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Reporting live from "Untucked."
Let's do this, honey.
- We're about to give it to them, bitch.
- Give it. - A little bit of reading.
A little bit of shade.
- Season 18 "Untucked."
- This is "Untucked."
- We're live, loud, and in color, darling.
- Time to go behind the scenes with the queens of season 18.
[all cheering]
'Cause, honey, if you're not watching "Untucked"--
- There's going to be a lot of tears.
- I hope so. - I can't go home.
- you're only getting half the story.
- Anything can happen.
- Love you, "Untucked."
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♪ ♪
No hot dogs or hamburgers to be found.
- No hot dogs or hamburgers here, ladies and gentlemen.
- Ooh, we got the meat.
- We're getting ready for the runway,
and I feel absolutely stunning, gorgeous, and regal.
And then we have the talent show.
I'm actually feeling pretty good,
because I feel like what I have stands out
among the pack.
- People of the universe, I hope
that you are shining like the bright stars that you are.
Just know that I will always shine brighter.
- Ah!
Ah-ha.
Reading the audience.
- I cannot tell you how many secrets lay within
this beautiful, beautiful wig.
She's got everything in here.
♪ ♪
- I'm out of breath.
This is heavy.
God.
♪ ♪
- Welcome to part one of the Rate-a-Queen Talent Show.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
Tonight, Rate-a-Queen rules are in full effect.
There will be no judges' critiques.
Instead, the queens that watched
will rank the performing queens.
While y'all rate a queen backstage, the judges
and I will hallucinate.
- OK. [laughter]
- You may leave the stage.
[dramatic music]
- Hi, girl.
[upbeat music]
- Oh, "Untucked," I freaking missed you.
- Oh, my goodness.
- One, two, lift those legs.
"Dancing with the Stars," I did that.
- Hey.
- Walking into "Untucked" after the talent show,
I feel so good.
To see the reaction from my sisters, it blew my mind.
I feel great.
- Where could Mia be?
Oh, Mia, where are you?
- We're at the snack station.
- Get my name out your mouth, OK?
- Keep popcorn out of your mouth, bitch.
- Get my back off your back, OK?
- Well, congrats to the ladies.
- Congrats, divas.
- You're so good.
- Good job, everybody.
- It was so nice to be able to, like, watch drag.
- I wish that I had cash.
- This was the best drag show I've seen in a while.
- And you, bitch, came out crazy.
- ♪ Crown-crown me queen ♪
♪ Miss M-I-A, I been a star ♪
♪ Got two big titties stuff-- ♪
- I think we just said that Mia needs a little bit
more padding, right?
- Yeah. [laughter]
- And that's hard to shake ass in when
you're fully padded, too.
So fucking. - All right.
Model it.
Model it for us.
- Yes!
- Oh!
all: Whoa!
- Yeah!
all: Whoa!
[laughter]
- Damn.
What's all that movement?
- Hey, hey!
- Hey!
- Oh, these titties are so fucking heavy, bitch.
- [laughs]
- This video game Juicy was sickening.
- What was the inspiration for the performance?
- Oh, one time, one of my titis had told me
that when I was performing, it looks like someone's
like, using a remote control and just like,
playing me backstage.
And so I just had that in my head.
And I play a lot of video games in my downtime.
- That was just the coolest thing.
- Thank you.
- You are incredible.
- You too, bitch.
- Miss Darlene.
- Darlene.
- How many high notes are you going to hit this season?
- I need a screw-wee!
- Where did the idea come from?
- Me and my fiancé, we like are constantly crafting
and building shit, and you know, we're just like busy
in our house all the time.
So when it came to thinking of, like, a talent,
like, that's something that I do really consider my talent,
you know what I mean?
Is that, like, I'm always busy with my hands
and crafting and building.
And so I was like-- - Ooh!
- Darlene the builder, bitch.
- She is on the job and horny.
- You're mine, honey.
- I think I was asking Ciara earlier,
how did it feel to open the show,
like, first one out there?
Was it a little nerve-racking, were you shivering, shaking?
What was going on?
- Like, to start out the talent show overall
and say, I hate myself today, is
kind of a strange thing to do.
