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00:00our fierce final four one of you will be canada's next drag superstar helena poison the spooky pop
00:19punk princess from toronto you're a little vamp you've always given us exactly who you are but
00:28different variations of it it is drag race excellence mini wang high comedy high camp everything's bigger
00:38down under oh your drag persona is authentically you oh i was just mesmerized michaela couture
00:49the prom queen is all grown up the makeover is complete you are absolute fire out there on that
00:56stage this is where you shine this is where you come alive the virgo queen you have this swag about
01:05you you have star quality you got a little sparkle let it shine you're really showing us different
01:10sides of you the fire is just like burning very bright right now who gonna help me up i'm not just
01:17a one-trick pony i've showed you versatility i worked hard and i'm a bad bitch no one does what i do
01:24there isn't really anything that i can't do i'm here to win it's time to leave it all on the floor
01:38come on i just sent home miss perla i love you so much perla bye
01:46cunt jk i love you all so much she is an absolute icon legend star i think she absolutely annihilated this
01:56competition bye perla i'm just so proud of her and honored to be her friend and sister
02:01yay us top four hello hello hello hey sisters oh wow hi it's so pretty in here
02:15broken renovated congratulations on your win thank you for the box of titties oh it's my pleasure
02:21jimbo really is a canadian drag success story it's such a dream to be able to come on the show
02:29to leave to be able to tour the world to gift to be able to come back and to support my sisters
02:34jimbo is like the og weirdo from canada to have won prize money from an artist like that it aligns
02:43so much with how i do my drag that it just feels very special and very correct how are you guys
02:48feeling going into top four so happy and like overjoyed i'm surprised it's actually a top five
02:54i guess if there's any proof that it doesn't end when you're eliminated it's me
03:05i still remember you episode one you were like giving me the eye because i was pit crew
03:10oh yeah and you were licking your lips the whole time
03:15i do remember that do you have any questions for me going into
03:19the top four having done drag race three times is there anything that you would say to someone
03:25that's just coming into the franchise i would just say don't spend too much time looking at what other
03:29people are doing really stay focused and true to your own heart and follow your own dreams my mom
03:35always said have the best time and other people will follow i'm absorbing everything that jimbo's saying
03:41in this moment great energy great vibes great advice and great tops oh my god the babies i have
03:50a crown and one of you gorgeous girls is going to get a crown who's it going to be please me it's
03:56gonna be me baby i think i hear my jet calling i guess i've got to go you better get out of drag oh
04:03you should get out of drag but i'm not in drag she's a woman i just want to take her crown off and
04:11put it on my own head like let's see if it fits i think it will i'm just feeling on top of the world
04:19and i'm ready to fight these girls tooth and nail for that crown five thousand dollars in titties
04:26the girls need to move out the way child because the queen of the north is pumping through
04:30my eyes on the prize and there's no way anyone is going to come between me and my title
04:41bring it on i am craving that crown i am craving that crown as much as i want that dim sum train baby
04:52the winner of canada's drag race receives the pleasure of one hundred thousand dollars
04:57thanks to trojan with tracy melshore brad goreski and brooklyn heights with tonight's extra special
05:05guest judge horrible pack
05:16it's a new day in the work room and i'm feeling like a winner baby everything that i've worked for
05:22is paying off this is literally a dream elena welcome to the winner's circle i'm finally a
05:30winner you deserve it just in the nick of time i've never had to lip sync michaela has a win virgo
05:36has two wins but they've both also been on the bottom and had to lip sync who would you all say
05:41individually is that your biggest competition i would say virgo is my biggest competition because
05:46you're a singer you're a writer you throw down on the stage oh me me i would have to say you as
05:52well just because i've come very close to winning every challenge you've won i'm gonna say you too
05:58oh my god who's your biggest competition minnie has never been in the bottom it has two wins
06:06so i would say you're the biggest competition okay i take that minnie's competition because she's funny
06:13helena's competition because she's very unique and michaela's competition because she is a diva
06:20i'm competition because i'm the number one it girl most talented professional and the best drag queen here
06:25my fierce finalist michaela couture helena poison minnie wang the virgo queen you've reached the
06:47glitter end but to claw your way to the wind a pussycat has to leave the dolls behind if you scratch my drift
07:00hey greetings oh this is oba
07:09our fabulous four for your final maxi challenge of the season you'll launch your charisma
07:16uniqueness nerve and talent into the stratosphere as you drop your own singles
07:24to dance your way to the top you'll collab with our resident choreographer hollywood jade
07:31and to help you show ponies seal the spotlight your vocal coach will be none other than
07:36country music trailblazer orville peck oh my god this is so wild i love orville peck he's so funny and
07:46such a huge fan and supporter of drag but first you'll let's talk with a very special guest who's out of
07:53this world oh who could it be what could it be it's venus right racers start your engines and may the best drag queen win
08:07i love venus oh hi baby venus with the penis
08:17look at your vajazzle you look rich well i am sorry let me take in this room is that her it's huge
08:26i'll have to take that in for my little peanut head girl congratulations thank you girl top four
08:34this has been a journey how has the journey been it was a strong start and then it went whoop de
