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Even the sweetest queens have a spicy side! We’re diving into moments when some of “Drag Race’s” beloved Miss Congenialities brought the shade instead of the sunshine. From subtle digs to downright ruthless reads, these queens showed that being congenial doesn’t always mean playing nice. Get ready for laughs, drama, and unforgettable shady moments that kept the competition fierce and fabulous!
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00:00About five minutes ago, I looked across at Ms. O'Hara and realized that she was ugly.
00:07And I'm at peace with that.
00:08Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:10And today we're counting down our picks for the times when Drag Race saw its nice girls being less than
00:15congenial.
00:16I need to go to the end of this competition.
00:20I need to.
00:24Party.
00:45For whatever reason, Season 14's Ms. Congeniality was not studying Jasmine Kennedy.
00:51During their first acting challenge, Cornbread compared Jasmine to an oatmeal raisin cookie on a plate full of chocolate chip
00:57cookies.
01:07Then she was inexplicably irritated by Jasmine's note-taking.
01:15At first, she complains that she's writing and not being present with the group.
01:19Then, a moment later, she complains that she's not taking notes anymore.
01:23What if you're talking to Mal a minute?
01:24This is the part where you can write down in your little notebook.
01:26Yes, I was thinking to start off like how you said that like I'll ask.
01:30I was about to.
01:30Oh, sorry.
01:31Go ahead.
01:31Go ahead.
01:35I'm a bit worried that we can't just focus on what we're doing.
01:38Bosco points out Jasmine could breathe the wrong way and Cornbread would be over it.
01:42The social dynamics at play here are a lot of things, but congenial is not one of them.
01:47Comes into this moment, I'm just being pissed at literally anything Jasmine is doing.
01:52Like, stop breathing over there.
01:53I see you blinking and it's taking up a lot of room.
01:56Number 9.
01:57Pandora Box.
01:58Raven's entrance look.
01:59It's a big statement to come into an all-star season swinging.
02:02It's an even bigger statement from a former Miss Congeniality.
02:06My biggest weakness last time was that I truly didn't believe in myself.
02:09This time around, it's going to be different because I'm fabulous.
02:12She may have been voted season 2's most congenial, but Pandora Box doesn't mince words.
02:17Her reads are as to the point as it gets.
02:20When her former castmate Raven walked back into the workroom, Pandora clearly wasn't impressed.
02:25There's not liking a look and then there's comparing it to something one wears to a cocktail party.
02:30Raven walked in from a cocktail party, it looks like.
02:33Thanks for trying, girl.
02:34Even all the way back in the very first returnee season, Raven's ensemble was an all-star's caliber in Pandora's
02:41eyes.
02:41I'm gladden for punishment.
02:45I'm just kidding.
02:46Number 8.
02:47Cynthia Lee Fontaine.
02:48Condolences.
02:49If I have to lip sync against Farrah, of course we worked for four years in Austin.
02:54We have a beautiful sisterhood and friendship.
02:57It's going to be very tough for me.
02:59Eureka needed a sister in this moment of vulnerability.
03:01She confided her secret in Cynthia Lee Fontaine, the season 8 returnee and current reigning Miss Congeniality.
03:07Yes, Eureka had broken another chair during Untucked.
03:10I have to admit something to someone, and I think it's going to have to be you.
03:13I broke that chair a minute ago.
03:16Again?
03:17This is your second one in a week.
03:18It's chair number two.
03:20Cynthia's honest reaction, again, is shady precisely because it's just her honest reaction.
03:25She doesn't mean to be.
03:26As Cynthia reminds us all, this is the second chair Eureka has broken backstage.
03:30Instead of letting it be, she says a heartfelt prayer and offers her condolences as to the fallen chair.
03:36Before telling it, she loved it.
03:38We have beautiful cuckoo sitting here for makeup, shade, tea, and more.
03:42And then the big cuckoo.
03:44For this chair, on behalf of season 9, our condolences.
03:48And I don't care if I say that word correctly.
03:51It is so precious and yet so shady at the same time.
03:55Number 7.
03:55Yara Sofia.
03:57Exposing Raja's Tool.
03:58Competition gets to all of us.
04:00In Untucked, Yara Sofia was quick to point out that Raja hadn't actually fulfilled the runway theme.
04:05She used fabric.
04:10That's why the hair looks like a ruffle.
04:13No, she said she used the lace from the wig.
04:16No, no, no, no.
04:17That's Tool.
04:19That theme, the hairball, tasked queens with making runway looks without fabric, only wigs.
