“RUPAUL’S
DRAG RACE ALL STARS” RUVEALS GUEST JUDGES
FOR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FOURTH SEASON
PREMIERING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14TH AT 8:00 PM ET/PT
Jenifer Lewis, Ciara, Kacey Musgraves, Gus Kenworthy, Keiynan
Lonsdale, Zoë Kravitz, Yvette Nicole Brown, Cecily Strong, Rita
Ora, Susanne Bartsch, Ellen Pompeo, Frances Bean Cobain, Felicity
Huffman, Jason Wu and Erica Ash to Guest Judge
NEW
YORK, NY
VH1 announced the guest judges set to join the highly anticipated
fourth season of “RuPaul’s
Drag Race All Stars.” RuPaul will be joined by a star-studded
line-up of celebrities, alongside show regulars Michelle Visage,
Carson Kressley, and Ross Mathews, as they decide who will stay,
lip-sync for their legacy, or “sashay away.” “RuPaul’s Drag
Race All Stars” follows the record-breaking tenth season
of VH1’s “RuPaul’s
Drag Race,” which just became the first show to ever
win an Emmy® Award in both the Outstanding Reality-Competition
Program and Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition
Program categories in the same year. The series will return
to the runway with supersized 90-minute episodes on Friday,
December 14th at 8:00 PM ET/PT on VH1.
This season’s guest judges include Jenifer Lewis,
Ciara, Kacey Musgraves, Gus Kenworthy, Keiynan
Lonsdale, Zoë Kravitz, Yvette Nicole Brown,
Cecily Strong, Rita Ora, Susanne Bartsch,
Ellen Pompeo, Frances Bean Cobain, Felicity Huffman,
Jason Wu and Erica Ash.
RUPAUL'S
DRAG RACE ALL STARS It's Time to Get Into the Phenomenon
The
10 competing super queens will hold nothing back to impress
the judges as they vie for a spot in the coveted “Drag Race
Hall of Fame” and a grand prize of $100,000. The previously
announced queens include: Farrah Moan (Season Nine),
Gia Gunn (Season Six), Jasmine Masters (Season
Seven), Latrice Royale (Season Four and “All Stars” One),
Manila Luzon (Season Three and “All Stars” One), Monét
X Change (Season Ten), Monique Heart (Season Ten),
Naomi Smalls (Season Eight), Trinity Taylor (Season
Nine), and Valentina (Season Nine).
To celebrate the upcoming season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All
Stars,” Logo will be airing a week-long marathon of every episode
of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.”
Starting on Friday, December 7th, at 10:00 PM ET/PT, the marathon
will run until December 14th at 8:00 PM ET/PT, leading into
the new season’s premiere.
Viewers will also get a holiday treat this year when “RuPaul’s
Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular” premieres on VH1 on Friday,
December 7th at 8:00 PM ET/PT. The one-hour holiday-themed episode
will bring back franchise favorites including Eureka O’Hara,
Jasmine Masters, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale,
Mayhem Miller, Shangela, Sonique, and Trixie
Mattel as they compete for the title of America’s first
“Drag Race Xmas Queen.”
For more information on “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” and up-to-date
news, go to http://www.vh1.com/shows/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars
or to the “RuPaul’s
Drag Race All Stars” Facebook page.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” is produced by
World of Wonder Productions with Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato,
Tom Campbell, Steven Corfe, Mandy Salangsang and RuPaul Charles
serving as Executive Producers. Tim Palazzola serves as Executive
Producer and Jen Passovoy serves as Producer for VH1.
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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.