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Envy Peru, the winner of Drag Race Holland, revealed that she was attacked while riding a bus in Amsterdam in an Instagram post.

She called this assault a “wake-up call” for her and the LGBTQ community.

“​​I was attacked in broad daylight by 4 young men while on the bus in Amsterdam. They threatened me with a weapon while making offensive slurs towards me and filming it. Even when I tried to distance myself from the situation by moving away, they continued and kept trying to hit me,” she wrote. “As I tried to get away, what shocked me the most was that only one sweet lady stood up for me – in a whole bus full of people.”

The attacks didn’t end there and when Peru got off the bus she “sensed the boys following me, then one of them ran towards me and kicked me to the floor. Four...

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Blue Ant Media and World of Wonder have launch free, ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) channel Drag Race Universe on Amazon Freevee in the U.S.

Programming launch highlights on the Drag Race Universe channel include: “Canada’s Drag Race” seasons 2 and 3 (19 x 60’), “RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. vs The World” (6 x 60’), “RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.” seasons 2 and 3 (20 x 60’). “Drag Race Holland” (8 x 60’), “Drag Race Espana” (10 x 60’), “RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under” seasons 1 and 2 (16 x 60’), the first season of “Drag Race Philippines” (10 x 60’) and “Drag Race Philippines Untucked” (10 x 30’), its companion series that follows the backstage drama.

Additional international series in the franchise that will roll out on the free-streaming channel over the coming months include “Drag Race France” (8 x 60’) and “Drag Race Italia” (8 x 60’).

Jamie Schouela, president, global channels and media, Blue Ant Media, said: “Expanding the reach of Drag Race Universe builds on our partnership with World of Wonder and...

RuPaul’s Drag Race has effectively become the biggest drag pageant in the world, as competitors from across the US and in their respective countries vie for the title of Drag Superstar. Season 15 frontrunner Sasha Colby is a former winner of Miss Continental, widely regarded as one of the most prestigious pageants on the planet. But Colby isn’t the only Continental winner to sashay onto the Drag Race stage.

Sasha Colby | Santiago Felipe/Getty Images Victoria ‘Porkchop’ Parker won Miss Continental Plus in 2003

Back in 2003, Victoria “Porkchop” Parker took home the crown at Miss Continental Plus, a separate pageant for plus-sized queens. When season 1 of RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered in 2009, Porkchop was the first queen ever eliminated from the show, earning her a hallowed place in the Drag Race universe.

Roxxxy Andrews won Miss Continental Plus in 2010

Roxxxy Andrews, another beloved Drag Race alum, also won Miss Continental Plus...

The dawn of RuPaul’s Drag Race at the turn of the 2010s marked the beginning of drag’s proliferation in the mainstream and on television. Drag Race has exploded all over the world with over a dozen (and counting) international franchises, and has inspired the creation of new shows centered around drag. Queen of the Universe is one of these shows, combining drag with live singing in a Drag Race-meets-American Idol-style competition. And when Queen of the Universe returns for its second season on Paramount+ in March 2023, two Drag Race alumnae will be competing for the crown.

RuPaul’s Drag Race star and Queen of the Universe competitor Jujubee | Emma McIntyre/Getty Images ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ alum Jujubee competed on season 1 of ‘Queen of the Universe’

Jujubee was among the 14 queens singing for their lives on Queen of the Universe. She previously competed on season 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race and seasons...

Queen of the Universe returns for a second season on Paramount+ with Graham Norton as host. The show is set to premiere on the streamer starting March 31 in the U.S. and Canada with the U.K., Latin America, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Australia seeing it on April 1.

The reality competition sees drag queens from around the world go head-to-head vying for a cash prize of $250,000. Former Spice Girls star Mel B joins the panel of judges that includes RaPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage, Vanessa Williams and drag queen Trixie Mattel.

Meet the drag queens of Queen of the Universe Season 2:

Aura Eternal

Having previously appeared on the second season of “Drag Race Italia” where she made it to the top three, Aura Eternal has already demonstrated sickening skills in her homeland. But now Aura’s ready to show the rest of the...

The LALAPaRuZa lip sync smackdown has become one of RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s most iconic challenges, as queens compete against each other in jaw-dropping lip syncs to keep their spot in the competition. Season 15 of Drag Race had a larger-than-life LALAPaRuZa, with queens performing to songs such as Anitta‘s “Boys Don’t Cry” and Joan Jett’s “Do You Wanna Touch Me.” Some of the songs in the lip sync tournament have been used on Drag Race in the past.

