Katya

* All Stars 2
* Σεζόν 7

## Logo

**Yekaterina Petrovna "Katya" Zamolodchikova** (RU: **Екатерина Петровна "Катя" Замолодчикова**), ή απλά **Katya** (RU: **Катя**), είναι το καλλιτεχνικό όνομα του **Brian Joseph McCook**, μια drag queen, performer, κωμικός, ηθοποιός, καλλιτέχνης και ένας από τους διαγωνιζόμενους της έβδομης σεζόν του *RuPaul's Drag Race* (κατετάγη 5η και νικήτρια του τίτλου «Miss Congeniality».), aείναι επίσης ένας από τους φιναλίστ του All Stars 2.

Μετά την επιτυχία της στο σόου, άρχισε να κυκλοφορεί καλά αποδεκτά βίντεο ανακεφαλαίωσης κατά τη διάρκεια της προβολής της και στις δύο σεζόν, και αργότερα, μαζί με την Trixie Mattel, άρχισε να φιλοξενεί την εκπομπή YouTube *UNHhhh* στο World of Το κανάλι του Wonder στο YouTube, ακολουθούμενο από το *The Trixie & Katya Show* στο Viceland και κυκλοφόρησε το βιβλίο τους *Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood*, καθώς και να κάνει καμέο σε άλλες τηλεοπτικές εκπομπές/ταινίες και να κάνει περιοδείες σε όλο τον κόσμο.

## Προέλευση του Drag Name

Το πλήρες όνομα της Katya προέρχεται από τις Ρωσίδες αθλήτριες: Yekaterina Lobaznyuk, Eugenia Kuznetsova & Elena Zamolodchikova. Η Katya είναι ένα ψευδώνυμο για την Yekaterina.

Το επίθετο της Katya, "Zamolodchikova", αποσύρθηκε από την εκπομπή και αναφέρεται μονοσήμαντα ως "Katya". Αυτό ακολουθεί μια διαδοχή προηγούμενων διαγωνιζομένων όπως οι "Detox Icunt", "Alaska Thunderfuck 5000" και "Willam Belli".

Πριν από την 7η σεζόν, πίσω στη Βοστώνη, ερμήνευε ρωσικά νούμερα με το όνομα "Katya", ενώ ερμήνευε ποπ αριθμούς, "Katie Homophobia". Αυτό σταμάτησε πριν από τα γυρίσματα της εκπομπής.

## Track Record(s)

Katya

## Αξιομνημόνευτα αποσπάσματα

### RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7

* "Давай cезон семь!" (entrance quote)
* (in Russian accent) "Is this the Schulman bar mitzvah?"
* "*девочки*!" (Russian for "Girls!")
* "I'm just your average run-of-the-mill Russian bisexual transvestite hooker."
* "Katya is at the intersection of glamour and comedy. You can find her right on the corner, selling her ass."
* "When do I get to blow them?... I can't say that?" (referring to the Pit Crew)
* "I don't know what Ms. Crab Lady is doing in that lip-sync but the bearded hoe is turning it out!" (referring to Tempest DuJour and Kandy Ho, respectively)
* "I am sweating like a hooker in church."
* "I definitely needed to make a statement, so I try to pound my vagina into that stage so hard the building shakes."
* "Ginger's transformation is pretty remarkable. She goes from Kathy Bates to Bob Hoskins."
* "When in doubt, show them your asshole."
* "I'm not a dancer, per se, but I can move my body in a compelling way... it usually compels people to leave the room."
* "I'm not actually that young, I'm just ignorant."
* "I believe it was the great American painter Bob Ross who said: 'The key to a swollen vagina is... courage'."
* "I feel confident, I feel sexy, I feel stupid."
* "I'm feeling the Shark Week fantasy."
* "'Snatch Game' is when we all dress up in latex frog costumes and go through a fiery obstacle course..."
* "Honey, that wig was a bad investment." (as Suze Orman, to Miss Fame as Donatella Versace on "Snatch Game")
* "I'm trying to just serve sexy and confident, whore. Slutty cougar on the prowl. 3rd rate Faith Hill impersonator. 80% sexy, 20% disgusting."
* "In Russia, death and sex are the same. Cold, wet, dark and painful."
* "Kennedy's RuPaul was the weirdest fucking thing ever."
* "You know you want this crocheted pussy."

### RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2

* "Счастливые голодные игры... Суки!" (entrance quote)
* "I'm here to show America that I've become a total fucking monster."
* "Roxxxy Andrews, I think about you all the time, especially in the morning... at the bus stop." (said during All Stars 2's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
* "You're telling me that in addition to the $100,000 prize, we get $10,000 for each lip sync we win? That means I could walk out of here with at least $300,000... What, I didn't go to fucking school for math."
* "It's a new day in the werkroom, um, I hate those new day in the werkroom confessions." \*laughs\*
* "(...) I am bombarded with a cacophony of demonic voices in my head telling me: \*does a devilish deep voice\* 'YOU'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH!'." (said during All Stars 2's "Drag Fish Tank" challenge)
* "My mom...I hate that fucking cunt!... Just kidding!"
* "Party." (to Alaska)
* "H-E-A-R bitch, I am HERE!"
* "I have to say that there's a part of me that's feeling very intrigued, and aroused, and seduced by this new power. (laughs)" (said during All Stars 2 confessionals)
* "It's a new day in the werkroom, and I'm feeling very good and sexy, and really grateful to be here."
* ♪ "Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova, but your dad just calls me Katya. I'm the bright red scare with the long blonde hair, always keep 'em coming back for more. You're a basic ass hoe and it's your time to go, so, bitch, let me show you the door! 'Cause it's me who's getting laid, and I'm always getting paid. The only high-class Russian whore! I'm a scorching hot mess in a skin-tight dress, that's a rash, not a herpes sore! Lenin in the streets, Dostoievski in the sheets, baby, are you ready for this Cold War? Katya Zamolodchikova" ♪ (Katya's verse in, "Read U Wrote U")
* "Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, Talent. What do these qualities have in common? I don't know, I'm not a scientist. I stand here, a charismatic woman, of grace and dignity, with a unique sense of humor and point of view. In season 7, you let me show the world that I'm good enough and here, you let me believe it myself, and I can't thank you enough for that. As they say in Russia: я звезда - навсегда. спасибо большое."
* "I have a carburetor outside that I just have to do some work on." (to RuPaul, answering what "*я звезда - навсегда. спасибо большое*" means)

#### **UNHhhh**

* "In Russia, money, power, and wealth are the keys to experiencing the full depth and breadth of lesbianism."
* "In America, talk is cheap... in Colombia talk is... Spanish."
* "I'm the visual depiction of untreated mental illness."
* "Woo! I'm a mountain biking vampire witch from the future!"
* "Fuck my pussy with a rake, mom!"
* "I used to pray to God to take away my ass hair." (said during UNHhhh, episode 77)
* "I don't like eating a butt that's dirty." (said during UNHhhh, episode 81)
* \*turns around\* "Care for a fucking?"
* "I don't like what I'm doing right now."
* "If you're not embarrassed about last year you're not making any progress."
* "And I was a falsetto child: Katya!" (said during UNHhhh, episode 119)
* "You are so fucking gay. Let me tell you about you. Hi! You are gay. As. Shit. You are the gayest fucking piece of shit I've ever met in my life. So gay. So homosexual. So clearly and thoroughly gay. So fucking gay. Did you know?" (said during UNHhhh, episode 119)
* "I prayed that she wasn't there and then I saw her and she was there." (About Miss Fame during UNHhhh, episode 135)
* "It's like seeing an Olympic athlete on the balance beam execute a perfect routine and then they start pissing themselves."
* "If you have a baby you can't be the baby"
* "Not one flickering fleeting millisecond of my life has been spent earnestly planning for a child."
* "Are you trying to awaken me to my life's purpose which is child abuse."
* "I'm the most selfish self-centered piece of shit I know."
* "When the fucking rams and the ding bats and the Vermont grapes lose the world hockey team whatever it is."
* "I'm gonna warn you right now, thank God we don't spend a lot of time together off the clock, but if you ever did that to me, I'd kill myself."

## Farewell Message

#### **Season 7**

" *Девочки! Я вас люблю*! (Girls! I love you!) If you need me, you know where to find me. (The dumpster out back) XOXO Katya AKA The Brooke Hogan of Drag AKA Diarrhea Perlman ♡♡♡"

