‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 16 Cast Announced – Billboard

If new episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race have been in your vacation wishlist, then Mama Ru is right here with good news for you.

On Wednesday (Dec. 6), MTV formally introduced the complete solid of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16. Set to air beginning Friday, Jan. 5, the brand new episodes of the Emmy-winning franchise will see 14 new queens enter the werk room and compete for a money prize of $200,000, in addition to the title of America’s Subsequent Drag Celebrity.

The brand new solid options drag performers Amanda Tori Meating, Daybreak, Geneva Karr, Hershii Liqcour-Jeté, Megami, Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige, Mirage, Morphine Love Dion, Nymphia Wind, Airplane Jane, Plasma, Q, Sapphira Cristál and Xunami Muse.

Season 16’s premiere, in the meantime, will likely be a two-part occasion with the queens break up into two totally different teams. Performing of their respective expertise reveals — themed after MTV staples like Spring Break and the Teen Selection Awards — every of the premiere episodes is about to characteristic a “gag worthy twist,” the place the queens will charge one another’s performances to find out who leads to the highest and backside positions.

In an interview with Billboard earlier this 12 months, RuPaul attributed the continued success of the Drag Race franchise to the fabulous performers who come to compete every season. “What makes the present recent is that every season, we get these fabulous, brave artists who come on and share their tales with us and the world,” he mentioned. “As producers, we do what we are able to to create the infrastructure, however the brand new blood and power coming from our contestants is what makes the present what it’s.”

Season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race premieres Friday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. ET on MTV. Take a look at the present’s official “Meet the Queens” video beneath: