Lemon

Lemon
Biographical Information
Drag Name	Lemon
Real Name	Christopher Elliott Baptista
Pronouns	She/Her, He/Him, & They/Them
Ethnicity	Portuguese Canadian
Height	5′8″ (1.70 m)
Date of Birth	September 1, 1995
Age	26
Hometown	Toronto, ON, Canada
Current City	Pickering, ON, Canada
Season Information
Season(s)	Canada Season 1
Place	5th
Eliminated	Episode 8
Sent home by	Rita Baga
Challenge Wins	2

Lemon is the stage name of Christopher Baptista, a drag performer, model, dancer, and one of the Season 1 contestants of Canada's Drag Race.

Drag Name Origin

Lemon's Drag Name is solely inspired by the citrus fruit of the same name, due to her self-proclaimed “Sour As Hell” attitude.

Track Record(s)

Lemon

Seasons Competed:	Canada Season 1
Ranking:	5th Place
Maxi Challenges Won:	2 (Eps. 2, 7)
Mini Challenges Won:	3 (Eps. 3, 5, 6)
Times as Team Captain:	1 (Ep. 3)
Times in Bottom Two:	2 (Eps. 1, 8)
Episode Eliminated:	Episode 8

Memorable Quotes

• "Pucker up, motherfucker." (entrance quote)
• "I'm Lemon, just like the citrus fruit."
• "I'm gorgeous, hilarious, and sour as hell."
• "I'm about to make these girls feel real bitter."
• "Delusional self-confidence is the Lemon brand."
• "Yes Paris! Give it to us!"
• "I just want my lip gloss!"
• "I hate my life!"
• "There is no way I'm going home. I love Juice Boxx so much, but I'm about to send this bitch packing".
• "I can't wait to win again next week!"
• "My name's Priyanka!"
• "I won another thing! I won another thing!"
• "Ooh, it starts with a high heel, we live!"
• "Everyone wants to be a dwoll, but they a trwoll."
• "I'm a straight-up rapstress."
• "♪ Ain't nobody pussy pop it quite like I do. Ain't nobody look turn a head like mine do. Ain't no laugh track slap like mine do. Ain't no queen rap it back like I do. When I step in the room, girls quake, Scarlett, Starzy, always safe. Rita's old and Ilona be fake. And that last girl, what's her name? ♪" (verse in "Not Sorry Aboot It")
• "Kiara, are you a bird? Because all your runway looks are cheep-cheep-cheep!" (Reading Kiara)
• "The only thing you're fucking is stupid." (reading Priyanka)
• "I just wrote, maybe it’s her haiw that keeps falling out, uh.. haiw." (as Jojo Siwa in Snatch Game)
• "Well, I get bullied all the time!" (as Jojo Siwa in Snatch Game)
• "At least I’m still alive, bitch." (To Jimbo, as Jojo Siwa in Snatch Game)
• "I love a bratty pageant princess."
• (In a Southern accent) "I love pageants."
• (In a Southern accent) "DADDY!"
• "Ugh... I'm gonna be bitter forever." (exit quote)
• ♪Don't even have to ask for it for me to get it. When you see my ass in this I charge credit. Your dad drops stacks on this and don't forget it. He's tryna find my pussy pics up on Reddit. Gloss on the blunt, ain't sorry it's Fenty. Don't mean to stunt but we stuntin', plenty. End of the night and your bank account empty. Yeah, LemYanka own 2020. It's like BFF necklace, VIP guest list. Leavin' boys breathless. When we get reckless. My laugh is infectious. Roll up in a Lexus. Me and my girl. Come through. Let's get this.♪ (verse in "Come Through" by Priyanka)

Farewell Message

"To my Top 4: I LOVE YOU, I'M PROUD OF YOU, & YOU'RE ALL DUMB + UGLY ♡ xoxo, Lemon"

Trivia

• Christopher is a professional contemporary ballet dancer, and previously performed with the Canadian national Tap team.
• Lemon once was a backup dancer for her fellow contestant Tynomi Banks.
• Lemon is Jasmine Rice LaBeija's drag daughter, Rosé, Brita, and Alexis Michelle's drag niece and Jan's drag cousin. She and Jan were formerly roommates.
• Lemon was chosen by Sasha Velour to be one of the models in her New York Fashion Week collaboration with Opening Ceremony.
• Lemon and Ilona Verley are the two first queens of Canada's Drag Race to live and come from outside of Canada, from the US.
• Lemon is the second person of Portuguese ancestry to compete on a Drag Race franchise, after Phi Phi O'Hara.
• Lemon had been doing drag for one year before being cast on Canada's Drag Race.
• Lemon is the fourth contestant in history to land in the Bottom two on her first episode competing and later win a Maxi Challenge during a regular season, after Sahara Davenport, Shangela and Darienne Lake.
• Every time Lemon was in the top or bottom on a certain episode, she was in the bottom or top on the following one, similar to Tatianna on All Stars 2 of the US version of the show.
• Lemon is the 17th contestant to win a maxi challenge and be eliminated the following episode, after Ongina (Season 1), Jessica Wild (Season 2), Stacy Layne Matthews (Season 3), Manila Luzon (Season 3 & All Stars 4), Laganja Estranja (Season 6), Katya (Season 7 & All Stars 2), Derrick Barry (Season 8), Tatianna (twice), Alyssa Edwards and Phi Phi O'Hara (All Stars 2), Shangela (All Stars 3), Miz Cracker (Season 10 & All Stars 5), Monique Heart (All Stars 4), Nina West (Season 11), Blu Hydrangea (Drag Race UK Season 1), and Gigi Goode (Season 12).
  • She was then followed by A'Whora in UK Season 2.
• Lemon is also a model when she's out of drag, as a man.
• Lemon made a collaboration with Vogue Brazil.
• Alaska was the first person to put her in drag.

Drag Family

House of Michelle

Kizha Carr

Dusty Ray Bottoms

Alexis Michelle

Brita

Jasmine Rice LaBeija

Rosé

Jan

Lagoona Bloo

Lemon

Castrata

Gallery

Mini Promo

Mini Trailer

Canada's Drag Race 1 Looks

Promo Look

Confessional Look

Entrance Look

Mini Challenge Photoshoot

Canuck Couture Fantasy Look – Jock Scraps

Not My First Time Look

Québec-ky With The Good Hair Look

Single-Use Queens Look

Snatch Game Look – JoJo Siwa

Night of a Thousand Céline Dions Look – Academy Awards, 1998

Canadian Tux-She-Do: Denim on Denim on Denim Look

Pageant Perfection Look

A Family Affair Look – with Lime

Unaired Executive Holiday Party Realness Look

Coronation Eleganza Look

Videos

MEET THE QUEENS Lemon

Canada's Drag Race Meet Lemon

All of Lemon's Runway Looks Canada's Drag Race

Jan, Cheryl & Lemon’s Three-Way Diva Makeup Tutorial - RuPaul’s Drag Race

Filmography

TV

• Canada's Drag Race, on Season 1, as herself/contestant. (2020)

Web Series

• TBA

External Links

• Instagram
• Twitter