THE OLYMPICS OF DRAG HEATS UP WITH NEW SERIES RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE GLOBAL ALL STARS STARRING AUSTRALIA’S KWEEN KONG
The Logie nominated finalist from Stan Original Series RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Season 2, will be competing in the new international series premiering 16 August on Stan.
DOWNLOAD PUBLICITY ASSETS16 July, 2024 – On your marks, get set, go! Stan, the home of Drag Race in Australia, today announced that Logie nominee and RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Season 2 runner-up, Kween Kong, will be burning the torch once more for Australia in the brand new series RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars.
Kween Kong will join a stellar line-up of the world’s best drag queens including Alyssa Edwards (USA), Athena Likis (Belgium), Eva Le Queen (Philippines), Gala Varo (Mexico), Kitty Scott-Claws (UK), Miranda Lebrao (Brazil), Nehellenia (Italy), Pythia (Canada), Soa de Muse (France), Tessa Testicle (Germany) and Vanity Vain (Sweden).
Premiering 16 August on Stan, the new series also has a timely ‘Olympics of Drag’ theme - a nod to how Drag Race is referred to in the drag community due to the intense challenges, preparation, skill and physicality required to take part.
RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars comes not long after we saw another Down Under alumni, Hannah Conda, become a runner-up earlier this year on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World, proving that Australian and NZ queens have what it takes to compete on an international level.
Now in its fourth walk around the werkroom, the new season of Stan Original Series Drag Race Down Under will premiere later this year in time for the party season, signing off a full year of non-stop drag excellence. With Michelle Visage in the highly regarded role as host for the first time in the 15 year history of the Drag Race franchise, Rhys Nicholson will also be returning on the main panel alongside Down Under drag royalty.
RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars is produced by World of Wonder Productions with Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, Steve Kelly, Andrés Barragán, and RuPaul Charles serving as Executive Producers. Daniel Blau Rogge serves as Executive Producer for MTV Entertainment Studios and Julie Ha serves as Supervising Producer, with Margaret Goodman as Executive in Charge.
The brand new series RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars will premiere 16 August, on Stan.
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About World of Wonder:
World of Wonder (WOW) has reshaped international pop culture, earning 33 Emmys, inspiring two Oscars, creating global network WOW Presents Plus across 190 territories, and bringing drag culture to the world stage via RuPaul’s Drag Race and DragCon. SVOD WOW Presents Plus, the exclusive home to the global Drag Race franchise and hundreds of WOW Original series, saw 35M hours of content watched in 2023 with 77% subscriber growth in the same year. WOW’s pioneering television portfolio includes other smash-hit franchises like Million Dollar Listing. Their film division WOW Docs produces groundbreaking documentaries including Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, Party Monster, and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. WOW also operates YouTube channel WOWPresents, music label World of Wonder Records, the WOW Podcast Network, and year-round international live events. Co-founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have been profiled in Variety’s Reality TV Impact Report and Hollywood Reporter’s Most Powerful Producers in Unscripted. Honors for their trailblazing work include the IDA Pioneer Award, Realscreen’s Global 100 list, Banff’s Impact Award, and the OUT 100. In 2022, World of Wonder was ranked #2 among film and TV powerhouses in Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.
July 16, 2024