(L-R) Malaysia Babydoll Foxx, Aura Mayari, Irene Dubois, Jax, Amethyst, Salina EsTitties, Loosey Laduca, Marcia Marcia Marcia, Anetra, Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Robin Fierce, Sasha Colby, Sugar, Luxx Noir London, Princess Poppy, and Spice | Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Paramount+ Related

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Exclusive: Wow Presents Plus has unveiled its latest original series Bring Back My Girls and shared that the upcoming project will be filmed live at DragCon LA 2022. Bring Back My Girls will feature a series of exclusive DragCon panel conversations with the casts of RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 12), RuPaul’s Drag Race vs. The World, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (Seasons 1 & 2), RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, Canada’s Drag Race (Seasons 1 & 2) and Drag Race Holland (Seasons 1 & 2), hosted by TV personality and LGBTQ+ activist Ts Madison.

The live tapings, filmed live from May 13 to May 15, will be open to all DragCon LA attendees on a first-come, first-serve basis. Bring Back My Girls marks the first time DragCon will provide fans a firsthand, behind-the-scenes look at the making of a World of Wonder production. Audiences will also have the chance to directly ask the queens during each panel’s Q&a portion. The final...

On the February 1 premiere of “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs. The World,” RuPaul Charles brought together nine all-stars from the series’ many franchises to compete against each other in the ultimate contest to find the “queen of the mother-tucking world.” Hosted in the United Kingdom, the new series sets three queens from the UK franchise as hosts to six other competitors. After a talent showcase, Lemon (5th place on “Canada’s Drag Race” season 1) and Janey Jacké (2nd placeon “Drag Race Holland” season 1) fell to the bottom. In traditional All Stars rules, the top two lipsynced for the right to send one of the bottom two home. In that lipsync, host of “Drag Race Thailand” Pangina Heals defeated “Canada’s Drag Race” season 1 fourth-placer Jimbo and sent her sister Lemon packing.

Below check out our recap of episode 2 to in “Global Glamazons.” “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World” airs every...

The bus will continue to run at VH1. In addition renewing RuPaul’s Drag Race for a fourteenth season, the network is also giving us an additional season of Untucked, as well as a second installment of Secret Celebrity Drag Race, TVLine has learned.

“I am extremely grateful to all the amazing and talented Drag Race queens — past, present and future — that continue to inspire us to find new ways to tell their stories,” host and executive producer RuPaul said in a statement. “Through love, light and laughter, they remind all of us that the most powerful thing you can...

We’d like to offer a hearty “gefeliciteerd!” to the first-ever winner of Drag Race Holland, crowned in dramatic fashion during Thursday’s season finale (now available to stream on Wow Presents Plus).

At the top of the hour, four fierce queens remained in the running to become the first Dutch Drag Superstar: Envy Peru, 31, of Amsterdam; Janey Jacke, 28, of Volendam; Ma’Ma Queen, 30, of Rotterdam; and Miss Abby Omg, 25, of Breda.

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Many things are different on Drag Race Holland—the language, the celebrities, the judges, the host—but it does still have at least one thing in common with America's Drag Race, and that is a love of questionable reality TV stars. It's also got Snatch Game. E! News has an exclusive first look at Drag Race Holland's first installment of the fan fave Drag Race challenge, which forces the queens to impersonate celebs in a game show format, and you will absolutely recognize at least one of the celebs being impersonated. Er, you might not call him a celeb, but you'll recognize him either way: Joe Exotic, brought to new life by contestant ChelseaBoy. Of course, Joe Exotic was...

Start your engines and may the best (Dutch) woman win! Fans of RuPaul's Drag Race have only had to wait mere weeks between the finale of one extension of the franchise and the premiere of another in 2020. Less than a month after Canada's Drag Race wrapped (spoiler: Priyanka took home the crown), World of Wonder released the first-look trailer at Drag Race Holland, the fifth international version of the Emmy-winning series. As always, the preview clip is set to a RuPaul jam, "You Wear It Well," as 10 freshly-plucked queens debut their grand workroom entrances. In addition to glimpses at this season's pit crew, the main stage and behind-the-scenes hair and makeup action, the trailer also...