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Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Bianca Del Rio on Fire Island, Madonna, Joan Rivers & more

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

Rhony, Tv & Film, Andycohen, Rhobh, Realhousewives, Bravotv, Vpr, Rhoc, Bravo, Popculture, Rhop, Pumprules, Bethennyfrankel, Lgbtculture, Rhod, Realhousewivesofnyc, Rhoa, Vanderpumprules

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by drag legend BIANCA DEL RIO! Bianca discuss her early days of drag in New Orleans, New York City, Provincetown and on Fire Island prior to winning season 6 of DRAG RACE. Topics include: Going on tour with Madonna, joining The Traitors, Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin, Chita Rivera, a “Golden Drag Race” feat. Lady Bunny & Varla Jean Merman and more!


IG: @jessxnyc | @thebiancadelrio


Check out Jess' docu-pod series FINDING FIRE ISLAND about the history, mystique and lore of Cherry Grove & The Pines

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Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and I am here with Bianca del Rio,

0:19.0

who New York magazine has called the most powerful Drag Queen in the world.

0:24.8

Bianca is of course best known for winning season six of drag race

0:28.9

and she is about to embark on a brand new world tour starting next month. Hi Bianca del Rio.

0:36.0

Hi how are you? I'm great. How are you today? What's going on today for you?

0:41.0

I'm doing well, you know, just plotting and planning everything

0:44.4

leading up to the tour. There's never enough time when you're traveling on the

0:47.9

road because I've committed to doing this first leg of the tour which is three months I think so I'll be out till May all over the USA and

0:56.4

Canada so packing for that it's a process that takes a couple of days so

1:01.1

aside from all of the drag that you have to pack and all of the

1:04.0

extra stuff you have to in case of an emergency drag moments, you have to pack as I

1:08.4

call it my boy clothes and shoes and socks and it's not that glamorous. So it's just plotting and

1:15.9

getting all of that together before I head out and preparing to be

1:21.0

thrown to the world you know because you because you're out for quite some time and it's night after night after night after night.

1:27.0

So I'm excited about it, but this process is a little daunting, I'm not going to lie.

1:32.0

You know, I actually saw you in

1:36.2

province town on Halloween spooky bear I was there oh yes yeah and you were

1:41.5

phenomenal oh you have good taste yes Yes, yes, yes. And you were phenomenal.

1:43.0

Oh, but you have good taste, yes.

1:45.0

Yes.

1:46.0

Really good taste.

1:47.0

I've been telling people, Spooky Bear was the literal highlight of my...

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