[singing] MTV.
I love every last one of you
no matter how much I hate all of y'all.
If you don't have star quality,
get the fuck out of here.
This is your moment! Have it!
[RuPaul] This is "Untucked,"
backstage at the competition
to become America's next drag superstar.
Girl, if you're not watching "Untucked,"
you're only getting half the story.
- Check, walkie check. - Copy.
Queens walking.
[Salina] Baby, it's time for the LaLaPaRuza,
and I'm so excited 'cause this is what I do
to make my money back at home.
Bitch, let's do this.
[dramatic music]
This is a strong group of girls,
and they all have their own little tricks in their bag.
I think we're gonna see different sides of people today.
[Marcia] My lip sync skills are really, really fierce.
I'm a dancer and I'm an actor.
I can really embody a song physically and emotionally,
and I think a lot of these girls are not expecting it.
[RuPaul] Welcome, queens.
For tonight's lip sync LaLaPaRuza smackdown,
one of you will sashay away.
Three queens stand before me.
This is the final round...
and it comes with a twist.
Bruno.
Anetra.
Who do you choose to save?
Spice.
[RuPaul] Anetra, Jax, the time has come...
For you to lip sync
for your life.
Anetra, shantay, you stay.
Jax, sashay away.
[applause]
[somber music]
Fatality.
Repo "Untucked" cameras to the Werk Room.
Send the queens in three, two...
- What up? - What?
We did it! We did it!
[Spice] I am so relieved that Anetra saved me.
Even as "Positive Polly" as I can be,
I thought I was going home,
so Anetra is my drag god that I was praying to,
and she just bestowed upon me another life in this competition.
This has been the longest day of my life.
Oh, has it? Wow.
I just eliminated Jax, and I chose to save Spice
because this is not something
that is really in her wheelhouse,
and, to be honest, I want to beat the best,
and I want to win against the best,
and me just picking somebody as an easy opponent,
that's not what I wanted to do.
Sorry, Jax.
Can we cheers to the top nine, bitches?
[all cheering]
- Mighty fine. - Anointed.
Well-deserved, ladies. Well deserved.
Honestly, we all put our fucking asses out on there.
- Our naughties. - Yes.
And we all know that we earned our place to be here.
So I gotta be honest vice-versa again,
'cause I fully thought that this was my night to go.
Spice, I'm sorry, my dear.
You are still up for elimination.
And you know, Anetra, full tea,
like, I have genuinely loved, like, getting to know you.
You are you, and you stick to that,
- and I really respect that. - Oh, thank you.
I'm curious.
For the girls that haven't lip synced,
are people gagged by certain people?
Like, their talents?
Or maybe they thought they were different? Or--
I feel like I didn't know that--
I knew you were a dancer and you were trained.
I just didn't know you had the good tricks
up your sleeve, which I love.
That backflip, bitch.
I kind of wrote you off as like the Rachel Berry of drag.
I kind of thought you were just like--
[imitates retching]
- No, I thought you were... - Sorry.
Just more of, like, the theater kid,
like campy-campy.
But I didn't know that you were like a dancer.
Based on my critiques last week,
it was very important to me that I expressed
a very different side of myself.
So that's what I wanted to do, and I think I did that.
I was so impressed with Marcia.
- You look, like, so sexy. - And like confident.
And it was a different-- definitely a different side
that the judges never saw.
Like, the sexpot and, like, the standing in your own.
I'm excited for Marcia's sexy era coming.
Yeah, this is my sex era.
Call her a dangerous woman right now.
I was just surprised that Marcia went with that song.
Bitch, when you chose "Boys Don't Cry," I was like, "Fuck!"
[laughter]
- You're like, "Dodie, why?" - I wanted that one so bad.
I feel like Anetra would eat "Boys Don't Cry."
- She would. - Yeah.
The song that I feel like I would have loved doing the most
was the Celine Dion song.
And I would have loved it too.
And I--but I knew you were going to want to do that.
Oh, Malaysia was pissed when she didn't get Celine Dion.
Also, like, I felt, like, if this is gonna be
like, my one and only thing, I'm gonna look the fool
doing that song in this outfit.
So I was like, "OK, what's, like, the pop-girliest one?"
Also, I was like, "This is definitely
the shortest one, so we're gonna do that."
I was happy-- thank you-- 'cause I was out of breath
even with that being the shortest one.
Malaysia, you held your own.
