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Lemon is a Canadian drag performer, model, dancer, and one of the contestants on the first season of Canada's Drag Race.

On 17 January 2022, Lemon was announced as one of nine contestants who would be competing on the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World.

On June 26, 2024, Lemon was announced as one of the contestants of the second season of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World, which she won.

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The drag queen Lemon derived her name from the citrus fruit, symbolizing her self-described 'Sour As Hell' attitude. She has participated in several drag race seasons, notably Canada Season 1 and UK vs The World Season 1.
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Lemon, the drag queen, made her debut on Canada's Drag Race. She holds the distinction of being the fourth contestant to be in the bottom two in her first episode and later secure a win in a Maxi Challenge. She faced elimination in the first episode of both seasons she participated in. Furthermore, she was the first to be eliminated from RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World, becoming a member of the Porkchop Queens, a group of contestants who were the first to be eliminated in their respective franchises.
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The drag queen Lemon has competed in two Drag Race seasons. Her first appearance was on Canada's Drag Race Season 1, where she was sent home in episode 8. She also participated in the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World, but was eliminated in the first episode.
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Lemon, also known as Christopher, was a professional ballet dancer and part of the Canadian national Tap team before her drag career. She was a backup dancer for Tynomi Banks and part of the drag family, with Jasmine Rice LaBeija as her drag mother. She modeled for Sasha Velour's New York Fashion Week collaboration and worked as a model out of drag, collaborating with Vogue Brazil. Alaska introduced her to drag, and she had been performing for a year before joining Canada's Drag Race.
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Lemon, known as a drag queen, also excels in other professions. She models, including collaborations with Vogue Brazil. She's a professional contemporary ballet dancer and has danced with the Canadian national Tap team. Lemon has been a backup dancer for Tynomi Banks and modeled for Sasha Velour's New York Fashion Week collaboration with Opening Ceremony.
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Drag Name Origin[]

Lemon's drag name comes from the citrus fruit of the same name, due to her self-proclaimed "sour as hell" attitude.[citation needed]

Track Records[]

Seasons Competed: Canada Season 1 UK vs The World
Season 1 		Canada vs The World
Season 2
Ranking: 5th Place 9th Place 1st Place
(Winner)
Maxi Challenges Won: 2 (Eps. 2, 7) 0 2 (Eps. 1, 5)
Mini Challenges Won: 3 (Eps. 3, 5, 6) 0 0
Times as Team Captain: 1 (Ep. 3) 0 0
Times in Bottom Two: 2 (Eps. 1, 8) 1 (Ep. 1) 0
Episode Eliminated: Episode 8 Episode 1 N/A

Memorable Quotes[]

Canada's Drag Race Season 1[]

  • "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)
  • "You talk about having sex a lot but 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)
  • "This is a serious issue for drag queens everywhere, so me and Priyanka are just here to protect your vagina."
  • "The two girls who started a fight with me in Untucked had to lip sync, so, hopefully, that curse continues."
  • "It's a new day in the werkroom, and all of these bitches hate me, so I'm gonna send them packing." *smiles*
  • "I love a bratty pageant princess."
  • (In a Southern accent) "I would like to thank my father for his endless finan-ci-al contri-bu-ti-ons. Thank you so much. Enjoy this show."
  • (In a Southern accent) "I love pageants."
  • (In a Southern accent) "DADDY!"
  • "Ugh. I'm gonna be bitter forever." (exit quote)

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World Season 1[]

  • "I heard you missed your main squeeze." *smooch* (entrance quote)
  • "We can't either" (referring to Jujubee being back)
  • "Stay juicy." (exit quote)
  • "Nothing." (when asked what she learned from the competition)

Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World Season 2[]

