“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” Season 10 Reveals Queens Before May Premiere!

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 10 has revealed the 18 Queens who will compete for the chance to be inducted into the Drag Race Hall of Fame and win a whopping $200,000 prize.

Having 18 contestants is the largest number of Queens in an All Stars season yet. Fans were wondering how the show would cover all of them, and it turns out the upcoming season will be changing up some of the rules to accomplish that. The contestants have been divided into three teams (Variety). We have Team Purple, Team Orange, and Team Pink. Each team has 6 members.

The show will begin by having the contestants on each Team face off with each other for three episodes. After that, the top three Queens will move to the semi-finals. The semi-finalists will compete for two more episodes, with the competition building towards a Lip Sync Smackdown for the Crown. 

While I understand the series wanting to change things up, I’m currently a bit disappointed with how they went about doing so. From my understanding, it feels like most Queens won’t ever get to compete directly with each other. That itself could lead to the fandom theorizing how certain contestants would have performed if the brackets had different Queens in them. It could also lead to certain “wins” being considered a bit undeserved. I’m just saying because the Drag Race fandom can get quite messy online.

I have my fingers crossed that the Queens still share a workspace (to allow for some fun banter) instead of keeping each Team separate until it’s time for the “winners” to start competing with those outside their brackets. We will find out soon enough.

Anyway, here’s the breakdown of the teams!

Team Purple

• Acid Betty (Season 8, 8th Place)
• Alyssa Hunter (Season 14, 13th Place)
• Cynthia Lee Fontaine (Season 8, 10th Place; Season 9, 10th Place)
• Daya Betty (Season 14, 3rd Place)
• Denali (Season 13, 8th Place)
• Ginger Minj (Season 7, Runner-up; All Stars 2, 8th Place; All Stars 6, Runner-up)

Team Orange

• Aja (Season 9, 9th Place; All Stars 3, 7th Place)
• Bosco (Season 14, 3rd Place)
• Deja Skye (Season 14, 6th Place)
• Irene the Alien (Season 15, 16th Place)
• Olivia Lux (Season 13, 5th Place)
• Phoenix (Season 3, 12th Place)

Team Pink

• Jorgeous (Season 14, 6th Place; All Stars 9, 4th Place)
• Kerri Colby (Season 14, 9th Place)
• Lydia B Kollins (Season 17, 7th Place)
• Mistress Isabelle Brooks (Season 15, 3rd Place)
• Nicole Paige Brooks (Season 2, 11th Place)
• Tina Burner (Season 13, 7th Place)

Sharing a couple of opinions about the cast, I’m excited to see Jorgeous coming back for the 10th outing right after participating in the All Stars 9. She’s one of RuPaul’s favorite Queens. So, it will be interesting how that will play out this time around. 

And I can’t with Lydia B Kollins already being in All Stars when RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17 just aired the finale on April 18, 2025, with Onya Nurve being crowned the winner. I guess Lydia B Kollins didn’t want to take even a little bit of a break. 

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 10 will get a two-episode premiere on Paramount+ come May 9, 2025, at 12 AM ET, 9 AM PT.

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Are you excited about RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 10? What do you think of the new rules?

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Author: Farid-ul-Haq

Farid has a Double Masters in Psychology and Biotechnology as well as an M.Phil in Molecular Genetics. He is the author of numerous books including Missing in Somerville, and The Game Master of Somerville. He gives us insight into comics, books, TV shows, anime/manga, video games, and movies.

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