What was that coronation moment like last night? ![]() Now that he’s the Season Eight winner-in addition to the prize money, an AXE “ Find Your Magic” commercial that celebrates all different kinds of masculinity will feature his winning moment-we chatted with Bob the Drag Queen about his victory, where he gets his confidence, his first experiences doing drag, and what it’s like to have even RuPaul himself going “purse first.” He’s watched every single episode, and has said that watching the first season is part of what inspired him to start doing drag. They always say it’s ‘the Olympics of drag, bring your A-game every time,’ and then I brought my A-game and they were like, ‘This is too much,’” Caldwell says.Īnd Caldwell knows his Drag Race history. “That was interesting because on Drag Race they ask you to bring your best drag. That confidence was both the greatest asset and, at least according to the judges, the only weakness of Caldwell’s, with judge Michelle Visage warning him against “showboating” during one challenge where his level of performance was stilettos above the competition. “I thought I was going to win Drag Race before I was even cast.” After I laugh, he interrupts: “I’m not even being funny. “When I got the phone call that I was going to be on Drag Race I thought I was going to win,” he says. ![]() The fact of the matter is that even Bob the Drag Queen knew that Bob the Drag Queen was going to win. “We all knew Bob was gonna win,” Kim Chi, the other runner-up, said. “We were backstage being like, ‘Bitch, we already know what’s going to happen,’” Naomi Smalls, one of the two runner-ups, joked to the crowd. Even at New York City’s finale party, where the winner was crowned and the top six Season Eight queens performed, Caldwell’s competition admitted that even they knew it was always going to Bob. As any Drag Race-obsessed fan will tell you-and with Drag Race, there is no other kind of fan-Bob the Drag Queen’s eventual victory was foretold from the first day of competition, where he emerged early and clearly as the frontrunner and never faltered.
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