do like my like
tube dress out of this.
- You're going to a baby shower. - I'm doing baby shower.
I'm going to a galactic card party. -You're going to space, honey.
I love grandma's couch floral.
Haha, I know that I can make something sick out of this.
And after seeing what Athena made in the first design challenge...
I think I've got this in the bag.
Good luck.
Don't fuck it up.
I love my Darlene, but...
Haha, you can't out gown me.
How are you feeling about this challenge?
You know, it was a hard day yesterday.
Untucked was hard, the critiques were hard.
Lip syncing was hard.
Yeah, baby.
And it can be hard to believe in yourself a little bit.
And, you know, after getting back it was really
you know the big argument.
Mm-hmm.
I felt so bad about myself.
I was hoping to get back here after lip syncing and
feel,
you know, glad to be back
and glad to stay in it, but...
it's hard to feel
good about yourself after...
all of that and then on top of it like somebody looking at you
and telling you like, oh I wish they I think the other bitch did better.
I wish she stayed.
It just kept coming and coming and coming and...
Yeah.
I think the competition might be getting to Briar a little bit.
Now that I know my girl,
I don't think she's abrasive.
You are a fucking superstar.
I'm just nervous for my friend.
This is a high-stress, high-stakes environment.
And we got to fight every single challenge
to survive.
This week's challenge, we have to mash up two iconic red carpet looks.
My look has to be a mash up of the Britney and Justin denim
suits with the insanely grotesque meat dress
that Lady Gaga wore to the VMAs.
What the fuck?
This is denim.
This is red vinyl.
This is red vinyl, red vinyl, red vinyl.
Yeah.
It is very Spider-Man.
which I love Spider-Man.
Spider-Man is my favorite superhero.
Yeah.
I get a glance at Ciara's design and she's literally
being inventive at gold creating art on her body.
This bitch did not come to play at all.
And I have to be compared to that?
Who do you think is in trouble?
She gonna tell me what?
Girl, I think Briar is in her head.
Because of last week?
Mm-hmm.
Why?
Cause I saw her crying.
But I don't know why.
Mhm.
I really don't pay attention to Briar at this point anymore.
She's up against my little niece and I need Juicy to beat her.
How do y'all feel about y'all going to be compared?
I mean, bitch, I know she going to dog walk my ass.
Doesn't it feel?
I'm not delusional I have accepted that.
Each group has a person to, you know,
Well, not Discord and.
- Bitch. - That's going to be tough.
That is...
and I know somebody's going to be
crack, bitch.
I think it'll all come down to the match up between those two.
Discord's look, it's looking very like the picture.
So how are you going to incorporate the green?
I don't know, bitch.
I'm worried about Hottie...
Because Ciara is like sick.
No, bitch, she's about to dog walk your ass too.
First of all, bitch, why do you have to say this to me?
Look, we gonna keep it real over here.
It could be an awkward turn of events and I can...
I can pull the fuck to.
- You may, you just may, bitch. - You never know, bitch.
We gonna go with that, sis.
We gonna go with that.
America, I'm fighting for my life to be the best bottom.
Wait a minute, this actually look, this
actually look like I know what I'm doing.
Uh-uh, Mamma Mia.
Oh, girl, she got a sleeve, bitch.
We are going tit for tit in this design challenge.
And y'all...
I have big titties.
Briar and Juicy have a lot left to do and they're acting like they don't.
I don't know where I went.
Hi you guys.
I see you guys looking over here a lot.
We're just looking, see what you're up to.
I need a little advice.
I'm going to make a train.
a circle train
Have you started the train?
No, I'm going to start it now.
I know.
Hey, I believe in you.
The last assigned challenge was not too good for me.
So, my biggest concern is that Briar's going to eat me up.
Okay, you do look really cute.
Yeah?
I mean, I think, well, this color combo's just
It's cute.
You have a lot to do.
Yeah.
I'm going to work on the train.
