RuPaul Wins Historic Seventh Consecutive Emmy Award

RuPaul continues Emmys streak as the Black artist with the most awards in history with Outstanding Host award. For the seventh consecutive year, the RuPaul's Drag Race star has won the Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program, beating out other stars who lead the casts for Nailed It!, Making It, Queer Eye, Shark Tank, and Top Chef.

In winning the award, RuPaul extends his reign as the most-decorated Black artist in Emmys history, with 12 trophies to his name so far, as EW writes. He also won his first Tony Award in June for producing the stage production A Strange Loop, meaning he's only two trophies shy of an EGOT [an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award winner].

There is another opportunity to win an award at September 12's Primetime Emmys ceremony, with RuPaul's Drag Race in the Outstanding Competition Program category – a prize the show has won every year since 2018. In total, the Drag Race franchise has earned 11 Emmy nods in 2022, including a first-time nomination for judge Michelle Visage's companion show Whatcha Packin?

Season 14 saw Willow Pill crowned winner, making her the first trans winner of a main season of the American franchise of Drag Race since the show's 2009 debut. Kylie Sonique Love – who first came out on season 2 – previously became the US edition's first trans winner when she won All Stars 6 in 2021.

“I think the show will never be the same again,” season 14 contestant Kerri Colby recently said of her installment's impact after five trans queens, the most in the show's history, competed for the newly increased $150,000 (£130,000) cash prize at the same time. “I'm so excited for us to see, going into the future, instead of trying to hype things up for a political moment or a tabloid statement, now you're going to get to see representation at its finest, giving what it's supposed to give, without the pressure of narratives that get put with it.”

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