Jan Sport, mononymously known as Jan, is an American drag performer from Manhattan, New York City and one of the Season 12 contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race.
She later returned to compete on All Stars 6, where she placed 7th.
Name Origin[]
It is revealed in a BuzzFeed video that she decided on Jan Sport because not only does she think it is a funny reference to the brand of backpacks, but because it reflects her love of sports, such as football, hockey, and soccer.
Similarly to Brita, she shortened her name to Jan for Drag Race, adding that she loves Jan Brady from the sitcom "The Brady Bunch."
Track Records[]
| Statistics | USA Season 12 | USA All Stars Season 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Ranking: | 8th Place | 7th Place |
| Maxi Challenges Won: | 0 | 1 (Ep. 4) |
| Mini Challenges Won: | 0 | 0 |
| Times as Team Captain: | 0 | 0 |
| Times in Bottom: | 1 (Ep. 8) | 3 (Eps. 3, 5, 7) |
| Episode Eliminated: | Episode 8 | Episode 7 |
Entrance Quotes[]
Season 12[]
"Hey y'all! Let's play some basketball! Yeah!"
All Stars 6[]
"I'm backpack, backpack, back again!"
Memorable Quotes[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12[]
- Rock: "Oh! Jan Sport?" Jan: "Oh, it's just Jan!" (when Rock M. Sakura says her original name)
- "I'm really ambitious, I'm very driven, and I don't apologize for that."
- "Damn, some of this stuff looks real cute, some of it also looks real tacky."
- "I'm shocked. I'm confused."
- "What were you? Like, apple tree #3?" (to Dahlia Sin)
- "♪Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, move over sis, it's Jan! The girl next door, plus so much more, there's no choice but to stan! Worked so hard to get here, but I still want more! Push farther into mainstream than any queen before! My stunning look, this sickening hook, I can do everything! And did I mention you'll be gagging when I start to sing?♪" (verse in "You Don't Know Me")
- "She's a fierce broc-ally."
- "I'm dribbling a soccer ball down this runway! Who else?"
- "I've had a full face transplant!" (in Gay's Anatomy)
- "There's no business like show business! So let's send in the clowns! Oh wait, they're already here." (as Bernadette Peters in Snatch Game)
- "We're on Drag Race! How fun!"
- "America, world, thank you so much. I hope you got to get to know me a little bit more. And everyone, (moans) mhmn~, get ready to feel to the Jantasy, ah! Bye!" (exit quote)
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 6[]
- "Welcome To An Episode of Jantucked!" (Untucked entrance quote)
- "J for Jandetta."
- "Jan's got something to say Everybody jokes I'm so nice, nice, nice, But I love me so I don't think twice. I'm real, it's how I feel. My positive outlook you just can't steal. I'm peppy peppy peppy, that's my energy. Want it all the time, that's how I be. So get out of my head and shake my junk. You know what Mama Ru said "Bring my funk!"" (verse in Show Up Queen)
- “Well, as we like to say on the internet; ugh, not this!" (exit quote)
Extras[]
- "Not this." (on a livestream)
Trivia[]
- Jan started drag on July 8, 2016.[4]
- Coincidentally, she won her first maxi challenge in Episode 4 of All Stars 6, which aired five years later on July 8, 2021.
- Jan is the drag daughter of Season 9 contestant Alexis Michelle.[5]
- In Season 12, Jan was..
- ...the first Season 12 contestant to be revealed.
- ...the first person of Armenian ancestry to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race.[1]
- ...the second queen after The Vixen to spend four weeks without receiving any critiques on the main stage (Episodes 3 to 6), and to be sent to Untucked right away.
- However, the record in not receiving critiques for the longest period (five weeks) is held by Jaidynn Diore Fierce and Widow Von'Du.
- After Jan's elimination on Season 12, her grandmother sent an angry letter to RuPaul.[7]
- On All Stars 6, Jan became...
- ...the only queen to compete in two seasons with 13 cast members, along with Jiggly Caliente and Yara Sofia.
- ...the seventh Drag Race contestant to have competed in two seasons with the same number of contestants, after Raven, Jujubee, Pandora Boxx, Yara Sofia, Jiggly Caliente and Eureka!.
- ...the only contestant to have been part of a vote tie twice, in Episodes 5 and 7.
- ...the only contestant to have been eliminated by the loser of a Lip Sync for your Legacy, Trinity K. Bonet, who got back the power to eliminate after the group vote tied.
- ...the third queen to break a Mainstage light during a lip sync. She was preceded by Robbie Turner and Monét X Change.
- ...the eight queen overall to be up for elimination the episode before and the episode after winning a maxi challenge. The first were Rebecca Glasscock, Stacy Layne Matthews, Ginger Minj, Derrick Barry, Kennedy Davenport, Naomi Smalls, and Utica Queen.
- ... the first All Star to be sent home by the Top All Star of the Week despite losing against the Lip Sync Assassin due to a group vote tie. She was followed by Jessica Wild on All Stars 8.
- Jan had the exact same placements in the Acting, Ball and Commercial challenges both of the times she competed; she was on top for the Acting, safe in the Ball and up for elimination in the Commercial challenge.
- Interestingly enough, Jan placed 8th in Season 12 and went home in Episode 8, and then placed 7th in All Stars 6 going home in Episode 7.
- Jan's All Stars 6 promo outfit, as well as her planned outfit for the final lip sync for the crown, were designed and created by Drag Race Thailand Season 1 contestant Bunny Be Fly.[8]
- On All Stars 6, Jan used a mini "Shade" button every time she was filming her confessionals, which was cut out altogether from the final edits.[9]
- Jan competed on Season 14 of America's Got Talent with her drag vocal trio act Stephanie's Child, of which Season 13 contestant Rosé and drag queen Lagoona Bloo are also part of.