How do I do the fucking train?
If you need... I will help you, if you want.
You are so sweet...
Thus far in the competition, I have helped Juicy quite a bit,
and I don't mind helping her, but I think sometimes Juicy doesn't
go for it because she knows that no matter what she does,
somebody will kind of be there to pick her
back up again and sort of dust her off.
And I just don't know how long that
strategy can work before we run out of people in the room
who are going to help you.
Oh shit.
What?
I put the triangle on the side seam and not the back seam.
Oh.
I sewed it on the wrong seam.
Let me see.
What am I gonna do?
I just fucking made the biggest mistake ever.
Losing my mind.
What is Athena talking about?
Who knows, girl.
All right, girl.
Start over again.
Athena is running around like a goddamn Tasmanian devil.
Like oh girl, she didn't made fifteen dresses.
Well, I'm fucked.
That just took like an hour to.
Just take a breath and trust your talent.
Darlene, can you beat her ass?
I have to figure the fuck out what am I gonna do.
I'm going to work on this garment all night
if I have to, but it has to work.
I don't have time to spiral.
Here we go.
Here we go!
Yay!
It is runway day.
We have to showcase our red carpet mashup looks.
Going up against NiNi... has me a little nervous, but
I feel like I created something a little bit more extravagant.
I love what I made.
Oh, we get straight to it.
Everyone is running around like chickens with their heads
cut off because the stakes are so high today.
It is now a one-v-one knockout competition to see who we're at best.
Everything I worked on, I scrapped.
I just went the longest way to go back to my original idea.
I've been up all night making a brand new dress.
Why do I do this to myself?
I love to be a woman in crisis.
Yours is sickening.
You know, I love it.
I do love it.
I have created this Bob Mackie masterpiece.
Here's my redemption for the first
design challenge where I was wrongfully safe.
You and Discord, both of you turned it out.
I know, I hate it.
I feel great about where my outfit ended up.
So, it's just going to come down to which look the judges prefer.
It's anybody's call.
Where's Ciara?
She moved.
She said, I'm over you,
stupid fighting assholes.
Me and Mia.
We're getting ready next to each other.
And I don't want any bad blood with her.
I'm going to be painting next to her for a long time.
And so, I...
want to just squabble it all now.
We had a kind of explosive argument.
Yeah.
Um, but I don't come back from an argument like
Fuck that bitch.
I've just felt like throughout the whole day
last week, like I was doing something wrong.
You know what I mean?
Like I was like, damn.
I just think the emotions kind of got to me.
It doesn't feel good that like somebody I
like went home and it doesn't feel good that
people think that she should have stayed.
I understand where you're coming from on that sense.
Like if I'm honest, it's like
for a long time, I didn't feel supported by my family.
I did not have a good relationship with them.
Growing up, I felt very much othered by my family in a lot of ways.
My dad said things to me like that I was a screw up.
And as a teenager, I definitely felt like
There was nothing that I could do correct.
I. kind of ended up leaving home when I was sixteen.
There was nothing that I could do correct.
Damn.
So you know, I deal with that sometimes, the feeling of being like
a little unlovable.
But people don't understand that because you have all
of the confidence in the world on the exterior.
I do project a lot of confidence and it's because I felt like I had to
and it's really hard to sometimes feel like
people are rooting for you when...
it didn't feel like people were rooting for you even as a child.
Yeah.
I mean, I get that.
I do want to apologize.
Yes, I did say that, you know what I mean?
But overall, like you deserve to be here
because you're very special.
I'm understanding her a lot more now.
She's opening up and I do have a soft spot in my heart for people that
have this huge like
confidence and like I'm the tiger in the room,
but in real life like you are this like little stray cat.
I understand that.
Um, my brother passed away in twenty twenty.
Mhm.
And...
we didn't have the best relationship because he just
I just felt like he just chose the wrong path.
I lost my brother
to
drug addiction and it hit our family very, very hard.
