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Some queens snatched the crown the moment they walked in the Werk Room, while others left jaws on the floor with their shocking victories. Join us as we highlight queens who blazed a clear path to the crown with unforgettable performances, along with those whose wins stunned fans, thanks to big twists or unexpected showdowns. Which winner shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00Don't let the smooth taste fool you, baby.
00:02Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:04And today, we're counting down our picks for the most shocking
00:07and the most predictable crownings in the American franchise of RuPaul's Drag Race.
00:11Yes, there are spoilers.
00:22Number 5. Obvious. Jinx Monsoon.
00:25It's so wonderful to be here.
00:28It's wonderful to be anywhere, really.
00:31You know, I've been dead for quite some time.
00:35Eight previous winners returned to compete in the seventh All-Stars edition.
00:40Jinx Monsoon was the underdog on her original season.
00:43Throughout season 5, her struggles with her makeup and honing her drag aesthetic
00:47added some suspense to her eventual win.
00:49But nearly a decade afterward,
00:51she showed why she's one of the franchise's most well-rounded queens.
00:54From the start, Jinx's talents for comedy, music, and acting made her unstoppable.
00:59Trinity, Trinity, my goodness.
01:02So kind and compassionate and caring.
01:04She even let her last boyfriend down easy.
01:06She said, let's just be cousins.
01:08Her Judy Garland imitation is arguably the best Snatch Game performance of all time.
01:20And that was only week two.
01:21The final lip sync between her and Monet X Change was purely a formality.
01:25Her track record made her the obvious choice.
01:38Number five, surprising, Trixie Mattel.
01:41We've lost our clear front runner.
01:44So now the rest of us are like, oh my gosh, the likelihood of me winning has just skyrocketed.
01:49This is like your pretty friend's not going to prom.
01:52And now you're like...
01:52Winning Drag Race is almost a footnote for this cosmetics guru,
01:57YouTuber, musician, and TV star in her own right.
02:01Trixie Mattel might seem like an obvious winner on paper,
02:04but given the track records on All Stars 3,
02:06she was looking like a safer bet for third or fourth place.
02:09Ben de la Creme dominated the season like few queens before her.
02:12Then, the gag of the century happened.
02:15Ben eliminated herself midway through.
02:18I'm going home.
02:21What?
02:22What did she just say?
02:27Did she just say her own name?
02:29Then, the second biggest gag of the century happened.
02:32To decide...
02:34Who will be the top two All Stars of the season?
02:38RuPaul introduced a jury twist that saw new front runner Shangela knocked out of the finals,
02:46leaving Trixie and Kennedy Davenport to vie for the crown.
02:49I've proven that you can have a bad day and then go on to have so many good days.
02:55Me getting to the lip sync for my legacy, it feels like a victory lap.
02:58Trixie won.
02:59And the Drag Race fandom was absolutely 100% chill about it.
03:03They're all winners, Andy.
03:04Do you think that they didn't judge on talent?
03:07They just made it more like Big Brother and who they didn't like?
03:11Child, I can't get inside their head.
03:13You know, the thing is this.
03:14They do what they want to do.
03:16Number four.
03:17Obvious.
03:18Simone.
03:18Is your blood sugar low?
03:21Well, baby, do I got a drink for you?
03:24It's called Sweet Tooth.
03:25Made to make you go from uptight to just right, baby.
03:30Is your blood sugar low?
03:31Anyone who was watching this first post-COVID season live could tell you two things.
03:36It was so long, and Simone was going to win.
03:38Gottmik and Candy Muse gave her a run for her money,
03:41but Candy's inconsistent track record and Mick's respectable showing
03:44did not hold a candle to Simone's four challenge wins.
03:48Correction, I own 51% of the flag factory,
03:51and the only reason I came back is to shut it down.
03:54As of midnight tonight, I'll be tearing down the flag factory,
03:59and I'll be putting up a war factory where a war factory ought to be.
04:02Whether the season's winner would be determined by track record
04:05or a lip sync smackdown for the crown, Simone had it in the bag.
04:08Her lip sync game was just as unbeatable as her runways, acting, and comedy chops.
