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- Reporting live from "Untucked."
Let's do this, honey.
- We're about to give it to 'em, bitch.
- Give it.
- A little bit of rating, a little bit of shade.
- Season 18...
[together] "Untucked."
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- This is "Untucked."
- We're live, loud, and in color, darling.
- Time to go behind the scenes with the queens of season 18.
- Damn! - Hey!
- 'Cause, honey, if you're not watching "Untucked"...
- There's gonna be a lot of tears.
- I hope so. - I can't go home.
- You're only getting half the story.
- You are a fake bitch. I can see right through you.
- Time to go.
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- Ten minutes, everybody.
- Do you hear us? - [grunting]
[plastic crackling] - [chuckles]
That's awesome.
- The sweat is gonna be accumulated under this.
- Girl, I'm already dripping.
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- You know you want a lick, bitch.
It is almost time to walk the runway.
I think my look turned out fierce.
Also, today the judges are gonna
watch our political ads,
and I was completely in my head about it.
But Discord grounded me. We overcame.
And I genuinely appreciate her
so much for pulling me through.
- Darlene, my rival sister of the week.
- X-ray sisters. We about to duke it out.
- [laughing] Fuck.
Darling, I don't care what anybody says about you.
You are OK in my book.
[laughter]
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[plastic crackling]
- Can't sneak up on nobody in this.
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- I think my performance, it was an improvement
from the last acting challenge.
However, I knew that I didn't do everything I wanted to do,
so I'm not feeling so sure about this.
- We haven't had the chance to talk.
I was already spiraling this morning.
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- Thank you, queens. I think we've heard enough.
While you untuck backstage,
the judges and I will deliberate.
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- We work well in teams. - We do, yeah.
- We did it, bitch. First time getting...
- Let's just do team challenges...
- Every time.
- Positive critiques on the runway.
They liked the look.
They liked the performance.
I--I'm gonna enjoy this cocktail.
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- Oh. Hi.
- Darlene, put your body down, girl.
Just stop relying on that body, Darlene.
- Well, damn.
Shit just got real, honey.
I recently won the talent show.
But, bitch, walking into "Untucked,"
I am gags.
I might be in the bottom this week,
so for now, I'm just gonna eat these snacks.
- [gasps] - Guys.
- Is there mozzarella sticks?
- I'm like shaking. I'm like shaking right now.
- Are you actually creaming right now?
- See, I'm-- I'm ranching right now.
- [laughs]
- Can we sit down like a family, please?
- [laughs]
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- OK, y'all.
Let's get down to brass tacks. How we feeling?
- Myki, I just want a-- girl, Ms. Stephanie.
- Oh, Ms. Stephanie Miller. - Yeah, Ms. Stephanie Miller.
- That's what it feels like to get a positive critique.
This feels lovely.
- You knew exactly what you wanted to do.
It absolutely paid off. It was just funny.
- Coming from last week being placed in the bottom,
not by the judges, but--
- Ooh! [laughs]
- I'm very proud of myself.
I want to continue down this path and keep succeeding.
- Yeah, and also, Ms. Jane got the complement--
- Jane, honey.
- Bitch giving us a master class yet again,
bitch, on how to fucking do it.
- I feel like I'm kind of reading Darlene because
I'm supposed to be a clown, but all I that kind of did
was go, Darlene, you got any stuff?
The shoes, the banana. - The banana.
- The dice, the wig. - The nose.
- I feel like you got a separate list
that nobody else did.
Darlene's like, you never know when
you're gonna need a fishbowl.
Who knows when you're gonna need your little hat
with a propeller on it.
Throw it in the bag.
- Also, Nini and Discord, I was like, damn, bitch,
another good one. I was like fuck
- Yeah. - Somebody do bad.
- Somebody did. [laughs]
- I have to be so honest, I was probably
the most nervous for the two of you,
just because I think of everybody
in the competition.
I think both of you are maybe sort of the most,
kind of, like, serious. You're both kind of cerebral.
You're both are kind of like--
you're like, watching what's happening.
- I was really excited for this challenge
because I know, like, that that side of me exists.
- Doing drag on a budget. Date a sister.
