'Drag Race' queens clap back at shady Emmy allegation from Hollywood Reporter journalist
| 09/16/24
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It's giving, "Oh no she better don't."
The queens from 'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 16 attending the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.Amy Sussman/Getty ImagesMama, kudos.
The cast of RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 attended the Primetime Emmy Awards on the evening of Sunday, September 15 to celebrate the series' eight nominations. The drag competition show didn't end up snatching any trophies, but a separate, confusing claim from an on-location reporter was the reason why the queens actually felt riled up during the ceremony.
Around 8:59 p.m. ET, Chris Gardner, a senior staff writer from The Hollywood Reporter, shared a video of the Drag Race queens seemingly leaving their seats and wrote the following X post:
"After five wins, RuPaul’s Drag Race loses for best reality competition to The Traitors. After the category was announced the team from Drag Race (including all the queens) cleared out and headed to the lobby."
The first queen to respond to the reporter's allegation was Plane Jane, who wrote:
"It was a commercial break and the girls wanted a drink. We all stayed until the end of the ceremony. Take your pseudo journalism elsewhere."
Plasma chimed in, saying, "Babe, this was on the commercial brake 10 minutes after the award??? Why are you trying to stir controversy?"
"It was a commercial break," Amanda Tori Meating responded. "Are we allowed to go piss, girl?"
Megami also shared her reaction to the reporter's claim:
"Leaving out the context that it was a commercial break and we went to get drinks in the lobby, but were there the entire night… So…"
"Screaming," Plasma wrote. "We were literally hitting the bar to toast to a spectacular season of television despite not winning ANOTHER Emmy for our show [heart emoji] [sparkle emoji]."
Morphine Love Dion replied to the X post:
"B*tch we just LOST. This isn't a pageant, let a b*tch untuck and get her tequila the f*ck??"
One of the Miss Congeniality winners of Drag Race season 16, Xunami Muse, wrote an even more thoughtful response to the original X post:
"You know, it's so interesting for me to experience these sort of situations where people, for the purpose of creating discourse online, which seems like a form of currency in this new age, will log in to create a scenario that satisfies their fantasy. Cuz all we did was go get a cocktail during a commercial break like a lot of others do. Mind you all of production and the cast stayed till the end, to support the academy. It's just what you do when you have manners. Not only that, we were waiting for the invite only after party for Emmy nominees. So I would like to know exactly what is the point of this made up scenario. Hope you got the followers that you so desperately seek."
To be clear, the reporter did share a subsequent X post — about an hour and 10 minutes after the original post — that featured a video of the Drag Race queens still being present in the ceremony.
"RuPauls Drag Race team (and friends) are still here," the journalist wrote.