08:40whoop whoo humble check it just is a testament to sometimes you fall you gotta get back up yeah you
08:45never give up who are we doing this for honestly i think about myself like myself as a young child
08:51living through poverty being biracial i'm an indigenous girl they don't get to see people
08:58living their authentic self being powerful in their authentic self and like yes this takes a lot of
09:04work but it's worth it i'm so proud of you thank you do you have any questions for me yeah where'd you
09:10get your work done i mean how has this year been like raining first of all grateful getting to work
09:17with like you know two-spirit kids and going to indigenous communities that is worth everything
09:24drag is about building up these these communities and like showing queer joy so i've watched venus
09:31i've seen what she does and i just like want to continue that legacy do you want to do a little
09:36photo shoot with me oh my god right now i want to get naked okay i'm feeling pumped i'm feeling ready
09:43oh my god hi alex high fashion high fashion gorgeous i'm gonna like touch you i want you to
09:50touch me okay i'm trying to touch venus i'm trying to absorb her winner juju i want some of that winning
09:57energy on me wrap me up in it beautiful we got it hi our reigning queen it's venus and she got some
10:06take old bitties nice to meet you chat it up bad girl yeah just a little happy to see a a punk
10:13bitch in the finale how does it feel it feels correct you knew you were gonna be here yeah yeah
10:18i there was a moment there where i thought like hmm well shit but i bounced back found my confidence
10:24again and here we are here you are here we are what was like the hardest part for you the hardest part
10:29for me was really getting out of my own way while my i don't give a fuck attitude helped get me here
10:34it's something i've had to overcome while i'm here because not giving a fuck is just an easy way
10:41of being like i'm too scared who are you doing this for all of the people that maybe believe in
10:47me more than i do sometimes everyone who's supported me and lifted me up throughout these
10:52past 10 years i'm doing it for them well they believe in you yeah do you believe you can win
10:56look at the material honey we got the material you got a lot of tool girl do you want to do a photo
11:01shoot yeah are we gonna get naked you want to get naked i'm really good at lying down and looking
11:07sexy eyes to the camera blah so yes this is definitely one way to get to know each other right
11:18hi baby holy fuck oh you were picru right yeah okay from picru to drag queen it's been a journey of like
11:26confidence building for me in drag never been in the bottom oh she's never had to lip sync for when
11:32i said i was a top i never let i did i'm fine she's won two maxi work and a mini check check check
11:39mini mini for mini what's the biggest like learning moment that like when you're like oh wow i didn't
11:45know this about myself i can just like minify anything mini fly i'm just gonna minify it you can really do
11:52anything as long as you like put your spin on it and like you are authentically yourself i'm gonna
11:58perform in like the way that i want to perform nobody can replicate that do you have any questions
12:03for me is there anything that you wish someone had warned you about ooh there's so many people that
12:10will love you and there's a lot of people that maybe just won't at the end of the day
12:15pay them no mind because as long as you can go to sleep at night and know that you tried your best
12:23it doesn't matter what the haters say because the love is so much stronger i love that can we get
12:27naked that's so funny you should mention that oh oh it's not so many under there i didn't have enough
12:35budget to make another nude illusion so i just thought tuck it back let's go beautiful we're just going to
12:41give you oh that's gorgeous we have the same vibe going on i said naked okay this is great this
12:47competition is allowing me to take my love and passion for drag bringing it center stage oh my god
12:54this is like a dream thank you so much minnie yeah we did it hi baby hello mikaela top four top
13:06motherfucking four how has this been for you i learned that i i can be very uptight with myself
13:12i grew up with a single black mother and you know the typical story of the single black mother is
13:19you work hard you have to be you know perfect perfect perfect and that's kind of how i carried my own
13:25life if i wasn't perfect then i'm not making the people that you know love me proud i had a moment
13:31where i was just like enough's enough like i deserve to just be happy i deserve to have that
13:37grace yes girl i am breathing just think of younger me and like what would they say seeing me
13:48like where i am and not just in this competition but like as an adult i thought i was just gonna
13:57grow old and look like a man i want to do it for literally just any black queer youth out there
14:06and let them know that like this is possible i would tell younger me you are doing everything right
14:12you are doing everything right there we go beautiful gorgeous expression baby
14:19it's so surreal watching venus divine divine this is fab i could be in that spot next year potentially
14:34oh my god
14:37for this final maxi challenge we are writing a whole ass song we are recording it with arville peck we're all
14:45about to be masked for masks today can't wait to work with all of you i'm so excited to see what
14:50everyone's written all right first up we have helena poison i'm up first i'm not feeling that nervous
14:56because i know i'm gonna kill this and show these girls how it's done tell me about your song what's
15:00the inspiration behind these lyrics my song's called poison kind of about my journey here being really
15:06stuck in my head and hard on myself reminding myself to just like do what you do because that's
15:11what they like best do you want to do like a take been a weirdo from the start freaky style concept art
15:18out of my mind doesn't make you nervous poison control is out of service just think about like
15:22a little bit of dynamic between each line so that we don't end up just getting like a little bit
15:27monotone throughout the whole thing like give like dark and shade to it between orville and my
15:31sisters i feel very encouraged and comfortable to just be a full idiot bottomed ones but mostly
