Lemon

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

Name Origin

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

Canada's Drag Race

Memorable Quotes

• "Pucker up, motherfucker." (entrance quote)
• "I'm Lemon, just like the citrus fruit."
• "I'm gorgeous, hilarious, and sour as hell."
• "Just my couch."
• "Oooh, the Rocky Mountains."
• "I'm about to make these girls feel real bitter."
• "Yes Paris! Give it to us!"
• "I just want my lip gloss!"
• "I hate my life!"
• "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")
• "I hope everyone thought I looked like Groot's sexy mother."
• "The only thing you're fucking is stupid." (reading Priyanka)

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 was formerly the roommate of Jan.
• Lemon is in the same drag family as Brita.
• 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 New York City and Los Angeles respectively.
• Lemon is the first person of Portuguese ancestry to compete on a Drag Race franchise.
• Lemon had been doing drag for one year before being cast on Canada's Drag Race.
• Lemon is the first queen to lip sync in episode one and stay in the competition longer than three episodes since Kandy Ho in Season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
• Lemon is the fourth contestant in herstory 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.
  • All four of these queens have coincidentally won the Maxi Challenge in the very next episode.

Gallery

Canada's Drag Race Season 1 Looks

Videos

MEET THE QUEENS Lemon

Canada's Drag Race Meet Lemon

Filmography

TV

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

Web Series

• TBA

Social Media

• Lemon's Instagram | Twitter

References

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