  • "Honey, I'm home!"
  • "It's time to fulfill my zestany." (entrance line)
  • "I won two maxi challenges which accumulates to I won the whole season!"
  • "I think the other queens are slightly happy to see me and slightly pissed that I'm here, but you know what? Live, laugh, lem!"
  • Fiercalicious: "I did not bring.. underwear or socks."
    • Lemon: "Would you say that's cause you're stupid or forgetful?"
    • Fiercalicious: "Both."
  • "Literally stoned from my head to feet, I got the track on a plate and I eat the beat. You know I ain't got beef cause I don't eat meat, but still, I'd never let a fake bitch fuck with me. As I just walked in, they already shook, Lemon got them on their tippies like Lynn Hytes, Brook. Playing chess, I'm the queen and you're only a rook, rapstress, never miss, and I'm serving a look. New year but I'm still the same bitch, new fit but you know I'm still rich, new faux fur, new real drip, but still ain't found a pussy popping quite like this!" (Verse in "Tongue Pop")
  • "Pucker up, motherfuckers."
  • "This is a very, very difficult job. But, you know, this is sadly the way the lemon cookie crumbles."
  • "CERYL!" (Revealing who she chose in The Hole)
  • "Homophobic!"
  • "Where did you buy your wigs?"
  • "Bitch, don't try it."
  • "I'm Portuguese!"

Farewell Message[]

Canada's Drag Race Season 1[]

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

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World Season 1[]

"Love you all. Not a bitter Lemon. See you on tour. xoxo, Lem."

Trivia[]

  • Lemon is a professional contemporary ballet dancer, and previously performed with the Canadian national tap team.[citation needed]
  • Lemon was a backup dancer for Tynomi Banks.[citation needed]
  • Lemon is Jasmine Rice LaBeija's drag daughter, Jax[4] and Lexington Banks' drag sister, 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.[citation needed]
  • Lemon and Ilona Verley are first contestants on Canada's Drag Race to be based outside of Canada, both residing in the United States at the time of competing.
  • Lemon had been doing drag for one year before being cast on Canada's Drag Race.[citation needed]
  • 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.
  • Out of drag, Lemon is a model.[citation needed]
  • Lemon made a collaboration with Vogue Brazil.[5]
  • Alaska was the first person to put her in drag.[citation needed]
  • Being the first eliminated contestant of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World, Lemon joins the group of the Porkchop Queens, the contestants who are the first to be eliminated in an entire franchise.
  • Lemon shares a birthday with Tempest DuJour.
  • Lemon and Priyanka are the first former contestants to later have one of their songs used as a lip sync song. Their song "Come Through" was used as the lip sync song on Season 4 episode 4 of Canada's Drag Race.
  • Jan gave Lemon the wig she wore for the Pageant runway on Canada's Drag Race.[6]
  • Lemon is the youngest contestant to compete on three different seasons.
  • Lemon and Cheryl are one of the first two queens to do a vs The World series twice.
  • Canada Vs The World Season 2 is the first season where Lemon didn't place in the bottom for the first episode.
  • Lemon is the third winner and contestant to place in the top for every Maxi Challenge, after Keiona on Drag Race France Season 2 and Drag Sethlas in Drag Race España: All Stars Season 1.
  • Lemon is the first ever "Porkchop Queen" to go back on Drag Race and win the crown.
  • Lemon is the third winner to win on their third season competing, after Ra'Jah O'Hara and Jimbo. She was followed by Alyssa Edwards.
  • Jimbo and Lemon were eliminated by Pangina in UK Vs The World Season 1 to coincidentally win a season of Drag Race on their third time competing.
    • Coincidentally, Jimbo and Lemon also happened to both be eliminated by Rita Baga on their original season, Canada's Drag Race (Season 1).
      • They also both beat out a runner-up of Latino ethnicity that had survived three bottom placements on their original season, Alexis Mateo and Kandy Muse respectively.

Gallery[]

Canada's Drag Race Season 1[]

Canada's Drag Race Season 1 Looks[]

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World Season 1[]

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World Season 1 Looks[]

Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World Season 2[]

Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World Season 2 Looks[]

Videos[]

Filmography[]

TV[]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2020 Canada's Drag Race (Season 1) Self Contestant, Placed 5th
2022 RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World (Season 1) Self Contestant, Placed 9th
2024 Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World (Season 2) Self Contestant, Placed 1st

Discography[]

Singles and EPs[]

Year Title Notes
2022 "Sweet and Sour"
2022 "Sticky Sweet" feat. Lagoona Bloo
2022 "Tongue (12" Mix)"
2023 "Big Bank"

Appearances/Features[]

Year Title Artwork Notes
2020 "Not Sorry Aboot It" by The Cast of Canada's Drag Race, Season 1
2021 "Come Through" by Priyanka feat. Lemon
2024 "Tongue Pop" as The Slapbacks!, in Canada Vs. The World Season 2

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