NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Six-time Grammy Award-winning singer Christina Aguilera joins host RuPaul to
kick-off the milestone season 10 premiere of Emmy® Award-winning "RuPaul's
Drag Race," on Thursday, March 22 at 8:00 PM
ET/PT. The season will feature all 90-minute episodes and will be
followed by "RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked" after show at 9:30 PM
ET/PT.
Promo: http://www.vh1.com/video-clips/s4bubo
Christina Aguilera is the first guest judge for the season and will join
RuPaul for one of the most unforgettable premieres in "Drag Race"
"herstory." The 14 competing queens will hold nothing back to impress
the superstar as they vie for the ultimate title of "America's Next Drag
Superstar" and a grand prize of $100,000. The previously announced
queens include: Asia O'Hara (Dallas, TX), Aquaria (Brooklyn,
NY), Blair St. Clair (Indianapolis, IN), Dusty
Ray Bottoms (New York, NY), Eureka O'Hara (Johnson
City, TN), Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams (Albuquerque, NM), Kameron
Michaels (Nashville, TN), Mayhem Miller (Riverside,
CA), Miz Cracker (New York, NY), Monét X Change(Bronx,
NY), Monique Heart (Kansas City, MO), The Vixen (Chicago,
IL), Vanessa Vanjie Mateo (Tampa, FL), and Yuhua
Hamasaki (New York, NY).
Christina Aguilera is one of the most accomplished performers of the
last decade, an award-winning singer, songwriter and actress, who has
sold more than 43 million records worldwide through her seven albums.
She was named one of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" by Rolling
Stone Magazine and was listed as one of the 100 Most
Influential People in the World by Time Magazine.
Her philanthropic work includes her role as a United Nations ambassador
for the World Food Programme.
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"RuPaul's Drag Race" and "RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked" are produced by
World of Wonder Productions with Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom
Campbell, Steven Corfe, Mandy Salangsang and RuPaul Charles serving as
Executive Producers. Pamela Post and Tim Palazzola serve as Executive
Producers for VH1 and Jen Passovoy serves as Producer.
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About World of Wonder:
Award-winning production company World of Wonder is behind entertaining
and critically acclaimed hit series including the Emmy® Award winning
RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1/Logo), which received a groundbreaking seven
2017 Emmy® nominations, Million Dollar Listing LA & NY (Bravo), Big
Freedia: Queen of Bounce (Fuse), and Gender Revolution: A Journey with
Katie Couric (National Geographic). World of Wonder has also created
award-winning films and documentaries such as Mapplethorpe: Look at the
Pictures, Menendez: Blood Brothers, Inside Deep Throat, The Eyes of
Tammy Faye, I Am Britney Jean, In Vogue: The Editor's Eye, Carrie
Fisher's Wishful Drinking, Monica in Black and White, The Last
Beekeeper, which won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Nature Programming
and Out of Iraq, which won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Special Class
Special. Seven of their films have premiered at the Sundance Film
festival including Becoming Chaz and Party Monster, the documentary and
feature film starring Macaulay Culkin. World of Wonder has created a
substantial digital footprint with its YouTube channel WOWPresents,
along with an award-winning blog, The WOW Report. Co-founders Randy
Barbato and Fenton Bailey authored The World According to Wonder,
celebrating 21 years of production, which can be found online at http://worldofwonder.net/.
Randy and Fenton were honored with the IDA Pioneer Award in December
2014, celebrating exceptional achievement, leadership, and vision in the
nonfiction and documentary community.
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