I was so
upset with him
because I knew that once he got out of jail again,
like I told my mom, I was like, this is it.
He's not
there's no more chances left.
I just felt it.
So I pulled away.
I have a lot of regret
not talking to him
like that last year.
Mhm.
And then he passed away and I was just like, fuck.
I wish...
I wish I showed him love... more.
Sorry.
I wish I showed him love more.
Um.
Rather than pulling away.
It does affect you.
Like in a lot of ways to live with like that much regret.
You have to forgive yourself to move forward.
Mhm.
I know...
he knows that I loved him, which is why I was so upset.
I was in a dark time
and
I refound drag
and it brought me so much joy and I just
knew that this is what I was supposed to be doing.
I kept all my brother's jeans
when he did pass and I created a beautiful dress
with just a part of him
walking
through those doors
So if I have a little snapping turtle in me
We all have an inner rage.
Inside of us there's two wolves.
Girl.
Miss Kenya.
Yes ma'am.
How was your life growing up as little Kenya?
Girl, being born was a
a struggle.
My mom didn't know she was pregnant with me.
- Oh my. - Whoa.
Oh my God.
So she was in college and one night she got up in
the middle of the night and she was having pains in her stomach.
So she went to try to use the bathroom.
And she felt something down there, girl.
She said, bitch, I thought it was an alien.
Oh my God.
My mom had me on the bathroom floor of her college dorm.
Her roommate called nine one one, girl.
But by the time the EMS came there, she already had me.
That is crazy.
Yeah.
Since my mom had me in college, my grandparents thought it was the
best idea that she continued college and I was to live with them.
Are you close with your birth mom?
Yeah.
So, of course, that made like a
strain on our relationship because I wasn't raised...
She wasn't ready to have you.
Yeah.
Funny enough, me coming out
was
what made us closer.
Oh.
Bitch, I was at gospel choir rehearsal in college and
we were practicing the song" You got a friend in me".
And I literally burst into tears and I
was like, I'm going to have to leave.
I went into the bathroom, started crying,
looked in the mirror, was like, it's time.
So I called my mom and I was like, ma, I'm gay.
And she was like, you won't be the first and you won't be the last.
Aw.
Her being so supportive
has meant the world to me
because I don't share that part of my life with my grandparents.
But y'all, guess what?
The entire choir came out of the chorus room
and started singing, You got a friend in me.
- Oh! - And one by one,
they started hugging me.
Aw!
I don't think she realized...
How much she has helped me
be as strong as I have been and um...
I also, I want to make her proud.
It's because I...
I lost so many years with my mom and drag has really brought us together.
You have a friend in me as well, sister.
Vita, stop, I will literally spontaneously combust right now.
Oh, thank y'all.
Oh my goodness.
Oh!
Yes, ma'am.
Ooh, that dress is money.
Welcome to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race.
She's no stranger to the red carpet.
It's Michelle Visage.
What did the red carpet say to the vacuum cleaner?
I don't know.
What did the red carpet say to the vacuum cleaner?
You suck.
And so do you, Michelle.
Don't tell anybody.
It's the real queen of the red carpet, Law Roach.
Well, if these bitches don't get it right, it's off with their heads.
She bring it to you six times a week and twice on Sunday.
It's Tony Winner, Anna Lee Ashford.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's such an honor.
I just had a brand new baby and while I
was breastfeeding, we watched every single season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Oh, that's lovely.
Did you ever find out who the father is?
Still working on it.
This week we challenged our queens to create original looks
inspired
by legendary celebrity fashions.
And tonight on the runway,
category is Red Carpet Mashups.
Racers, start your engines,
and may the best drag queen win.
Category is
Red Carpet Mashups.
Inspired by Little Nas X and Rihanna.
Up first, it's Juicy Love Dion.
Little pink riding hood.
I'm giving a little Grace Jones.
