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Ilona Verley

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Ilona Verley is a drag artist and one of the Season 1 contestants of Canada's Drag Race. She is the first Indigenous, Two-Spirit and LA-Based queen to appear on Canada's Drag Race.

Name Origin[]

Her drag name comes from her real name.[3]

Track Records[]

Seasons Competed: Canada Season 1
Ranking: 6th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 0
Mini Challenges Won: 0
Times as Team Captain: 0
Times in Bottom Two: 3 (Eps. 4, 6, 7)
Episode Eliminated: Episode 7

Memorable Quotes[]

Canada's Drag Race Season 1[]

  • "Alright, party girls, we're just about to walk into the werkroom for the first time and I'm gonna let these whores have it! Thanks for tuning in, bye!" *throws phone away* (entrance quote)
  • "I'm Ilona Verley and I'm a fucking bitch!"
  • "I have a pretty big following, and it's all real."
  • "BOA, you didn't pick me? You should've not picked yourself, bitch!"
  • "Sissy!"
  • "♪ Everything I do is sheer perfection. Everywhere I look, men cover their erections. Everything they wear gets them a detention. Everywhere they go, people have nothing nice to mention! It must suck when you get no attention.. Hahaha! I'm so funny. ♪" (verse in "Not Sorry Aboot It")
  • ”I can’t do this" *cries*
  • ”It’s just annoying like I spent all this money and all this time and effort like putting together sickening looks for this competition to be fucking wearing garbage! I wanted to come here and fucking like represent my culture, I wanted to represent for fucking trans people and non-binary people and all I’m representing for right now is fucking like dumpster divers!”
  • "I literally look like shit."
  • "YAS I'M A FOOKING COCK DESTROYAH!" (as Rebecca More in Snatch Game)
  • "C-OCK." (as Rebecca More in Snatch Game)
  • "I'll fucking smell your fingers, yes!" (as Rebecca More interacting with Jimbo as Joan Rivers in Snatch Game)
  • "No, sorry I actually don't care." (Whilst being critiqued and asked if she was listening [Unaired])
  • "She literally whams me with a book. There was a full-on like sound effect and it's not fake, that was the book hitting my face thank you."
  • "I painted these eggplants, this is like us, and then this bowl is like society holding us back." (as Miss Erable in the Miss Loose Jaw pageant)
  • "Stop mocking me! Would you like it more if it was like sexualized." (as Miss Erable in the Miss Loose Jaw pageant)
  • "I don't like you guys I'm done being talented."
  • "I might be leaving, but party girls never die!" (exit quote)

Farewell Message[]

"Our world is changing for the better and I'm blessed to be a part of that change. ♡Ilona♡"

Trivia[]

  • Ilona is the first First Nations contestant to compete on Drag Race, specifically being Nlaka'pamux.
  • Ilona is the first Two-Spirit queen to compete on Canada's Drag Race, and second on the franchise as a whole, after Kelly Mantle on the sixth season of the American series. They were followed by Beth on the second season of the Canadian series.
  • Ilona auditioned for Drag Race a total of three times, twice for the American series (the eleventh and twelfth seasons) and once for the Canadian series.[6]
    • Although she was still in the audition process for the twelfth season, she felt as her drag and her story as an Indigenous person would be appreciated more by a Canadian audience.[6]
  • Ilona attended the Blanche MacDonald Centre in Vancouver.[8]
  • Ilona is the first queen to ever impersonate a porn star in the Snatch Game, Rebecca More. She was followed by Keta Minaj who played Sophie Anderson on the second season of Drag Race Holland.
  • At 6th place, Ilona is the highest placing contestant on Canada's Drag Race to never win a Maxi Challenge or at least place in the top on any episode.
  • Ilona's meltdown in episode four began in Untucked!, she had placed her clothes in Tynomi's closet and asked the producers to pack up and go home but was encouraged to keep going.[3]
  • Ilona has over 200 tattoos, with one of them being a tattoo of Lemon's signature.[citation needed]
    • Her reason for doing so was a fight the two had on set that didn't make it to the final cut, so she wanted to make it clear that they are still friends.[citation needed]
    • She also has a tattoo of Jimbo's face after the lipsync in episode four, and a matching one with BOA representing their lipsync.[citation needed]
  • Ilona's first performance in drag was opening for Adore Delano.[9]
  • Ilona is the drag sister of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under contestant Molly Poppinz.[10]
  • Ilona went to the same high school as The Girlfriend Experience.[citation needed]

Gallery[]

Canada's Drag Race Season 1[]

Canada's Drag Race Season 1 Looks[]

Videos[]

Filmography[]

TV[]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2020 Canada's Drag Race (Season 1) Self Contestant, Placed 6th

Discography[]

Appearances/Features[]

Year Title Notes
2020 "Not Sorry Aboot It" by The Cast of Canada's Drag Race, Season 1

External Links[]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indigenous Queen Ilona Verley On Bringing Two-Spirit Representation to Canada’s Drag Race | Vogue — August 31, 2020
  2. ↑ Post by bitchonarrival | X — April 17, 2021
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Ilona Verley: Exposed (The Full Interview) | YouTube — September 22, 2021
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 How former Canada's Drag Race contestant Ilona Verley came to terms with being on the trans spectrum | The Georgia Straight — July 22, 2021
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Indigenous Queen Ilona Verley On Bringing Two-Spirit Representation to Canada’s Drag Race | Vogue — August 31, 2020
  7. ↑ https://blog.grsmontreal.com/en/drag/
  8. ↑ Ilona Verley’s Two-Spirit Fierceness Shines on Canada’s Drag Race | BlancheMacdonald — February 15, 2021
  9. ↑ Canada's Drag Race — Season 1; Episode 2: "Her-Itage Moments" | Crave — July 9, 2020
  10. ↑ Post by spankie_jackzon | Instagram — July 26, 2022

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