Alexis Mateo is a Puerto Rican drag performer and contestant on Season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race and then RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. After auditioning for Seasons 1 and 2, Alexis eventually earned her place in Season 3 and went on to come third place in the finale.
In 2012, Alexis returned for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars where she paired up with fellow Season 3 queen, Yara Sofia, forming "Team Yarlexis". They were eventually eliminated in episode 4 after losing their lip-sync song "Don't Cha" against "Team Rujubee" (Raven and Jujubee).
On May 8, 2020, it was announced that she would be competing in All Stars 5, where she placed 5th overall.
Alexis later returned as a Lip-Sync Assassin for All Stars 6. She won her lip-sync against Trinity K. Bonet, however, when it was revealed that there was a tie in the group voting, Trinity was asked to reveal her lipstick, ultimately sending home Jan.
On April 3, 2024, Alexis was announced as one of eight queens to appear in RuPaul's Drag Race Live Untucked.
On June 26, 2024, Alexis was announced as one of the contestants of the second season of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World.
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Track Records[]
Statistics | USA Season 3 | USA All Stars Season 1 |
USA All Stars Season 5 |
Canada vs The World Season 2 |
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Ranking: | 3rd Place | 5th/6th Place | 5th Place | 2nd Place (Runner Up) |
Maxi Challenges Won: | 3 (Eps. 3, 4, 9) | 1 (Ep. 2) | 0 | 1 (Ep. 3) |
Mini Challenges Won: | 1 (Ep. 12) | 2 (Eps. 3, 4) | 0 | 1 (Ep. 3) |
Times as Team Captain: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Times in Bottom: | 3 (Eps. 7, 11, 13) | 1 (Ep. 4) | 2 (Eps. 5, 6) | 1 (Ep. 5) |
Episode Eliminated: | Episode 15 | Episode 4 | Episode 6 | Episode 6 |
Entrance Quote[]
Season 3[]
"Hey hey hey! How's everybody doin'?"
All Stars 1[]
"The jig is up, bitches!"
All Stars 5[]
"Boricua in the house to take the crown. Sickening, no?"
Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World Season 2[]
"Canada... I do!"
Memorable Quotes[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3[]
- "What the fuck!?" (after Season 2 Shangela's surprise return in the competition.)
- "BAM!"
- "Sickening, no?"
- "I think the troops are gonna say 'Who the hell is this crazy ass drag queen?'"
- "Only in America can a woman like me have a FREAKING CHORIZO!"
- "Even if I was born on the moon, I would still be an American!"
- "Mariah" (Her answer to who she thinks had done plastic surgery)
- "I'm a FUCKING DRAG QUEEN!" (during her promo in the Season 3, Episode 9 challenge "Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Style.)
- "I don't like when they label you as 'the Latin queen'."
- "Where's her body? Where's her hair? Where's her makeup? I don't see her at the same level as the rest of us." (referring to Raja)
- "A mess" (Her answer to Yara Sofia asking her what she thinks about her)
- "Yara, no llores."
- "Hannah Montana?!"
- "This is just soft porn. It's kinda hot." (during the Raja vs. Carmen Carrera lip-sync)
- "It's stupid because you bought your titties too." (to Michelle Visage)
- "I love my titties and I work it out all the time. BAM!"
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 1[]
- "Hi, Manila. I just saw Manila girl." (referring to an Asian female pedestrian)
- "Act a fool girl. Act a fool." (to Mimi Imfurst.)
- "I'm just gonna read the fuck out of everybody right here. Everybody thinks that we're not competition just because we speak another language. But we are All Stars, no matter where we come from, and I'm gonna tell y'all something: y'all better watch out. We're working together to send all of you motherfuckers home!" (after Latrice Royale said Yarlexis should go home)
- "The sad part about this is that like Yara speaks Spanish, and I speak Spanish, but sometimes I don't understand her in either one of the languages."
- "Shannel! *Shannel who?* Exactly!" (with Yara Sofia during the cheerleading reading challenge)
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 5[]
- "I am a well-rounded entertainer; I can sing, I can dance, I can act, and I'm fucking Puerto Rican bitch!"
