Cynthia Lee Fontaine, RuPaul's Drag Race 's Miss Congeniality for season 8, was diagnosed with stage 1 liver cancer shortly after her brief first stint on the show. She continues to pursue a career in music, having released her first single and music video for the song "Pegajosa" in Upon making a quick exit from season 8, Dax ExclamationPoint has become a popular mainstay at various drag conventions, honorary galas, and other glamorous public functions.
However, much of their time is spent doing cosplay, peddling merch on Instagram , and participating in the Cosmo Queens web series, which specializes in makeup tutorials and other stylish fashion tips.
Beyond their prominent social media presence, Dax appeared on Hey Qween! Here's hoping they return to the series in some capacity moving forward. After originally placing 12th, Naysha Lopez returned to the competition and improved her standing to finish in 9th position, breaking the so-called returning queen curse. Since competing, Naysha has spent much of her time using her license in cosmetology to promote her makeup work to go with countless selfies on Instagram.
In , Lopez competed out of drag in the Mr. Continental competition over Labor Day weekend, finishing as an impressive runner-up per Out. While Lopez did not take home the grandest title, he did win the swimsuit category of the competition.
While Laila McQueen had the quickest exit from season 8, she has parlayed her presence on the show into a successful career. McQueen will also be part of the upcoming documentary All Stars , set for a release. One of her most notable moments was breaking grounds on season 7's Snatch Game by being the first queen to impersonate a male celebrity.
This was one of the best Drag Race performances seen on the Snatch Game , and it secured her a joint win with Ginger Minj. An established pageant queen before Drag Race , Kennedy continues to take part in pageants as well as drag tours and shows.
She released her first single "Moving Up" in , which featured rapper Dresia Dee. Another Drag Race legend to emerge from season 7 was Katya. Voted Miss Congeniality of the season and finishing as runner-up of All Stars 2 , Katya was a firm favorite for viewers and judges and entertained with both humor and excellent runway looks. Katya has done a number of projects since Drag Race , a number of them with fellow season 7 queen Trixie Mattel.
Together, they have co-hosted a web series, a podcast, collaborated on a make-up collection, and have written a book together. Katya has also created a number of solo web series and filmed her first live stand-up show "Help Me, I'm Dying" in Fellow Drag Race legend Trixie Mattel initially finished eleventh on season 7 but won a place back in the competition during the "Conjoined Queens" challenge and ended up coming in sixth.
She then went on to win the third season of All Stars. Along with various projects with Katya, Trixie has found success as a country musician and released her first album Two Birds in She had since released two more albums with a third to be announced , starred in various comedy tours, and launched her own line of cosmetics.
Although a frontrunner in the seventh season, Miss Fame, unfortunately didn't win a maxi challenge and finished in seventh overall after losing a lip-sync against Pearl. Regardless, this has not stopped Miss Fame's success after their time on Drag Race. Right after season 7, Miss Fame launched their debut single "Rubber Doll," one of the best songs to come from a Drag Race queen , launching a successful music career.
Jaidynn Diore Fierce finished in eighth place on season 7 of Drag Race. While she also didn't win any maxi challenges, Jaidynn showed promise before becoming a lip sync assassin, sending home two queens consecutively before being sent home herself by Ginger Minj. Jaidynn continues to perform drag shows and has a drag daughter called Venus Ann Serena.
The youngest queen on the seventh season, Max was a relatively quirky queen and showed some promise early in the show. In true diva form, Akashia quickly improvised and turned the accidental landing into a genius pose that saved the moment. After entering the Drag Race elimination abyss after three consecutive bottom-two appearances, Akashia has continued to perform at Pride events and in clubs, primarily in Cleveland.
She stopped performing around September , however, when her hometown bar closed for good. Her season 10 reunion appearance in June marked her first drag performance since her self-imposed retiremement the previous year, and she is now active on social media in an effort to court new fans. She has also expressed interest in returning for a future All-Stars season. The self-proclaimed "original fish" competed on Drag Race when she was just 25 years old — the second youngest of the entire contest at the time — and she certainly made waves clashing with Rebecca Glasscock, whom she lost an epic lip-synch to on the show's fourth episode.
Between acting gigs in and out of drag including the indie Bailiwick , Jade has steadily performed at bars and clubs since rising to prominence on the Drag Race stage, which she returned to this summer to perform a medley of RuPaul's hits alongside Monique Heart at the season 10 finale.
Some Drag Race girls go down in her-story for their lip-synch abilities and fashionable lewks, but fifth-place finisher Ongina warmed her way into fans' hearts with a key moment of emotional vulnerability. She's also co-hosted several episodes of the popular Drag Race recap web series Fashion Photo Ruview.
Shannel pioneered the art of talking back to the judges before her untimely season 1 elimination, shockingly nominating herself to get the heavily sequined boot when RuPaul asked the remaining ladies which of the remaining queens should be sent home. But Shannel held a special place in fans' hearts up to that point, having performed what is considered to be the first official "wig reveal" in Drag Race her-story during her lip-synch to "The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston.
She later competed on the first season of All-Stars with team member Chad Michaels, who ultimatley won the competition. She also appeared as a drag professor on three seasons of RuPaul's Drag U between and and had a small part on the season 8 premiere. Outside of the Drag Race realm, Shannel performed in Lady Gaga's "Applause" lyric video in and was a featured cast member in the Divas Las Vegas drag show in RuPaul once described Miss Glassock — who famously got emotional and cut her own Mac Viva-Glam commercial shoot short, leaving Mama Ru hanging in the director's chair — as "just another girl at the mall," but the self-proclaimed "small-town girl with a big dream" realized her prophecy with a glow-up throughout season 1 debut.
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