I hate myself today, this nothing I've become.
I contemplated a lot in prepping for this on, like,
what type of talent to bring, and about
a year before coming here, I lost
my drag sister to depression.
And she harbored a lot of darkness.
And for people who are trans or on a journey of figuring that
out, the country has not made itself a very
safe place for those people.
And to get the call that I lost my sister, it was so hard.
And, like, one of the hardest things about that whole process
was, I was asked to put her in makeup
so she could be buried how she wanted to be seen by the world.
[somber music]
And she was fierce.
She was always fierce.
And I wish that I could have reminded her how
special she was more often.
- Well, I'm sure you made her proud today, sister.
- Thank you. - And I think you did
her justice today. - Thank you.
- And thank you for sharing that with all of us,
because I think it's a reminder that we forget that we
all need sometimes, truly.
So thank you.
- I wanted to, for anybody who feels stuck, who doesn't know
that they are a butterfly in the making,
to know that, like, there is a light, but the process
of getting there is hard, and we lose so many
great people along the way.
So I decided that I needed, regardless of, like,
how it was received or how people,
whether it's fierce cunty or whatever, I was like,
I don't care about that.
- I could have done something else.
I could have done the silly, sexy, stupid
thing that I do at home.
But I wanted to do this, regardless
of how it was received.
And I feel great about the performance and the emotion
that I gave.
But at the same time, the stakes of today are so high,
and I can't shake that feeling that maybe these girls are not
going to vote this in the top.
- Can I give you a hug? - Yeah.
Thank you.
I love you, Darlene.
- That was really beautiful.
- Thank you, honey.
[sobbing]
- It feels like we're all waiting
for, like, the ball to drop.
- Right.
- And it's not the most comfortable feeling.
- At all.
- Yeah, why do we have to vote?
- Yeah, it's, like, not sitting well, I think, with any of us
at this moment. - Yeah.
- And we're really dreading this right now.
It's not good. - I mean, look.
It's the game.
It's what we're being asked to do.
- Yeah. - And here's the thing.
I still feel like at the end of the day,
it's what we're being asked to do,
but it does not feel nice to know the work and the energy
and the effort that everybody put in,
and feel like now I have to, like, go and sit there
and, like, pick it apart.
I don't think anybody did badly.
- Yeah.
- Yet again, here we are.
- And the runway didn't help.
- And the runways were all strong, so it
just feels a little stressful.
- Yeah.
So let's say, for instance, we thought two people were
on the same playing field.
Are we going to use the runway as a tiebreaker or--
- Absolutely, absolutely. - OK.
- I think you kind of have to.
- At this point, when you're this close,
it comes down to splitting hairs.
And the runway is going to be the deciding factor
when it comes to voting. - Mm-hmm.
- Is track record also going to come into play?
- No.
- I don't think it should right now.
- OK. Perfect.
- Honestly.
- I think it'd be cool if it did.
I think it'd be cool.
- I think it should.
- Of course you would.
- I don't think it should.
I don't fucking-- I don't think it fucking should.
- I think we should.
[laughter] - I don't think so.
It needs to be now.
It comes down to execution day of.
So that's what we're looking out for.
I think it's easier for a friend to be like, sister,
I love you tonight. - Right.
- People, you got-- you weren't bad.
You got outdone. - Right.
- I think that's easier to swallow
than, bitch, you were bad.
I don't like you and I don't know you.
- Right. - I don't think it's going to
stop people's feelings from being hurt,
though, at the end of the day.
- I mean, feelings are going to be hurt no matter what.
So girl, we have to-- we have to prepare ourselves for that.
- I might go to rubrics for performance.
I think of, like, having a big PIPE.
- Like, PVC?
- Presence, Impact, Point of view, and Energy.
[together] Oh.
- OK.
- So it's about how your-- your presentation
translates to an audience.
Did you have the presence to get the attention?
Did you have the impact to keep them there?
Was your point of view clear and was it
energized the entire time?
- Oh, word.
- Are you singing a big PIPE? - [laughs]
- Someone has to be ranked first.
Someone has to be ranked last.
Like, it just is the game.
- Bitch, I'm scared.
