Ellen Page got a little help from one of her friends when it came to celebrating the premiere of Freeheld at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night. Orange is the New Black breakout star Ruby Rose was on hand for the occasion, and posted photos of the pair on Instagram telling fans how proud she is of her pal. “When your best friend is the most talented, funny, beautiful, generous, humble human being it’s hard to not smile until it hurts,” she captioned one shapshot.
Try as they might to stretch creatively, some actors and directors are better off sticking to what they know — which is what makes this ”Pretty Woman” reunion (Roberts, Gere, director Garry Marshall, and costar Hector Elizondo) predictably pleasurable. No stranger to highly publicized failed romances, Roberts makes a natural Runaway Bride — Maggie Carpenter, a small-town serial bride whose exploits pique the interest of cynical New York columnist Ike Graham (Gere).
RuPaul — the Queen of Drag — has decried a recent onslaught of political tactics targeting the drag and trans communities. Though Ru didn't mention any politicians or bills by name, he shared an impassioned Instagram video Wednesday, days after conservative Tennessee governor Bill Lee signed into law legislation that severely restricts certain drag shows and bans gender-affirming care for trans youth in the state. The Emmy-winning RuPaul's Drag Race host criticized the move as one mounted by bullies targeting vulnerable people in American society.
RuPaul done already done had her Emmys10 times over. The RuPaul's Drag Race producer-host won two more career awards at Sunday's Creative Arts Emmys, tying his overall hardware tally with cinematographer Donald A. Morgan as the most-awarded Black artists in the awards show's history. RuPaul has now won the Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program award across six consecutive years for his work on the televised drag queen pageant.
Adore Delano, RuPaul's Drag Race season 6 finalist and former American Idol contestant, came out as trans in an emotional video chronicling her journey. The 33-year-old recording artist and drag performer shared a tear-filled video on Instagram Wednesday, in which she addressed "a lot of talk about my body and questions about my gender" circulating online. "I wanted to let everybody know that I am transitioning, and I kept it really of hush-hush the first three months because I wanted to go through the beginning stages of the puberty privately,"
Chi Chi DeVayne—the stage name of Zavion Davenport, an accomplished entertainer who competed on two seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race—has died at age 34, EW has confirmed. News of the drag queen's passing came Thursday, less than a week after DeVayne informed her Instagram followers that she was back in the hospital. DeVayne's family shared a post later in the day on the star's Instagram account. "It is with tremendous sorrow that my family and I announce the passing of my beloved son, Zavion Michael Davenport, the world-renowned 'Chi Chi DeVayne,'"
From sharing stages with Miley Cyrus to AIDS activism, where are the season 1 sisters now? LOGO Season 1's nine-strong batch of queens survived the infamous "Vaseline filter," high heel disasters on the runway, and sparring matches with Mama Ru herself—all to blaze a trail for the RuPaul's Drag Race queens of the future. Catch up with the show's OG first ladies in EW's then-and-now gallery ahead.
The... eighth time is a charm in Willow Wonka's Chocolate Fec'try, as Friday's episode of RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 saw the long-awaited reveal of which queen was saved from elimination by the elusive golden candy bar. After RuPaul introduced the curious twist — which saw the queens picking tightly-wrapped chocolate bars, one of which contained a life-saving golden marker — back on episode 3, seven queens were subsequently ousted from the competition after it was revealed at the end of their respective exit episodes that their bars contained mere sweet, brown morsels.
The new, extended RuPaul's Drag Race season 15 episodes that debuted Wednesday on Paramount+ include extra helpings of Sugar, Spice, and everything nice — namely, more images of eventual winner Sasha Colby jiggling her butt during her iconic lip-sync against Anetra. Among the new footage sprinkled throughout the first half of season 15 (which initially ran 60-minute installments on MTV before longer editions returned in March) are more of RuPaul's Werk Room walk-throughs, the return of the panel deliberations at the end of judging, more Snatch Game jokes (including Sugar asking Ru for her "
After six Asian women were murdered Tuesday night in an Atlanta area mass shooting, fan-favorite RuPaul's Drag Race queen Rock M. Sakura has revealed her past as a sex worker in an emotional plea for her community's protection. The season 12 alum tweeted a statement early Thursday calling for an end to Asian hatred in the wake of the shooting, which left eight people — most of them of Asian descent — dead after a lone gunman traveled to three separate massage parlors in Georgia.