- And it's like I haven't been able to, like,
portray that loudly, and I knew that this
was a specific challenge that I would be able
to, like, not just surprise the judges,
but kind of, like, surprise everybody as well.
And I'm so happy with how it turned out.
- Discord kind of surprised me.
I'm like, where is this bitch pulling out all this stuff?
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Where did y'all find these girls?
Why is everybody this good? Why?
- Darlene, I want to give you the tens.
- Thank you.
- So I may not have gotten proposition double Ds,
but I'm actually really happy
that I ended up with proposition
social media queens, because I feel like
that really worked in my favor.
- Darlene, I'm very proud of you.
Darlene... - Thank you.
- You body slammed the dog shit out of me.
And, bitch, it is what it is.
- In retrospect, is there any buyer's remorse
now that you got the part that you wanted?
- Honestly, I feel like it probably would
have been the same position.
Because this was a challenge that I struggled in,
and I feel like no matter what scene I would have gotten,
I probably would have still been in the same headspace.
Like, this one was a little tough for me,
and I do feel like I wasn't a supportive partner for Juicy.
- Girl, it was tough for both of us, mama.
- I mean, we had such a good week two weeks ago, you know,
when we had to lip-sync for the win.
And it just would break my heart
to have to lip-sync against each other
in just a different way.
You know what I mean?
- I feel like I didn't get the best critiques either.
I should have elaborated on, you know, the difference
between a drag performer in the club
versus, you know, an online social media queen.
- You've got to deconstruct what this proposition
really is all about.
- I don't want to be a Debbie Downer
and open up right now, but I am petrified.
- But since y'all named about some bottoms,
girl, now who do you think is gonna
snatch the win this week?
- Oh, so many people were good.
- Well, it's Jane, Darlene--
- And Myki for me. - Yeah.
Top three.
- All three of your performances were so good.
- They had something different to say to each of you,
and you both offered something so different.
So I don't know either.
- Well, do we think they're doing groups or individual?
I don't think they're judging as pairs.
- No.
- I think it's gonna be individuals
'cause I really do think there's probably--
I don't see a duo they're gonna put in the bottom, to me.
If you had to choose two bottoms,
who are your two bottoms? - Based on the critique?
- Based off of-- yeah, on the critique.
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- I don't--
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- Not everyone at once.
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- I did not think that this
is where today was going.
To see some of the strongest competitors
here in the bottom at this point in the competition
is shocking.
I know that whatever happens after this,
everyone is going to be devastated.
There's no good end to this.
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- [slurps]
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- I hate to say it.
I don't want to go against my baby niece,
but I feel like me and Juicy,
as the collective,
we did have the worst critiques.
- I would agree with that.
- I do think Juicy's got
resounding praise for her runway.
- You need to walk the Met Gala red carpet
in this look.
- So that might be a deciding factor.
- That's the wild card.
- But Juicy, I do think the--
you had the biggest critiques on the political ad.
It's just a tie-- it's really I have no idea
where they will go with this. - Yeah.
- I have no idea. - It's really, really hard.
- I feel like Vita got negative critiques
unless I'm, like, way off base.
- No, I think that's accurate.
- Vita, out of everybody who could be in the bottom
is the girl who I have been the absolute closest to.
Like, Vita is somebody who's going to be a lifelong friend,
and to not have that rock in this competition
anymore would be really heavy.
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- What's going on in your little head--
pretty little head? - Don't ask me that question.
- That pretty little head.
- What's going on in that little loofah you got on?
- Well-- - [chuckles]
- Yeah, there's--I mean, I try not to talk too much.
I don't want to cry again.
So, yeah, I'm just gonna prepare
the best way I know how,
and if it is my turn, then it's my turn.
And I'm gonna do my best, and that's about it.
- Juicy is stressed.
Juicy is giving me stressed energy,
and that does not make me feel comfortable.
I don't like to see my girls stressing out,
especially when I'm in a position that I can't help her.
- This sucks.
It's only getting harder.
- Top ten, honey. - Top ten, girl.
Ugh.
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- Girl, we were all there for the same critiques, girl.
- We were all there.
- I heard their critiques, and I was like, oh,
100%, like, you could win.
