RuPaul

Netflix has released an official trailer for AJ and The Queen, the upcoming hourlong scripted comedy series set to debut on January 10 starring RuPaul and co-written by RuPaul and Michael Patrick King.  The show also stars 22 drag queens from past seasons of Drag Race, EW reports. They include, Valentina, Mayhem Miller, Bianca Del Rio, Eureka O’Hara, Victoria “Porkchop” Parker, Alexis Mateo, Manila Luzon, Vanessa “Miss Vanjie” Mateo, Jinkx Monsoon, Katya, Jaymes Mansfield, Chad Michaels, Mariah Balenciaga, Kennedy Davenport, Jade Jolie, Ongina, Latrice Royale, Monique Heart, Ginger Minj, Trinity The Tuck, Jujubee, and Pandora Boxx. The show’s synopsis:...

“What are you afraid of?” the Vanity Fair reporter asked RuPaul, in what may have been the drag icon’s most candid interview yet. “Ignorant people,” Ru calmly replied, “it’s the only thing I’m afraid of.” Asking questions across four categories – identity, family, culture and work – the literal covergirl for this month’s Vanity Fair was totally transparent, a rarity for the TV personality. As the camera steadily zooms in as RuPaul answers the reporter’s questions, RuPaul touches on an array of raw topics. Such as loneliness, his open marriage...

RuPaul is on the cover of Vanity Fair‘s 2019 holiday issue, and in addition to the cover story, the world’s most famous drag queen sat down to answer increasingly personal questions about the thing he’s most afraid of, where he goes in L.A. for peace, the biggest difference between his drag then and now, how his persona came to be, advice he’d give on someone who feels alone, when he feels like an outsider, how he met his husband, his open marriage, his first picnic, abandonment, his mother’s influence, what...