04:13Personified me a black angelic being.
04:15And as I turn around, you see on the back, there are two bullet holes,
04:21and I put my hands up.
04:23Don't shoot.
04:24It's not a moment.
04:25It is a movement.
04:26Number four.
04:27Surprising.
04:28Edie Oddly.
04:29I'm Edie Oddly, oddly enough.
04:31My edges stay shredded, but these tits are tough.
04:33When other girls break, I just call out their bluffs.
04:34So glue on those shoes and tighten them top.
04:36And I know I play rough, but that's how I tumble.
04:38I bend over backwards whenever I fumble.
04:40I'm giving my all to shine like RuPaul.
04:41So pardon me, bitches, if I don't see my ball.
04:44This Denver queen more than lived up to her name.
04:46Edie Oddly's drag was bizarre, always stretching the boundaries.
04:50But she was also a breath of fresh air.
04:52Baby, I'm sorry.
04:54I'm not sorry.
04:56Feeling in fire because the tables have turned.
04:59Compared to some of the recent winners, she lacked a certain level of polish and diplomacy.
05:03She was messy and edgy and confrontational.
05:05Edie was never afraid to do something daring on the runway or let her fellow competitors
05:10have it in Untucked.
05:11Silky, I'm a little pissy that you like tried to throw me under the bus because I'm quote
05:15unquote injured.
05:16When I finished our routine with my sprained ankle doing shit you could not dream of.
05:23She reminded us of old school drag race in a lot of ways.
05:26Despite being in the bottom twice, runner up Brooklyn Heights was the more likely winner
05:30of season 11.
05:31I'm on the edge with you.
05:35But Edie's lip syncs and the finale clinched it.
05:49Number three, obvious, Bob the Drag Queen.
05:52Bob the Drag Queen has a plan, the gay agenda, and it's designed by lesbians.
05:58So you know it works.
05:59There was no way anyone else was going to win this season.
06:02At least that's what Bob the Drag Queen thought.
06:04And she turned out to be right.
06:06Now you're talking my language.
06:07If you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready.
06:10By the way, Eartha, I didn't know that was you down there.
06:14From here, I couldn't tell if you were Della Reese or Luther Vandross.
06:19How good was Bob the Drag Queen?
06:21She won a maxi challenge while wearing one of the worst looks ever to disgrace the RuPaul's
06:25Drag Race main stage.
06:26I didn't have enough time to finish a Transformer outfit.
06:29So I do my backup plan.
06:30I'm like a Tron, robot-inspired character.
06:33She's a broke...
06:34Oh, yes, girl.
06:35Be careful.
06:35And I'm just like trying to move off stage without breaking a limb.
06:39Although the season 8 winner had one stumble that put her in the bottom two, the look that
06:43landed her there was actually one of her better ones.
06:45It almost seems like she was put there to lip sync against her rival Derek Barry and send
06:49her packing for story reasons.
07:12Number 3.
07:13Surprising.
07:14Jada Essence Hull.
07:15That's a question.
07:16Yeah.
07:17Yeah, and what's the answer?
07:18Look over there!
07:21Where?
07:23Jada's win was a huge surprise, and not just because it was the first crowning held over
07:27Zoom.
07:28Airing as the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up, the 12th season sticks out like a sore thumb.
07:33It's not the winner's fault.
07:34The Sherry Pie scandal and her subsequent disqualification ripped a hole in the season's
07:38narrative.
07:39But even after losing one of its finalists, the season seemed all sewn up by the time
07:43we got to the virtual finale.
07:44Fans definitely expected Gigi Goode's four challenge wins to translate to a first-place
07:48finish.
07:49Drag Race does a presidential episode, which I love.
07:54It was on the season Sharon won, on the season I won, and on the season Gigi's gonna win.
07:59They've done these two.
08:00But Jada came alive in the last half, winning two challenges in a row.
08:07RuPaul crowned her after a fantastic virtual lip-sync to Destiny's Child's Survivor.
08:12Wishing you the best, pray that you are blessed.
08:15No success, no stress, and lots of happiness.
08:18Number 2.
08:19Obvious, Sasha Colby.
08:21Is that Sasha Colby?
