Yas! Tennesseans slay on 'RuPaul's Drag Race'

Chuck Campbell | Knoxville

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Two Tennessee drag queens have been hanging tough on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” this season, and both are still in the running with only four contestants remaining on the VH- reality show.

Eureka – aka David Huggard of Johnson City – and Kameron Michaels – aka Dane Young of Nashville – have survived 10 eliminations as the contestants have been whittled down from 14 to 4 since the show’s 10th season debuted in March.

This is the second time on “Drag Race” for Eureka, who suffered a knee injury during a challenge on the show’s previous season and was subsequently sent home with an open invitation to return.

Eureka, who also goes by the nickname “The Elephant Queen,” is vying to be the show’s first “plus-size” winner. By contrast, Kameron Michaels is known as a “muscle queen” and has been nicknamed “Bodybuilder Barbie.”

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The two have bonded as fellow Tennesseans, but in an episode that aired in May, Eureka and Kameron fell into the bottom two and were pitted against each other in an elimination lip-sync challenge, performing to Patti LaBelle’s hit “New Attitude.” After the song was over, show host RuPaul deemed them both safe from elimination because they both had performed so well. It was the only time so far this season that both bottom two players have survived the lip-sync challenge.

The two players have had their ups and downs. Kameron has been in the bottom 2 three times so far and been the episode winner once. Eureka has been in the bottom 2 twice and the episode winner twice.

The Tennesseans seem to be the underdogs against the other two remaining players: Asia O’Hara – aka Antwan Lee of Dallas – has won two episodes and has been in the bottom 2 only once, and the apparent frontrunner, Aquaria – aka Giovanni Palandrani of Brooklyn – has won three episodes and never been in the bottom two.

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Only one other performer from Tennessee has been on “Drag Race”: Jaidynn Diore Fierce, aka Christopher Williams of Nashville, competed in Season 7 and finished in eighth place.

New episodes of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” debut at 8 p.m. Thursdays on VH-1.