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Pangina Heals

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Pangina Heals (TH: แพนไจน่า ฮีลส์)[6] is a drag performer and the host of Drag Race Thailand.

Pangina later became a competitor on first season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World. She finished the race in 6th place, being sent home by Blu Hydrangea.

Pangina later returned as a Lip-Sync Assassin in All Stars 8. She won her lip-sync against her UK vs The World sister Jimbo, revealing the group chose to eliminate Naysha Lopez.

On April 3, 2024, Pangina was announced as one of eight queens to appear in RuPaul's Drag Race Live Untucked.

On November 14, 2023, it was revealed that Pangina Heals would be returning as the only host of Drag Race Thailand (Season 3).

Drag Name Origin

Her drag name was derived from a combination of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 1 contestant Ongina and her real name, Pan Pan. It also comes from her love for Peter Pan,[2] and the supercontinent Pangaea, as Pan Pan likes the idea of unity.[8] Her last name is "Heals" because drag has truly helped, healed, and saved her life. Drag healed her and inspired her to love herself even more in times when she felt low.[9]

Track Records

Pangina Heals
Seasons Competed: UK vs The World
Season 1
Ranking: 6th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 2 (Eps. 1, 3)
Mini Challenges Won: 0
Times as Team Captain: 0
Times in Bottom: 1 (Ep. 4)
Episode Eliminated: Episode 4

Memorable Quotes

Drag Race Thailand Season 1

  • "FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!"

Drag Race Thailand Season 2

  • "Yesterday you fucking killed it! Don't make shit up when I tell you fix this!" (To Bandit)

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World Season 1

  • "อีนี้ มันต้องโดนตบ!"
  • "I'm officially, officially, a Ru Girl."
  • "They don't know who I am. I'm going to be the dark horse of this competition. I know what they can do, but they don't know what I can do."
  • "I know this one, it means you're ugly."
  • "Ready for Thai Tea? 'Cause Pangina Heals is in the house." (entrance line)
  • "Where am I from? It's called BANGKOK!"
  • "Blu Hydrangea, You're such a horny little devil! When you took the A-levels, you got an STD." (during Reading Is Fundamental)
  • "Ms. Jimbo, Canadian just like Celine Dion. That explains when you do the lip-sync, you go down like the Titanic." (during Reading Is Fundamental)
  • "Everyone knows its what separates the girls from the ladies" (about Snatch Game)
  • "I wanna say sorry to all the Thai people that I didn't go all the way. หนูขอโทษค่ะ หนูขอโทษ ขอบคุณค่ะ." (exit quote)
  • "I was fine." (When asked how heart broken she was after her elimination)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 8

  • "From Thailand to the US of A!" (Lip Sync Assassin entrance quote)

Farewell Message

UK vs The World Season 1

"I love you all from the bottom of my ♡ ขอบคุณทุกคนที่รักปันค่ะ"

