Rhys Nicholson: Last News

Australia’s favourite wildlife warriors, Bindi and Robert Irwin, will join regular judges RuPaul Charles, Michelle Visage and Newcastle’s own Rhys Nicholson in guest roles on the judging panel.  

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Start your engines and mark your calendars for July 28. “RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under” is back for a third season with 10 fierce and fabulous queens. RuPaul will be hosting the series with returning judges Michelle Visage and Rhys Nicholson. “Australasian drag is filled with heart and humor, and I’m thrilled to share my Season 3 queens to the world, for all to see their charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent,” RuPaul says. The 10 queens hail from across New Zealand and Australia. This season promises to be filled with thrills and maxi-challenges galore as the queens go head-to-head to snatch the crown.

EXCLUSIVE: Just For Laughs Montréal on Monday took the wraps off its annual New Faces of Comedy list for 2022, a group of 62 up-and-coming comics that have been selected to participate in JFL’s showcases later this month.

Michelle Visage and Newcastle’s own Rhys Nicholson will be returning for the main judging panel along with a slew of mystery guest judges.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorStart your engines and mark your calendars for July 30.

We finally have a premiere date for the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Stan on Tuesday announced that the sophomore edition of the series with drag queens from Australia and New Zealand will premiere on Saturday July 30, 2022. While details of the production are a tightly guarded secret, here’s what we know about Season 2 of the Down Under edition of the Emmy award winning international franchise.In March 2022, after wrapping up the shooting of the second season in New Zealand, RuPaul had described the queens from Down Under as “ratchet”. The first season was criticised for its low production values and RuPaul in an interview on The Graham Norton Show revealed, things hadn’t been upsized for season two.  Fellow guest and actor Benedict Cumberbatch asked RuPaul how different were the Down Under queens.

< 1 min read The news we’ve all been waiting for, the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Downunder will premiere globally on Saturday 30 July 2022.

It’s official, henny. Streaming service Stan has confirmed that the original Drag Race Down Under judges will return for the filming of the second season of the Aussie spinoff series.Australian comedian, Rhys Nicholson and RuPaul’s long-time sidekick, Michelle Visage will resume their roles as well as Mama Ru herself.  A post shared by Stan.

Netflix has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to sci-fi drama The Imperfects, starring Italia Ricci (Designated Survivor, Chasing Life), from The Order‘s Dennis Heaton, Shelley Eriksen and Nomadic Pictures.

RuPaul’s Drag Race Under edition has been announced.Season 1 of the show will drop on Saturday, May 1 on Stan in Australia, TVNZ in New Zealand and WOWPresentsPlus in the US.RuPaul will host the Down Under edition of the show. Joining him on the judges’ panel will be BFF/singer/TV host Michelle Visage and Australian comedian Rhys Nicholson.

was announced on Saturday in the wee-hours of the morning Stateside — which happened to be smack dab in the middle of the famed Mardi Gras parade in Sydney, Australia.Michelle Visage and comedian Rhys Nicholson, who will be seated alongside Mama Ru on the judges panel, formally introduced the 10 Aussie and Kiwi queens who will be competing when streams later this year on WOW Presents Plus.

It’s the news fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race have been waiting for, and finally we can reveal to you the ten fabulous queens joining the cast of the hotly anticipated Stan Original Series RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Announced by judges Michelle Visage and Rhys Nicholson at this evening’s Mardi Gras parade, and featured on the Homecoming Queens float – which celebrated diversity, inclusion, love and everything else that RuPaul’s Drag Race represents – these ten queens will certainly keep viewers entertained later this year.Announcing the news, Rhys Nicholson, who spoke with Star Observer earlier this week, said “We do a very special kind of drag down here that I think we can sometimes take for granted.