Season finale has arrived and all hail the Queen—Precious Paula Nicole (PPN) won this season of the first ever Drag Race Philippines.
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It’s a mind-blowing journey for all the Queens who have set their eyes on the crown and admit it, they were all glamorous and shining in different colors as they walk the runway and tell their unique stories.
Photo from Instagram @preciouspaulame
For their final looks, the top four – Precious Paula Nicole, Eva Le Queen, Xilhouete, and Marina Summers were given Bongga Camp Day and Indigenous Extravaganza as their prompts.
Precious Paula Nicole and Eva Le Queen battled it out for the first round of the Lip Sync for The Crown – performing RuPaul’s “Sissy That Walk,” with Precious Paula Nicole winning the first round. Xilhouete and Marina Summers, lip synced against each other with RuPaul’s “Call Me Mother”.
Precious Paula Nicole was up against Marina Summers as the last two queens standing. For the lip-sync for the crown, they performed “Sirena” by Gloc 9 and Ebe Dancel. It was gold. That lip-sync was indeed a lip-sync for the crown and Precious deserved it—she just proves how good she is whether in looks and in lip syncing.
Precious got her first badge after impressing Regine Velasquez by impersonating her on stage. She was never in the bottom two but received negative critiques during the Divisoria ball challenge. She was frequently at the top, particularly in four challenges: the Sagalamazon ball, pageant improv, makeover, and the music video. Precious also won the Ru-lection mini challenge.
Crowned as the first-ever “Drag Race Superstar” of the Philippines, Precious Paula Nicole said:
“Life is precious and so are we. Let’s continue to inspire and let’s continue to love. I am Precious Paula Nicole, your Drag Race Superstar.”
She won P1,000,000 pesos and will receive a one-year supply of ONE/SIZE beauty cosmetics by Patrick Starr.
Drag Race Philippines premiered on August 17. The rest of the drag queens who participated in the first season included Prince, Corazon, Gigi Era, Turing, Lady Morgana, Viñas Deluxe, Brigiding, and Minty Fresh.
All episodes of “Drag Race Philippines” and its “Untucked” segment are available on WOW Presents Plus, HBO Go, and Discovery Plus. The Emmy Award-winning original series has featured the talents of Filipino drag queens in the US and several overseas in editions through the years.
