Brooke Lynn Hytes
Brooke Lynn Hytes is the stage name of Brock Edward Hayhoe (born March 10, 1986), a Canadian drag queen, ballet dancer, performer, and television personality. After working as a dancer with Cape Town City Ballet and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Hytes achieved international recognition for competing on the eleventh season of "RuPaul's Drag Race"; Hytes placed second, only to winner Yvie Oddly. Hytes is the first Canadian to compete in the series. Hytes is also a main judge on the spin-off series "Canada's Drag Race", becoming the first "Drag Race" contestant to  become a full-time judge in the franchise. Early life. Hayhoe was born on March 10, 1986, in Toronto. He attended high school at Etobicoke School of the Arts. When he was 15, he started to take ballet at the National Ballet School of Canada for five years. He came out as gay when he was 18. He is of Swedish and French origin. Career. At 20, Hytes moved to South Africa and performed at the Cape Town City Ballet. She later moved to New York City and joined Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. In 2014, Hytes won the  Miss Continental pageant. Hytes was announced to be one of fifteen contestants competing on season eleven of RuPaul's Drag Race on January 24, 2019. She won the main challenges in episode one, five and eleven, placing in the top of a challenge a record-breaking nine times throughout the season. This is the most top 3 positions achieved by any contestant in a single season in RuPaul's Drag Race history. She was in a "double-shantay" alongside Yvie Oddly in the Snatch Game episode after bombing her Celine Dion impersonation; the duo's lip sync to Demi Lovato 's "Sorry Not Sorry" was lauded over by critics, and declared by many to be the best lip sync in the history of the show. Throughout the show, Hytes developed an on-show romance with Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, dubbed "Branjie". Hytes and Mateo were in the bottom two of episode twelve, with Hytes emerging victorious in a lip sync battle to Aretha Franklin's "A Deeper Love", making Mateo the last queen to be eliminated prior to the finale. Hytes finished as a runner-up on the eleventh season of Rupaul's Drag Race losing to Yvie Oddly in the  final lip sync for the crown. In June 2019, Hytes was one of 37 queens to be featured on the cover of "New York" magazine. On September 26, she was announced as a full-time judge for "Canada's Drag Race", the Canadian spin-off of "RuPaul's Drag Race". She is the first contestant from any series in the Drag Race franchise to become a full-time judge. On November 11, she won a People's Choice Award for "Most Hypeworthy Canadian". In January 2020, she brought back the preliminary of Miss Continental in Canada after 11 years of  hiatus.. In July 2020, she became a judge on "Canada's Drag Race" alongside Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and Stacey McKenzie. On March 25, 2021, Hytes released a single with Priyanka, titled "Queen of the North". In May 2021, Hytes, McKenzie and Bowyer-Chapman won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Host or Presenter in a Factual or Reality/Competition Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards. The same month, she launched a podcast with Priyanka, "Famous This Week", and was announced as the host of "1 Queen 5 Queers", a reboot of "1 Girl 5 Gays", for Crave. Personal life . Hytes was living in Nashville, Tennessee before being accepted on "Drag Race". She since moved to Los Angeles. Her drag mother is Farra N. Hyte and Washington Heights, and her drag sister is Heaven Lee Hytes.