04:24Her contention that Raja used Tool, essentially accusing her of cheating, sets off a spark that her other competitors chase
04:30for her.
04:30And I want you to tell me to my face, that is not lace from a wig, that is tulle
04:36fabric.
04:37That's a tulle fabric.
04:38Everybody, everybody saw it.
04:40Of course you have a wonderful shape.
04:43Of course it's tulle.
04:45Yara lights the match, but Shangela carries the torch, getting to the bottom of things like Nancy Drew herself.
04:51When you can make it so someone else is shady on your behalf, that is the shadiest move of all.
04:56There you go.
04:57It totally worked.
04:58No, it totally did.
04:59And it sits out like, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
05:01Like a tutu.
05:02Like a tutu and shit.
05:04Come on, Miss Tutu tool and fabric and felt.
05:07Sickening.
05:07And hair.
05:08Number 6.
05:10Jane Don't.
05:11Discord's movement.
05:12The queens have voted, and the winner is...
05:18Jane Don't!
05:22There's a reason Jane was laughing when Crystal Envy announced her name.
05:25Despite evidence to the contrary, Jane Don't was voted Miss Congeniality of Season 18.
05:30As early as Week 2, she was identifying Discord Adams' trouble with all things movement.
05:35It's not that dancing is not Discord's strong suit.
05:39It's that all movement is not Discord's strong suit.
05:43She gave the running joke of Discord's runway walk a deliciously shady punctuation mark by picking Sissy That Walk for
05:49their lip sync duel.
05:50I am standing with one of the greatest walkers in the history of RuPaul's Drag Race.
06:00And so I think it's only appropriate that we Sissy That Walk.
06:04That's right.
06:05Jane Don't picked her lip sync song purely for the plot.
06:08Mid-song, she even decided to throw in her own interpretation of the Discord.
06:12Do it!
06:14Now Sissy That Walk.
06:24Number 5.
06:26Latrice Royale
06:26And I'm at peace with that.
06:28Fan favorite and season 4 Miss Congeniality Latrice Royale could churn out more catchphrases and sick reads than a drag
06:34queen chatbot.
06:35Good evening, I'm Latrice Royale, large and in charge, chunky yet funky.
06:39My fellow Americans, everyone needs peace with Latrice.
06:43She was never averse to being a little shady, but one of her most devastating insults came in the middle
06:47of the political debate challenge.
06:49The season 4 queens were challenged to portray drag queen presidential candidates, fielding questions about their imaginary campaigns.
06:55Being in this time period, I think it's so great that the help can sit there and compete alongside with
07:01me.
07:02So I'd definitely like to say my help, Deterit.
07:05And the other help I had, Latrice Royale.
07:10Yee-haw!
07:11Latrice effortlessly took a shot at Fifi O'Hara's looks.
07:15Miss Royale, politics can get so ugly.
07:17Can you give us an example of a time when you made peace with someone you didn't see eye to
07:22eye with?
07:22About five minutes ago, I looked across at Miss O'Hara and realized that she was ugly.
07:30And I'm at peace with that.
07:31It remains one of the funniest things ever to happen on the drag race stage.
07:35And she did it all in the most presidential way possible.
07:39With my plans in effect, we can look forward to a fun-loving America.
07:44An America where everyone could be queen for a day.
07:48Number four, Monet X Change, forming alliances.
07:52She's a Miss Congeniality and All-Stars winner.
07:54But you can add strategic mastermind to Monet X Change's list of accolades.
07:58Can we, like, do we do an alliance?
08:01Do we...
08:02Bitch, if you want to do an alliance, I will do an alliance.
08:04I'm down to do it.
08:05Because I think they all feel that we're going to be getting at each other.
08:08And if you and I have an alliance together...
08:11Bitch, I will.
08:12I will.
08:12Very dumb.
08:13I'm very serious.
08:13Her approach to the all-winner season was quite cutthroat.
08:16She and her twinner, Trinity the Tuck, spend much of the early part of the season forging
08:20not-so-secret alliances with the entire eight-queen cast until they're essentially all in one
08:25big alliance.
08:26I ain't walking into no alliance, am I?
08:28No, come on.
08:29Come in here.
08:29Actually, that's exactly what you're doing.
08:33Oh.
08:34Oh.
08:35Ugh.
08:35A secret alliance ain't secret if everybody knows about it, sweetie.
08:40Hilarious as it is, Shay Kool-Aid and Jinx Monsoon clock their gameplay immediately.
08:44And Shay quickly works out that the alliance plan really only benefits Monet.