- "Oh, these glasses make you all look ugly. (Re-adjusts glasses) Oh, it's not the glasses." (during the Reading is Fundamental mini-challenge)
- "I thought you're doing Britney the whole time." (To Derrick Barry)
- "Ay callate." (Spanish for "Ugh shut up")
- "Bitch" (to Jujubee)
- "There's gonna be some shit. This is Day 1, and the girls brought the beef to this salad, baby. Welcome to All Stars, people!" (About India and Derrick's fight)
- "FANTASIA! SABOR! BRILLANTE! COMO EL SOL! SICKENING, NO? BAILALO!" (During her Variety Show performance)
- "PERRA!"
- "ACT A FOOL GIRL!"
- "You gonna like it goddamnit I stoned it for you!" (to Michelle Visage about her 1" high heels)
- "Gosh, I need to have sex."
- "That bitch is into eating people, and she's that skinny?"
- “Daddy Yankee! He's my man, he's my papi. When he sings reggaeton, I get really happy. Every time I see him, I get sassy, got me nervous and really gassy. In my dreams he says 'Oye, mami', 'cause he's my daddy, daddy.” (verse in I'm in Love)
- "Don't "sweetheart" me, 'cause I'm not "sweethearting" you." (to Miz Cracker)
- "I'm not just sickening! I'm contagious!"
- ”That was my question, dumb bitch.” (to Miz Cracker as Lady Gaga in the Snatch Game of Love as Walter Mercado)
- "Just like my hair I'm gonna say vanilla, cause everybody loves fuckin' vanilla man, PICK ME!"
- "You're a liar, and this is why Derrick don't like you." (Reason why she chose India Ferrah to go home)
- "I came here with a BAM, and I still looking sickening, no?" (exit quote)
- "Do we all sound this fake?"
Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World Season 2[]
- "Welcome to Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World! I'm your host, Alexis Mate... I'm just kidding, let me not fuck with that! *laughter*"
- "Oh, these flowers are as fake as these girls that are about to walk in here. Send in the clowns, baby, send in the clowns!"
- "You're and inspiration for someone else"
- Fiercalicious: "Do you have a Wowie?"
- Alexis: "No, I only have Emmys."
- "Once again, your queen is here! Your best choice, that is clear. Love and passion for my drag, icon, legend, let me brag! Dressing always to impress, cause I can, I'm the best! Making haters into fans, always serving real glam. Bella, elegante y siempre fina, la mas perra es latina, let's celebrate, no more tears, it's a party for my queers!" (Verse in "Bopulence")
- "It kinda sounds to me like it is about Eureka." (to Eureka)
- "The fact that you just sat here and said, "Well, I just don't wanna lip sync," is kinda like, hurting me."
- "There's a lot of things in life that I don't wanna do, and I still do them.. like, hanging out with you. So, please, can we just go ahead and send this girl home?"
- "I want everybody to know that this is not a comedy show for me. This is a serious competition."
- "Fearlicious is just scared, that the big girls, the big names are in the house"
Farewell Message[]
Season 3[]
"Always know your place. The jig is up!!! Siempre, Alexis"
All Stars 5[]
"Love you all, BAM Be your best, but be happy ♡ AS5"
Trivia[]
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- In her Snatch Game appearances:
- On Season 3, she was placed in the top for her impression as Alicia Keys in the Snatch Game.
- On All Stars 1, she won the Gaff-In (the AS1 version of Snatch Game) as Shakira alongside Yara Sofia as Charo, despite receiving criticism over her Shakira impression.
- On All Stars 5, she received positive critiques as Walter Mercado in the Snatch Game of Love, but was up for elimination by default.
- Alexis and Shangela were the first contestants to have a shared win on Drag Race.
- Alexis was a guest professor on the third episode of the third season of Drag Race spin-off series RuPaul's Drag U.
- Alexis is the drag mother of Vanessa Vanjie, Jenavive, and Victoria Mateo. Vanessa was a contestant on Seasons 10 and 11 of Drag Race.
- Alexis won several prestigious pageants including All American Goddess in 2016 (also won by India Ferrah in 2008, Alyssa Edwards in 2010 and Asia O'Hara in 2012).
- Alexis filmed Alyssa Edwards' audition video.
- Alexis is the first and thus far only RuPaul's Drag Race contestant to have three maxi challenges wins and three bottom two placements in a single season.
- Alexis, as well as her All Stars 5 castmate Jujubee, is the fourth queen to compete on three separate seasons of Drag Race, after Shangela, Latrice Royale, and Manila Luzon.
- She is also the third queen, along with Jujubee, to compete in multiple seasons of All Stars, after Latrice and Manila, who previously returned on All Stars 4.
- Alexis is the only one of the four queens that did not win a challenge during their third season competing.
