The producers at RuPaul’s Drag Race are killing it with the pop culture references in Season 17. Last week’s premiere episode kicked off with a perfectly-timed Squid Game spoof, and now Episode 2 is giving us Lawrence Chaney channeling The Traitors host Alan Cumming. It’s no coincidence that the episode will air just a day after the Season 3 Traitors premiere. Check out the clip below and bask in all of Lawrence’s Scottish glory.
A Traitor in the Werk Room
In a sneak peek shared by MTV, Lawrence, who won the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, comes crashing into the room in her signature purple. The Season 17 queens were shook. It’s not every day that RuPaul brings an international queen into the US Werk Room!
“It’s me, Alan Cumming,” Lawrence tells the queens. “And there’s a Traitor amongst you.”
A Traitor? Maybe so. During the Drag Race Season 17 premiere, half of the queens performed in a talent show. The remaining queens ranked them using the Rate-a-Queen system, which may or may not have been borrowed from The Circle.
In Episode 2, the bottom queens from both talent shows will lip sync for their lives. In the sneak peek, Lawrence teased the unfortunate fate awaiting the loser of the lip sync.
“Last week, we learned the queens smiling to your face, might be the same queens stabbing you in the back,” she teased. “But tonight, beyond a shadow of a doubt, one of you is going to be murdered!”
Everyone gasped! Suddenly, the Werk Room was feeling a lot more like Ardross Castle. Lawrence did such a good job channeling Alan’s hosting skills that she honestly might have found a new Snatch Game character. The tartan dress was the perfect touch.
If Lawrence’s Drag Race cameo has you itching for The Traitors, you’re in luck. Peacock drops the first three episodes of Season 3 on January 9th, featuring Drag Race alum Bob the Drag Queen. Spoiler alert: someone on The Traitors is actually going to get “murdered.”
RuPaul’s Drag Race airs new episodes every Friday at 8/7c on MTV.
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