Watch“ RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 9” queens savagely read each other's early drag looks: 'You “can” read the doll!'
The gals gets shady reading their sisters' looks for filth, from an iconic meme of Roxxxy Andrews to a look Shannel says had to be removed from a Las Vegas billboard.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 9 doesn't host its nine-conic debut until Friday, but the returning queens have already opened the library on their early drag looks in Entertainment Weekly's hilarious new video featuring the cast.
Though season 11's Plastique Tiara previously told EW that AS9 contains "some of the best packages you’ve ever ever seen on Drag Race," the same can't be said for the collection of images the queens submitted for the shoot.
Ranging from season 14 star Angeria Paris VanMicheals' "rice bag titty" ensemble with one breast hanging out of her shirt circa 2014 to a vintage billboard look season 1 star Shannel recalls had to be removed by the local government, the queens' early-drag presentations prove that they've all evolved as they prepare to re-enter the Werk Room for the new season.
But, some of them enjoy the nostalgia of their throwback glam — mainly season 5 and All Stars 2 legend Roxxxy Andrews, who gave her sisters three of her old looks to savagely rip apart. They all took the bait, it seems, as season 13 finalist Gottmik turned Roxxxy's iconic catchphrase back at her while viewing one of the photos: "It's giving, you can read the doll!"
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Before RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 9 premieres May 17 on Paramount+, watch the returning cast of queens read each other's first-time-in-drag photos in the video above, and read on for highlights from the shady clip.
Note: Photos of Gottmik's first time in drag were not available at the time of the above video's production
Angeria Paris VanMicheals look No. 1
"Oh, Jesus. That is Angie's first night out, doing herself!" — Angeria
"Angie got her titty out." — Roxxxy
"Nothing has changed." — Shannel
"The boob." — Plastique
"The boob." — Nina West
"It's the boob." — Shannel
"The boob was a last-minute decision. I got the top from Body Central, and right before I got ready to walk out the door, I was like, I think this looks c--t and pulled it down. This is tea. I looked in the mirror and said, 'This is okay.'" — Angeria
Angeria Paris VanMicheals look No. 2
"You said baby, I'm turning in my work photos from the early days." — Roxxxy
"I'm at the club, in the bathroom." — Angeria
"Filling out applications!" — Vanessa Vanjie Mateo
"I thought you were at the Capitol." — Plastique
"Guess what kind of titty it is, Roxxxy? It's a rice bag titty.... They told us it would make you feel real. It made me feel real, bitch, but after about 30 minutes you get all hot and sweaty, next thing you know, you're cooking rice, bitch." — Angeria
Jorgeous look No. 1
"Bitch, I thought that was me!" — Plastique
"Craigslist missed connections!" — Shannel
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"Girl, I was like 15 or 16 right there. My brother brought me a wig, because his friend did drag, so he brought me the wig. I was like, this is my time now to thrive. I snuck into my mom's restroom and started painting my makeup, doing all that stuff. Girl, I was c--t. honestly, that's the definition of a Hot Cheeto girl right there. That's San Antonio, Texas." — Jorgeous
"No tea, you're painted in a good way. I see girls paint like that right now." — Roxxxy
Jorgeous look No. 2
"This was two years before I got on Drag Race. I started experimenting with different color wigs, gluing down my eyebrows and all this s---. That's when I started taking actual professional pictures, because bitch that really do make a difference. Even before Drag Race, if you have good, sickening professional pictures, like, bitch, you're that girl." — Jorgeous
"I'm just kind of gagging because at first I thought it was Plastique." — Angeria
"That looks like an experienced queen. That doesn't look like a baby, right there." — Shannel
Nina West
"Speaking of real women. This was 2001, we did a party, Greek god-themed. I literally think I'm wearing a sheet and some Christmas décor in my hair and some fall foliage as well. I couldn't decide on the season." — Nina
"This should've been your promo." — Plastique
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"The salacious smirk is what's giving it to me." — Vanjie
"That's the girl backstage that always has extra hairspray. She'll help you out, she'll give you a bobby pin." — Gottmik
