All anyone can talk about right now in the world of RuPaul’s Drag Race is how, on All Stars 10, Denali got ‘robbed’ by Ginger Minj winning her lip sync. There’s a lot of chat from the fans and from fellow Drag Race alumni about how Ginger Minj and her success in this bracket is ‘favouritism’ from production to ensure she does well on the show – and it’s all been kicking off. Ginger Minj has dealt with an onslaught of backlash from those who thinks Denali deserved to win over her, and even Denali has addressed it all. But now, on Drag Race Reddit, there are more rumours circulating regarding how the reaction of Denali after losing the lip sync to Ginger Minj was way more intense and it got cut from the episode – including the fact she stormed off stage and got a telling off from RuPaul. The Reddit is filled with clues, some still in the past episode, so here’s a rundown of the drama.
Some shots from the episode suggest Denali didn’t take it well
The first shot that raised eyebrows is one of two that can be spotted right at the end of the latest episode of Drag Race All Stars 10, and feeds into the rumour that Denali stormed off after losing the lip sync to Ginger. When the queens are doing their usual dance off after Ru does the iconic “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love someone else” and the queens all dance, Denali can be seen exiting.
In this second shot from a similar part of the episode, after Ru asks “can I get an amen”, the rest of the queens are seen enthusiastically obliging except Denali who looks like she isn’t joining in.
Rumours are Denali did not take it well, and we might see it unfold next episode
The rumours are now saying that Denali was so furious (which she has admitted she felt there was favouritism to Ginger in the wake of this latest episode) that she refused to film more confessionals. This has been echoed by Willam on the Race Chaser podcast, and people think the reason those images went viral of Denali doing confessionals with longer hair are because she had to come back in and film more at a later date.
There were spoilers circulating on Reddit by Drag Race leakers pre season that suggested Denali threw a tantrum and stormed off and ended up reprimanded by RuPaul. The Reddit chat discusses how the leakers have been right about everything else to this point, but if it did happen it may have been cut.
However, in the preview for the next episode we do see Denali and Ginger Minj have some conflict where it looks like she might have been critical about Ginger’s performance. So the whole Denali stormed off saga may get addresses in the next Drag Race episode, and people think that might even include RuPaul telling Denali off for “being a bad sport”. Juicy!
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