I pulled on my hood to show off
my gorgeous little finger waves waving to the judges.
I made this look pink and I gave it shoulder pads like Little Nas
X's look, but I wanted the bottom
half to have that giant train like Rihanna.
And, you know, I'm feeling pussy.
I'm feeling cat.
Grace Jones for the Powerpuff Girls.
Next, Briar Blush.
From Planet of the capes.
I'm pumping down the runway giving Mayan warrior.
using the applique as flame motifs.
often depicted in Mayan fashion.
I decided to take inspo from Little
Nas's leather jacket and Rihanna for the hair.
I feel absolutely gorgeous.
But the question is, what she going to do with all that ass?
Applikay-kay.
Appli-kay.
Inspired by Cher and Sarah Paulson.
First, it's Discord Adams.
Not proud of it.
This look is hand stitched couture.
It is Bob Mackie.
It is showing off my body.
It is showing off my tattoos.
It is shimmering from head to toe.
I feel like a fierce fashion supermodel.
You better smack you that Mackie.
Up next, Jane Don't.
She don't speak hard.
She speaks easy.
I am wiggling down the runway
in this air-tay creation but like on LSD.
I was really thinking about how to combine
the synthetic quality of the Sarah Paulson look
and the sensuousness of that share Bob Mackie costume
and I think there's a real point of view here.
This is from the Pacoima production of Mame.
Take a bite out of my lime crime.
Yes.
Inspired by J Lo and Nicki Minaj.
First, it's Myki Meeks.
Jenny from the jungle.
I love a good old Hollywood aesthetic.
I have the tropical essence of Jennifer Lopez with the
leopard print from Nikki made a crown with an updo.
Applique is going all down the body because I want a
little bit of regalness too, because these are the queens, honey.
Oh, you've got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls.
Next, Nini Coco.
Oh, you don't want to fuck with this bitch.
Uh-uh.
Nini Coco.
This is Nini on vacation.
She's headed to the resort, giving you the entire bad bitch story.
You can obviously clock the references from the head to toe leopard
print from the Nikki look and the plunging neckline from the JLo look.
But this look stands alone as a unique piece of art.
This bitch is high on catnip.
You can see her catnips.
Mhm.
She can't keep a relationship because she's always been a cheater.
Inspired by Lady Gaga and Britney and Justin.
Ciara Myst.
Now, that's a meaty tuck.
I am freaking my way down the runway.
I'm giving a mix of horror and couture.
My arms are dripping in meat.
My fascinator is giving alien avant-garde couture.
My wig is giving retro futurism and I've got myself wrapped
up in meat twine with a little meat tag on the side.
I think I could see her T-bone.
Beef, it's what's for dinner.
Up next, Kenya Pleaser.
Her meat love brings all the boys to the yard.
Bitch, I'm sorry.
I look... cunt.
The shoulder is out, the titties are tittying.
I have these custom- made clock it two-tone gloves.
The gown kisses the floor perfectly, might I add.
And my meat purse.
for serving.
She walks into the barbecue
purse first.
She likes that waggy.
Inspired by Katy Perry and Lil' Kim.
It is Mia Starr.
Oh, Lil Kim brought her big Kim.
Oh.
It's milking time.
Sure is.
Shake, shake, bitch.
Lil Kim off the bat, baby.
I feel so glam.
I have my hair that looks like a chandelier.
I'm smiling for the judges.
I'm giving a little winky-wink -wink and make sure that titty bounce.
Hey, titty girl!
That's the most glamorous otter I've ever seen.
Next, Vita VonTesse
Starr.
Miss Cicely Tyson for Wakanda Fashion Week.
Vita is always going to give you high whore drag.
The cutout in my chest and the silhouette
of this body is representing Lil Kim, honey,
and the chandelier and all of the jewels is representing Katy Perry.
This bitch is shandelarious.
How many drag queens does it take to change a light bulb?
