He calls Secret Celebrity Drag Race “the greatest experience in my career,” which is both very flattering for Ru and kind of surprising. Being Poppy, he says, has helped him realize that he can be both Alex and AJ, and he’s come to have a greater level of acceptance for himself.
(I did not know this, so I am clearly not a fan.) While AJ is wild and tattooed and a bad boy, Alex is a quiet dork who’s long been tucked away as AJ claimed more of the spotlight. AJ McLean says that offstage, he’s always gone by Alex, something that he says his fans generally know. Poppy’s up next, wearing a pink suit-and-hat number that you know Ru wants for himself. Ru reminds Indelicato that he has access to those parts of himself even out of drag, as Ru is wont to do, and things seem to go fine. Being Thirsty helps Mark Indelicato get in touch with the more overtly femme part of himself, as well as the part that’s sexual and flirtatious.
Mark Indelicato/Thirsty is up first in the hot seat, and things immediately get intensely personal as he reveals that he’s long struggled with members of the general public trying to out him before he had come to terms with his own sexuality. Ru announces that they’re all going off to get ready for their solo performances, but while that’s happening, we’re all going to get to watch some pretaped Tic Tac lunches. Chakra’s look says “more is more,” Poppy is still leaning on that “Everybody” slide, and Thirsty looks really beautiful and modern, but she always does, so that’s nothing new. When the three finalists enter the stage, it’s clear they’ve put everyone in gold for the evening, including the thus far missing Queens Supreme. I don’t have much to say about the whole parade, other than that I liked Donna Bellissima’s tiny “normalize kitten heels” sign, and I’m still not sure why they do Milli’s makeup like that. (And I mean loosely, because like half the songs in the world are about love and they picked three of the most random cuts.) To celebrate with the queens, the entire cast of Secret Celebrity has returned, from Fabulosity, who is still very obviously Loretta Devine, to the disgracefully robbed Chic-Li-Fay. He also seemingly got the most fan votes online, which makes sense given his long standing Backstreet fandom, but if it’s just a popularity contest, then what was the point of everything running up to this? Or is that a futile question, because that would suppose that there was a point to Secret Celebrity Drag Race, period?Īnyway, how did we get to Poppy Love’s big crowning moment? With more solo lip-sync performances, of course! Ru and her World of Wonder pals went back to the same old well for the celebrity finale, asking everyone to do a song loosely themed around the idea of love.
is probably the most popular competitor overall, meaning he’ll garner the most post-event press coverage, and maybe that’s all that really matters. He clearly had something to offer that Ru and the judges wanted to award and I don’t doubt his respect for LGBTQ+ issues and culture, but ugh, did the straight dude have to win Secret Celebrity Drag Race? Poppy Love was fine, but she certainly wasn’t the best of the bunch overall this season.
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It doesn’t seem to be capturing the hearts of many Drag Race fans, and while AJ McLean will always have the Backstreet Army out supporting him in full force, it’s not like Secret Celebrity got anyone talking once - at least after the first week, when it became immediately and glaringly obvious that the “who are they?” premise didn’t work.Īnyway, all hail the first all-encompassing winner of Secret Celebrity Drag Race: A.J. The second season of RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race has come to an end, and not a minute too soon.
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