- Alexis is the sixth contestant in the Drag Race franchise to win a Mini Challenge on the episode she got eliminated, after Jade in Season 1, Mystique Summers Madison in Season 2, Phoenix and Yara Sofia in Season 3, Kenya Michaels in Season 4, and followed by Ivy Winters in Season 5, BenDeLaCreme in Season 6, Mrs. Kasha Davis in Season 7, Aja in All Stars 3, Crystal in Series 1 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK and Tamisha Iman in Season 13.
- Alexis is the contestant who has participated in the largest number of balls, being 4 in total.
- Alexis was in the bottom in to almost every ball she competed in, being ultimately eliminated in the ball of All Stars 5, however that change when she won the ball of Canada Vs The World 2.
- She originally would’ve done Mariah Carey for her Snatch Game in All Stars 5 but then changed to Walter Mercado.
- During the 2020 Miss Universe Pageant, contestant Rabiya Mateo was jokingly considered a part of The Mateo Empire by Filipino fans.
- Due to the tremendous uproar from fans, Alexis now considers Rabiya as a part of the Mateo Empire.
- Alexis considered quitting All Stars 1 after hearing about the pairs twist.[1]
- In all of Alexis's solo lip syncs, her competitors lost their wigs at some point in the song.
- This curse would later be broken by Miss Fiercalicious on Canada vs The World Season 2.
- In 2025 Alexis won the Miss Continental Elite pageant.[2]
- This makes her one of the few Drag Race alumni to have won a pageant in the Miss Continental system, alongside Victoria Parker, Roxxxy Andrews, Sasha Colby, Naysha Lopez, Brooke Lynn Hytes and Vanessa Van Cartier.
Gallery[]
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 1[]
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 1 Looks[]
Videos[]
Discography[]
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2024 | BOPulence | ![]() |
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Winner | Raja |
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Runners-Up | 2nd: Manila Luzon • 3rd: Alexis Mateo |
Other Contestants | 4th: Yara Sofia (Miss Congeniality) • 5th: Carmen Carrera • 6th: Shangela • 7th: Delta Work • 8th: Stacy Layne Matthews • 9th: Mariah • 10th: India Ferrah • 11th: Mimi Imfurst • 12th: Phoenix • 13th: Venus D-Lite |
Host | RuPaul |
Judges | RuPaul • Santino Rice • Michelle Visage • Billy B |
Pit Crew | Jason Carter • Shawn Morales |
Winner | Chad Michaels |
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Runners-Up | 2nd: Raven • 3rd & 4th: Jujubee & Shannel |
Teams | Team Shad: Chad Michaels & Shannel • Team Rujubee: Raven & Jujubee • Team Yarlexis (5th/6th): Alexis Mateo & Yara Sofia • Team Latrila (7th/8th): Manila Luzon & Latrice Royale • Team Brown Flowers (9th/10th): Nina Flowers & Tammie Brown • Team Mandora (11th/12th): Pandora Boxx & Mimi Imfurst |
Host | RuPaul |
Judges | RuPaul • Santino Rice • Michelle Visage |
Pit Crew | Jason Carter • Shawn Morales |
Winner | Shea Couleé |
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Runners-Up | 2nd & 3rd: Jujubee & Miz Cracker |
Other Contestants | 4th: Blair St. Clair • 5th: Alexis Mateo • 6th: India Ferrah • 7th: Mayhem Miller • 8th: Mariah Paris Balenciaga • 9th: Ongina • 10th: Derrick Barry |
Lip Sync Assassins | Yvie Oddly • Alyssa Edwards • Monét X Change • Morgan McMichaels • Vanessa Vanjie Mateo • Roxxxy Andrews • Kennedy Davenport |
Host | RuPaul |
Judges | RuPaul • Michelle Visage • Carson Kressley • Ross Mathews |
Pit Crew | Jason Carter • Bruno Carvalho • Bryce Eilenberg |
Winner | Lemon |
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Runners-Up | 2nd: Alexis Mateo • 3rd/4th: Cheryl & Kennedy Davenport |
Other Contestants | 5th: Miss Fiercalicious • 6th: Eureka! (Miss Congeniality) • 7th: Tynomi Banks • 8th: Le Fil • 9th: La Kahena |
Host | Brooke Lynn Hytes |
Judges | Brad Goreski • Brooke Lynn Hytes • Traci Melchor |
Pit Crew | TBA |