Trixie Mattel on winning Drag Race All Stars: Im going to save all the money
Another season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars is in the books. In a rather controversial finale, Trixie Mattel follows in the footsteps of Chad Michaels and Alaska to become the third queen to take the All-Star title. Many fans of the show feel the victory should come with an asterisk, as favorite BenDeLaCreme excused herself from the competition a few weeks ago and others feel that Shangela was robbed of the title. The season finale brought back the eliminated queens to vote, Survivor-style, on the final two queens lip syncing for their legacy – and Shangie got thrown under the bus. In the end, it was Trixie who took home the title and the $100,000 prize.
🌟BONUS: See which lipsticks the eliminated Queens pulled to determine the Top Two! #AllStars3 pic.twitter.com/BKqbQSmwob
— RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) March 16, 2018
RuPaul has recently been in the hot seat because of comments he made about including transgender queens in future seasons of Drag Race. The crowning of the third white all-star has launched the hashtag #AllStarsSoWhite on social media. And Ru, who just got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week, has been accused of delivering a lackluster All-Star season. Season 10 of Drag Race premieres on Friday.
As for Trixie, she already has a successful show with fellow queen Katya on Vice and a folk music album, One Stone. She is also nominated for a James Beard Award for a video she did for GQ entitled, “Trixie Mattel Makes a PB&J (and More Importantly, a Cocktail)”. Trixie is not resting on her laurels, telling the Huffington Post that “I’m doing 40-plus cities of a United States tour of my show “Moving Parts,” so people will be able to come see me play my guitar and tell jokes in real life.” She went on to add “I’ll be writing a new show this summer. The wheels keep turning. “Drag Race” is really cool, but I’ve always got the next 10 monopoly moves ready.” Here are some other highlights from the interview:
On winning AS3: I’ve always played the game in my career as if this will never happen. I’m happy it happened, but I definitely didn’t ever count on it or bank on it. Both times previously I lost on “Drag Race,” so I’ve only been a winner for like 12 hours. I think if you’re a real all star, you go out and you’re an all star whether or not you never do “Drag Race” again.
On #AllStarsSoWhite: I didn’t even see it. I’ve been avoiding [social media]. I’ll post pictures and videos of myself playing guitar in my room, but I don’t interact or weigh in on topics. As you can see when Shangela confronted me about that note, I can’t really handle confrontation or drama well because I’m never in it, so I don’t really know how to handle it when it comes.
On what she’s going to do with the prize money: I’m white trash garbage who came from nothing and afraid of living in a car eating cat food at any moment, so I’m just going to save all the money. I know it’s not exciting. I live in reality and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore. I just save it all so that one day if I quit drag I have a beautiful nest egg to show for it.
As for Shangela, don’t worry about her, she’s doing great. Her latest single, “Pay Me” is already rising up the charts. On losing All-Stars, she told Entertainment Weekly, “Even though the battle didn’t go in my favor, I will forever remain a queen. Halleloo!” And, speaking of the twist that robbed her in the finale, she addressed it like the “professional” she is, remarking,
Take a look at what happened this season, and take a look at how the fans are reacting. Take the temperature of the world and I think you’ll get your answer. Honestly, I wish that the rules had been different in the end. Maybe if we’d been aware that was going to be the twist, I would’ve played the game a little differently. But, it is a game as well as a reality show. It’s not like the Olympics; it is a reality TV show where there can be twists and turns that you don’t expect. You just have to recognize that’s what you signed up for. Walking into the Werk Room, I wanted to make the most of every moment because I never knew when I was going to be gone. Looking back, I did that.
I will admit I was disappointed that Shangela didn’t win, as she busted her ass in every challenge and has always been my favorite underdog (and the fact that I’ve interviewed her a few times doesn’t hurt. She’s a sweetheart and gives great interview). But, out of the final four, if it wasn’t going to be Shangie, I’m okay with Trixie taking the crown. It was a so-so season, and I’m looking forward to Drag Race season 10.
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