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Other appearances include episodes of Glee, Bones, Community, Terriers, Dance Moms, 2 Broke Girls, Detroit 187 and The Mentalist, as well as a commercial for Orbitz with fellow Drag Race contestants Manila Luzon and Carmen Carrera. Shangela appeared in Toddlers & Tiaras, in which he coached his 9-year-old goddaughter to compete in a beauty pageant. Pierce performing a stand-up act as Laquifa at the Castro Theatre in 2014 Shangela competed in the television special RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular. She subsequently tied third/fourth place with season-one winner Bebe Zahara Benet. She made it to the season's finale and was considered a frontrunner for the crown, but was controversially eliminated after only receiving one vote from Thorgy Thor among the jury of previously eliminated queens. Shangela returned to compete on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, making her the first queen to compete on three separate seasons of the show. She also made cameo appearances in the show's fourth-season premiere and the " Snatch Game" episode of All Stars season two. She later reauditioned and was invited back for season three, where she made it to the top five (although she placed sixth overall due to the return of Carmen Carrera one episode later). In 2010, Shangela was crowned in the first California Entertainer of the Year pageant the first alternate was Chad Michaels.Īfter five months of performing in Los Angeles, Shangela was selected to join the cast for season two of RuPaul's Drag Race, but was eliminated in the first episode. The club's promoter was so impressed with Shangela's performance that he offered to book him for the following week. Pierce had choreographed a three-person drag act to " Single Ladies" for a sober charity event in Los Angeles, and when one of the performers cancelled, the other two asked him to fill in. Shangela emerged as Pierce's drag persona in January 2009. He was a male cheerleader in high school, and began dressing in drag for creative projects for English classes. He was raised by a large Southern Baptist family, including a grandfather who worked as a ranch hand at pig and cattle farms. Pierce grew up in Paris, Texas, the only child of a mother in the United States Army who traveled frequently for her work.
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The series has received acclaim from critics. Since 2020, Shangela has co-hosted the HBO reality series We're Here, alongside fellow Drag Race contestants Bob the Drag Queen and Eureka O'Hara. In 2019, representing A Star Is Born at the 91st Academy Awards, she became the first drag queen to walk the Oscars red carpet in drag. She also appeared in the comedy film Hurricane Bianca (2016), its sequel Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate (2018), and the musical drama film A Star is Born (2018). Īfter Drag Race, Shangela appeared in numerous television series, including Community (2011), 2 Broke Girls (2012), Glee (2012), Bones (2014), The X-Files (2016), and Broad City (2019). In June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine placed Shangela second on their list of "the most powerful drag queens in America", a ranking of 100 former RuPaul's Drag Race contestants. Shangela has also made several television appearances and regularly performs across the United States and Canada. She returned once again for the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars where she finished in joint-third/fourth place alongside winner of the first season, BeBe Zahara Benet.
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Shangela was the first contestant eliminated in season two, and returned as a surprise contestant in the series' third season, placing fifth.
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Shangela Laquifa Wadley (born Darius Jeremy Pierce), known mononymously as Shangela, is an American drag queen, reality television personality and actor best known for competing on RuPaul's Drag Race. RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 3).