15:37topped spitters are quitters i can't be stopped what does the line spitters are quitters i can't
15:42be stopped it's like don't spit out the poison oh god also a joke about blowjobs yeah yeah totally got
15:48it it's because he's not a spitter that's why or a quitter poison don't think too much just sip some
15:58poison the poison i think make it like breathier like poison yeah exactly poison okay poison poison poison poison
16:18i love it i think we got it tell me about your song i'm a virgo i wanted to add a lot of branding
16:25that had to do with like the stars and me being a star kind of just like an anthem to like inspire
16:31people i love that virgo's back with a brand new track quiet confidence to run a zodiac they can't
16:37stop thinking about how she looks like a gay inspector gadget free your mind you're one of a kind
16:46i want to show off a little bit this is the time to show off
16:53shut the up that was incredible you're hitting every note it sounds great like really cast the
16:59spell there you know what i mean like give us the whole like stars of the line give it some drama
17:04cast the spell right now what you mean
17:08it helps like close your eyes and just like perform it for us have you ever been in drag before
17:13yeah it's very uncomfortable all right that's the right answer oh free your mind
17:22you're one of a kind i'm letting go i'm letting go of my fears i'm singing
17:30the stars have a line
17:37yes that was so good next up minnie wang hi tell me about your song it's dumb it's stupid it's silly
17:48there's no hidden message it's camp right yeah it's camp okay yeah yeah we love it everyone is doing my
17:54journey is inspirational i'm talking to like you downtrodden person i'm like no fuck that this is
18:04the story about a pit crew member turned drag queen came into the comp in blue waving that flag i yelled
18:10oh pit crew looking around not a friend to be found zanim to sit you're a mean girl now minnie wang is
18:16a total idiot and i'm obsessed with her all about wang express train she does us parade it's a wang
18:24beautiful world i have a few thoughts give us even more contrast you know maybe start off really like
18:31this is the story about a pit crew member turned drag queen yeah this is the story about a pit crew
18:36member turned drag queen that's the one the underdog who's built like a god all about one express
18:44trying it's a wonderful world yeah that was wonderful i'm a fan of the wang come on girl oh my
18:53god you're so dumb michaela couture hi do you want to tell me about your song this song essentially
18:59is just a testament to like the black woman that have always supported me it is a bad
19:04anthem i haven't really sang in like years i am trans and once i hit puberty i was like oop let me
19:12not sing anymore the voice got deeper i didn't feel like myself anymore i stopped singing and that's
19:18unfortunate i'm a little nervous this is gonna be like the first time anyone's heard me sang in a
19:23while you're gonna shine through i can feel it she gon never stop she let that booty pop the goddess of
19:30your dream she turns it out you sound incredible oh thank you absolutely nothing to worry about she's black
19:40and powerful so step aside and make some oh i am missing this note i can tell you've got it like
19:51it's not too high for you i think it's more of a like you're getting nervous and you think it's gonna
19:55be too high you need to do the complete opposite and just like go for it and if you if you it up a
19:59couple times that's what we're here to do we're gonna get it but it's not too high for you okay you can
20:03definitely get it and make some way make some way just go for it you have it and you so have it just
20:12fucking give it can i cuss i don't even make some way you had it before don't overthink it the only
20:21thing standing between me and that motherfucking crown is this damn high note y'all did so good i'm so
20:30excited i'm gonna see you on the main stage tomorrow thank you for today thank you so much
20:36and now it is time for choreography with hollywood jade come on hair you know what type of performer
20:44would you classify helena poison as uh walk back and forth seductively to the beat kind of girl my
20:51sincere goal is to stretch all of you as performers this is the finale we've got to give the kids a show
20:58this is something i'm not the strongest at so i just have to work twice as hard one visual i have
21:04is some like like something very grand and like hello like we're serving poison because i'm doing
21:10like a lot of just like saying my name like poison up throw it to the side up throw it to the side five
21:17six seven and eight uh-huh oh that's fast that's a fast i gotta figure out a way to make this choreo
21:25work with how i perform work with my song and present it the best way possible to the judges i have to
21:31kill this challenge like i'm not losing this challenge tell me about your track it's very soulful
21:39a testimony to me and black women everywhere stand in your power you are that girl i can get behind
21:46this and i think i've got something that feels like that talking about standing in your power i think
21:52we're gonna start with this open one open now i've worked with miss hollywood jade and she likes to
22:00make me sweat push it over and push it over she believes in my capabilities and what i can do and
22:07always pushes me to go that one extra step further and land four yeah and you want to land down in a
22:14good old come on deep plie put that thing on the floor on the floor two and three four five six
22:23i got some of it channel all of that black girl magic into a hundred thousand dollar victory period
22:29yes who's ready to step i work with hollywood outside of here and he don't play not even for
22:40one minute give it to me miss jade tell me about your song it's like has a little bit of virgo astrology
22:47in there okay a little witchiness but of course it's like bad energy all right well back it up let's go i
22:53don't want him to hold back i want to be doing everything the dancers are doing and more three
22:58and four five six seven eight you've got length okay use it yeah like push through all of it someone's
23:06going home with a hundred thousand dollars in my experience the person who is the most detailed
