NEW YORK, March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- VH1 today
announced the guest judges set to join the milestone
10th season of Emmy® Award-winning "RuPaul's Drag
Race," premiering Thursday, March
22 at 8:00 PM ET/PT.
RuPaul will be joined by a star-studded line-up of celebrities to
help alongside show regulars Michelle
Visage, Carson Kressley and
Ross Mathews as they decide who will
stay, lip-synch for their life, or "sashay away."
This season's guest judges include Christina
Aguilera, Shania Twain, Lena
Dunham, Halsey, Abbi Jacobson,
Ilana
Glazer, Kate Upton, Billy Eichner,
Kumail Nanjiani,
Emily V. Gordon, Padma
Lakshmi, Courtney Love,
Nico Tortorella,
Audra McDonald,
Ashanti, Logan
Browning, Tisha
Campbell-Martin, Carrie
Preston, Andrew
Rannells, Miles
Heizer, Todrick
Hall and Lizzo. Additionally,
Stephen Colbert,
Andy Cohen and
Cheyenne Jackson will treat
the queens to special guest appearances.
The 14 competing queens will hold nothing back to impress the
judges 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).
Season 10 will feature all 90-minute episodes and will be
followed by "RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked" after show at
9:30 PM ET/PT.
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.
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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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Perez, 212-846-6924, Stephanie.Perez@viacom.com
Scott Mayer & Emily
Merkley, 323-933-3399, viacom@mprm.com
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