Inspired by Kim Kardashian and Zendaya,
it's Darlene Mitchell.
She loves a good fringe festival this one.
Mhm.
Giddy up.
This is a space age, space cadet, cowgirl fantasy.
I've got my space age take on a cowboy hat.
I'm incorporating the grandma's couch floral from Kim Kardashian's Met
Gala look and I've got this chrome sprinkled all throughout.
And this horse hair him on this skirt has me feeling so elegant and puss.
Oh god, I can't take it.
Yeehaw!
Next, Athena Dion.
Hi ho, Silver.
Emphasis on the ho.
Okay.
Chrome and florals wouldn't naturally go together out in nature, honey.
But I have put them together very gracefully.
My inspiration for this look is a nineteen
sixties model, very Endora, the mother in Bewitched.
Draped one shoulder, Grecian goddess.
Don't underestimate the goddess, baby.
You always have to look for the silver lining.
Apparently, she's from Cape Canaveral.
Florals for spring,
groundbreaking.
Welcome, queens.
Tonight,
we'll be critiquing you in pairs.
And then,
I'll decide which bestie wore it best.
Starting with Juicy Love Dion and Briar
Blush, inspired by Little Nas X and Rihanna.
Juicy.
I could tell straight away the looks that you were wearing.
I knew the references.
You gave us the silhouette of Rihanna with the color of Lil Nas X.
And I just thought what a glamorous little starlet.
The problem I have with it is the fur looks so
cheap.
So maybe doubling up on the fur to thicken it around the
bottom and even around the neck might have helped a little bit.
But I would try to keep
any type of fur away from your muff area.
I did
regret that as soon as I put it on.
But I think you did a decent job, especially
with the sewing of it and giving yourself shoulder pads
and making sleeves.
I think you did a really good job with it.
Briar.
Anybody that watches this show knows how I feel about
a jumpsuit.
I feel like the shoe is telling a different story than the outfit is.
I got your shoes because you are wearing a version of the Rihanna shoe.
I give you credit for that.
Michelle missed that, but I caught it because...
Didn't miss it.
Rihanna had on a sparkly shoe.
She did, but it matched.
Oh, it was a little off.
It was silver like that.
Okay.
Yeah.
I was there.
Everything else I hate.
You look like a WWE wrestler.
I hated it.
I just wanted you to jump off the ropes and just
do a dropkick on somebody, probably her,
cuz, you know, you're competing against her.
But let me tell you what I did love.
Uh-huh.
That face, daughter,
the beat is divine.
The outfit is...
Not so much.
But don't look at me like that, girl.
Okay, look at me like that, girl.
All right, well, I've made my decision.
The bestie who wore it best
is
Are you okay?
- Medic. - Medic.
Briar?
Mhm.
Quick sticks.
- Back down. - Come on.
Brair just passed out.
Really?
I'm like, was that too harsh?
Just breathe.
- Breathe. - Did I fall?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Just breathe, just breathe. - Oh my God.
It's okay.
Just breathe.
Just wait a minute.
- Just stay there. - Stay there.
Stay there.
Whoa.
- You're okay, okay. - I didn't even know I fell.
It's okay, baby.
She just fainted?
Yeah.
I just, I...
- She fainted. - Yeah.
Do you know where you're at?
Yeah.
That better be real.
It's not.
It's a show.
Convenient timing.
As soon as Law Roach says something about her looking like a WWE wrestler,
But your breathing is fine.
Can we have her off the stage so we could take all the vitals.
Wait, you go slow, very, very slow.
Very slow.
Sorry.
Oh
It's intense up there.
I mean, you're stressing out, you're about to be judged by all the judges.
Clear path, transferring Briar to medical tent.
Hold the camera.
Every ingredient for the perfect recipe for a collapse.
One hundred percent.
But...
Who knows what the truth is?
There is no way she pretended to faint.
That is not like her and she would not do that.
Queens, I have word that Briar is feeling much better.
