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RuPaul's Drag Race champ Shea Couleé to host America's Next Top Model podcast

RuPaul's Drag Race champ Shea Couleé to host America's Next Top Model podcast

RuPaul's Drag Race champ Shea Couleé to host America's Next Top Model podcast
Apr 09, 2021 3 mins, 16 secs

The All-Stars winner gets emotional in an exclusive interview about exploring Tyra Banks' reality show alongside fellow Drag Race and ANTM alums Raja and Peppermint, as well as models from the hit reality series.

RuPaul's Drag Race legend Shea Couleé is about to be a freakin' Mother Teresa of the podcasting arts, but in a diva kind of way.

Twice per week, Couleé will break down Tyra Banks' massively popular world of America's Next Top Model and its impact on drag, pop culture, and fashion as she welcomes guests — including Drag Race and ANTM alums Raja and Peppermint — across multiple installments to discuss why they love Top Model as much as she does.

"America's Next Top Model was the first time I was introduced to using feminine pronouns for a queer person, when they introduced Miss J Alexander as Miss J," Couleé tells EW of her appreciation for the show.

"There was no question, they just did it, and all the girls followed suit.

As an adult, I realized how radical it was to just drop that into the living rooms of millions of Americans and let them in on a bit of queer culture?

I tossed around a lot of different ideas until I found myself binge-watching old seasons of America's Next Top Model for probably the 20th time and then talked about it over and over with all of my friends who've probably heard me go on about it many times before.

Tyra appears to be aware of Drag Race now more than ever.

ANTM is such a unique blend of great reality TV moments, fashion, and queer culture.

America's Next Top Model was the first time I was introduced to using feminine pronouns for a queer person, when they introduced Miss J Alexander as "Miss J"....

As an adult, I realized how radical it was to just drop that into the living rooms of millions of Americans and let them in on a bit of queer culture.

it really has bled into giving way to shows like Drag Race, even, because when you think about the types of challenges that you see on both, they correlate so well.

That's something a lot of queer people took for granted at the time, just how radical it was to have LGBT culture represented so prominently across all facets of this show.

The first season of Drag Race that I watched was season 3, and I remember seeing Raja, like, "Oh my God, that's Sutan.

ANTM has a place in my heart just as Drag Race does!

I think a lot of people forget that Peppermint was also on ANTM too!

There's so much crossover between my sisters from Drag Race and ANTM.

The show went out there with the intent to launch the careers of top models, but at the time, reality television influencers weren't a thing, so the fashion industry didn't take these girls seriously.

It's sad to think that those girls didn't get the opportunities.

I looked at those girls the way Drag Race fans look at us now?

It's crazy because you think about some of the supermodels today who came up through reality television — you have Kendall Jenner out here walking for major designers, and I just want the ANTM girls to get their roses, too, because it's crazy how the industry has changed to now embrace that?

I think that's why I got emotional, because she talks about her rejection and it hurt my heart to hear that because she, in my mind, had the potential to be a successful model, but had to reformat for her dream at the time and pivot.

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