I don't get why, when they hear our critiques,
they just, like, don't see it.
It's like they just take whatever
they were assuming was happening.
- We got resounding critiques about our runways.
- I feel like it's another Met Gala moment.
This is gorgeous.
- The reveal of the makeup and the face was just fantastic.
- And our performance.
- Yeah, I heard that we had the best, like, pairing.
- Group, yes. That's what I heard.
- So I was like, if it's a team win.
- Oh, we ate it. We ate it.
- You two had a great duo, and I really enjoyed it.
- Thank you so much. - Good job.
- The not funny girl. - Yeah, I know.
- For people who are on, like, opposite ends of, like,
the drag, like, aesthetic spectrum,
our brains work, like, suspiciously similarly.
- Yeah. - I had so much fun.
- I'm rooting for you for this win.
It's well deserved.
You were a superstar in this week's challenge.
Like, there were a few stars, but you were a superstar.
Like-- - Wow, thank you.
Vita voted me last in Rate a Queen.
That really hurt me.
But I'm over it.
She was playing a strategic game.
Vita is a professional,
and I think she's getting to the end
in this competition.
- If you have to lip-sync, do you feel confident with it?
- I do. - OK, that's all that matters.
But I don't want to see you there
'cause I don't personally think you deserve that.
- I don't want to. - No.
- You just never know. - Yeah.
- Like, so right now, it's just like a ball
thrown up in the air, and it's just like wherever it lands.
- Well, I'm on your side. I'm rooting for you.
- Thank you. - Yes.
I don't want to see you in the bottom two.
- Mwah. - You got this, baby.
You got this. - All right, thank you.
- Yes.
- Hello, baby. Hi, Miss girl.
- Hello. - Mwah.
- Oh, wait.
She doesn't have a close-up. - Got the Polaroid out.
- [laughs]
- One, two, three.
- Actually, that's kind of a serve
with the cameras behind you.
- I think Vita is probably safe.
- Yeah. - I hope so.
- I don't know which way it's gonna go.
- If I could ask a question...
- Sure. - Who is leaving tonight?
- Oh, we're out. - I mean, who would you think?
- I don't know.
- I don't even--
I think it's gonna really come down
to who's in the bottom.
I will say, if Mia is in the bottom,
I do kind of fear for whoever's down there with her.
- That's what I'm thinking too.
- Especially after that lip sync with her and Juicy.
I'm kind of like, so... - Yeah.
- Don't find-- don't find yourself
in a cage match with... - Either of them.
- With Mia. - Yeah.
- I don't want lip-sync against any of them.
All the people, all like...
- It's like everyone in the bottom this week
is like, it's fucking terrible.
- Are my, like, hearts, hearts. - I know.
And I love you so much, and I don't want it to be--
and I just don't want this to happen right now.
- Next time... - We know what to do.
- That we have an idea.
- Maybe it should have gone banjee
instead of environmentalists.
- And maybe I should have shown my tits.
- Yeah, maybe you should have showed your tits.
- You're stunning. - You're stunning.
[both moaning]
- But I'm gonna listen to the song.
- Yeah, I'll do the same.
- South Florida represent, mother fucka.
- Yo. - Bah.
[upbeat music]
- Hello, everybody out there in "Untucked" land,
this is your girl Athena Dion over here
at the snack counter of "Untucked."
I'm going in for a peach ring.
These seem to be a fan favorite this season on "Drag Race."
Mmm.
And for good reason, because these are fucking delicious.
Are there calories in this?
No. No calories.
I'm gonna take another one for the road.
- I know we've said this 1,000 times over,
but these bitches here...
- Me in the middle.
- Like this is a-- - Fucking bitches.
- Yes, these a fierce group of entertainers, performers,
like, if you came in thinking you can broke the house down,
bitch, it's five other people who could do it too.
If you came in thinking you a funny bitch,
OK, it's six other funny bitches here.
This was definitely the challenge for me.
- Well, from somebody looking from the outside,
I feel like you're safe.
Like, they just see something different in you.
You know what I mean? - I'm glad you told me that.
But that's not the way I hear stuff.
- You're that bitch. Like you--
whether or not you tell it to yourself enough,
you are that bitch. - Thank you.