08:48Watching Monet try to lock this down is like something out of an episode of The Traitors.
08:53I see what's happening.
08:54Monet has a legendary legend star and no block.
08:58So who do we think is next up on the chopping block?
09:01Number three.
09:02Heidi in Closet.
09:03Untucked.
09:04A queen can only take so much.
09:06Heidi in Closet's good-natured naivete is a large part of why she became season 12's
09:11Miss Congeniality.
09:12But even she has her limits.
09:13The constant verbal assault on Aiden is starting to really piss me off.
09:18And these girls just keep going and going and going.
09:21And it's frustrating because I'm over here like, I know I'm about to have the lip sync
09:24for my life.
09:25And y'all are just like, oh, you should be in the bottom.
09:30During a particularly tense Untucked, Britta and other contestants were upset that Aiden
09:35Zayn was not in the bottom where they felt she deserved to be.
09:37After a barrage of commentary, insults, and general bitterness, Heidi, who wasn't even
09:43involved, exploded on her competitors.
09:45I worked so hard on that while you were sleeping.
09:49At the end of the day, it doesn't f***ing matter, okay?
09:53The bitch is safe.
09:54Leave it f***ing alone.
09:55I'm gonna worry about Heidi right now, okay?
09:57Ironic, given that she was not even fully involved in this.
10:00That didn't matter.
10:01She involved herself.
10:02And she told them all where they could go.
10:04I am upset.
10:06I am confused.
10:08I had just started getting some traction in this competition.
10:11I got shot back down.
10:13Number 2.
10:14Katya, party.
10:15I didn't do great this challenge.
10:17I got really terrible critiques.
10:20And I f***ed up.
10:22And I feel terrible about it.
10:24And I'm sorry that I won so much.
10:26Normally, Katya's shady comments are relegated to absurd imagery and self-deprecatory one-liners.
10:32When she had the power to send frontrunner Alaska home,
10:35she wielded that power with uncharacteristic and perhaps editor-assisted coldness.
10:40So what happened this week?
10:41I don't know.
10:42I guess all I can say is I really want to stay.
10:45And I think I deserve to stay.
10:48Alaska poured out her heart to Season 7's Miss Congeniality,
10:51begging to let her stay.
10:52Even promising Katya money in exchange for not picking her lipstick.
10:55It was a charged moment hilariously undercut by Katya's monotone, unfeeling response.
11:00I need to go to the end of this competition.
11:04I need to.
11:08Party.
11:08It was a peak drag race moment, even if it's out of character.
11:12It's no wonder you can see her breaking a smile before the editors cut away.
11:16Number 1.
11:17Valentina, exposed at the reunion.
11:19I don't approve that, and I hope you guys know that.
11:22But you never told them.
11:23I called you.
11:24I FaceTimed you in tears because of people telling me I should go kill myself
11:29because I'm so ugly and so fat,
11:30and I should have volunteered to eliminate myself over your elimination.
11:34Valentina's crowning moment as Season 9's Miss Congeniality was controversial in its own right.
11:39Her castmates were already grilling her about her failure to intervene with her incredibly vicious fanbase.
11:45Valentina's response was congenial.
11:46If only it were true.
11:48Shea Kool-Aid challenges her when she says she doesn't spend time on social media.
11:51I'm really bad with social media.
11:53I kind of just love to live my everyday life,
11:56and I don't really like to be involved in what people think or what people are saying.
11:59Girl, you could say that you're not on social media,
12:01but when we were in Montreal, you were on that phone checking every like, every follow, every single thing.
12:06Then we got to hear from Farrah Moan about how Valentina essentially dropped her as a friend once the season
12:10stopped filming.
12:11I respect you and love you.
12:14You don't love me.
12:15I was a real friend to you.
12:17You would not have just dropped me.
12:19You didn't think...
12:20If you want a friendship, text me.
12:22Call me.
12:22Let's talk about it.
12:23I have texted you.
12:23You ignore my text.
12:25I've responded.
12:26All of it was very unbecoming of a Miss Congeniality.
12:29The cast agreed.
12:30They renamed the award to more closely align with what it really was, the Fan Favorite Award.
12:36You are clearly not focused on anybody but yourself, and Fan Favorite, yeah, great.
12:40Like, you have a lot of fans, and your fans love you.
12:42But is it Fan Favorite or is it Congeniality?
12:45If it's Fan Favorite, then I guess she deserves it.
12:47Is Miss Congeniality always the most congenial?
12:50Tell us what you think in the comments.
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