But to be extra cautious,
a doctor is seeing her now.
Now, to close the circle,
the bestie who wore it best is Juicy.
Up next, Discord Add ams and Jane Don't,
inspired by Cher and Sarah Paulson.
Discord, I think you nailed it.
The construction is complicated and all of the bead ing, it's gorgeous.
I think it's falling a little bit low.
I'd like to see it higher up.
It's pulling down.
I do want to give you one
piece of advice on your walk.
- Oh God. - It is um.
Were you gonna do the same thing? -Yes.
It's just...
scary
Okay.
I think it's just very stiff.
You came out looking like Cher but
walking like Sunny.
That threw me off like the walk kind of like I was like, oh God.
We love your walk, but honestly, to sell
a garment, you have to loosen up a bit.
Jane, you know how to sew, you know how to put a look together.
Thank you for giving us some mame magic.
Thank you.
And I love an homage to Angela Lansbury and B Arthur, always.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
All right, well, I've made my decision.
The bestie who wore it best is
Jane Don't.
- Congratulations, baby. - Thank you.
Up next,
Myki Meeks and Nini Coco, inspired by JLo and Nicki Minaj.
Myki, I just want to first congratulate
you on winning your Oscar for Anora.
Okay.
Oh.
It was an amazing film.
You walked down and I wrote down star.
You've got just a sparkle that we just
want to watch you and see what you do.
I love the leopard gown with the ruching in the front.
It was really beautiful.
I'm not a fan of the blue illusion mesh underneath
cause it almost cheapens it a little bit.
I wish you would have done more with the fabric because
you have the fabric that looks so much like the Versace.
I also didn't like all the applications.
I think you kind of gilded the lily here.
Nini,
fantastic.
Leopard is leopard is leopard and we always love leopard.
I love that you brought the scarf around your head.
I love that you incorporated the green
in there with those beautiful rhinestone accessories.
So, the fact that it's simply a leopard bodysuit
with the draping over it.
That works for me.
I understand the fabric placement is inspired by J. Lo,
but I just keep seeing Shania Twain.
I'm sorry.
I love them both, but I'm going to say just because of
the over accessorizing, the bestie who wore it best is Nini Coco.
Up next, Ciara Myst and Kenya Pleaser.
inspired by Lady Gaga and Britney and Justin.
Ciara
Hello.
I love this drag!
Fantastic.
The details of the bugle beads hanging
from your fingers, the Philip Tracy style fascinator.
It really, really is a smart look.
I love the way you kind of like tie a rump roast together to cook it.
I loved it.
I love the fact you can tell it's denim
and that it's just as twisted as you are.
Kenya, I didn't really know who this was looking at you.
Denim is not an easy thing to work with.
No.
I get it, but it wasn't quite giving me the meat dress either.
If you weren't carrying a slab of beef in your hand, I wouldn't have known
what it was.
I just wish you had cooked the steak because it
is probably like the most interesting thing of your whole look.
I...
just did not get it.
Of course, you can always sell whatever you
wear because your personality is so bouncy and lovely.
You've come a long way from the first challenge.
Unfortunately, it's just not as good as what your partner did.
- Yeah. - So,
the bestie who wore it best
is Ciara Myst.
Up next, Mia Starr and Vita VonTesse.
Inspired by Katy Perry and Lil Kim.
I think first of all, Mia, I wrote down ti-tty!
Titty titty titty titty titty.
We all like titties and you're showing us yours.
I used to be scared of the tit.
Now I throw lifts to the shit.
Handle it.
I was like, if one of these queens don't come out
with a tit exposed, with a pasty on it,
I am getting up and walking the fuck out.
Because this is one of the most iconic looks
in red carpet history.
This was incredible.
I see the crystals that would have
been on the chandelier throughout the gown.
You look glamorous, you look slutty, you look elegant,
but you also look like you're from the hood.
So you are giving me all the things that
are me.