All of a sudden, you were bucking,
- and you did your little-- - Hand thing.
Thank you.
You know I have to keep it cute.
Who was the second lip sync song?
- Loosey versus Spice. - Loosey versus Spice.
Oh, yeah.
How do we feel about Loosey picking Spice?
I think we haven't really heard from you.
I knew you were gonna pick me, I knew.
I picked Spice because I really, really wanted
to do the Celine Dion song,
and I firmly believe that that is the one
- that you were gonna pick... - Yeah.
'Cause that's the one where you can do the most, like, bit.
Bitch, why can you not just be real?
In what world would Spice pick Celine Dion?
I think that she chose Spice on purpose
because she thought that Spice would be an easy kill,
and she wanted to go in for it.
It is what it is.
I knew that "Do You Wanna Touch"
would have been a song that she would have done.
I did not think of that. I should have.
Looking at the look, I should have.
I was like, "Oh, it goes to my outfit.
It's, like, rock. They'll like that."
I'm in the mood to spice things up,
so I'm gonna choose "Do You Wanna Touch Me."
Solid choice.
Loosey, I will say, I was really happy
you picked me 'cause I was excited to, like, go against you.
At the end, you took my little shawl.
You were using it as a little, like, washcloth.
We were having our little, like, lesbihonest moment.
Our little kai kai moment.
When you picked up the fur,
I was like, "She got it." That was it.
- Yeah. - I just rubbed it on there.
- Who was the third lip sync? - Luxx and Salina.
Can I say, I was mesmerised.
Obviously that's more of an emotion type of song,
but when you started adding the comedy to it,
and you started getting on the floor, we were dying.
Belly flop. It was a wrap.
Is that what y'all called it?
I didn't know it was a belly flop.
- Belly flop. - Yeah.
- Oh, man. - Oh, at the very end.
There was something-- you were, like, giving birth.
No, at the very end, I was eating ass.
[laughter]
Honestly, it was so creative and so funny.
You had so many great little moments,
which is why I think you probably came out on top.
- I mean, like-- - It was a risk either way.
Yeah, it was a risk.
'Cause they could have hated that.
Absolutely, but, like, for me and my brain,
like, that's like the route
I probably would have taken probably.
I feel like it always goes back to,
- is Ru entertained? - Yeah.
I agree with that.
But, like, Luxx, you just--
- you looked so beautiful. - Thank you.
And, like, you just know how to pose. It's honestly stunning.
Luxx like, "I'll drink to that."
[laughter]
- Who was next? - Was it Jax and Mistress?
I chose Jax.
I feel like it was a fair pairing
and it's strong because I feel like
going against anyone who was left
would have been iconic.
Jax is an incredible performer,
but I also feel like whenever I was looking at you,
it was like you were living the moment,
and I think that's what really, like, sold it.
Yeah. So who was after that?
It was us, and, honestly, it was like, "Well, here we are, gal."
- [laughs] - Bitch.
When I knew y'all was the last two,
I was like, "This is gonna be an amazing show."
Because just, like, knowing what Anetra gave,
like, in the talent show,
already knew that she was an amazing entertainer.
And just, like, knowing what you do,
I was like, "This is finna be great entertainment."
I didn't even think of it, like, as a competition
or y'all competing against each other.
I was like, "It's gonna be an iconic lip sync."
Watching it from the back,
you, like, could not tell who was gonna win.
Yeah.
The hottest thing I've ever seen in my gay life.
I just wanted to be slapped by Sasha ponytail.
Is your ponytail, like, insured?
- It's trademarked. - It is trademarked.
- Extend that. - [chuckles]
People will look at Sasha like, "Of course."
Like, you'll be like, "Oh, she a legend.
"Oh, she's gonna be pretty. She's gonna be sexy."
She really entertained.
She wasn't, like, prancing around the stage
just, like, throwing her ponytail.
Like, this bitch was getting dirty!
Sasha is not playing. She knows the game.
She's legendary.
She been in it for a while, so she know what to give.
She's a fierce competitor.
Honestly, like, getting to know you,
of course, has been incredible, and I'm so, like, pleased
that you're, like, a real human...
[laughter]
But, to me, like, Sasha Colby,
like, as an entity has been like an inspiration
of mine, like, for so long.
You are an icon to me
and somebody that I look up to so much.
You, as an entertainer,
has been so incredible as an inspiration
to so many people, and I'm so happy you're here,
and honestly, I'm honoured to share the stage with you.
