NEW YORK, March 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Six-time
Grammy Award-winning singer Christina Aguilera joins host
RuPaul to kick-off the milestone season 10 premiere of
Emmy® Award-winning "RuPaul's Drag Race," on
Thursday, March 22 at 8:00 PM ET/PT. The season will feature all
90-minute episodes and will be followed by "RuPaul's Drag Race:
Untucked" after show at 9:30 PM
ET/PT.
Promo: http://www.vh1.com/video-clips/s4bubo
Christina Aguilera is the first
guest judge for the season and will join RuPaul for one of the most
unforgettable premieres in "Drag Race" "herstory." The 14 competing
queens will hold nothing back to impress the superstar as they vie
for the ultimate title of "America's Next Drag Superstar" and a
grand prize of $100,000. The
previously announced queens include: Asia O'Hara (Dallas,
TX), Aquaria (Brooklyn, NY), Blair St. Clair (Indianapolis, IN), Dusty Ray Bottoms (New York, NY), Eureka
O'Hara (Johnson City,
TN), Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams (Albuquerque, NM), Kameron Michaels (Nashville, TN), Mayhem
Miller (Riverside,
CA), Miz Cracker (New York, NY), Monét X
Change(Bronx, NY),
Monique Heart (Kansas City, MO), The
Vixen (Chicago,
IL), Vanessa Vanjie
Mateo (Tampa, FL),
and Yuhua
Hamasaki (New York,
NY).
Christina Aguilera is one of the
most accomplished performers of the last decade, an
award-winning singer, songwriter and actress, who
has sold more than 43 million records worldwide through her seven
albums. She was named one of the "100 Greatest Singers of All
Time" by Rolling Stone Magazine and was
listed as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the
World by Time Magazine. Her philanthropic
work includes her role as a United Nations ambassador for the World
Food Programme.
For more information on "RuPaul's Drag Race" and up-to-date
news, go to RuPaulsDragRace.com and follow @RuPaulsDragRace on
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook for all the latest tea. Use
#DragRace to join the conversation.
"RuPaul's Drag Race" and "RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked" are
produced by World of Wonder Productions with Fenton Bailey, Randy
Barbato, Tom Campbell,
Steven Corfe, Mandy Salangsang and RuPaul Charles serving as
Executive Producers. Pamela
Post and Tim Palazzola serve
as Executive Producers for VH1 and Jen
Passovoy serves as Producer.
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About World of Wonder:
Award-winning production
company World of Wonder is behind entertaining and critically
acclaimed hit series including the Emmy® Award winning RuPaul's
Drag Race (VH1/Logo), which received a groundbreaking seven 2017
Emmy® nominations, Million Dollar Listing LA & NY (Bravo), Big
Freedia: Queen of Bounce (Fuse), and Gender Revolution: A Journey
with Katie Couric (National
Geographic). World of Wonder has also created award-winning
films and documentaries such as Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,
Menendez: Blood Brothers, Inside Deep Throat, The Eyes of
Tammy Faye, I Am Britney Jean, In
Vogue: The Editor's Eye, Carrie
Fisher's Wishful Drinking, Monica in Black and White, The
Last Beekeeper, which won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Nature
Programming and Out of Iraq, which
won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Special Class Special. Seven of
their films have premiered at the Sundance Film festival including
Becoming Chaz and Party Monster, the documentary and feature film
starring Macaulay Culkin. World of Wonder has created a substantial
digital footprint with its YouTube channel WOWPresents, along with
an award-winning blog, The WOW Report. Co-founders Randy Barbato and Fenton
Bailey authored The World According to Wonder, celebrating
21 years of production, which can be found online
at http://worldofwonder.net/. Randy and Fenton were honored
with the IDA Pioneer Award in December
2014, celebrating exceptional achievement, leadership, and
vision in the nonfiction and documentary community.
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