Vita Gorgeous.
Unbelievable.
I mean, those shoulders, that cape.
This is Drag.
The headpiece, the neckpiece.
It's giving us opulence.
In the words of Aretha Franklin,
beautiful gown.
This is beyond well made.
And you also did it in a way that you pay homage to both of the looks.
This is a hard one because I love them both, but I'm
going to have to say that the bestie who wore it best is
Vita.
Up next,
Darlene Mitchell and Athena Dion, inspired by Kim Kardashian and Zendaya.
Well, you two got a tough one, doing one
of Law's i conic looks in front of Law.
Ooh.
You probably didn't know I was going to be here, did you?
Did not.
Surprise, bitch.
Did a good job of bringing in the Mugler robot and the neck piece.
I love this dress.
I love the finish on the bottom.
But I can't say I dislike something more than I dislike those shoes.
Oh my God.
They are so problematic.
They're just really clunky.
Darlene, I noticed those shoes in the
workroom when we were in there yesterday.
And I noticed that you had several pair of them.
But you have other shoes too, don't you?
Sure.
We'll come up with something.
Athena, how you took that silver fabric and made
a cat suit, even though I know Michelle despises them.
I think it would have really been a great nod to the Mugler.
But...
did you sew your ass off?
Yeah.
Is it beautiful?
Yes.
It's gorgeous construction.
I love the cape.
You were smart enough to put the flower fabric
At the bottom.
underneath at the bottom.
So if it flipped when you walked up.
I love the silhouette.
I think it's fabulous and it's just so you also.
I love both these looks, but the bestie who wore it best is Athena.
Thank you.
Thank you, Queens.
I think we've heard enough.
While you untuck backstage, the judges and I will deliberate.
Now, just between us squirrel friends, what do you think
of my top three
of the besties who wore it best?
Jane Don't, Ciara and Vita.
Starting with Jane Don't.
What I like about Jane, Ru, is that
each week she is bringing us something different.
She is a wild card, you don't know what
you're going to get, and I'm here for that.
What she did was do something that was really original, but
also in the DNA of who she is as a drag queen.
I think Jane showed us that she has done her homework.
She knows her history and she knows how
to bring a little vintage into the now.
Ciara.
For me, it was a Gaga, Britney, Justin,
Minaj a trois, and there was a baby birth
from a night of tore sex.
Mmm.
And it was perfect.
This was camp but with class.
Which is hard to thread that needle and she not only
threaded that needle but she made a garment out of it.
All right, Vita.
Can we just all collectively ooh and ah over that outfit?
That was so exquisitely executed.
I have two words,
high drag.
And when I come, that is what I want to see and she delivered it tonight.
I mean, if she could have put another rhinestone
in one other place, she would have done it.
But there was no more room left.
It was perfection.
All right, let's talk about my bottom three.
Briar, Discord and Kenya.
Starting with Briar Blush.
I'm going to give her some
props for the construction of that bodysuit.
There was a lot going on on the bodysuit and it was fitted well.
I don't really give a fuck how well she sold it.
It was ugly.
It was tacky the color was off.
I hated it.
Let's talk about Discord.
I loved the look.
I thought it was beautiful.
There was a little bit of fitting that needed to be tweaked.
She put the cutouts on the butt, but you're not walking backwards.
This might be a huge contradiction, but I did not come
to RuPaul's Drag Race to see a man in a dress.
And when she walked out,
all I could see was a man in a dress.
It's the walk.
And if she loosens up in the shoulders and picks herself
up a little bit, I think she's going to get it.
Kenya Pleaser.
I like the idea of the fringe that she tied in.
I thought it was cute, the western wear,
but everything else just didn't go.
But there is something special about her.
Even though she knew it was wrong,
she walked out with the confidence to make us think it was right.
And I think that says something.
Tonight's outfit was an improvement from what
she did before, but not by much.
All right, silence.
I've made my decision.
