The Queens Are About To Make a Splash! Meet the Divas of ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Season 17

2025 is making a splash as 14 new queens are about to embark on the journey of a lifetime! RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 is ready to start as 14 queens share their charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and expertise as they hope to turn out to be America’s Subsequent Drag Celebrity. Emmy® Award-winning host RuPaul and mainstay judges Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews, and Ts Madison might be joined by a gag-worthy lineup of visitor judges for this sickening season. Doechii, Sandra Bernhard, Julia Schlaepfer, Paul W. Downs, Hunter Schafer, Quinta Brunson, Jamal Sims, Regulation Roach, Adam Lambert, Betsey Johnson, Whitney Cummings, Sam Smith, Jerrod Carmichael, June Diane Raphael, and Tracee Ellis Ross will grace mainstage with Katy Perry serving because the premiere episode visitor decide.

This season ushers in a brand new twist that solely RuPaul’s Drag Race can ship – The Badonka Dunk Tank. Following the lipsync, every eradicated queen has an opportunity to obtain immunity and save themselves from having to sashay away. Queens will select from 10 levers and in the event that they decide one of many two levers that dunks Michelle Visage, they get to stay within the competitors. If not, they are going to be eradicated. The winner of Season 17 will stroll away with the title of America’s Subsequent Drag Celebrity and a money prize of $200,000 served by TodayTix. The season formally begins on January third at 8:00pm, solely on MTV.

Acacia Forgot

Los Angeles, CA | @acaciaforgot

This honky-tonk diva places the nation in California. Glitzy, glamorous, and with a penchant for blonde hair, Acacia Forgot has by no means met a rhinestone she didn’t like. Musically proficient, in addition to being a singer-songwriter, Acacia performs the guitar, piano, banjo and ukulele. Will this aspiring nation star additionally turn out to be America’s Subsequent Drag Celebrity?

Arrietty

Seattle, WA | @arrietty_theelf

Arrietty hails from the Home of Dubois – her drag mom is none aside from Drag Race Season 15’s Irene Dubois. Obsessive about the fantasy style, this uniquely inventive queen designs and sews her personal outfits, usually with a “futuristic elf” aesthetic. Add within the potential to beat a imply mug when wanted, and this proficient, twisted queen is able to go all the way in which within the competitors!

Crystal Envy

Asbury Park, NJ | @thecrystalenvy

With appears so polished, it’s arduous to consider this make-up artist and drag queen has solely been performing for 3 years. In New Jersey, Crystal Envy swiftly dominated the membership scene. Crystal Envy’s title comes as a combination of their start title Chris, and the truth that each outfit she wears is bedazzled and sparkly. This pageant princess instructions a membership crowd, however can Crystal maintain that very same command over the judges this season?

Hormona Lisa

Chattanooga, TN | @hormona_lisa

This Southern bubblegum babe was infamously plucked from the group by RuPaul on the Atlanta cease of his “The Home of Hidden Meanings” e-book tour and invited to Hollywood. Now formally part of the season 17 forged, Hormona Lisa campy queen – impressed by Disney princesses and classic display sirens – hopes to catch the attention of RuPaul once more, this time the place it counts essentially the most: on the principle stage of RuPaul’s Drag Race!

Jewels Sparkles

Tampa, FL | @thejewelssparkles

Out of drag, this youthful queen has a sweetness and an innocence, and is a self-described “ditzy clumsy bimbo.” However don’t be fooled – Jewels Sparkles intends to enter the competitors with intention and technique. With influences that vary from Ariana Grande to Priscilla Presley, to her Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, you’d be silly to underestimate this proficient doll as merely a “look queen.”

Joella

Los Angeles, CA | @thejoelladynasty

Joella calls herself “The Slaysian Diva,” and along with her personal distinctive type of drag, mixing conventional Chinese language costume with road style and popular culture, you may see why. Having already received native West Hollywood drag bar contests, Joella is now able to characterize plus-size queens within the greatest drag competitors on the earth.

Kori King

Boston, MA | @koriking

This boisterous queen has quickly risen to the highest of the Boston scene, amassing a good TikTok following alongside the way in which. Solely within the drag sport for two years, Kori King has already been awarded Boston’s Finest New Performer To Watch award, and is the title on everyone’s lips. She is season 16 finalist Airplane Jane’s drag sister, so anticipate a razor sharp wit, and someone who tells it like it’s!

Lana Ja’Rae

New York, NY | @lanajarae

Lana JaRae’s drag mom is Luxx Noir London, from season 15 of Drag Race, so anticipate a stage of fierceness from this fashionista! Luxx noticed Lana competing in a New York drag competitors and was so impressed, she approached her backstage and requested if she might undertake her on the spot. Bringing legs and physique to the principle stage, Lana is able to strut away from this competitors with a crown!

Lexi Love

Louisville, KY | @mslexilove

Lexi Love is a full-time “playmate” at Play, Louisville, a bar recognized for its high-energy drag excellence. As a performer, Lexi is aware of methods to flip the get together up – however she’s additionally somebody you’d like to kick it with. Having survived a interval of homelessness and drug habit, she has emerged a stronger and extra impartial queen and is prepared for the re-birth of Lexi to take over the world!

Fortunate Starzzz

Miami, FL | @theluckystarzzz

Born in Havana, Cuba, Fortunate Starzzz is an expressive, colourful, residing cartoon! Fortunate’s drag meets on the intersection of membership child and camp, and this resourceful queen makes use of as a lot paper and spray paint as she does sequins and rhinestones. Fortunate describes her drag as “a venus fly lure in a room filled with roses.” Can Fortunate’s eye-catching creativity catch the eyes of the judges this season and win her the crown?

Lydia B Kollins

Pittsburgh, PA | @foreheadbrows

To grasp this absurdist, distinctive queen you solely must know that the “B” stands for b*tthole. Named after Winona Ryder’s character in Beetlejuice, Lydia Deetz, and impressed by Tim Burton, John Waters, and David Lynch, Lydia B Kollins is a queen who values creativity over perfection. Will the judges discover Lydia’s appears BOOTYful, or will her time on Drag Race be a disASSter?

Onya Nurve

Cleveland, OH | @onyanurve

Smashburger cook dinner by day, enchanting and in-demand drag artist by night time. Onya Nurve obtained bitten by the efficiency bug in highschool, and took an inventive profession path to tug through a BFA in Portray from the Cleveland Institute of Artwork. A comedic actress in addition to having the ability to belt out a tune, Onya represents an actual menace on this competitors!

Sam Star

Leeds, AL | @samstarqueen

Gorgeous, trendy, SOUTHERN! Sam Star is sort of the Renaissance queen, having skilled in musical theater, and being a retired gymnast / cheerleader who can do again handsprings! With polished make-up abilities and a beautiful mug, Sam has gone on to win a formidable variety of pageant titles for such a younger queen: it’s no shock to study that Trinity The Tuck is her drag mom and mentor.

Suzie Toot

Fort Lauderdale, FL | @suzie.toot

Suzie Toot’s uniqueness is her best energy in drag. An expert faucet dancer with a glance rooted deeply within the Nineteen Twenties and 30s fashions, Suzie describes herself because the “cross-section between Betty Boop and Lucille Ball.” A talented actor with a wild humorousness and wonderful comedic timing, Suzie hopes to wow the judges along with her quirky tackle drag!

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