08:23Period.
08:24Period!
08:25Viva!
08:26Viva!
08:27Aloha, I'm Sasha Colby, former Miss Continental.
08:30I am singer, dancer, activist, and all-around goddess.
08:36From the moment she walked into the workroom, she was shutting this thing down.
08:40Should we go home?
08:41Next to Sasha Colby, even the fiercest drag queens looked like amateurs.
08:45She skated through the competition and made it look easy.
08:48If she does have a weak area in her drag, she did not show it on the season.
08:53They say God is a woman.
08:55And I am.
08:56And I'm also a drag queen.
08:58And your personal guide to life's ultimate after-party.
09:01After a while, it was almost ridiculous how high she sailed above the rest of her competitors.
09:09Mistress Isabel Brooks had it right when she called season 15 the Sasha Colby meet-and-greet.
09:13Even RuPaul was fangirling for her at one point.
09:16I'm amazed by you.
09:17I'm the f***ing queen of drag!
09:19I'm amazed by you!
09:21Number 2.
09:21Surprising, Willow Pill.
09:23Who can say where the road goes, where the day flows?
09:31If you told us the winner of this season was the first person to pull the crown out of a chocolate bar wrapper,
09:40we might believe you.
09:42It's chocolate.
09:44Season 14 was long, introduced a very weird Willy Wonka-inspired twist,
09:49and had a crowded five-queen finale.
09:52Shantae, you stay.
09:55Condragulations.
09:57You will also be moving forward to the grand finale.
10:00Willow Pill's track record was the weakest going into the end of the season.
10:04When all was said and done, she had only won a single challenge.
10:08What she did win was many fans who fell in love with her wit and vulnerability about her chronic condition.
10:13She slayed the finale, and ultimately, she jumped ahead at the right time.
10:18He hates pink people.
10:22I hate people.
10:25Number 1.
10:26Obvious.
10:27Bianca Del Rio.
10:28Who's helping you out?
10:29Well, they're all helping me out by being horrible and making me look better.
10:33She didn't suffer fools, and she never let them see her sweat.
10:37Bianca Del Rio's run on season 6 is the very model of a drag race steamroll.
10:41This New York comedy queen played to her strengths.
10:43Did you forget you were coming to court today dressed like that?
10:46You look like a damn roll of scotch tape.
10:48Well, I thought it was...
10:49You don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
10:52She constantly generated memes and insults at an alarming rate.
10:56Let me ask you a very fair question.
10:58What do you do successfully?
11:01Quickly.
11:05Most essential to her success, it's not every queen who could essentially wear the same dress week after week and get away with it.
11:11The moment the irascible, wisecracking queen was shown to have a warm maternal side for her fellow contestants, we knew it was a done deal.
11:19Now the rest of the world will see that nicer side. Are you prepared for that?
11:22You've been filming this?
11:24There's tape in those cameras?
11:26Yeah.
11:26Oh, great!
11:28Coming into this competition, I had no intentions of mentoring any child.
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11:48Number 1. Surprising.
11:50Sasha Velour.
11:50There will be twists, turns, and cliffhangers.
11:56Please don't jump.
11:58You have so much to live for.
12:01Shea Coulee went into the final round with four challenge wins, and the finale should have been her victory lap.
12:07And then, the first lip-sync smackdown for the crown happened.
12:10Though talented and witty, Sasha Velour and her intellectual brand of drag had a hard time connecting with the judges all season.
12:16Michelle Massage is so Jersey, she wanted to call her second child White Flight.
12:23Oh, well, that one worked in my mind.
12:26She all but stole the win out from under Shea when she pulled the biggest reveal stunt ever.
12:31There was no denying it.
12:32If this was a lip-sync for the crown, she won it hands down.
12:36She went on to battle Peppermint and win the whole season.
12:39It remains the most unexpected come-from-behind victory in the show's history.
12:43You're the one that's upset. I'm not upset.
12:45Do I look upset, too?
12:47Which Drag Race winner surprised you the most? Tell us in the comments.
12:51Well, then, why did I waste my time putting on this?
12:58That's why you all gagging. I bring it to you every episode.
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