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Valentina

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Valentina is a drag queen, singer, performer, actor, and one of the Season 9 contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race (placed 7th and the winner of the "Miss Congeniality" title), as well as one of the All Stars 4 contestants (once again placed 7th).

On May 12, 2023, Valentina was announced as a co-host of the first Season of Drag Race México, alongside Lolita Banana. She did not return for the following season.

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What was Valentina's placement in both Season 9 and All Stars 4 of RuPaul's Drag Race? toggle section
Valentina, an iconic participant in RuPaul's Drag Race, secured the 7th position in both Season 9 and All Stars 4. She uniquely holds the record for achieving this rank in two different seasons. In both these seasons, she was victorious in the first standard episode, encompassing a maxi challenge and a runway.
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What is the origin of the drag queen name 'Valentina'? toggle section
The drag queen Valentina took her name from a Mexican hot sauce brand, which shares the same name.
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What title did Valentina win in Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race? toggle section
Valentina, a contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, won the title of Miss Congeniality.
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In the inaugural season of Drag Race México, Valentina took on the role of co-host. This announcement was made on May 12, 2023, with Lolita Banana also named as a co-host. Valentina's previous experiences include participation in RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 and All Stars 4.
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Name Origin

"Valentina" comes from a Mexican hot sauce brand of the same name.[citation needed]

Track Records

Statistics USA Season 9 USA All Stars
Season 4
Ranking: 7th Place
(Miss Congeniality) 		7th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 1 (Ep. 2) 1 (Ep. 2)
Mini Challenges Won: 1 (Ep. 8) 0
Times as Team Captain: 0 0
Times in Bottom: 1 (Ep. 9) 3 (Eps. 3, 5, 7)
Episode Eliminated Episode 9 Episode 7

Memorable Quotes

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9

  • "Hello, it's me... Valentina!" (entrance quote)
  • "I'm glad these girls see me as a threat."
  • "I was literally shaking, but I said to myself: ‘Valentina, when in doubt, smile!’" (on Season 9's cheerleading challenge rehearsal)
  • "I'm Valentina, I'm also corny!" (on Season 9's cheerleader challenge)
  • "I'm not gonna say nothing to that." (to Aja, after her rant on Season 9 Episode 3's Untucked)
  • "True." (in Good Morning Bitches)
  • "Escandalo!" (to Farrah Moan, after she explained Tyga's relationship with the Kardashian family)
  • "Yeah, duh!"
  • "Alexis Michelle, you're oh so ♪ Broooadwaaay ♪, but you're also very broad." (on Season 9's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "Trinity Taylor, I once told you you were beautiful inside and out, I lied you ugly stripper!" (on Season 9's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "Ladies, we're gonna do an exercise. Everybody raise your arms up to the sky, and Shea this is for you, one word: DEODORANT, BITCH!" (on Season 9's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "Peppermint. You need one." (on Season 9's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "Steve Harvey!" (to RuPaul, as Ariadna Gutierrez on "Snatch Game")
  • "In my country, we're known for beautiful women, and I think, also... COCAÍNA." (as Ariadna Gutierrez on "Snatch Game")
  • "I can never win anything!" (as Ariadna Gutierrez on "Snatch Game")
  • "You remind me of a cute hamster, I just want to shove you up my butt!" (during the Michelle Visage Roast)
  • "I'd like to keep it on, please." (about her wearing a mask, said midway through her lip-sync against Nina Bo'nina Brown)
  • "Hasta luego... los quiero mucho." (exit quote)
  • "You don't need to be confused, and you have lot of opinions of me tonight, Shea!" (to Shea Couleé at the reunion)
  • "No your the one that's upset, im not upset"
  • "I didn't come on the show to prove I'm a star, I came on the show to show the star that I am." (to Sasha Velour at the Reunion)
  • "Farrah Moan, just shut up already." (during the Reunion)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4

