Backstage, she behaved ru-diculously, crying and cursing, while the others rubbernecked in bemused shock. Milk, on the other hand, was safe somehow, despite a snoozy-glam runway outing and, in the Divas Live challenge, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to Celine Dion. “‘Eraser,’ baby, ‘Eraser.””)ĭid Thorgy deserve a bottom spot as well? Not really, but the producers were clearly carving a narrative. (“I just loved you in ‘Eraser,’” Chi Chi gushed to guest judge Vanessa Williams. In the bottom: Kennedy Davenport, who lip-synced messily Thorgy, who, surprise, didn’t quite commit and, for reasons unclear to me, Chi Chi, who put across a great Patti LaBelle and wore a shapely runway outfit, after repeated criticism from the Season 8 judges for not wearing padding. In the top were BenDeLaCreme, who rapped cheekily as Julie Andrews BeBe Zahara Benet, who nailed Diana Ross and Shangela, who hammed up Mariah Carey and strutted the runway in a giant, rolling bubble. The queens lip-synced to cloyingly impersonated covers of RuPaul’s greatest hits - you know VH1 can afford 40 seconds of “Nasty,” so this move felt particularly cynical - followed by a “Rudemption” runway, where they spruced up disastrous looks from their previous stints on the show. The “Divas Live” show, choreographed by the peddler of prolonged eye contact Todrick Hall, was a mixed bag. (Girl, that was your lifeboat and you didn’t get on it.) “Do you think anybody’s going to recognize that?” BenDeLaCreme asked. “He was like, ‘Oh my god, that was the best Celine,’” Milk boasted, adding that, for this challenge, she’d decided to replicate a Versace dress and black spiky hair Ms. Dion’s wedding planner, who happened to be in the audience.

Second, the whole point of “All Stars” is to exhibit growth where you once fell short, so for the love of God, wait a little longer than Episode 2 before putting on the tinfoil hat.Īssigned Celine Dion, Milk revealed she’d impersonated her once before, to great acclaim from Ms. Next to Diana Ross and Janet Jackson, she is not like, ‘Werk!’ It just doesn’t feel fair.”įirst off, Stevie Nicks said on “Oprah’s Master Class” that she carried a gram of cocaine in her boot for years, like a Laurel Canyon Mary Poppins that’s drama. “I’m not trying to be a conspiracy theorist, because that’s what I was in Season 8,” she said, before launching into a conspiracy theory: “I feel like I’m being set up to fail. Nicks was one of her biggest inspirations, nevertheless bristled. The queens were assigned divas to impersonate - Trixie Mattel got Dolly Parton Aja, Amy Winehouse Thorgy Thor, Stevie Nicks - pairings that felt surprisingly considerate of each queen’s strengths. RuPaul entered the workroom to stand far away from the queens and announce the week’s challenge: a drag revamp of “VH1’s Divas Live.” “Classic TV,” RuPaul said, and I don’t disagree. Aja, the runner-up, revealed she would’ve sent home Chi Chi DeVayne, and Chi Chi, unbowed by her near-elimination, questioned Milk’s talent. With one week under their rhinestoned belts, they relaxed into top-of-the-morning infighting.

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