I don't want to rate these girls.
I do not want to rate these girls.
And I hate it.
Bitch, I hate it.
I literally hate that I have to fucking rate these girls.
It's, like, driving me crazy.
I just--
[quirky music]
Who are you talking to?
- Oh, my god.
Who is this?
Oh, bitch, I am painted.
- You are painted shit.
Great. - Girl.
We're about to talk--
- Hold on.
Where are you going? - Oh.
- No. We're going to leave this on.
- We're going to leave it on.
Who do you think did the worst?
- Did the worst?
I don't think anybody did-- - Nobody did bad.
- bad.
- From my liking, I really--
I didn't really care for Darlene's.
- Really?
And who else?
- [giggles] Bye.
- What are you feeling?
- I'm feeling concerned, just in general.
I think, like, I am also, like, emotionally
in an interesting place.
Just like-- - Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't-- like, I was receiving the number,
and it was very impactful.
But I wasn't aware of the backstory either.
- Yeah.
Everybody will vote how they want to vote.
So I don't know.
- Yeah, I'm just--
- It's just a little uneasy.
- I know earlier we talked about protecting glam--
Because if we split ourselves up, in the two weeks,
we can support each other for time placements each week.
- Oh, my god.
We have the numbers.
- We do have the numbers.
- I wasn't trying to, like, mastermind everybody
by any means, but I was like, it is--
- It's the one chance in the competition.
- Yeah, that we know of, that we're
able to influence anything.
- Yeah.
- To be honest, like, I cannot imagine myself being
in the bottom for that runway, because I feel
like that is like one of the most beautiful
things in my package. - Well, yeah, of course.
You're doing the Darlene thing where you hit the stage
and you're like, I just won.
[laughter] - Yeah!
Yeah, but I might go home.
- You're like-- you're like, I guess they just start
listening to the music, which is
crazy because I am the winner.
You were walking in a way where I was like, oh,
Darlene is feeling [indistinct] bitch.
- Crossover.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1--
I think I did pretty damn good in my talent.
Because it shows another extension of myself,
but I do have some concerns about the other girls.
I don't mind judging one another, however,
are you going to judge fairly?
Because I know that there are some alliances already formed,
so that's going to put you at a greater
advantage than the person who actually turned the talent.
I'm trying to think, like, if we just watched it on stage
and immediately to voting, and I didn't
get to hear that story, and Ru didn't
get to hear that story, so like,
should I factor that into it?
- Well--
- I think that Ciara's talent has a lot of potential.
But I just feel like one minute to do a poem
about these really heavy topics is hard.
So I do think she's in trouble.
- So it's just going to come down to--
- You know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- Vita and I have a clear, unspoken bond,
and I'm going to do everything in my power to protect her.
Because I know the girls plan on voting her pretty low,
I am going to make sure that I place her high enough
to keep her safe.
- Do you think these hos are being fake?
- Yeah.
I think they are going to say one thing and do another.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
I heard whispers of things.
- Who's whispering?
What's-- what have we--
- I think it's, I mean, I did bring
a number that I've performed in the past and-- and done before.
They're going to judge it how they want to judge it.
And that's not up to me.
So you know, I'm prepared for however they're going to vote.
And I feel like I'm proud of what I did.
It seems like you feel proud of what you did.
And like, that's all we can fucking do.
- Yeah.
- And if we feel the voting is shady this week,
I personally could choose to vote shady next week.
- Yes.
- Voting girls, it's time to go.
- Oh, we gotta go vote?
- It's time to do a Rate-a-Queen.
As a goddess, I am used to this,
having mere mortals in the palm of my hand
and waiting for the right time to squish them.
- So how are you feeling you're going to put,
like-- place people?
- Family comes first, honey.
- Little nepotism in there.
- Blood is thicker than tequila.
And I'm sure the girls assume that.
- Goodbye.
We're off to vote. - All right.
Let's go vote.
- Are y'all even registered or what?
- Of course I'm registered.
- I don't have too many concerns about being
judged by the other queens.
I'm feeling great about my talent,
and I have a bit of an alliance.
I'll be OK.
But who the hell's going to be in the bottom?