Trivia

  • Pangina is fluent in both Thai and English and frequently mixes the two languages on Drag Race Thailand.[10]
  • Her first time in drag was in 2011.[9]
  • Her mother is Taiwanese and her father is Thai.[3]
  • Pangina was the runway coach for the Miss Universe Thailand 2019 runway walk.[11]
    • A sped-up video of the runway walk later became a meme on social media, especially on X.
  • Pangina has worked with majority of the contestants and even worked for one of them (M Stranger Fox was the owner of the Stranger Bar, one of her home bars).[3]
  • Pangina's drag daughter, Felicia Heals, appeared on the casting special of the second season of Drag Race Thailand and made it to Top 40 of the casting process. Felicia is one of the only cisgender female queens to appear on the Drag Race franchise.[12]
  • Due to Art Arya being absent in the second half of the tenth episode of Season 2, Pangina decided the Top Five herself.
  • Pangina is known for impersonating Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey.[13]
  • One day before competing on T Battle, Thailand's first drag competition show,[14] Pangina broke her leg after she ran up to a "Happy Hour" sign at a bar.[3] She had to compete in a wheelchair for weeks and won the show.[4]
    • Pangina broke her legs two times.[3]
  • In an interview with Mera Mangle, Pangina revealed that she does waacking.[9]
    • During this interview, she also mentioned that Drag Race Thailand was not officially canceled and it may have a comeback.[9] This later was confirmed true, and Drag Race Thailand returned to screens for its third season in 2024.
  • Pangina studied Fine Arts at UCLA.[3]
  • Pangina is very passionate about marine biology and even got accepted into the University of Boston.[3]
  • Pangina is the first queen to host a Drag Race Series and then be a contestant on another one, having never been a contestant prior (Brooke Lynn Hytes was a contestant on season 11 of the American series before becoming a host and judge on Canada's Drag Race).
    • Including Non-Drag Race shows, she is the third, after Kita Mean and Anita Wigl'it.
    • She is also the first queen in the franchise to be featured in an all stars cast without competing as a contestant in a regular season prior.
  • Pangina is the first queen on RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World to win a golden RuPeter badge.
    • She is also the first queen to win a second golden RuPeter badge on the same season.
  • Pangina is the second queen to be eliminated on Snatch Game portraying Mariah Carey, following Kiara on Canada's Drag Race Season 1.
  • Pangina is the third queen on UK vs The World to be eliminated despite never placing below safe before her elimination episode. This was previously done by Cheryl Hole's elimination on episode 2 and Jimbo's elimination on episode 3.
  • On UK vs The World, Pangina managed to send home Lemon and Jimbo, the only two Canadian queens. She is also the second queen to do this after Rita Baga, who eliminated them both on Canada's Drag Race season 1 in that order.
  • Pangina is the third international contestant to appear on The Pit Stop, after The Vivienne and Priyanka; however, she is the first Thai contestant to appear on the show.
  • Pangina enforces a rule at House of Heals, the club she owns, that anyone who discriminates against women in the club will be escorted off of the premises.[15]
  • Pangina is the first International Lip Sync Assassin to appear on All Stars, winning a lip sync against Jimbo in Episode 2.
    • Coincidentally, Pangina also beat Jimbo in their first lip sync on the first episode of UK vs the World and sent her home on the third episode.
  • Pangina was added to the Season Pass of RuPaul's Drag Race Superstar in March 2024, alongside the tagline "Spicy".
  • Both of the queens Pangina sent home on UK vs The World would later go on to win a season of Drag Race, with Jimbo winning All Stars 8 & Lemon winning Canada Vs The World 2.

Gallery

Drag Race Thailand Season 1 Looks

Drag Race Thailand Season 2 Looks

Drag Race Thailand Season 3 Looks

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

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 8 Looks

Drag Race Philippines Season 2 Looks

RuPaul's Drag Race Live!

RuPaul's Drag Race Live Untucked Season 1

RuPaul's Drag Race Live Untucked Season 1 Looks

Videos

Drag Race Thailand

Follow Me

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World Season 1

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 14

Filmography

TV

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2018 Drag Race Thailand (Season 1) Self Co-host [2]
2019 Drag Race Thailand (Season 2) Self Co-host [2]
2022 RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World (Season 1) Self Contestant (Placed 6th) [16]
2024 Drag Race Thailand (Season 3) Self Host

External Links

References

  1. ↑ Post by panginaheals | Instagram — April 18, 2021
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Life Stories EXCLUSIVE: Pangina Heals, Co-Host Drag Race Thailand | Colourfull — September 25, 2019
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Pangina Heals: Exposed (The Full Interview) | YouTube — November 16, 2021
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 MEET THE RUPAUL OF THAILAND | OZY — January 25, 2020
  5. ↑ The Art and Artistry of Pangina Heals | Forbes — July 2, 2021
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 (TH) ปันปัน นาคประเสริฐ แดร็กควีนอันดับหนึ่งของเมืองไทย ผู้กำหนดทางเดินชีวิตด้วยตัวเอง | Prachachat — July 29, 2019
  7. ↑ Tweet by PanginaHeals | X — July 22, 2020
  8. ↑ A (drag) star is (re)born | Bangkok Post — July 27, 2020
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Pangina Heals Tells All! | YouTube — June 16, 2021
  10. ↑ TRANSFORM YOURSELF WITH DRAG QUEEN PANGINA HEALS | CI Talks
  11. ↑ Miss Universe Thailand runway coaching by Pangina Heals and team P | YouTube — July 24, 2019
  12. ↑ “Drag Race” Just Featured Its First Cisgender Female Contestant | NewNowNext — January 14, 2019
  13. ↑ Empresses from the East! Asia’s Top 5 Drag Queens | GagaTai — July 6, 2021
  14. ↑ Out Of The Closet: Pangina Heals Shares Her Story | Dear Straight People — November 20, 2020
  15. ↑ Pangina Heals on X
  16. ↑ RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World: Meet The Queens | BBC Media Centre — January 17, 2022

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