2025 is making a splash as 14 new queens are about to embark on the journey of a lifetime! RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 is ready to start as 14 queens share their charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and expertise as they hope to turn out to be America’s Subsequent Drag Famous person. Emmy® Award-winning host RuPaul and mainstay judges Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews, and Ts Madison might be joined by a gag-worthy lineup of visitor judges for this sickening season. Doechii, Sandra Bernhard, Julia Schlaepfer, Paul W. Downs, Hunter Schafer, Quinta Brunson, Jamal Sims, Regulation Roach, Adam Lambert, Betsey Johnson, Whitney Cummings, Sam Smith, Jerrod Carmichael, June Diane Raphael, and Tracee Ellis Ross will grace mainstage with Katy Perry serving because the premiere episode visitor choose.
This season ushers in a brand new twist that solely RuPaul’s Drag Race can ship – The Badonka Dunk Tank. Following the lipsync, every eradicated queen has an opportunity to obtain immunity and save themselves from having to sashay away. Queens will select from 10 levers and in the event that they decide one of many two levers that dunks Michelle Visage, they get to stay within the competitors. If not, they are going to be eradicated. The winner of Season 17 will stroll away with the title of America’s Subsequent Drag Famous person and a money prize of $200,000 served by TodayTix. The season formally begins on January third at 8:00pm, solely on MTV.
Acacia Forgot
Los Angeles, CA | @acaciaforgot
This honky-tonk diva places the nation in California. Glitzy, glamorous, and with a penchant for blonde hair, Acacia Forgot has by no means met a rhinestone she didn’t like. Musically gifted, in addition to being a singer-songwriter, Acacia performs the guitar, piano, banjo and ukulele. Will this aspiring nation star additionally turn out to be America’s Subsequent Drag Famous person?
Arrietty
Seattle, WA | @arrietty_theelf
Arrietty hails from the Home of Dubois – her drag mom is none apart from Drag Race Season 15’s Irene Dubois. Obsessive about the fantasy style, this uniquely artistic queen designs and sews her personal outfits, usually with a “futuristic elf” aesthetic. Add within the capability to beat a imply mug when wanted, and this gifted, twisted queen is able to go all the way in which within the competitors!
Crystal Envy
Asbury Park, NJ | @thecrystalenvy
With seems to be so polished, it’s laborious to consider this make-up artist and drag queen has solely been performing for 3 years. In New Jersey, Crystal Envy swiftly dominated the membership scene. Crystal Envy’s title comes as a mix of their beginning title Chris, and the truth that each outfit she wears is bedazzled and sparkly. This pageant princess instructions a membership crowd, however can Crystal maintain that very same command over the judges this season?
Hormona Lisa
Chattanooga, TN | @hormona_lisa
This Southern bubblegum babe was infamously plucked from the group by RuPaul on the Atlanta cease of his “The Home of Hidden Meanings” e book tour and invited to Hollywood. Now formally part of the season 17 forged, Hormona Lisa campy queen – impressed by Disney princesses and classic display sirens – hopes to catch the attention of RuPaul once more, this time the place it counts probably the most: on the principle stage of RuPaul’s Drag Race!
Jewels Sparkles
Tampa, FL | @thejewelssparkles
Out of drag, this youthful queen has a sweetness and an innocence, and is a self-described “ditzy clumsy bimbo.” However don’t be fooled – Jewels Sparkles intends to enter the competitors with intention and technique. With influences that vary from Ariana Grande to Priscilla Presley, to her Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, you’d be silly to underestimate this gifted doll as merely a “look queen.”
Joella
Los Angeles, CA | @thejoelladynasty
Joella calls herself “The Slaysian Diva,” and along with her personal distinctive type of drag, mixing conventional Chinese language costume with road trend and popular culture, you possibly can see why. Having already gained native West Hollywood drag bar contests, Joella is now able to symbolize plus-size queens within the greatest drag competitors on this planet.
Kori King
Boston, MA | @koriking
This boisterous queen has quickly risen to the highest of the Boston scene, amassing a decent TikTok following alongside the way in which. Solely within the drag recreation for two years, Kori King has already been awarded Boston’s Finest New Performer To Watch award, and is the title on everyone’s lips. She is season 16 finalist Aircraft Jane’s drag sister, so count on a razor sharp wit, and any individual who tells it like it’s!
Lana Ja’Rae
New York, NY | @lanajarae
Lana JaRae’s drag mom is Luxx Noir London, from season 15 of Drag Race, so count on a degree of fierceness from this fashionista! Luxx noticed Lana competing in a New York drag competitors and was so impressed, she approached her backstage and requested if she may undertake her on the spot. Bringing legs and physique to the principle stage, Lana is able to strut away from this competitors with a crown!
Lexi Love
Louisville, KY | @mslexilove
Lexi Love is a full-time “playmate” at Play, Louisville, a bar identified for its high-energy drag excellence. As a performer, Lexi is aware of the best way to flip the get together up – however she’s additionally somebody you’d like to kick it with. Having survived a interval of homelessness and drug dependancy, she has emerged a stronger and extra unbiased queen and is prepared for the re-birth of Lexi to take over the world!
Fortunate Starzzz
Miami, FL | @theluckystarzzz
Born in Havana, Cuba, Fortunate Starzzz is an expressive, colourful, dwelling cartoon! Fortunate’s drag meets on the intersection of membership child and camp, and this resourceful queen makes use of as a lot paper and spray paint as she does sequins and rhinestones. Fortunate describes her drag as “a venus fly lure in a room filled with roses.” Can Fortunate’s eye-catching creativity catch the eyes of the judges this season and win her the crown?
Lydia B Kollins
Pittsburgh, PA | @foreheadbrows
To know this absurdist, distinctive queen you solely must know that the “B” stands for b*tthole. Named after Winona Ryder’s character in Beetlejuice, Lydia Deetz, and impressed by Tim Burton, John Waters, and David Lynch, Lydia B Kollins is a queen who values creativity over perfection. Will the judges discover Lydia’s seems to be BOOTYful, or will her time on Drag Race be a disASSter?
Onya Nurve
Cleveland, OH | @onyanurve
Smashburger cook dinner by day, enchanting and in-demand drag artist by evening. Onya Nurve acquired bitten by the efficiency bug in highschool, and took a creative profession path to pull by way of a BFA in Portray from the Cleveland Institute of Artwork. A comedic actress in addition to having the ability to belt out a tune, Onya represents an actual menace on this competitors!
Sam Star
Leeds, AL | @samstarqueen
Gorgeous, fashionable, SOUTHERN! Sam Star is sort of the Renaissance queen, having skilled in musical theater, and being a retired gymnast / cheerleader who can do again handsprings! With polished make-up abilities and a beautiful mug, Sam has gone on to win a powerful variety of pageant titles for such a younger queen: it’s no shock to study that Trinity The Tuck is her drag mom and mentor.
Suzie Toot
Fort Lauderdale, FL | @suzie.toot
Suzie Toot’s uniqueness is her best energy in drag. Knowledgeable faucet dancer with a glance rooted deeply within the Twenties and 30s fashions, Suzie describes herself because the “cross-section between Betty Boop and Lucille Ball.” A talented actor with a wild humorousness and glorious comedic timing, Suzie hopes to wow the judges along with her quirky tackle drag!
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