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Symone

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Symone is the stage name of Reginald Gavin,[1][2] a drag queen based in Los Angeles, California, and the winner of Season 13 of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Drag Name Origin

She had a bunch of drag names picked out like "Delilah Alamein" and "Erica" but Symone was the one that stuck.

Track Record(s)

Symone
Season Competed: Season 13
Ranking: 1st Place
(Winner)
Maxi Challenges Won: 4 (Eps. 2, 4, 10, 11)
Mini Challenges Won: 0
Times as Team Captain: 0
Times in Bottom Two: 2 (Eps. 8, 12)
Episode Eliminated: N/A

Memorable Quotes

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13

  • "Don’t let the smooth taste fool ya baby!" (Entrance Quote)
  • "So we might be related...." (To RuPaul)
  • "This is not her Janet Jackson moment, it's MINE!" (referring to Tamisha Iman during their premiere lip-sync.)
  • "♪ The name's Symone and I'm here for the throne! Beat face and I'm Arkansas grown. The 'Ebony Enchantress' is me! Legs up to my waist and talent you can't replace! ♪" (verse in "ConDragulations")
  • "I own 51% of the Flag Fectry!" (During the RuPaulmark Acting Challenge.)
  • "Come on miss LaLa, you bobbin!" (referring to LaLa Ri bobbing her first pin.)
  • "What’s for Dinner?"
  • As Deborah in the Bossy Rossy: After Dark Challenge.
    • "It's DEBORAH now!"
    • "For me... DEBORAH."
    • "Is it?"
    • "I just thought people gave you money when you gave 'em fellatio!"
  • As Harriet Tubman in the Snatch Game:
    • "I see all this room full of white people up in here I got nervous. When you hear 'em comin' you gotta get low."
    • "FOR FREEDOOOOM!"
    • "I just put myself on the 100 dollar bill, how 'bout that."
    • "This is some nosy-ass bald-headed mothertucker."
    • "Jennifer Lewis! Not Jennifer Lawrence!"
  • "Let's see how this one turns out, America!"
  • During her Sweet Toof commercial in the Pop! Goes the Queens Challenge.
    • "Are you a stick in the mud? Do you take life too seriously? Is yo blood shuga low?"
    • "Now this drink ain't for the faint of heart, baby! No, seriously, I had two cardiac arrests on the way here."
    • "♪ Everybody's got a sweet toof! ♪"
  • "♪ (Ahh) You wanna, wanna taste of me? (Ahh) I'm the mothertuckin' Ebony...Enchantress, it took a minute, oh, but now I see. (Ahh) I'm the Sugar Honey Iced Tea, (Ahh) I got the fashion, beauty, and the brains. You see that crown? Oh, baby, that's for me. ♪" (Verse in Lucky)
  • "Growing up in Arkansas—Conway, Arkansas—I believed all those negative things that people said about me. But I kept going forward, and I said something—There's something thereout there in this world that I'm good at, and I found drag. Throughout these weeks, I've fought and I've shown myself and I took down the wall that I built up to protect myself. And I feel like my drag is really inspirational. There are a million and one Reggies out there who need somebody like me. I'm a beautiful person, and I'm willing to fight for what is mine. And, um, that's why I'm America's next drag superstar." (her speech as to why she should be crowned America's Next Drag Superstar)
  • "Well, I told y'all not to let the smooth taste fool you!" (Winning speech)

