RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 5)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Season 5
Promotional poster for Season 5
Hosted byRuPaul
Judges
No. of contestants10
WinnerShea Couleé
Runners-up
Companion showRuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked!
No. of episodes8
Release
Original networkVH1
Original releaseJune 5 (2020-06-05) –
July 24, 2020 (2020-07-24)
Season chronology
List of episodes

The fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars was announced by VH1 on August 19, 2019.[1]

On February 20, 2020, the show's official Twitter account announced the season premiere date of June 5, 2020, on Showtime.[2] Following the cast announcement on May 8, 2020, producers announced that the show would instead air on VH1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused "various scheduling and programming adjustments".[3][4]

The official trailer announced a change in the elimination rules: Unlike seasons 2, 3, and 4 of All Stars, only a single challenge winner is named each week. The winning queen then lip syncs for her legacy against a guest Lip Sync Assassin from a previous season. If the challenge winner wins the lip sync, she gains the power to eliminate one of the queens in the bottom and win a $10,000 prize. If the Assassin wins, the eliminated queen is determined after a majority vote by the rest of the contestants, and the $10,000 prize rolls over to further episodes until a contestant wins the lip sync.

The winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars received a one-year supply of Anastasia Beverly Hills Cosmetics and a cash prize of $100,000. All Stars 5 was the first All Stars season since All Stars 1 to have an Untucked aftershow. Shea Couleé was declared the winner, with Jujubee and Miz Cracker named runners-up.

Jujubee later on competed on RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World, placing 3rd alongside with Baga Chipz. Shea Couleé later competed on the seventh season of All Stars, the first all-winners season of Drag Race, placing 3rd alongside with Trinity The Tuck

  1. ^ Nolfi, Joey (August 19, 2019). "'RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 5,' season 12 officially sashaying to VH1". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  2. ^ "RuPaul's Drag Race on Twitter". Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  3. ^ Vary, Adam (May 8, 2020). "'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars' Moves Back to VH1 From Showtime, Reveals Cast". variety.com. Archived from the original on May 8, 2020. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  4. ^ Bonner, Mehera; Chambers, Hannah (June 5, 2020). "Everything You Need to Know About 'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars' Season 5". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved November 2, 2021.