- I don't think my time here is done.
I just want to stay.
I'ma fight. You know what I mean?
Like, that's one thing I do know how to do, bitch.
- I believe you. - You know? So...
- Not just on stage either.
[laughter]
- You hear that, hos?
Y'all better tip when you come to the show, OK?
- I believe that, offstage--
offstage, I know this one could beat a bitch up.
[laughter]
- Am I on this fucking wall at all?
- No you gotta get some photos.
- Why has nobody taken a picture of me?
- Oh, RIP.
- I love this makeup right here.
- Get me on there. - I--
- I don't want to be forgotten.
- How would you feel about it-- us lip-syncing again?
- Obviously, like, that's a possibility
and it's killing me.
But if we can do it before, we can do it again.
I don't know what the probability is
of it happening again, but let's make it undeniable
between the two of us.
- I love you.
Should we do the "Slave" choreography?
- Right now?
If it's me and Mia tonight in the bottom,
we're just gonna give them a show
and do the "Slave 4 U" choreography
in a certain part and make sure
that we leave it all on the floor
and whatever happens happens.
- Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Oh! - OK. OK. OK.
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- Ladies, congratulations to the tops.
- Whoo!
- Good luck to whoever ends up in the bottom.
May the force be with you, and just dance
like you've never danced before, Houdini.
- Thank you.
- And they're all in the mirror.
- Oh. - They're not listening.
- They don't give a fuck.
Thank you, fairy-- - Good luck!
- They're gonna do group choreo?
Is that allowed? Is that allowed?
- It's gonna be a double shantay?
- Girl. Another one?
She's gonna be like, uh, yeah, so winner,
give me that $5,000 back.
I gotta split it against 'em again.
- The first time in "Drag Race" herstory,
the losers are actually gonna be crowned winners now.
♪ ♪
My dear.
I'll let you go, but...
- It's not silent outfit. - Love you.
- This competition is so unpredictable.
Even though I have been doing good,
I could be lip-syncing tonight.
Please, God, don't let it be me.
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♪ ♪
- Oh, I can't put my shoe-- why is this moving so quickly?
Is there brakes on this thing?
[screams] [laughter]
It doesn't stop.
It's literally got a mind of its own.
- If I got one thing out of here,
this is my prize. - Girl.
A whole plate of food?
- Come on, Yaya. - Oh!
- Athena, you're gonna-- you're gonna break yourself.
- Somebody get my shoes. - Girl.
[tense music]
Welcome back, queens.
I've made some decisions.
♪ ♪
Myki Meeks, condragulations.
You're the winner of this week's challenge.
- Whoa.
- Yes, queen. - [laughs]
- Juicy, Vita, I'm sorry, my dears,
but you are both up for elimination.
♪ ♪
- The time has come for you
to Lip Sync for Your Life.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Juicy Love Dion, shantay, you stay.
♪ ♪
Vita VonTesse Starr,
you've made Mama Ru
and Montgomery, Alabama very proud.
Now sashay away.
[soft dramatic music]
- [sighs] Final words.
Vita, Vita, Vita.
[together] You know you want to eat her!
[laughter]
- I love y'all.
- I love you, girl. - I love you, Vita.
- [sighs]
It's definitely a shocker
that I'm eliminated this early on in the competition.
However, I feel like there's a purpose behind everything.
♪ ♪
Oh!
Ooh!
Ooh.
Oh, wow.
[dramatic music]
- You want water? - I just want room.
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
♪
- Walking into this competition,
I did, in fact, feel like I didn't have anybody.
I was all alone. I was doing everything alone.
But now I have a real sisterhood.
They're my heart.
[bright music]
♪ ♪
This beautiful experience
meant the world to me.
♪ ♪
[RuPaul's "Good Luck and Don't F%k It Up"]
- ♪ Good luck and don't, good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck and don't ever, good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck and don't, good luck, baby ♪
♪ Good luck and don't ever, good luck ♪
♪ Give yourself permission ♪
♪ To take the script and flip it ♪
♪ Give yourself permission ♪
♪ To take the scrip and flip it ♪
♪ 'Cause you're not like other bitches ♪
♪ Show me something different. ♪