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Denali Foxx, or known simply as Denali, is the stage name of Cordero Zuckerman, a drag queen and professional ice skater based in Chicago, Illinois and a contestant on Season 13 of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Drag Name Origin

Denali may come from the Alaskan mountain Denali, the highest summit in North America. Denali also appears in numerous Alaskan native languages, meaning "the tall one" or "big mountain". It has been confirmed on an Instagram live that her drag name is mostly inspired by her grandmother, because of her being taken care of in a facility called the Denali Center. Her last name comes from her drag mother Chamilla Foxx, which she only uses for social media.

Track Record(s)

Denali
Seasons Competed: Season 13
Ranking: 8th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 1 (Ep. 3)
Times in Bottom Two: 2 (Eps. 4, 10)
Mini Challenges Won: 0
Times as Team Captain: 0
Episode Eliminated: Episode 10

Memorable Quotes

Season 13

  • "Let me break the ice!" (Entrance Quote)
  • "Winners come in first."
  • "I am drag's gold-medal bitch."
  • "I hate to be this shallow bitch, but I'm just not a fan of chicken feathers." (Talking about Joey Jay)
  • '' ♪ Move aside, it's your girl, Denali, I'm cold as ice, hotter than a tamale. Keep up and I'm Chi-Town tough. Triple Lutz on these sluts 'cause I like it rough. I'm icy, spicy, for you, I'm too pricey, going for the gold, so I'ma get a little feisty. Strong like a Megatron, long like a marathon. AK to Babylon, I'm a phenomenon! ♪'' (verse in “Phenomenon”)
  • "Yucatan? Right." (In response to Utica's read in the Reading Challenge)
  • "I've been obsessed with lamps since I was, like, a little baby boy."
  • "Girl, womanly figure of Mrs. Potato head." (to Kandy Muse)
  • "Girl, flopiana!"
  • “We’re back in the werk roomiana.”
  • PERIOD! (After given advice by Anne Hathaway)
  • "Hi, gorgeous seashell flower money honey bunches of love! It is so good to be here, henny!" (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
  • "Praying to the gay Jesus himself: me!" (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
  • "Now the only thing hotter than Palm Springs is our resident culinary expert: Antoni, so i wrote 'Antoni's Ass Cheeks'." (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
  • "I do have a thing for men with the kind of bear that say 'Hold me in your arms until all the pain goes away' but also: 'power drills are in aisle 7 henny'." (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
  • "Great assets, turn him over and you can make a bennedict!" (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
  • ”A skater with a whole lot of class... and a whole lotta ass” (Exit Quote)

Extras

  • "Kandy's a cunt!” (Instagram Live with Joey Jay)
  • ”I’m about to shows, on these hoes.” (During her Meet The Queen)
  • '' ♪ Denali is the name, and snatching gold is the game. Get you excited, you call that 'A Tonya Hard-On.' Triple Lutz on these sluts, Chicago tough so got guts. I'll spell it out for you! I'm icy but pricey, a little bit spicy, at the end of the day you'll say... ♪ " (unused verse in "Condragulations" revealed on an Instagram Live)
  • ”Big Sco-ish coque!” (on a live with Rosé)
  • ”But you can call him Big Head” (on a live with Rosé)
  • '' ♪ Full house in poker, four leaf clover, lucky my titty so small I can hold her, lucky that the Windy City made me so gritty that I'm sitting so pretty, man fuck a make-over. Keep racking up views, skating on by like Sarah Hughes, ate no crumbs like I'm on vacation, three mil on an assassination. But i'm your ice queen, linin' up boys since seventeen, aiming high like I took an edible, member' the name cause I'm unforgettable. ♪ " (Unused Verse in "Lucky")

Farewell Message

"CLARA CLARA, OVER ANY GOLD MEDAL, CROWN OR CASH PRIZE, MY SISTERS WERE THE GREATEST REWARD. ASS OF '13 OFF TO GET SOME D! L8R SK8RS! ♡ DENALI💋"

Trivia

  • Denali has been doing drag since April of 2018.
  • Denali is a 3rd degree black belt.
  • Denali is fluent in English and Spanish. She also has Korean knowledge as she used to live in South Korea from 2012 to 2013.
    • She is a big fan of K-Pop girl groups. She has mentioned LOOΠΔ, IZ*ONE, ITZY, TWICE, 2NE1, BLACKPINK, Red Velvet, SNSD, and Chungha as her favorite K-Pop acts.
  • Her drag mother is Chicago drag queen Chamilla Foxx.
  • Denali introduced Priyanka to RuPaul's Drag Race when Season 9 was airing.
  • Denali is the first Drag Race contestant from the state of Alaska.
  • Denali is a professional ice skater, was on a national team for five years and has worked with professional touring companies such as Cirque du Soleil and Royal Caribbean. She describes herself as a "dance and ice queen".
    • This makes her the second Drag Race contestant to be an ice skater, after Milk.
  • Denali is the first Drag Race contestant to enter the Werk Room wearing ice skates and the second overall to enter it in skates, after Trixie Mattel in All Stars 3.
  • Denali is the second Drag Race contestant to lip sync in skates, after Robbie Turner (in roller skates), and is therefore the first one to lose a lip sync in skates.
    • However, she is the first one to lip sync in ice skates.
  • Denali is the first Drag Race contestant to win a lip sync after already having lost a lip sync within a single regular season.
  • Denali is the first Drag Race contestant to win a Maxi Challenge in her first competitive episode and land in the bottom two in the next.
  • Denali is the Drag Race contestant that came out on the runway in the same ordinal number the most times in a single season.
    • She was the first contestant to come out and do her runway presentation for six categories: We're Here We're Sheer, Trains for Days, Mixed Bags, Money Bags, Bag Ball Eleganza and Bead It.
  • Denali is the third Drag Race contestant to lip sync in the first three episodes she appeared in, after Akashia on Season 1 and BenDeLaCreme on All Stars 3.
    • However, BenDeLaCreme went on to lip sync in a fourth consecutive episode.
  • Denali has Deuteranomaly (commonly known as red-green colorblindness), meaning she has trouble distinguishing between red and green.[1]
  • Denali was arrested for public intoxication and possessing a controlled substance.
  • Denali has a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from the University of Utah.[2]
  • Denali is the lowest placing challenge winner on Season 13.
  • Denali and Olivia Lux are the second queens to have lipsynced to a gospel song, after Rebecca Glasscock and Shannel. Coincidentally, both pairs lip synced to the same song.
  • Denali, in Season 13, is the first queen to lip sync 5 times with all different outcomes:
    • On Episode 1, she lost to LaLa Ri and got "The Porkchop".
    • On Episode 3, she landed in the top two and won over Rosé.
    • On Episode 4, she landed in the bottom two, won over Kahmora Hall and kept her spot in the competition.
    • On Episode 10, she landed in the bottom two, lost to Olivia Lux and was eliminated.
    • On Episode 15, she was chosen as a lip sync assassin by Ru in the reunion and won the lipsync for her chosen charity against LaLa Ri
      • She, alongside LaLa, is also the first pair of queens who both won and lost a lipsync against the other in the same season.
  • She is one of two queens to place higher than the queen that beat her in the Pork Chop lip syncs, the other being Rosé.
  • Denali posted a video called "When I Grow Up (Ice Version)" after her premier lip sync against LaLa Ri, which The Pussycat Dolls supported, commenting "YAAAAASSSS @denalifoxx ICE QUEEN!!!! WE LOVE YOU!"
  • Denali was one of two queens officially named the lip sync assassins of Season 13 by RuPaul during the reunion episode, along with LaLa Ri.

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