- Interestingly enough, Jan wore the exact same outfit in the episode Stephanie's Child was eliminated and in the episode she got eliminated on All Stars 6 (the pastel purple leotard with stars and tassels).
- Jan holds a YouTube series called Jan’s Jukebox, where she covers songs including every Season 12 lip sync song.
- Jan helped Miz Cracker stone her Season 10 Denim and Diamonds look. Miz Cracker also helped Jan to get bookings at the start of her career.[10]
- Jan's Snatch Game option for All Stars 6 was Abraham Lincoln.[11]
- Jan is open to compete on a VS The World Season.[12]
- In April 2023 Jan began hosting the podcast Unpacked with Jan Sport.
Discography[]
Singles[]
- Let Loose (Andrew's Angels Edition) - Lemon, Loosey LaDuca, Jan
Gallery[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12[]
Mini Promo
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12 Looks[]
Promo Look
Cast RuVeal Look
Press Week Look
Premiere Look
Confessional Look
Entrance Look
Spring Look
Fall Look
Tulle Look
Buttons and Bows Look
Ball Looks – Lady Baller, Basketball Wife Realness & Balls to the Wall Eleganza
Planet of the Capes Look
Snatch Game Look – Bernardette Peters
Frozen Eleganza Look
Madonna: The Unauthorized Rusical Look – Early Madonna
Night of a Thousand Michelle Visages Look – Season 7: Glamazonian Airways
Black Wedding Look
Unaired Stars and Stripes Forever Look
Unaired Drag Family Resemblance Look – with Cindy
Unaired The Color Purple Look
Reunion Look
Grand Finale Look
RuPaul's Drag Race Bring Back My Ghouls[]
Promo
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 6[]
Mini Promo
Promo Banner
Mini Trailer
Queens RuVeal
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 6 Looks[]
Promo Look
Press Week Look
Stonewall Inn Look
Premiere Look
Confessional Look
Entrance Look
All Stars Star-Studded Variety Extravaganza Look
Blue Betta Work Look
Blue Jean Baby Look
Blue Ball Bonanza Look
RuDemption Runway Look - Entrance Look (S12; E2)
Half-Time Show Look – Lady Gaga
The Frill of It All Look
Episode 4 LSFYL Look
Pink Table Talk Look
Clash of the Patterns Look
Oh My Goth Look
Show Up Queen Look
Hot Tropics Look
Unaired Pop Art Look
Rudemption Lip-Sync Smackdown Round 6 Look
Unaired Oops! I Did It Again, A Fashionable Fashion Fail Look
Unaired All Star Hall of Fame Eleganza Extravaganza Look
Unaired LSFTC Look
Videos[]
Season 12[]
Meet Jan — Season 12
Episode 8 “This is My Night” Lip Sync
Jan’s Lady Baller Look Makeup Tutorial RuPaul’s Drag Race
All of Jan's Runway Looks Season 12
Others[]
Inside Jan’s NYC Apartment S3 E1 RuPaul’s Drag Race Out of the Closet
Jan, Cheryl & Lemon’s Three-Way Diva Makeup Tutorial - RuPaul’s Drag Race-2
Filmography[]
TV[]
- (2019) America's Got Talent, on Season 14
- (2020) RuPaul's Drag Race, on Season 12
- (2020) Untucked, on Season 12
Web Series[]
- (2020) Miz Cracker's Review with a Jew - S12 E02
- (2020) Watcha Packin' - S12 E08
- (2021) The Pit Stop - S13 E08
Discography[]
Singles[]
- (2020) "You don't know me" by RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12 Cast
- (2021) "Jantasy" by Jan
- (2021) "Gay Hands Up" by Jan (feat. Alaska, Peppermint)
- (2023) “For You Only” by Jan (feat. Tayce)
- (2023) “Christmas Hookup” by Jan
External Links[]
References[]
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| Winner | Jaida Essence Hall |
|---|---|
| Runners-Up | 2nd & 3rd: Crystal Methyd & Gigi Goode |
| Other Contestants | 4th: Sherry Pie (Disqualified) • 5th: Jackie Cox • 6th: Heidi N Closet (Miss Congeniality) • 7th: Widow Von'Du • 8th: Jan • 9th: Brita • 10th: Aiden Zhane • 11th: Nicky Doll • 12th: Rock M. Sakura • 13th: Dahlia Sin |
| Judges | |
| Pit Crew | Jason Carter • Bruno Carvalho • Bryce Eilenberg |
| Winner | Kylie Sonique Love |
|---|---|
| Runners-Up | 2nd, 3rd & 4th: Eureka!, Ginger Minj & Ra'Jah O'Hara |
| Other Contestants | 5th: Trinity K. Bonet • 6th: Pandora Boxx • 7th: Jan • 8th: A'keria C. Davenport • 9th: Scarlet Envy • 10th: Yara Sofia • 11th: Silky Nutmeg Ganache • 12th: Jiggly Caliente • 13th: Serena ChaCha |
| Lip Sync Assassins | Coco Montrese • Brooke Lynn Hytes • Laganja Estranja • Jessica Wild • Mayhem Miller • Manila Luzon • Alexis Mateo • Heidi N Closet • Kameron Michaels • Jaida Essence Hall |
| Judges | RuPaul • Michelle Visage • Carson Kressley • Ross Mathews |
| Pit Crew | Bruno Carvalho • Bryce Eilenberg |