Can I just say the fact that you idolise Sasha,
you were, like, neck-and-neck with her.
I just want you to know how gifted you are
because, like, it's one thing to be able to, like, dance or whatever,
and it's a very different thing to, like, be able to hold space,
especially, like, next to, like, Sasha Colby.
Like, you hold your own, and it's very impressive,
and it's very magnetic,
and, like, watching it, we were all like,
"She does not deserve to be in the bottom, like, in any way at all."
And you know, Anetra, full tea,
I will say, even after the first week
of you winning the challenge,
I fully wrote you off just because you are more quiet.
No, no, no. Wait, wait, listen.
- What? - Wait, listen.
Go ahead.
Just because, for me, just in real life, I'm obsessed with a character.
I love people that are cuckoo and crazy.
Damn, Spice. I just saved you.
- I was like-- - Damn, girl.
No, but after the first week,
I still wrote you off just because I was like,
"Well, you know, she's more on the quiet--
Like, she's not the loudest."
Everyone is throwing out their card.
Exactly.
And you know what I love about you even more
is that not only are you an amazing performer
but you're so humble.
You don't, like, say. You do.
You walk the walk.
You walk the walk,
and you walk that fucking duck.
That's what I'll say.
You are very big competition.
A lot of people sleep on you.
Sometimes the quietest person in the room,
like, they overlook you.
But, at the end of day, bitch, you in it to win it,
- and I admire you for that. - Yeah.
Now that we've seen everybody
kind of like in their element, has anything changed?
How about our biggest competition?
Spice, who is your biggest competition at this point?
Sasha Colby. Obviously, you are a legend.
You're an icon, but seeing you
do what you do, it's so inspiring.
Thank you.
It really, like, not frustrates me or annoys me,
but I was hoping, like, you would come and not be as sickening.
But, no, bitch, you are fucking sickening.
- Child. - I know one thing.
If you didn't know me, now you know me, honey.
She ain't never gonna not.
- [screams] - Oh!
Girl!
Baby, as big as my reputation is,
I'm definitely gonna step up to the plate,
and I think they all realise that.
I'm done with her. I'm done with her.
I feel good, I feel strong,
and I'm glad it shows.
Well, don't be counting out Miss Spice.
[laughter]
OK, Anetra, who would you say your biggest competition is?
I think I'm gonna throw in Loosey.
Everything that Loosey does is really, like,
- on the point or above. - Thank you so much.
Of course.
I think that Mistress is a really big competition.
Like, honestly, out of all the syncs in the "Drag Race,"
and I don't want to put nobody else down,
as big girls, I feel like me and Mistress
have been very great representatives
for big girls, and it's really inspiring
to see somebody that's, like, similar body type
just to be, like-- to motivate you.
They'll like be like, "OK, like, keep pushing, bitch."
There's somebody here just like you striving for this crown.
I've grown to love Mistress throughout this competition
because we go through some similar things
as far as being plus-size entertainers and drag queens.
Sometimes we feel like we have to work harder
to be seen or noticed
when it comes to just being the queen
and trying to succeed.
I know, like, some of the girls
have been, like, kind of, like,
putting it in my ear like, "Oh, I see you
being strategic," and stuff like that.
But, like, for me, it's been, like, 15 seasons.
We haven't had a big girl winner.
And it's time for a big girl to win, period.
Mistress is loud, obnoxious,
and I know, like, her day don't go by
if she don't mess with the Babydoll.
But at the end of the day, I know she loves the Doll.
Like, listen, when it's all said and done,
baby, she might not make it through this competition
without me. [laughs]
So here are the facts.
Ru and the judges have already expressed
that they love Marcia, Luxx, Mistress.
They love Anetra. They love you.
So right off the bat, I feel like, "Fuck."
So all y'all big competition.
I want to get you together 'cause I love you.
A lot of times, you really talk down on yourself,
and you don't give yourself enough credit.
Just because you witness, like, all the positive things
that was said about us,
I've been on the same stage with you,
and you've got a lot of praise.
You need to start giving yourself more credit
and stop beating yourself up
and not look at yourself as, like,
I'm good but I'm not good as everybody else.
Because we all on the same playing field
at the end of the day, no matter who we think
is the top or the bottom or whatever.
Stop doing that to yourself.
And, honestly, like, as somebody
that's known you before all this, like,
I've been so drawn to you
as being such a unique performer.