23:11takes the prize yeah so let's be detailed pull this back up and down uh-huh up stretch your arms i'm a
23:18known dancer i'm known for performing so i don't want to just reach that level of expectation i want
23:25to surpass it in terms of movement where on the spectrum do you fall she's a solid six six is good
23:35six is a pass and by the time i'm done with you it'll be like a 7.5 or an eight now those extra two
23:41points to the 10 it's what you bring to it it's how you feel it i'm willing to push myself like if you
23:45give me an eight count like let's see how we go think about what you're saying lyrically and how
23:51we can mesh these two together okay like i want this to feel like an extension of what you've written
23:56one two three four even though it's like eight counts it feels like 800 counts think about making
24:03everything as crisp as possible i miss this bit he's showing me the ti ti ta ta ka ka ka ka keys and i'm
24:14probably getting the ti ka ka it's fast she is quick she is quick where's she running from we're running
24:21towards a hundred thousand dollars
24:30brooklyn tracy brad
24:36it's coronation day and i feel like i'm crowning
24:39all right the last one we need this performance to be the best we've ever done
24:47this is the last thing standing between me and that crown so virgo you better bring it
24:55somebody's about to get a crown tonight this is the biggest challenge of the
25:01fucking competition and there is a hundred thousand zoolas on the line so we need to get in drag rules
25:17to the main stage of canada's drag race he's my rose and thorn it's superstar silas brad goreski
25:47hi brook hey bradley can you believe this is the end oh stick a fork in me we're done
25:53oh which end maybe it's not a fork i want and she's my number one it's tracy melchor hey boo
26:01hey baby tracy what are we gonna do if you ever go solo i guess you'd be lost without a tracy
26:06and it's country music icon mr show pony himself orville peck howdy brook howdy orville
26:16when you find the most inspiration to write music in the dead of night oh sign me up
26:22this week we challenge our final four to become pop sensations as they drop their debut singles
26:28racers start your engines and may the best drag queen rain she's about to take flight it's michaela
26:38couture performing to the sky limitless baby the name is michaela couture she gonna shake it to the top
26:47they're watching how that booty drop it's never too late to seize the day just get yourself up and put your
26:52head in the head in the game cause she gonna make it ain't no back in town
27:01i'm gonna take this to the sky
27:05i'm limitless can't take me cause i shine so bright
27:13we gonna make it to the end you can't break me i was born to be free
27:19no check give me i'm too zesty she's black and powerful so step aside and make some way
27:31angels the world is gonna beat you down but it's how you get back up that makes you a superstar
27:38i'm gonna take this to the sky
27:42big things come in mini packages and she's about to top the charts with her new hit
28:05wangderful this is the story about a pit crew member to
28:08DRAP WANG!
28:10came into the comp in blue waving the flag i yelled oh pit crew looking around not a friend
28:15i'll be found zen and just said you're mean girl now no one knew what i could do
28:21but i had a clue do you sew or do you glue
28:25wangderful mini wang like assholes you can have your opinion
28:30if you're a fan of the wang i'll call you my medium is that an accent banana banana tomato tomato time
28:41went on and the queens went home but no ones did i say oh no
28:44like a chassu bout i'm so hot right now
28:48mini and june maxi wins honor to my family kids
28:56the underdog who's felt like a god all aboard when express tried she does us the right
29:02wangderful mini wang i've changed your opinion
29:07so you like wangs now you're now a fan of the wang big one's a small one
29:13you now are my medium
29:16it's a wangderful world
29:18yeah
29:20thank you for performing her deadly single poison is helena
29:31been a weirdo from the start freaky style concept art
29:35out of my mind doesn't make you nervous poison control is out of service hard on myself but took the
29:40note i'm the venom in the antidote too many voices in my head i'll put them all to bed and serve them
29:46poison
29:48don't think too much just sip some poison
29:52from now on we're serving poison
29:56check the label i think she's poison
29:58poison poison
30:01elevated caffeinated not sketched out but illustrated sweet but proved i'm literate like cookies laced with
30:08arsenic bottomed ones but mostly topped spitters are quitters i can't be stopped voted best mug of the
30:14season when i take that crown you'll know the reason i'm
30:16uh
30:17i uh probably should have remembered this earlier
30:22i am
30:23poison
30:26don't think too much just sip some poison
30:29from now on we're serving poison
30:33check the label i think she's poison
30:37poison
30:39uh killed it
30:46she's about to eclipse the competition here's the virgo queen performing her single the stars have
30:53aligned
30:58virgo's back with a brand new track quiet covenants to your zodiac rosebud on lock runway walking no time
31:04for shade talent as the talking from the start i made my mark the stars have a line
31:23the stars have a line
31:28through the petty petty short with frenemies on top and you couldn't get rid of me
31:31and set up my witness this afro-indigenous my fijian daughter yeah this is our mission
31:35soul exposed about to explode the stars have a
31:41i ain't never been stained so put the money in the bank
31:43the stars have a line
31:57the stars have a line
32:03the stars have a line
32:11the stars have a line
32:14commenced shake down category is coronation eleganza
32:20let's welcome back our eliminated queens first up tara nova
32:25wow gorgeous quilted for your pleasure come on tara nova tiffany and co
32:35wow beautiful all of that all of it who the fuck is this gorgeous whore
32:42as have
32:44is
32:53is
32:57Oh, beautiful.
32:59Yes, Jaylee.
33:01Low turn.
33:05Jaylee, Jaylee.
33:07Umagod.
33:09Oh, my God, it's Umagod.
33:13Umagod.
33:15Umagod.
33:17Zanna.
33:19I got a purple nurple.
33:22You better work that Louboutin.
33:24Beautiful.
33:25Hot, hot, hot, hot.
33:27And finally, Perla.
33:29Wow.