## Trivia

* Katya Zamolodchikova graduated from Marlborough High School in 2000, and after attending Boston University for a year, decided to transfer to Massachusetts College of Art and Design, there discovering the art of doing drag.
* Zamolodchikova is almost a polyglot (speaks English, Russian, French, and a little bit of a few other ones. like Japanese and Portuguese).
* As a drag persona, she's identifies as bisexual but, out of drag, identifies as a gay man.
* Even though her drag persona is Russian, she's mostly characterized with USSR elements.
* Her favourite movie is the 1997 movie *Contact*.
* Her favourite TV series is *Game of Thrones*.
* She turned Tatianna's spoken word talent show performance, "The Same Parts", into a running gag on *UNHhhh*.
* She used to host a monthly drag show called "Perestroika" at the Jacques Cabaret.
* In January 2018, she announced a short break from drag to take care of her mental health and addiction.
* Following her hiatus, she started doing a podcast called *Whimsically Volatile*, where she discusses different topics each episode.
* Along with Trixie Mattel, Jinkx Monsoon, RuPaul, and Alaska, she was made into a Funko Pop! figurine.
* She's one of the few *RuPaul's Drag Race* alumni to reach 2 million followers on Instagram.
* She originally auditioned for Season 3.
* During Season 7, she revealed that she had a previous history of alcohol and drug addiction.
* After her entrance in Season 7, some of the other contestants thought she was Russian. She has mentioned that her audience occasionally mistakes her for being Russian as well.
* She was the only All-Stars 2 contestant in the Top 5 to not be originally from Season 5.
* She and Alaska are one of the few pairs of contestants to lip-sync against each other twice (on All Stars 2), the other pairs being  BenDeLaCreme against Darienne Lake, and Shangela.
* Both of her entrance quotes were taken from entrance quotes said by contestants on previous seasons, except translated into Russian. Her Season 7 entrance was a reference to Laganja Estranja's entrance quote. Her All-Stars 2 entrance was originally said by Chad Michaels during her All Stars 1 entrance.
* She stated that All Stars 2's "Read U Wrote U" performance was difficult. She had to do her look (for the performance) in her hotel room, and during a take, she even dropped her fan.
* She's the 3rd ever contestant to place for 2 consecutive weeks on Bottom, and later win a challenge, in the same season, the first two being Raven in Season 2 and Adore Delano on Season 6.
* She's, so far, the contestant with the most "Lip Sync for Your Legacy" losses with 3.
	+ She also is the only queen with multiple wins on an All Stars season, but not a single Lip Sync for Your Legacy win.
	+ She has also lost the most lipsyncs of any Drag Race contestant ever. If the Lipsync for the Crown in All Stars 2 is included, she has a lost a total of five out of six lipsyncs across her appearances.
		- Ironically, her close friend and co-host Trixie Mattel has the second most losses, having lost four out of five lipsyncs.
* She was the highest placing Miss Congeniality competing for the 2nd time until Monét X Change won All Stars 4.
* On June 15, 2020, Katya hit 2 million followers on Instagram, making her the fourth queen to hit this feat, after Bianca Del Rio, Trixie Mattel, and Adore Delano, as well as the first Miss Congeniality to hit this feat.
* Trixie and Katya co-hosted the YouTube Streamy Awards in 2020, and the two of them won the Streamy for Best Unscripted Series for UNHhhh. Since 2017 the show has been nominated three times each in the Show of the Year and Best Unscripted Series categories respectively.
* Katya revealed on The Bald and the Beautiful that she was asked to be a Lip Sync Assassin for All Stars but she declined as she didn't want to make a fool of herself if she lost. She also said that she wouldn't compete on Drag Race again.

## Gallery

### RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7

MeetKatyaS7.gifMini TrailerKatyaCongratulations.jpgMiss Congeniality Congratulatory Post
#### RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 Looks

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### RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8

#### RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8 Looks

KatyaS8FinaleLook.jpgMiss Congeniality Successor Look
### RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2

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#### RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2 Looks

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## Discography

#### **Appearances**

* "Drag U" (2015) by RuPaul ft. Katya
* "12 Days of Christmas" (2015) from *Christmas Queens*
* "Read U Wrote U" (2016) by RuPaul ft. *RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars* 2 Cast (Alaska, Detox, Katya, Roxxxy Andrews)
* "Thigh High" (2016) by Electric Street Queens ft. Katya
* "Bossa Nova Christmas in Outer Space" (2016) by Jackie Beat, Katya from *Christmas Queens 2*
* "The Night Before Contact" (2017) by Trixie Mattel ft. Katya

## Filmography

#### **TV**

* (2015-2018) *RuPaul's Drag Race*, on Seasons 3, 7,  8, and  10
* (2016) *Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul*
* (2016) *RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars* 2
* (2017) *Playing House*
* (2017-2018) *The Trixie & Katya Show*
* (2018) *America's Next Top Model*, on Cycle 24
* (2018) *Room 104*
* (2019) *Tales of the City*
* (2019) *Help Me, I'm Dying*
* (2019) *RuPaul's Drag Race UK*, on Season 1

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#### **Movies**

* (2016) *Redmond Hand, Private Dick*
* (2017) *Sebastian*
* (2018) *Hurricane Bianca 2: From Russia with Hate*
* (2018) *The Quiet Room*

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#### **Web Series**

* (2015) *Untucked*, on Season 7
* (2015) *Transformations*
* (2015-2016) Katya's YouTube channel series *RuFLECTIONS*, *RuGRETS*, *Irregardlessly Trish*, *I'm Not a Doctor with Dr. Katya*, *Drag 101*, *Total RuCall*
* (2015-2018) *Fashion Photo RuView*
* (2016-Present) *UNHhhh*
* (2017) *Painted by Fame*
* (2017-2018) *Pit Stop*
* (2019) *Runway Rewind*
* (2019) *The Queens*

## Bibliography

Katya's Books

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#### **Music Videos**

* "Drag U" (2015) by RuPaul ft. Katya
* "Thigh High" (2016) by Electric Street Queens ft. Katya

#### **Music**

* *Vampire Fitness* (EP, 2020) ft. Trixie Mattel ("*Ding Dong*")
* *Come In Brazil (ft. Alaska Thunderfuck)* (Single, 2020)

## Tours

#### **Headlining**

* (2018-Present) Help Me, I'm Dying
* (2020) The UNHhhh Tour

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#### **Supporting**

* (2015-2017) RuPaul's Drag Race: Battle of the Seasons
* (2015-2016) Christmas Queens Tour

## References

1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 trixie mattel cements her legacy with a new documentary | i-d Vice — May 23, 2019
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5. ↑ Katya Zamolodchikova
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