Plastique Tiara look No. 1
"This was back in like season 7. I think I was 19, practicing this in my room, drawing my brows into my hairline. That's a beauty store wig that I cut the tracks to double it up. Bitch, that is white in my underliner.... it was very Miss Fame, Pearl makeup back then. Three noses ago. Bitch!" — Plastique
"My edgy queen." — Jorgeous
"Lady Gaga influence, the hair and the nose." — Gottmik
"Kylie Jenner hair color!" — Vanjie
Plastique Tiara look No. 2
*Screams in unison* — entire group
"Padded. Creased. Lashed. Contacted. Bitch. Hair." — Plastique
"You loved drag in this picture. She loves doing drag." — Jorgeous
"This was right before COVID happened, like, you know what, I'm going to serve Kylie Jenner on this tour, and here we are." — Plastique
"I remember seeing this photo and being like, that's the prettiest person I've ever seen in my life." — Gottmik
Roxxxy Andrews look No. 1
"This is giving, you can read the doll!" — Gottmik
"My favorite color was black. I remember putting concealer on my lips, because I wanted them as light as they could make them.... this was pre-lace front. They didn't have them unless you were in theater. It is human hair, though." — Roxxxy
"Is it just one earring?" — Angeria
Roxxxy Andrews look No. 2
"This was a meme. This was the makeup that they wanted. The very light, real eye." — Roxxxy
"This is brown." — Vanjie
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"Who asked for that?" — Nina
"This is what they were saying, tone your makeup down to this. This is one of the first dresses that I first started sewing, that I made." — Roxxxy
"It looks like that dress where it was like, is it blue or is it gold?" — Vanjie
Roxxxy Andrews look No. 3
"This was me at the White House the other day." — Roxxxy
"Roxxxy, don't move, there's somebody behind you." — Nina
"Oh my God, that's so scary." — Jorgeous
"You see the titties sitting bitch, and a napkin because I was hot." — Roxxxy
"A receipt." — Nina
"Or a receipt, probably." — Roxxxy
"Her blush needed to match her eyeshadow, too." — Shannel
"It's giving off the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me." — Vanjie
Shannel look No. 1
"Is that a peanut butter stain on that cheek?" — Jorgeous
"That's insane. I'm obsessed. I don't even think I can read anything about it. It still holds the test of time, honey. If I saw a bitch walking down the street like that, I'd be like, 'Oh my God.'" — Gottmik
"I shot that right after season 1.... when I got back from shooting the whole season is when I did it. There was another shot where I was laying on the ground and it ended up being a billboard that went up in Vegas, and the caption said, 'Dude looks like a lady.' It was so crazy that people were driving by and it created a controversy apparently with children. The state actually took the billboard down. Again, this is 16 years ago." — Shannel
"I thought you were going to say it created car accidents." — Nina West
Shannel look No. 2
"That was my very first time, at 15 years old, in drag. I said, boo boo, I need to do Elvira. My mom took me to the little local costume store, and we bought the outfit and the wig. I used her Revlon makeup with her sponge tip applicators and her liquid foundation and I went to school actually dressed up like that.... I did my makeup. The fool! That was almost 30 years ago, right there." — Shannel
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo look No. 1
"What was you doing, mama?" — Angeria
"Bitch, the days you used to cover your whole eyelid with eyeliner." — Jorgeous
"It's a kiki. I didn't do drag too long before I got on season 10, that's why it's probably similar to season 10. I won one little pageant, Roxxxy was hosting it. I'm still reigning it because they don't have it no more. Miss Southern Nights Newcomers, still current reigning!" — Vanjie
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"After you won, they said, uh-uh, we can't do this no more." — Angeria
"I feel like if Drag Race would have never happened for you, you would've been a very successful pageant girl." — Roxxxy
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo look No. 2
"You give me Alexis Mateo. That is very much your mother tea, right there." — Shannel
"You look like you was turning it. Where you was?" — Angeria
"That was after I walked for the pageant. I probably had one costume and kept wearing it after I won or before. I think I painted myself." — Vanjie
"You used to paint, and it was beautiful, though." — Roxxxy
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