33:31Fail her. I hardly know her.
33:34Studying, Perla. Studying.
33:36Yay, Perla!
33:38And now, our top four.
33:42The Virgo Queen.
33:44Yes!
33:46I'm wearing this beautiful ball gown,
33:50princess fairytale fantasy vibe.
33:53She's going to the ball. She's the belle of the ball.
33:56Silver linings gay look.
33:59It represents, like, black excellence.
34:01It's giving pageantry.
34:04It's giving regal, expensive.
34:07Bling, bling, bling everywhere.
34:09The fantasy is...
34:11Fuck the fantasy, crown me, bitch.
34:13Helena poison.
34:15Ooh.
34:17Beautiful.
34:18I am wearing custom kink engineering.
34:21I'm wearing a latex one-armed mermaid gown.
34:25She is sweaty and slimy and absolutely stunning.
34:30This look is tight.
34:31Skin tight.
34:32I'm slithering down the runway,
34:35giving them a little alien, a little monster,
34:37a little glamour queen.
34:39I'm just giving them pure poison.
34:42I got a lethal dose of her eleganza.
34:45Mini Wang.
34:47She's serving imperial Asian goddess.
34:52It is grand.
34:54It's drama mama.
34:56She's Melbourne-ing up the stage.
34:58Oh, no.
34:59Oh, no.
35:00Oh, no.
35:01Oh, no.
35:02Throughout this whole competition,
35:03I've brought my culture from both Australia
35:07and also my Chinese culture.
35:09It's something that is uniquely me.
35:11I couldn't be more proud to show
35:13what the term Asian excellence means.
35:16And finally,
35:17Mikayla Couture.
35:19Wow.
35:20Ooh.
35:21Yes.
35:22I'm in this head-to-toe white wedding gown.
35:26This is giving opulence.
35:28This is giving ethereal goddess.
35:31Ebony in ivory.
35:33I want to bring my version
35:34of a wedding gown to the runway.
35:36I'm all grown up looking like
35:39my higher, true, artistic self.
35:42So pretty.
35:43Gorgeous.
35:47Welcome, queens.
35:48Our final four.
35:50Yesterday, you all did a photo shoot
35:52with our season four winner, Venus.
35:54Virgo, here is your best shot.
35:57Aww, so sexy.
36:02You look amazing.
36:03Tell me about your journey to get to this point.
36:06Life for me has not always been handed to me.
36:10Being from poverty, being black,
36:14coming up from the hood, you know,
36:17it's really just made me the person that I am.
36:19I used to close my eyes at night
36:21and just wish that I could wake up
36:22in a different place.
36:24But without all of that struggle,
36:26I wouldn't be the person I am.
36:28One thing this experience has taught me,
36:30if something happens and it strikes you down,
36:33you just gotta put your head up,
36:34keep pushing.
36:36That's me, Virgo out.
36:38Peace.
36:39Peace and hair grease.
36:40Okay?
36:41Okay.
36:42Helena Poison.
36:43Hello.
36:44Here is your best shot.
36:46Ooh, yes.
36:48Tell me about your journey to get to this moment.
36:50It's been an incredible, amazing journey
36:54of honestly just hustle and perseverance
36:57and unwavering, unapologetic self-expression.
37:01I fought really hard to get where I am,
37:03being an alternative weirdo.
37:05I would mold myself to fit in,
37:07but I never change who I am.
37:09I think I have the seasoning and maturity
37:13to carry a title as big as Canada's next drag superstar.
37:19Ninny Wang.
37:20Hi.
37:21Here is your best shot with Venus.
37:23Oh, yes.
37:24Tell me about your journey to get to this moment.
37:26I grew up an ABC, as we call them,
37:29an Australian-born Chinese.
37:31So from the get-go, I knew that I was different
37:33because in a Western culture,
37:35as a Chinese family,
37:36we just did everything differently.
37:38Arts was never seen as like a viable career path.
37:42Cut to me moving here to Canada.
37:44Drag allowed me to explore who I am as a person.
37:48In all of us lives a femme and a mask
37:51and everything in between.
37:52To truly love yourself and know who you are,
37:55you need to pay attention to both ends of the spectrum
37:59and everything in between.
38:01And finally, I am not hiding these shoulders today
38:06because if you do not crown me,
38:08I'm going to fucking beat you up!
38:13Michaela Couture, here is your best shot with Venus.
38:17Oh, my God. We're so beautiful.
38:19Tell me about your journey to get to this moment.
38:21Growing up on our family home wall,
38:25we had a little poster that said my dead name,
38:29and under it it said,
38:31a boy whose name will be in lights.
38:33Now, my mom was wrong.
38:36She didn't have a boy,
38:37but this girl's name has been in lights,
38:40and it will continue to be in lights.
38:42And three years ago, you met me,
38:45all of y'all met me at 18 years old,
38:48and I stand here in front of you,
38:5021 years old,
38:51a beautiful black trans woman
38:54who could stand in her power
38:56and say that I fucking did it.
38:59I am forever grateful.
39:01Thank you, Michaela.
39:03Queens, it's now time for your final critiques,
39:06starting with the Virgo queen.
39:08What to do, what to do.
39:10I really enjoyed your performance today
39:11of your single.
39:12You gave Popstar.
39:13It didn't sound like a drag queen song.
39:15It sounded like a song I would hear on the radio.
39:17You were such an absolute pleasure to work with.
39:20You have a beautiful voice.
39:22You took notes so elegantly and so seamlessly,
39:25and that's like a whole talent all in itself.
39:28I was very proud of you tonight.
39:29You did a really beautiful job.
39:31Your look tonight is just breathtaking.
39:35You have given us so many different sides of your drag.
39:39You have shown us so much versatility.
39:42And then you saved this beautiful fairy tale
39:45for the last look.
39:47You look like a queen.
39:48You act like a queen.
39:49You are a queen.
39:50You have this unbothered, elegant aura that just screams superstar.
39:58From your runway presentation to your performances,
40:02you really seize the day.
40:05Up next, Helena Poison.
40:07I really enjoyed your single.
40:10You're a wonderful performer.
40:12Your lyricism is amazing.
40:13I thought you did a really great job.
40:15Hard on myself, but took the note.
40:17I am the venom and the antidote.
40:19So smart.
40:20You've shown us really who you are,
40:22and you've really done it your way,
40:24which I think is so special.
40:25I love this look.
40:27Simple, yet effective.
40:29And not very easy to cut, sew, make this silhouette,
40:34make it smooth, keep it shiny,
40:37and walk the way that you did in it.
40:39You know, it took me over 20 years as a performer
40:43to realize that being myself is the best thing you can do
40:47as a performer and a human,
40:49and sadly the hardest thing to do.
40:51If you can authentically perform like you did today
40:54and be true to that outsider,
40:56I think you'll find how many other outsiders you'll touch.
41:00Thanks so much.
41:01Up next, Minnie Wang.
41:03Hi.
41:04Minnie, it's been wang-derful having you here.
41:06I so enjoyed your performance.
41:08I loved your lyrics.
41:10It was really great to see you out there having a good time,
41:12and it was just very camp.
41:14It has been an immense joy to watch you come into this competition
41:18and just week after week bring your own version
41:21of your drag and yourself to the runway.
41:24I love the surprises that you give us.
41:26I never know what to expect.
41:28I never know what we're gonna see on the runway.
41:30Every single look, the details, like, even just on this look here,
41:34there's always some little flourish in your drag.
41:37Having such a muscular body, you've also done such a great job
41:42of never hiding it but always kind of showing it in a different way
41:47so that we're seeing you.
41:49You've become the fashion queen of the season.
41:52You've just served us look after look after look,
41:54and I think we've all become a fan of the wang.
41:57Yes.
41:58Michaela Couture.
42:00Well, I guess the makeover is complete.
42:03It really is. She's all grown up.
42:06And we've had the pleasure of watching your journey.
42:09You've had some falters, but you've always managed
42:12to pick yourself back up and fight.
42:14You are a fighter.
42:15That's why I loved your lyrics so much.
42:16Angels, the world is gonna beat you down,
42:18but it's how you get back up that makes you a superstar.
42:21You have done the House of Couture very proud.
42:26I mean, you can see the DNA in this design.
42:29It's just exceptional.
42:31You are a superstar, and tonight you are on fire.
42:35Just electric watching you perform.
42:37It was a music award show worthy performance.
42:41I was really, really especially proud of you tonight
42:44because you shared with me that you faced some insecurity
42:48around your voice after your journey in transitioning,
42:51and that you hadn't really sang much ever since then.
42:54I'm just so proud because you killed it.
42:56And I just want to tell you never stop singing
42:59because you have a gorgeous voice.
43:01I think you're gonna make me cry.
43:03You may be very proud tonight,
43:04and your performance was incredible.
43:06You have a fan in me for life,
43:08and now I'm sure many, many fans out there in the world,
43:11so congratulations.
43:12Queens, we have a big decision to make,
43:16and so do you.
43:19While you untuck, you will choose who deserves the title
43:24of Miss Congeniality.
43:27Oh.
43:28And $10,000 made possible by our partner,
43:31Gilead Sciences Canada.
43:33Yes.
43:34You may leave the stage.
43:38This is familiar.
43:43Now we are catching up with the girls.
43:46Honey, the queens are back.
43:48Oh!
43:49Oh!
43:50Push out!
43:53Uma down, Uma down.
43:55I got you.
43:57Girls, you just have to tell me everything
44:00that happened this season.
44:03Who is giving us the drama?
44:05Oh!
44:08Pantex is better designed for Brooklyn.
44:10Oh!
44:11As she modeled our looks on the runway,
44:12Zan decided to say that Brooklyn's struggled a bit
44:16with Mikaela's dress.
44:18We had some words,
44:20and then we kind of just, like, cut it off,
44:23and we moved on,
44:24but I feel like there is some things
44:25that have been left unsaid.
44:26That was, like, a nice way of putting it.
44:28Bitch, I cussed her out.
44:30I have never tried to make you feel fucking low,
44:33and this is the shit you pull?
44:35I'm so fucking done!
44:37I'm done!
44:38Fuck you!
44:40I definitely could have handled that a lot better.
44:43I have unconditional love for you, Mikaela.
44:46I do still feel a certain way.
44:48I love you down because you are that girl,
44:50but, like, right now, I don't know.
44:52A year from now, me and Zan are gonna be good girls.
44:55We're gonna be totally fine.
44:57I think I just need my space,
44:59and I'm happy that she's respecting that.