And your show has won awards here in L.A.
My show was up against her show, and she won.
You work so hard.
I just want you to know that it's seen.
- Thank you. - You are so fucking special.
The fact that you always have a fucking story on the runway,
and it always either makes me laugh,
or I'm like, "Oh, my God, she's fucking gorgeous."
Can you just say that you're gorgeous?
We all know you're gorgeous. Say it for me.
- Say you're gorgeous. - You're gorgeous.
You can dance.
You look like Linda Evangelista.
Could I wear a diaper on the runway?
Yes, you can.
[laughter]
- Yeah. - You're sickening, bitch.
We're all, like, fucking sickening performers.
We're all incredible drag queens.
But, like, my biggest competition,
personally, it's kind of all of you, honestly.
I look at all of you, and I see something about myself
that I can improve.
And I don't want anyone whose name isn't mentioned
to feel like they're not competition.
Because at the end of the day, everyone is fucking competition.
But I don't want anybody to feel like
what they feel is invalid.
I feel like I'm supposed to be on everybody's list, you know?
- No. - It's just all preference.
We all see competition from different point of view.
Yeah.
I would just like to say the fact that we have
a conversation about who is our biggest competition,
and it has turned into, like, such a supportive thing
I think speaks a lot about us.
It really speaks to how much we love drag.
- Yes. - And how much we care about that.
Can we do a group hug after this?
Let's get out of drag first.
That was the halfway point,
and I feel like this has, like, really reinvigorated all of us
to keep fucking going. Right?
And really think about what everyone said.
If you didn't get any compliments,
be mad at your station.
[laughter]
We made it. Top nine, baby!
Top nine.
[dramatic music]
[Anetra] I beat Jax in Lalaparuza,
and regardless if I'm branded a lip sync assassin or not,
I know what I bring to the table.
The only reason some of the girls
might not see me as a lip sync assassin
is because I've never landed in the bottom and had to lip sync.
You can't deny how fierce I've been.
Point blank. Period.
[Loosey] I think the Lalaparuza showed who are the front runners
of this competition.
Right now, I'm feeling hopeful.
Ow.
But we're getting down to the nitty gritty,
and it's hard.
Jax is gone, and I can definitely feel her absence in the room.
At this point in the competition, it's very much survival of the fittest.
- Rolling on Jax's pack up. - Copy.
[sighs]
[somber music]
This is not the part I was excited for.
It's only fitting that the lip syncing,
dancing diva goes home on a lip-syncing episode.
I'm very thankful
that I got to show off some of what Jax is,
but I had so much more to show,
and I would definitely still...
love to be here another day to slay.
My biggest disappointment in myself
is that I was really in my head
and not able to fully let go of myself.
Getting the critiques from Michelle and Ru,
now I know things that I have to work on
and just incorporate into my everyday repertoire
that can just really make me
the best version of myself.
Who left a cute little note for me?
Oh. It's Miss EsTitties.
[sighs]
"Miss Jaxon, bitch, my POC sister.
Bitch, from the moment you walked in,
I was so grateful to get to share
this experience with you.
I get you. You get me.
Stop any self-doubt, any insecurities,
any feelings you have, feel them and let them go.
Xoxo, Salina EsTitties."
I love her so much. I'm gonna miss her a lot.
My advice to any baby queens trying to get into drag,
in general, is just to let go,
have fun, and just do what brings you joy,
and what brings me joy is performing,
and I'm not gonna stop that anytime soon.
Oh, my gosh.
Goodbye.
Oh, I'm gonna miss this place.
Bye.
[upbeat music]
I am absolutely proud of what I've done.
The only thing I would have changed
throughout this competition is just
to let myself get stupid in other aspects of drag
the way that I do when I perform.
But I'm just gonna keep getting better
because I love to grow and I love to challenge myself.
Even though I'm known as a high-energy dancing queen,
I'm so much more than that.
All right. The MVP is back to NYC.
Let's go.
Eh.
[RuPaul's "A Little Bit of Love"]
[singing] ♪ A little bit of love ♪
♪ Goes a long, long way ♪
♪ Lifting you up to a brighter day ♪
♪ A little bit of love goes a long, long way ♪
♪ Turn it around when you up and say ♪
♪ Everybody say love, love, love ♪
♪ Love, oh, love, love ♪
♪ Love, love, love, oh, love, love ♪
♪ Love, can you feel the love? ♪