Michelle's Drag Race

## CBS Drag Race

Ian (Reacurring)

Donna Fox (Guest)

Amanda Quintana (Guest)

Logan De La Cruz (Main Judge/Reacurring Episodes 5-TBA)

The first season of CBS Drag Race was comissioned in Late July of 2023 and was announced at the same time as Eden Hotel. It was announced that the show would run simultaneously with Eden Hotel and was Co-Hosted between 2 hosts.

## Format

Similar to *Fashion Frenzy*, Each week the queens have to dress up to a category and the looks are judged by Michelle & Ian. Each week there are tops and bottoms, the top look of the week winning and the bottom 2/3 looks of the week are in the bottom. The girls in the bottom lipsync for their life, and the one with the better lipsync stays.

## Weekly Tasks/Challenges

**Episode 1 (Girl Group)**

* **Challenge:** The queens were split into groups of 2. They were instructed to create a girl group and individually write verses to the Sissy That Walk instrumental, and would perform infront of the judges. Team 1 consisted of Wolfina, Evangalina, Drexciya, Rue, Tina Rose Mayhem, and Cheetah Colby. Team 2 consisted of Amara Barbie, Rani Star, Violet Vaux, Oshun Delight, and Naomi Woods.
* **Runway:** The runway theme was Who is She? An introduction outfit for the queens to show their true personalities.
* **Tops:** Drexciya, Violet, Rani
* **Bottoms:** N/A
* **Lipsync Winner:** Rani Star
* **Exits:** Rue quit the show prior to finishing her verse, stating that she felt she wasnt a good fit for the show & was done being around Drexciya. Cheetah quit after all of the drama, Valentina and Jream were taken off the show by Michelle
* **Eliminated:** N/A

**Episode 2 (Night of 1000 Donnas)**

*Donna Fox* from Fear Street season 1 and popstar entered to help guest judge the girls.

* **Challenge:** Screencaps from different Donna Fox music videos are sent to the chat. The first queen to get 2 points first by guessing which music video the screencaps came from get a one on one from Donna fox.
* **Runway:** The runway theme was Night of 1000 Donnas. Each queen had to recreate a look similar to Donna Fox aesthetic.
* **Tops:** Rani Star, Evangelina, Naomi Woods (High), Amara Barbie (High)
* **Bottoms:** Lola Danger, Miss C1aunty Soa (Kendall and Wolfina were automatically placed in the bottom for not submitting)
* **Lipsync Winners:** Lola Danger, Wolfina
* **Exits:** Kendall (Failed to submit lipsync in the proper time period. Upon submitting her lipsync she still lost to wolfina)
* **Eliminated:** Miss C1aunty Soa

**Episode 3 (Talent Show)**

*Amanda Quintana* helped guest judge this weeks episode.

* **Challenge:** Michelle was sending halfway completed sentences to the groupchat, and the queens had to finish them. The sentence Michelle found most funny would be picked to eliminate another contestant. This kept on until one queen remained. For the main challenge, it was a talent show. And all the queens were instructed to showcase one of their talents for the judges.
* **Runway:** Rainbow
* **Tops:** Violet Vaux, Amara Barbie (High) Klaudialicious (High)
* **Bottoms:** Rani Star, Evangelina
* **Lipsync Winner:** Rani Star
* **Exits:** N/A
* **Eliminated:** Evangelina

**Episode 4 (Lalaparuzza)**

* **Challenge:** The queens all had to participate in a lipsync tournament bracket. each queen going against another, the losers would have to continue fighting for their safety until one queen ended up going home.
* **Runway:** N/A
* **Tops:** N/A
* **Bottoms:** Drexciya, Amara Barbie, Wolfina
* **Lipsync Winner:** Naomi Woods, Violet Vaux, Lola Danger, KlaudiaLicious, Rani Star
* **Exits:** Michelle aka *Sapphire* left as host of the show and Ian took over.
* **Eliminated:** N/A

After episode 4, The host of the show Michelle revealed herself to be former contestants Sapphire Sioux and left production after an argument with a contestant, leaving the cast and other production members in the dark. The show was postponed by ian and set to resume filming a month later after completion of Eden Hotel. The show was picked up by former contestant Violet, and Logan from Fear Street returned as a main judge and co host. The show was eventually dropped after not being picked up by the new hosts.

## Cast

The 11 contestants of CBS Drag race was revealed on August 7th, 2023.

A) this is marked as Violet's first show in the MTV/CBS universe, but her first show in the reality community was Love Connection 5.

B) Rue quit the competition prior to the first challenge performance after being intimidated by Drexciya's behavior

C) Colby quit because the fighting was too intense for her

D) Jream was removed by Michelle and Valentina left after Tony removed her off his network

E) Kendall did not submit her lipsync in time so she automatically lost her lipsync. However after she did submit it she still would have lost to wolfina.

F) After the season pause Klaudia and Violet did not return. Violet returned as host and Klaudia was cut