page_title: Michelle Visage
hierarchical_section_title: Michelle Visage
caption_attribution_description: Michelle Visage at RuPaul's DragCon LA 2018
context_page_description: Michelle Visage is an American Radio DJ, singer, actress, media personality, television host and show girl.
  Originally gaining recognition as a member of the band Seduction, she earned five singles with the group that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 before reaching the top of the dance charts in 1993 as lead vocalist in The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.. She co-hosted The RuPaul Show from 1996 to 1998, alongside frequent collaborator RuPaul. After working as a radio DJ across the country from 1996 to 2011, she returned to television in 2011 on the American reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, where she has served as a permanent judge since the show's third season. She has also served as a judge on each season of its spin-off series, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars and RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
  She served as a judge on the first two seasons of Ireland's Got Talent from 2018 to 2019, as a contestant on the fifteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, and participated in series 17 of Strictly Come Dancing in the UK on the BBC.
  On stage, Visage made her West End debut in Everybody's Talking About Jamie in 2018. Her first book, The Diva Rules, was published in 2015.
context_section_description: Michelle Visage (born Michelle Lynn Shupack; September 20, 1968) is an American Radio DJ, singer, actress, media personality, television host and show girl.
  Originally gaining recognition as a member of the band Seduction, she earned five singles with the group that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 before reaching the top of the dance charts in 1993 as lead vocalist in The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.. She co-hosted The RuPaul Show from 1996 to 1998, alongside frequent collaborator RuPaul. After working as a radio DJ across the country from 1996 to 2011, she returned to television in 2011 on the American reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, where she has served as a permanent judge since the show's third season. She has also served as a judge on each season of its spin-off series, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars and RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
  She served as a judge on the first two seasons of Ireland's Got Talent from 2018 to 2019, as a contestant on the fifteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, and participated in series 17 of Strictly Come Dancing in the UK on the BBC.
  On stage, Visage made her West End debut in Everybody's Talking About Jamie in 2018. Her first book, The Diva Rules, was published in 2015.
  In 2019, she received her first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Competition Program, after becoming a producer of Drag Race starting from its eleventh season.
caption: Michelle Visage in 2018
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