I can't even tell you how this is going to go.
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♪ ♪
- What's the vibe?
- It looks like Mia is listening to the lip sync,
as she should, because it's a lip sync for the win.
- She tore that.
- Juicy also tore.
- Yes.
They also have the family pull.
They have the DeSantis vote, the Florida coalition.
- Yeah.
- So some girls may judge fairly.
Some girls may judge off of politics, or I favor you more,
I like you more.
You're my sister.
I know you from back around the way.
And I feel like all of that was unsaid.
But it'll play a part come the voting.
- Yeah.
- I just think that it's a lot that the girls aren't saying.
- Totally.
- Yeah.
You just don't know what's going to be truly
taken into consideration. - Yeah.
- Darlene, me, Nini, and Vita are the ones who need
to be mindful of our spot.
I feel like it might come down to me and Vita.
But it's possible the girls could throw Nini under the bus
just for being unoriginal.
Nothing is off the table.
Friendships, relationships, is there a thread on that outfit?
Did I think it was ugly?
Did I lend you a rhinestone tank top?
Any of it could determine the bottom placement.
- Did you get some insight into how they're voting?
- I think--
- Do you know it?
- Yeah, but you did a fucking karate chop.
You should fucking listen to it.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Oh, my god.
I just have this feeling that I'm not--
I think there's, like, alliances at play,
and that's what I'm feeling, but--
and that's how this could go.
I don't know.
- But you should be prepared.
- Yeah.
- Let's head out to the stage, ladies.
- Let's go.
- Now, get to screwing.
- Aisle 69.
That's where them screwdrivers and power drills are at.
- Juicy, we're leaving you. - Where are we going?
- We're going. - We're going going?
- Oh, we gotta go? - Yeah.
- Ah!
- I'm not sure how all of the group two girls
are going to vote, but I know that I have Jane and Athena
over there, so I hope that will land
me in the middle of the pack.
- Let's go, Mia.
- OK, bitch.
You see?
- Ooh, that's what I'm talking about, bitch.
You better walk it like a dog, walk it walk it like a dog.
- Ciara Myst, I'm sorry, my dear,
but the queens have rated you the bottom queen.
Next week, you will lip sync for your life.
Based on the Rate-a-Queen results, the top
two queens of the week are--
Juicy Love Dion and Mia Starr.
- The time has come for you to lip sync
for the win.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Queens, I've made my decision.
♪ ♪
Juicy Love Dion, Mia Starr, it's a tie.
[all screaming]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, my god.
- Girl - Oh, my fucking fuck.
- I love you. - I love you.
- We fucking did that
♪ ♪
- Landing in the bottom, that kind of sucks.
- Bitch, i was shitting
[laughs]
- Knowing that I could be up for elimination is scary.
But next week, the judgee becomes the judge.
♪ ♪
Yeah, good luck, and don't fuck it up.
- Whatever she says.
- That's going to go down in history.
- We can't walk too fast, I'm in heels now.
- Right, girl. - ♪ We made it ♪
both: ♪ We made it, we made it, we made it ♪
- Screw you!
- We just witnessed history being made.
- Her story.
- Honey.
Miami girls dominated week number one,
and they've earned the spots that I put them in.
But now we're rounding the corner,
and my turn is coming up.
- Her story made on that motherfucking stage, bitch.
They ate so severely, it was sickening.
Bitch, I'm full.
I'm well-fed.
It's never been seen before.
The queen, like, drag queens, never been--
- Oh!
- This is my niece.
- This is my titi, bitch. - Titi.
- And I'm so proud of doing this fucking shit with her.
- This is wild.
Miami baby, what's [inaudible], baby, Fort Lauderdale, baby.
We here for you, baby. - 305. 305. 305.
- ♪ Good luck and don't
♪ Good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck and don't F it up ♪
♪ Good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck, baby ♪
♪ Good luck and don't ever stop, oh, oh ♪
♪ Give yourself permission ♪
♪ Take the script and flip it ♪
♪ Give yourself permission ♪
♪ Take the script and flip it ♪
♪ 'Cause you're not like other bitches ♪
♪ Show me something different ♪