Bring back my girls.
Welcome back, Queens.
Briar Blush,
the doctor has given you a clean bill of health.
Are you ready to continue in the competition?
Absolutely.
Attagirl.
Can't squabble this opportunity.
Squabble is not the right word for this context.
I think she meant squander.
I won't squabble this opportunity.
You won't what?
It's like a fucking Kendrick Lamar song.
Squabble up.
Like what, bitch?
Now, I've made some decisions.
Juicy Love Dion.
Nini Coco.
Athena Dion.
You are safe.
Thank you.
You may step to the back of the stage.
Thank you.
Jane Don't.
Tonight your B Arthur got an A plus.
Ciara Myst.
Tonight you really raised the stakes.
Vita VonTesse Starr.
Tonight you lit up the stage.
Vita...
Condragulations, you're the winner of this week's challenge.
You've won a cash tip
of five thousand dollars.
I won, mamma!
I won a challenge!
Jane, Ciara,
you are both safe.
You three may join the other girls.
Thank you.
Myki Meeks.
Mia Starr.
Darlene Mitchell.
You are safe.
You may join the other girls.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Briar Blush,
you're a super queen,
but your cape look
didn't fly on the runway.
Discord Ad dams.
I'm buying your runway walk, but this week
you did not sell the garment.
Kenya Pleaser.
Your personality gagged the judges.
But your meaty look
was hard to swallow.
Discord Addams.
You are safe.
Thank you so much.
You may
walk to the back of the stage.
Thank you so much.
Briar,
Kenya.
I'm sorry, my dears,
but you are up for elimination.
Coming back
from a fainting, I knew that it was a possibility that this would happen.
But I'm going to fight.
I want to stay.
So I'm going to give it all that I have left.
Two queens
stand before me.
Ladies,
this is your last chance to impress me
and save yourself
from elimination.
The time has come
for you to lip sync
for
your
life.
The girl passed out earlier today.
And I feel very bad.
But guess what?
I cannot squabble this opportunity.
Good luck
and don't...
fuck it up.
Let's go, girls.
Let's go.
Okay.
Come on, babe!
Bitch, Briar throws off all of her accessories
Hey!
Come on!
So, I'm in the background screaming, "Watch out for accessories!"
Be careful, Kenya.
I need justice
for Mandy Mango
Now.
Boom!
The pussy did touch the ground, darling.
Yaz!
Come on!
Let's go!
Yes!
Come on, baby.
Yes!
Lights camera action.
That's it.
Good job, girl!
Queens.
I've made my decision.
Lord, please.
Kenya Pleaser.
Shantay, you stay.
Thank you.
You may join the other girls.
Thank you.
Thank you, judges.
Thank you.
Briar Blush.
We hate to see you go,
but we love to watch you walk away.
Now.
Sashay
away.
Thank you so much.
And Ru...
I don't care what these girls say about you.
I think you're cool.
- Yes, Briar! - Bye, bitch.
Why are you recording me?
Some very gorgeous outfits were missed.
Real.
All I want to say is huge mistake.
I thought overall my outfit was pretty cute,
but this week for me was pretty stressful.
There were lots of moments of self-doubt, so
it wasn't my proudest moment going out on, but
I will pick myself back up.
And if you're rooting for me,
I'm positive...
You will get more.
Condragulations, Queens.
And remember, if you can't love yourself, how
the hell you going to love somebody else?
Can I get an amen up in here?
- Amen! - Amen!
All right.
Now let the music play.
Next time on RuPaul's Drag Race.
Get ready for the Rate-a-Queen Talent Show.
This week half of you will take the
stage to perform a show stopping talent number.
What a
performer.
And the other half will watch and rate the performances.
Are you going to stay loyal?
If I find out the rate of shit, I'm going to fight y'all hoes.
Jane, you've been in the top every week, like, wouldn't
it be convenient to put you lower in the rank?
All's fair in love and war.