45:01Does anyone else have anything they want to air out?
45:04Oh, yeah, I do.
45:05Okay, Santana.
45:06Oh, I do.
45:07I motherfucking do, and I'm gonna give it.
45:08Here it goes.
45:09The way I left was not right.
45:11Minnie, I'm just, like, really hurt by you.
45:14The queen I have chosen to save is Mikaela Couture.
45:20Okay, don't forget that your ass would have gone home
45:22if I didn't win that lipstick.
45:23Yeah, I know.
45:24Like, no one took that consideration of thinking,
45:26okay, she's been doing well.
45:29I forgive.
45:30I don't forget.
45:31Those decisions aren't easy to make.
45:32I know.
45:33I'm sorry that your feelings were hurt in that moment.
45:34It has nothing to do with you as a person
45:36or even your talent.
45:37I have no doubt that you are a star,
45:40but we can only save one person.
45:42Can I just, like, add two cents to this?
45:44Like, as the resident bottom of season five,
45:46I got a lot of good critiques on that runway as well,
45:50but I don't feel any type of way of this.
45:53I should be upset because nobody saved the beaver on me.
45:57I never left the competition with any, like, sore feelings, really.
46:01Like, Perla, you never saved me,
46:03but, like, I love you so much.
46:05I love you.
46:06I know that you didn't get to, you know,
46:09stick around as long as anybody would have liked,
46:12but it was really special to get to spend that time with you.
46:16I really got to see in you someone that I recognize
46:18coming from a really small place and dreaming big dreams.
46:21I want you to just remember that, like,
46:23doing well on this show is great,
46:24but getting on this show is the mark of the talent,
46:27and it's the start of everything.
46:29Can I just address the elephant in the room?
46:31Oh.
46:35I look amazing.
46:39Thank you so much. I've had a great time.
46:41I need to hear everything about it,
46:43because, like, the details, we need to know.
46:45This specific design is the Every Child Matters,
46:48and I have the blessing of the artist Andy Everson
46:52to be able to wear this on the main stage.
46:55I just feel really honored to be able to recognize it
46:58as an Indigenous trans person.
47:00This says to the world,
47:03this is me.
47:04Here I am standing in my power.
47:06Yes.
47:07Absolutely, Ms. Jalene.
47:09I love you, Jalene.
47:10That dress is so important.
47:12I'm so proud of her.
47:14There's still $10,000 up for dress.
47:16Ms. Congeniality!
47:17Whoa!
47:19Top four out.
47:20So who wants Ms. Congeniality?
47:21I do.
47:22Can I have it?
47:23I wouldn't mind winning something sometime.
47:25I have all hands up.
47:26One second.
47:29Well, just between us golden beavers,
47:32what do we think?
47:33Starting with the Virgo queen.
47:35Superstar.
47:36Superstar.
47:37She just has that it quality to me.
47:39I mean, that kind of confidence,
47:40it's just something you can't really fake as a performer,
47:43and she just feels like a professional.
47:45From the second she walked in the workroom,
47:47we were all kind of like, whoa.
47:49She is one of those people that comes around once in a lifetime,
47:52and I will be buying her single.
47:54I think she might be probably one of the most gifted lyricists
47:57we've ever had on this show, and performer.
48:00She's lip-synced four times in this competition,
48:02two times in the bottom, two times in the top,
48:04and she's slayed every single time.
48:07Let's talk about Helena Poison,
48:09our goth queen with a heart of gold.
48:12There's like two million drag queens in the world now,
48:15and sometimes what's missing is a point of view as an artist,
48:19and I think it's really cool when you find someone
48:21who has a unique point of view that feels authentic to who they are.
48:25Who also has a fantastic drag mug.
48:27Yeah.
48:28That bitch is stamped,
48:29and has given us some of the most iconic looks this season.
48:32I don't know if I see the same fire in her
48:34as I see in some of our other final four.
48:36I liked her performance, and I really liked her single,
48:39but in comparison, was it as dynamic?
48:43Was it as electrifying?
48:46Mini Wang.
48:48Our little Wang.
48:49So sweet to see how all the other queens have really embraced her
48:51and been surprised by her,
48:52because they didn't think she was a threat at the beginning.
48:54No way.
48:55That's the best thing ever, to exceed people's expectations.
48:58Everything she brought out onto the runway,
49:00she was so confident in because it was so authentically her.
49:05I just think it's so great that she brought such a unique set of lyrics.
49:10I mean, no one could have written that but her.
49:12She had a beautiful runway as always,
49:14but based on the performance, this is the finale,
49:17it didn't really measure up compared to some of the other performances we saw tonight.
49:21Michaela Couture.
49:22Michaela has been such a bright light all season.
49:24She's had her share of highs and a few little lows,
49:28but she manages to just pivot beautifully and come back.
49:31And what a performer.
49:32Oh!
49:33Mmm.
49:34Oh my God.
49:35Oh my goodness.
49:36A powerhouse performer.
49:37The dancing and the choreography, I mean, that was truly at a professional level.
49:42That was her all season long, too.
49:44Like, even when she was in the bottom and lip syncing,
49:46it was like anybody coming up against her to lip sync for their life was like,
49:50Oh no.
49:51Oh my God.
49:52She's had some great fashion moments, too, don't you think?
49:55Tonight was the epitome of the house of couture.