  • "Am I the villain? Villaintina? Me?" (Meet the Queens)
  • "I know I'm a lot. It's, like, a privilege but, like, a curse." (Meet the Queens)
  • "Valentina is the diva of the season. The rumors are true: I take a long time to get ready. The rumors are true: I have high expectations, like my heels." (Meet the Queens)
  • "Fan favorite is here!" (entrance quote)
  • "Who's a booger now, bitch?" (reading Manila Luzon).
  • "Ru, Mystique was a mistake. Oh, I'm sorry, it's Latrice! I love you, girl!" (during All Stars 4’s "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "I'd like to take it off, please."
  • "Woah... She fell, and she fell HARD bitch."
  • "Ladies! Gentleman! And Trinity!"
  • "You know in your heart that there is not a flaw in this outfit."
  • "I now have the opportunity to completely redeem myself with an Ariana Grande song."
  • "I mean, I know I'm Mexican, but I don't even know how to clean."
  • "Pull my lever!" (as Eartha Kitt in Snatch Game of Love)
  • "Boots the house down, mama, yes gawd." (tongue pop)
  • "So you think I can go home tonight?" (to Trinity The Tuck)
  • "I'm sending your ass home, bitch, because sending Latrice? That's too much." (to Trinity The Tuck)
  • "How dare you."
  • "Sorry I'm late! Sorry I'm late!" (during the "Jersey Justice" challenge)
  • "I work there, I strip there, I live there!" (during the "Jersey Justice" challenge)
  • "Giant tittie lady?" (when asked what 'GTL' means during the "Jersey Justice" challenge)
  • "You look like fuckin' Joan Rivers, you fuckin' whore!" (to Trinity The Tuck during the "Jersey Justice" challenge)
  • "Ladies, I'm boiling, my blood is simmering through my veins and I have some things to say, okay?! I am deeply and utterly offended, that judge with the bun and the gold, I do not appreciate her non-constructive criticism of my beautiful outfit."
  • "Can't you see her now, with a juicy red apple in her mouth and Satan's finger up her ass?" (referring to Lady Bunny, during her roast)
  • "You think this is cute? This story of "Let's Just Get Rid of the Bitch"? Well, you know what, bitches? I still got another motherfucking week!" (referring to Manila Luzon and Monét X Change choosing her lipstick back in Episode 5)
  • "Sending me home doesn't make sense with my fantasy."
  • "But all I can say is that no matter what... we're still in our heels." (to Naomi Smalls)
  • "I'll always remain... your diva with a heart. But bitch, let it be known: she left with a crown." (exit quote)
  • "I love you so much, mi amor, so much I wanna die! If you were to hurt me, baby, I’m leaving tonight. Eres mi amor y te regalo mi coochie-coo! When loving you, baby, no me hagas go crazy, ‘cause I am not the fool!" (verse in Don’t Funk It Up)

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13

  • "Miss Kandy Muse from the house of Aja, lil daughter came out her *Tongue pop* to make fun of me and the bitch did a good job. And then Latinas are in the house. Hey!"
  • "Well, look at your brows, girl!"

Drag Race México Season 1

  • "¡Hola, hola, mis niñes del maiz! Hello, hello!"
  • "¡Suficiente! Solo quedémonos en silencio cinco minutos, ¿eh? Tráeme a las chicas, por favor."
  • "¡Felicidragues! Eres la ganadora de esta semana."
  • "Muy buena suerte, y por favor... no la caguen."
  • "Girls, he hablado con el jurado, pero, al final, la decisión es de Lolita y mía."
  • "Shantay, las dos se quedan."
  • "Sashay, te marchas."
  • "Y recuerden... Si no te amas a ti misme, ¿cómo chingados vas a amar a alguien más?"

