Trixie Mattel to Host ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 16 Recap Show ‘The Pit Stop’
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RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season three winner Trixie Mattel is returning as host of The Pit Stop. The aftershow will take place weekly to recap episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16.
Trixie Mattel Comes Back to Host ‘The Pit Stop’
For the weekly show, Mattel and a guest will review and recap each episode of season 16. The Pit Stop will stream on the RuPaul’s Drag Race YouTube channel every Saturday.
“Making snap judgments is my passion but I also love enduring characters that develop and grow (while dressed as women),” Mattel told Variety.
In the trailer of the upcoming season, a new plot twist is introduced. “Rate-A-Queen” will see contestants rank their fellow queen to from best to worst in the first Maxi challenge talent show. This will determine the tops and bottoms of the week.
As previously revealed, Drag Race will return to its 90-minute format this season. The cast of queens will include Amanda Tori Meating (Los Angeles, CA), Dawn (Brooklyn, NY), Geneva Karr (Brownsville, TX), Hershii LiqCour-Jeté (Los Angeles, CA), Megami (Brooklyn, NY), Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige (Miami, FL), Mirage (Las Vegas, NV), Morphine Love Dion (Miami, FL), Nymphia Wind (Taiwan/NY), Plane Jane (Boston, MA), Plasma (New York, NY), Q (Kansas City, MO), Sapphira Cristál (Philadelphia, PA), and Xunami Muse (New York, NY).
Drag Race season 16 will return to MTV on January 5. Furthermore, RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked, the official aftershow, will also return. It will air on MTV immediately after the series.
RuPaul‘s Drag Race Season 16 Enlisted an All-Star Guest Lineup
The forthcoming season will also casted a spectacular lineup of guest judges. They include Oscar winner Charlize Theron, music star Becky G and Buffy, the Vampire Slayer alum Sarah Michelle Gellar.
During the season, other guest judges will also appear including Adam Shankman, Icona Pop (Caroline Hjelt + Aino Jawo), Isaac Mizrahi, Jamal Sims, Joel Kim Booster, Kaia Gerber, Kelsea Ballerini, Kyra Sedgwick, Law Roach, Mayan Lopez and Ronan Farrow.
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 will also feature mainstay judges Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews and Ts Madison.
The queens will be vying for the season 16 title of America’s Drag Superstar and a $200,000 cash prize. In a previous interview with EW, Mirage stated that there will be a lot of twists this season.
“Get ready for a lot of shade. I don’t want to say backstabbery, I’m trying to think of a cuter word, that’s bad. Okay, well, there’s a lot of that. There’s a lot of going for the throat,” Mirage stated.
