RuPaul: Back On TV With Drag Contest

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By Karu F. Daniels, BlackVoices.com



Brace yourselves!!!

RuPaul is coming back to TV airwaves next year.

The 6'7' inch gender bending pop icon will front 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' on MTV Networks' Logo, which targets lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender viewers.

The former TV home of Patrik Ian Polk's masterful black gay drama series, 'Noah's Arc,' has reportedly green-lit the reality competition, where contestants compete to become "America's Next Superstar Dragqueen."

The hour-long, six-episode series is expected to debut on Logo's digital cable channel early next year.

RuPaul (real name: Rupaul Andre Charles) will serve as host, mentor and judge.

Move over Tyra Banks. A new brew of broads -- with hair, heels, duct tape and attitude -- are set to burn up the boob tube.

Online votes are already heating up at www.RuPaulsDragRace.com.

This won't be RuPauls' first foray into television -- nor MTV territory; way before Ellen DeGeneress and Rosie O'Donnell came out of the closet, RuPaul was the first openly gay talk show host with the VH1 gabfest 'The RuPaul Show' in 1996.

Before that, after many false starts, he hit the heights of pop music superstardom with the chart-catapulting single, 'Supermodel (You Better Work),' from the major label debut opus 'Supermodel of the World' -- released via Tommy Boy Records in 1993.

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