49:58Are you buying a ticket to see your concert?
50:00100% I am.
50:01I think we've made our decisions.
50:05Bring back our final four.
50:08Welcome back, queens.
50:10It's time to crown our Miss Congeniality.
50:13Hey.
50:14I'm sure you're all itching to find out, so to help me let the cat out of the bag,
50:19please welcome back season four's Miss Congeniality, Kitten Kabuto!
50:26Oh my God!
50:31Wow.
50:36Well, hi, kitten.
50:37Hi, Brooke.
50:38You look fabulous.
50:39I look like everybody's favorite toilet roll cover.
50:44Now, kitten, what is the key to being congenial?
50:47Don't join any alliances,
50:49and never let them hear what you say behind their back.
50:54All right, the winner of season five's Miss Congeniality
50:57and $10,000 made possible by our partner, Gilead Sciences Canada,
51:04is...
51:07Jaylene Todd!
51:09Oh my God!
51:10Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
51:14Thank you so much, thank you.
51:17I'm fangirling right now, so good to meet you.
51:19Congratulations.
51:20Thank you so much.
51:21Is there anything you'd like to say?
51:22I just want to say thank you so much for this opportunity to be part of such a stellar cast of humans.
51:28It's really important to make sure we create these stages where people can feel free to express themselves.
51:33That's our power.
51:34And to have it from my sisters, it just makes it so much sweeter.
51:38Thank you so much.
51:39I love you all so much.
51:40Yes, Jamie!
51:41We love you!
51:42Yay!
51:43Love you, mama.
51:44Love you.
51:45And world peace.
51:46Queens, we have made some tough, tough decisions.
51:52You are all so incredible and so amazing.
51:57However, only two of you will be lip-syncing for the crown.
52:06The Virgo Queen, Michaela Couture.
52:11You will face off for the title of Canada's next drag superstar.
52:15Oh, my shit!
52:22Helena, we have tasted your poison, and we don't want the antidote.
52:27Miss Wang, you have proved there is nothing mini about your talent.
52:32Thanks for bringing your drag to the maximum.
52:34I'm sorry, my dears, but your journeys end here.
52:38But just know that you are both true north stars.
52:41Truly an amazing experience.
52:43Thank you all so much.
52:44Honestly, the opportunity has been something I'll always cherish.
52:48Thank you so much.
52:49And we'll always cherish it with you.
52:51Yay, Helena!
53:01The Virgo Queen, Michaela Couture.
53:04One of you will be crowned the winner of Canada's Drag Race.
53:09In addition to winning the title of Canada's next drag superstar,
53:13you will also walk away with a crown and scepter, courtesy of Amped Accessories.
53:18And from Trojan, the pleasure of $100,000.
53:28Two queens stand before us.
53:31Prior to tonight, you were asked to prepare a lip-sync performance of From This Moment On by Shania Twain.
53:38This is your last chance to impress us and prove that you are Canada's next drag superstar.
53:46The time has come for you to lip-sync for you to lip-sync for the crown!
54:01Good luck!
54:02Good luck!
54:03And don't fuck it up!
54:06From this moment, life has begun.
54:18From this moment, you are the one.
54:25Right beside you is where I belong.
54:27Right beside you is where I belong.
54:32From this moment on.
54:37I give my hand to you with all my heart.
54:44I can't wait to live my life with you.
54:48I can't wait to start.
54:51You and I will never be apart.
54:58My dreams came true because of you.
55:12You're the reason I believe in love.
55:33And you're the answer to my prayers from above.
55:40All we need is just the two of us.
55:43All we need is just the two of us.
55:48My dreams came true because of you.
56:03From this moment of love.
56:09From this moment, I will love you.
56:12From this moment, I will love you.
56:16I promise you this, there is nothing I wouldn't fear from this moment.
56:29I will love you as long as I live from this moment on.
56:46Queens, we have reached our final decision.
57:07The Virgo Queen, Michaela Couture.
57:11From this moment on, one of you will be Canada's next drag superstar.
57:18But first, please welcome back our reigning queen, it's Venus!
57:26Come on Venus, we look gorgeous!
57:41Well hi Venus!
57:45Hey!
57:46Welcome back!
57:47We missed you!
57:48So good to be home.
57:50All right, the moment we've all been waiting for.
57:58The winner of Canada's Drag Race Season 5 is...
58:05The Virgo Queen!
58:11Oh my God, I won!
58:14No!
58:15Oh my God!
58:16I won!
58:17Oh my God, I won!
58:19Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!
58:23Congratulations, my queen.
58:24Oh my God.
58:26Damn, this shit's heavy!
58:29Thank you to everyone who's made this possible for me.
58:32This season is particularly special for me because I got to share it with my daughter.
58:39I love you.
58:40A lot of people are gonna be proud of me.
58:43I'm proud of me.
58:45The Virgo Queen, you are always destined for greatness.
58:49It's written in the stars.
58:51God bless Canada!
58:53May your reign be most supreme.
58:56Okay!
58:57Long live the queen!
58:59Now take your walk true north strong and be!
59:02You wear it well!
59:04Use your suits, you, ooh, ooh, ooh.
59:09Why'd it for me, why'd it for me, me?
59:13You wear it, you wear it, you wear it well.
59:23You wear it well.
59:43How would you say a soon?
59:47You got my two kicks.
59:51You're crazy.
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