{"id":5364,"date":"2019-09-23T04:24:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2019-09-23T04:24:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:24:41","slug":"rupauls-world-domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/rupauls-world-domination\/","title":{"rendered":"RuPaul’s World Domination"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unofficial start of the entertainment season is traditionally the Emmy Awards<\/em><\/strong>.  This event which honors excellence in television (or, more accurately, any entertainment not in a cinema) is split between two weekends.  First, we have the Creative Arts Emmys<\/em>, or what Kathy Griffin <\/strong>lovingly calls the Schmemmys<\/em><\/strong>.  These are where the bulk of the technical, reality, and \u201cother media\u201d awards are given out.  For the fourth year in a row, RuPaul <\/strong>was the winner for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program <\/em>\u2013 which meant s\/he is now tied for most wins in that category with Jeff Probst<\/strong>.  There is a connection between the two, which will be explained in detail next year in my autobiography.<\/p>\n

The news for RuPaul keeps getting better.  Drag Race<\/em><\/strong> continues its world domination with UK, Thai, and Chilean versions bowing in the near future.  But that\u2019s not all \u2013 Drag Race<\/em> will soon be hitting the Vegas Strip.  Yes, RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race Live! <\/em><\/strong>will take residency at the Flamingo Hotel <\/em>from January through August 2020.  The drag divas will be swapping off dates with Paula Abdul <\/strong>in the venue which has been home to Donny and Marie <\/em><\/strong>for over a decade.  I have an amusing anecdote tying this all together, but once again, I\u2019m saving that for the book.<\/p>\n

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All is not rosy in Ru-ville.  Two Drag Race<\/em> alums got some bad news last week.  We had previously reported that Jinkx Monsoon <\/strong>and Ginger Minj <\/strong>would be headlining a national tour of the musical Xanadu<\/em><\/strong>.  The entire tour was scuttled literally two weeks before opening night in Baltimore.  We hear that the high-profile project was not selling well in most cities and, while the producers believed in the venture, they would lose less money by simply calling it off.  Putting on a brave face, the tour is officially \u201con hold\u201d \u2013 but don\u2019t expect it to ever happen.<\/p>\n

In anticipation of the UK version of Drag Race<\/em>, RuPaul was asked whether \u201ccisgender women\u201d would be allowed to compete.  In the live interview, we\u2019re told usually unflappable Ru was\u2026well, flapped, and a producer had to jump in and say that \u201cthe show is inclusive because it\u2019s on the BBC<\/em>\u201d.  After the fact, an e-mail was sent to the interviewer saying that RuPaul has learned \u201cnever to say never\u201d.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve learned is to always share hot photos of scantily clad men on BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.  In this case, they are the Pit Crew <\/em>from the UK edition of Drag Race<\/em>.  They are truly delectable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unofficial start of the entertainment season is traditionally the Emmy Awards.  This event which honors excellence in television (or, more accurately, any entertainment not in a cinema) is split between two weekends.  First, we have the Creative Arts Emmys, or what Kathy Griffin lovingly calls the Schmemmys.  These are where the bulk of the technical, reality, and \u201cother media\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5365,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}