Trivia

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  • Symone is Gigi Goode's drag sister.
    • They both have close ties with the House of Avalon as she is a member while Gigi is a very close sister to the House.
      • The House of Avalon was also often mentioned throughout the show and how Symone stated that she's proud to be part of it.
    • For her promo look, Symone wore a wig that was styled for her by Gigi Goode.
      • Additionally, most of the wigs that she wore during the show were made by Gigi.
  • Symone is a huge fan of the Harry Potter series, with her Hogwarts house being Gryffindor, and her favorite character being Bellatrix Lestrange.
    • She also has a collection of Harry Potter replica wands.
  • In 2019, Symone appeared as a cameo on the intro of Episode 4 of season 3 of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula.
  • Janet Jackson featured her lip-sync against Tamisha Iman in her Instagram stories. Ariana Grande also featured her lip-sync against Utica Queen in her Instagram stories.
  • Symone and Kandy Muse are the second pair of queens to have survived a Double Shantay that would go on to become the Top 2 of their season, and ultimately lip-sync against each other again in the final Lip-Sync for the Crown, after Yvie Oddly and Brooke Lynn Hytes in Season 11.
  • Symone is the first and so far, the only Drag Race contestant to have won in nine different context over the course of a single season:
    • A Premiere Lip-Sync against Tamisha Iman in Episode 1.
    • A Lip-Sync for the Win against Olivia Lux in Episode 2.
    • A solo Maxi Challenge win in Episode 4.
    • A Lip-Sync for your Life resulting in a Double Shantay with Kandy Muse in Episode 8.
    • A paired Challenge win in Episode 10 with Utica Queen, where contestants were judged in pairs.
    • A paired Challenge win in Episode 11 with Rosé, where contestants were judged individually.
    • A Lip-Sync for your Life in Episode 12 against Utica Queen.
    • A first-round Lip-Sync for the Crown against Gottmik in the finale.
    • A top two Lip-Sync for the Crown against Kandy Muse.
      • Interestingly, she did not win any Mini Challenges in Season 13.
  • During Season 13, Symone broke several records by winning a Lip Sync for Your Life in Episode 1, a Lip Sync for the Win in Episode 2, and a Maxi Challenge in Episode 4:
    • She became the first Drag Race contestant ...
      • ... to have a perfect track record by their third episode competing.
      • ... to earn three different kinds of wins in three consecutive episodes competing.
      • ... to win the first two Maxi Challenges she competed in on a regular season.
    • She became the third Drag Race contestant on a regular season to win two Maxi Challenges by the third competitive episode, after Alexis Mateo in Season 3 and Sharon Needles in Season 4.
      • However, she is the first to do so by her second episode competing.
  • Symone is the first queen ...
    • ... to wear grills in her promo.
    • ... to originate from Arkansas.
    • ... to be involved in Werq The World before being on Drag Race as she appeared as a background dancer in Gigi's Werq The World livestream performance.
    • ... in her season to receive the Top Toot of the week on Fashion Photo RuView.
      • She also received the most Top Toot of the week in Season 13 with seven, four of which are Top Toots in successive weeks.
    • ... in the American franchise to have won the Maxi Challenge on two separate sets of [consecutive competitive episodes within the same season, winning Episodes 2 and 4 (as Symone did not compete on Episode 3) and Episodes 10 and 11.
    • ... to have won her fourth challenge prior to the final competitive episode of her season.
    • ... to win four Challenges by her 9th competitive Episode (excluding All Stars).
    • ... in the American franchise to win four challenges and place in the bottom two more than once.
  • Symone is the first winner ...
    • ... from Conway, Arkansas.
    • ... to win and survive five lip-syncs before the finale.
      • She also currently holds the record of the most lip syncs wins in a single season and overall, with seven.
    • ... from the original series to place in the bottom two more than once prior to the finale.
    • ... to place SAFE in the Ball Challenge.
  • Symone is the secnd winner to have their base of operation on Los Angeles, California after Raja.
  • Symone is the third winner to ...
    • ... have a paired Challenge Win with another queen, Utica Queen, and later send them home after Bob The Drag Queen with Derrick Barry, and Sasha Velour with Shea Couleé.
    • ... be in a season with a split premiere and win her premiere and go on to win the crown, after Bianca Del Rio and Jaida Essence Hall.
      • However, she is the first winner to win the first split premiere unlike the first two who won the second split premiere and therefore, is the first winner that came from the first group of the split premiere.
    • ... be in the bottom two at the eighth episode of the season and be part of a double shantay with a queen who would later be their runner-up after Sharon Needles in Season 4 and Yvie Oddly in Season 11.
  • Symone is the fourth winner to ...
  • Symone is the seventh Black contestant to win the second episode in consecutive seasons, after Shangela (in AS3), The Vixen (in S10), Monét X Change (in AS4), Yvie Oddly (in S11), Jaida Essence Hall (in S12) and Shea Couleé (in AS5).
  • Symone is the eighth queen ...
  • Symone said on the Live Reaction of the Finale of Season 13, along with Gottmik and Kandy Muse, that they voted for LaLa Ri as Miss Congeniality.
  • On the 10th June 2021, Symone lip synced against Gottmik to Sissy That Walk in a lip sync rematch, which went viral on YouTube when it was released. However, it was an unofficial lip sync and they both won “chicken and waffles”.
    • On the 11th of July 2021, Symone hit 1 million followers on Instagram.
  • Symone became the fourth drag queen to attend the Met Gala, after RuPaul, Aquaria and Violet Chachki at 2021’s Met Gala.[4]

Gallery

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13 Looks

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 14

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 14 Looks

Successor Crowning Look

Videos

Filmography

TV

  • RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13, as a contestant, placed as a winner. (2021)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13: Untucked, as a contestant. (2021)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race: Corona Can't Keep a Good Queen Down, as herself (2021)

Web Series

External Links

Navigation

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Symone Is a Love Letter to Blackness and Queerness | The New York Times — June 5, 2021
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lucky | SonicHits
  3. ↑ Post by the_symone | Instagram — January 14, 2021
  4. ↑ This Is Not a Test: Symone Is at the Met Gala | Allure — September 13, 2021
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