Thursday, September 6, 2018

DC ExtraTime: Big Brother/The Challenge Meets RuPaul

Excerpt from coverage of The Challenge: Final Reckoning - Week 1

BY DC CUEVA                      
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Without a doubt, the ones who made the biggest noise last were were the Big Brother contingent: Paulie continuing the ride he's enjoyed since he moved into the Ex On The Beach house... and then there's Jozea and Da'Vonne after they got eliminated in the opening Purge. With Jozea making the jump from Big Brother to Champs vs. Stars to now The Challenge itself now sees him join a tradition forged in this franchise.

Season 10 cast of RuPaul's Drag Race
MTV and Viacom have had a truly proud relationship with the LGBT community with its most notable person being the late Pedro Zamora of The Real World San Francisco. So many other people of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer orientation have graced both the RW/Challenge franchise and other series too, and there's a channel dedicated to them in LOGO TV. And by far, its most successful show is RuPaul's Drag Race, which recently completed its landmark 10th season and moved last year to VH1 to reach a broader audience than what it could being stuck in a digital tier.

Drag Race went on the air in 2009 with the iconic drag queen in a unique triple role as not only its host, but also mentor to the cast and head judge in determining their fates each week. The series has helped to bring to mainstream TV each week the art of dressing up in drag, with the usual reality competition standard of weekly challenges and eliminations, plus a walk on the runway and a lip-sync battle. Though many reality fans feel Survivor is far and away better, Drag Race has long been the award voter's favorite in having just netted twelve Emmy nominations, and judging by their Twitter interaction two avid viewers of Drag Race is MTV podcast host Ali Lasher and 3-time Challenge competitor Derek Chavez of Real World Cancun.

Twitter @jossie_flores
Season 10 this spring saw fourteen contestants try to join that club of those who have won this title, and a few weeks ago the season finale took place in front of a live audience in Los Angeles during Pride Month. Brooklyn resident Aquaria (whose actual identity is Giovanni Palandrani), was voted ahead of Eureka O'Hara and Kameron Michaels to be crowned winner of Drag Race after she was a constant top performer all season, and even made a vendetta in Bebe Rexha after some ill will took place backstage at the VH1 Trailblazer Honors.

And those who watched that season finale -- which aired on the same night of June 28th as the season finales of both Jersey Shore Family Vacation and Ex On The Beach -- spotted two familiar people in the audience watching the finale take place: Jozea and Da'Vonne were invited to represent The Challenge in the auditorium on finale night and watch Aquaria being given her crown. Their looks in the photo we have here might captured the same reactions we have in our living rooms to everything that went on last week

Da'Vonne captioned on Instagram @davonnedianne_, "That time when @jozeaofficial called me and said “Get up, Get Dressed, I’m taking you to @rupaulsdragrace finale” 😩❤️🏆." And Jozea added @jozeaofficial, "ME and @davonnedianne_ on @RuPaulsDragRace #RPDR10 finale !! #RPDRfinale 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻!!! @WorldOfWonder it was a amazing!!! @ChallengeMTV #TheChallenge32 supporting our @viacom family ❤️✊#thechallenge #teamaquaria."


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 UPDATE: updated 3/10/19 to include additional media.
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