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“The winner is kind of obvious”: Drag Race fans react to the Global All Stars top four

By Jordan Robledo

13th October 2024

The final four queens of Drag Race Global All Stars have been selected, and fans are already rallying behind their picks.

Spoilers ahead.

Following last week’s explosive episode, which saw Kween Kong and Nehellenia clash over the latter’s makeover look – the remaining five queens returned to the workroom.

Alyssa Edwards wasted no time congratulating Kitty Scott-Claus for winning her lip-sync against the season’s reigning assassin, Vanity Vain.

“That was fucking horrible. I’ve never been below safe, let alone being in the bloody bottom two. I was just like, I can’t– I can’t be a loser like the other girls,” the UK queen revealed. “I felt myself, like, shutting down, and I was like, this is how it’s gonna go.”

The conversation then transitioned to Nehellenia, who won last week’s challenge.  After showering the Italian queen with applause, Kween apologised for her comments.

“I do want to say congratulations, Nellie. I know I came at you really harshly in Untucked before. I know my opinion comes across very harsh sometimes, it’s just how I am. But yeah, I apologise,” the Aussie talent said.

In response, Nehellenia assured Kween that there was no bad blood, stating: “I know that you are a good person, so don’t worry.”

The next day, the ladies returned to the werkroom to meet up with RuPaul, who assigned them their second-to-last maxi-challenge.

“Condragulations, you’ve all come so far in the competition. But now it’s time for you to all go home,” Ru teased.

“For this week’s maxi-challenge, I want each of you to create a queertastic tourism spot that shows the world why your country is so special. And for extra fun, I want you to create a picture-perfect postcard in Canva.”

Before exiting the workroom, Ru revealed that the ladies would be filming their commercials with “World Traveller” and Drag Race staple judge Michelle Visage.

With their task at hand, the ladies got down to work on their adverts.

In a confessional, Kitty expressed her hopes of doing better this time around compared to the commercial she made during her Drag Race UK season.

“Last time I did a marketing challenge, I was working as a team, and that didn’t really go to plan. So I’m excited to push myself and show Ru why I should have won in the first place,” she explained.

When the conversation turned over to Nehellenia, the Italian queen admitted to being nervous about the challenge due to her never doing one during her season.

Tessa echoed similar sentiments before revealing her intention to focus on her Swiss heritage vs Germany.

As for Kween and Alyssa, the two talents were very confident about their respective tourism commercials.

After participating in a cheeky ad placement for Canva, the ladies painted their faces and headed to the green stage to meet up with Michelle, who gave them helpful advice throughout the filming process.

Fortunately, all the queens delivered creative adverts full of hilarious jokes that were unique to their respective countries.

The next day, Alyssa, Kitty, Nehellenia, Tessa, and Kween returned to the workroom to prepare for elimination.

While painting their faces, the ladies opened up about their drag families, with Nehellenia gushing about her many sisters.

Kween echoed similar sentiments regarding her own brood before stating that she wouldn’t be where she is today without them.

Kitty then asked her fellow queens if they ever thought about having biological children.

While Alyssa revealed that she and her partner Steve have talked about the idea, she joked that the world may not be ready for her to be a parent.

“I think I would be like mommy dearest. I buy you all these nice things, and this is what I get in return. Can you point your feet in your ballet class?” she said.

“And Steve’s is so funny, he’s like, ‘Well, what if our child doesn’t want to dance?’ And I was so confused. [He asked], ‘Well, what if you get what your father got?’ He wanted an All-American boy, and instead, he made an All-American queen.”

Things took an emotional turn when Nehellenia revealed that it wasn’t possible for her to create a family in Italy.

“I wanted to have, but in Italy it’s not possible. But for me, it’s maybe the biggest thing that I miss in my life,” she explained.

“Because the day that my first nephew was born, I cried. I cried because I was thinking that can never happen to me. For Italian gay people, it’s not easy.”

Tessa also shared an emotional story, opening up about her friend’s son and the open and accepting environment he’s being raised in.

“I have a friend whose son, he likes to play with dolls. He likes to play with makeup. His mother is, like, the greatest because she’s such a big supporter of my drag,” she explained while holding back tears.

“It warms my heart to know that she’s raising possibly one of us. And it really makes me emotional. I’m just so happy that we are coming around to letting our kids be who they want to be.”

After their heartwarming conversation, the queens headed to the main stage, where they presented their tourism adverts and Star Trek runway ensembles in front of Ru and the judges – which included the beloved Ts Madison.

During critiques, the panel showered Kitty, Alyssa, and Nehellenia with praise for their work on the challenge and their Star Trek outfits.

While the judges loved Kween and Tessa’s runway ensembles, their commercials struggled to hit the mark.

In the end, Ru named Alyssa the winner of the challenge before placing Tessa and Kween in the bottom.

To the beat of Thelma Houston’s ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way,’ the two talents held nothing back, throwing out twists, turns, flips, drama and show-stopping ruveals.

After their electric performance, Ru named Kween the winner and asked Tessa to sashay away.

Shortly after its release, fans flocked to social media to express their reactions to the episode.

One viewer wrote: “Nehellenia, the first ever queen to never place below safe on TWO different seasons!? the crown is HERSSSS.”

Another fan tweeted: “Tessa Testicle lip synced four times on Drag Race Germany, got 8th place, returned to Global All Stars FOUR months later, won a challenge, then made it all the way to Top FIVE — I will forever and always be proud of her.”

A third person added: “Sorry but it is HER time. i love the other girls, they gave DRAG honey. but they can come back again some other time 😩 that crown is coming back to the USAAAA.”

On next week’s Drag Race Global All Stars episode, the eliminated contestants return to the main stage to participate in a Lip Sync LaLaPaRuZa for $50,000.

See below for fan reactions to the final four queens.