Farewell Message

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9

"Ladies, I love you with all my heart. If ever you need me, I'm yours. Con amor, Valentina" ㅤ

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4

"UGH! I have to pack. Love you all, Valentina"

Trivia

  • Valentina worships the Virgin of Guadalupe (an apparition of the Virgin Mary that occurred in Mexico during colonial times) as the mentor of her life and drag career.[citation needed]
  • Valentina is the latest contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race to hold the title Miss Congeniality for over a year, with Monét X Change (the RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Miss Congeniality) and onward holding it for less than a year.
  • Valentina is trilingual (speaking Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese).[4]
  • In 2015, she won the club version of the The Boulet Brothers' Dragula.[citation needed]
  • Valentina is the first contestant to be present at three different roasts. She was on the RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 Michelle Visage Roast and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4 Roast In Peace as a contestant, and was a guest at the Nice Girl Roast during RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13.
    • She would later be followed by Trinity The Tuck, although Trinity is the only contestant to compete in three different roasts.
  • She was featured in the fashion magazines Vogue and Vogue México.[citation needed]
  • She was the first contestant revealed for RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, being interviewed by Michelle Visage during a Facebook livestream.[citation needed]
  • She claimed to have only been performing professionally in clubs for ten months at the time of filming for RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, and was accepted on her first time auditioning for the show.[citation needed]
  • During RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, she revealed she was struggling with an eating disorder.[citation needed]
  • Nina Bo'nina Brown and her are the only contestants so far to be stopped by RuPaul during a lip sync. RuPaul later mentioned Valentina's lip sync as one of his "top three shocking moments" on the show, with the other two being Roxxxy Andrews' abandonment story and Ongina's announcement of her HIV status.[5]
  • Her elimination became a popular meme, inspiring RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2 winner Alaska to create a parody of Luis Fonsi's song "Despacito" called "Valentina", and the cosmetics company Lush which referenced for advertising on one of their face masks.[citation needed]
  • She is the first contestant to participate in a lip sync with her mouth covered.
    • During RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13, RuPaul joked that Valentina was right to keep her face mask on in reference to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Like Farrah Moan's and Nina Bo'nina Brown's, her elimination was leaked online prior to the episode's airing.
  • She is the youngest Miss Congeniality and is tied with Ivy Winters as the fourth-lowest Miss Congeniality placement, as both came 7th on their respective seasons. Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté is the lowest placing Miss Congeniality, placing 12th due to an injury.[citation needed]
  • She was invited to return for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3 along with Aja after Trinity The Tuck and Shea Couleé declined, but reportedly turned it down.[citation needed]
  • She is sometimes known as Valentina Bagini.[citation needed]
  • Valentina made an appearance in a scene of In The Heights.[citation needed]
  • Valentina was the last fan-voted Miss Congeniality on RuPaul's Drag Race.[citation needed]
  • After Supremme de Luxe, Valentina is the second host of a Drag Race series to guest judge on another series, having served as a guest judge on Drag Race España Season 3.
  • Valentina is the first Drag Race contestant to retire from her role as host.

Gallery

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 Looks

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4 Looks

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13 Looks

Drag Race México Season 1

Drag Race México Season 1 Looks

Drag Race España Season 3

Drag Race España Season 3 Looks

Videos

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4

Drag Race México Season 1

​​​​​​Discography

Non-Album Singles

  • "A Prueba de Todo". (2018)
  • "All Eyes On Me". (2020)

Appearances

  • "Don't Funk It Up" by The Cast of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Season 4. (2018)

Filmography

TV

  • RuPaul's Drag Race, on Season 9 as herself/contestant. (2017)
  • America's Next Top Model, as herself on Cycle 24. (2018)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, on Season 4 as herself. (2018-2019)
  • RENT: Live, as "Angel Dumott Schunard". (2019)
  • AJ and the Queen, on Season 1 as one of "The Box" club drag queens. (2020)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race, in Season 13 as special guest. (2021)
  • Drag Race España, Season 3 as a guest judge. (2023)

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Web Series

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Music Videos

Film

  • Invasión Drag as herself (2020)
  • In the Heights as patron of Daniella's salon (2021)

Tours

Supporting

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