Hailed as “your favourite drag queen’s favourite drag queen,” Sasha Colby’s season 15 win on RuPaul’s Drag Race was within the bag from day one, however she doesn’t take her success without any consideration.
Coming into the season as an apparent frontrunner meant that Colby, 39, needed to work that a lot tougher to ensure she was flawless. “That was the primary thought that was in my head,” she solely tells Us Weekly. “They may simply have written it off as ‘fairly privilege’ … so I actually labored arduous for myself to current a package deal that was so tight that you just couldn’t deny that I ought to win. It could be earned and it could be very obvious. That’s what I actually was ensuring to do.”
Colby’s mission was successful — a lot in order that rumors have circulated since her win that she’s subsequent in line to host Drag Race after RuPaul retires. “I’ve heard the rumors,” Colby tells Us, noting that she doesn’t assume Ru, 62, has any imminent plans to hold up her wigs. “I’m by no means going to denounce the rumor. … I don’t assume she’s going to cease anytime quickly, but when she does and she or he does want me to check out the children, I’ll undoubtedly come.”
Whereas internet hosting Drag Race is probably not within the playing cards, Colby says she’d “by no means say by no means” to showing on actuality TV once more — particularly if any producers at Dancing With the Stars come calling. “I feel I might have loads of enjoyable with that,” she tells Us. “And I haven’t really skilled in ballroom, so it could be difficult. It could be a brand new problem for me.”
Till then, she’s obtained loads of different tasks to maintain her busy. She simply introduced her debut single, “Really feel the Energy” that includes Luciana, which drops on Friday, October 20, and her first headlining tour, Sasha Colby: Stripped, which kicks off in February 2024 (tickets go on sale Friday at TheSashaColby.com). Her line of ponytail extensions, Sasha Colby Hair, is now accessible and enlargement plans for the model are on the horizon. When requested whether or not she’s in her mogul period, Colby replies, “Just about. I’ve watched so many former contestants — not even the winners — simply catapult into movie star stardom and being entrepreneurs, so let’s do it.”
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Colby can also be excited to make use of her platform to talk up for the LGBTQ+ group in an period when states throughout the nation are passing anti-trans and anti-drag payments at an alarming fee.
“Whenever you’re doing this competitors, you actually have to come back and take into consideration your intention of why you’re doing it,” she says. “I wished to win this for myself, however then to actually perceive what’s going on on the planet, to make it not be about me [made it] a little bit simpler to complete the duty. To be like, ‘This isn’t only for me. That is for all these youngsters which might be actually, actually scared proper now, for all these folks that actually don’t know what to do.’ It was for me to be robust for them and use the platform and the privilege that I’ve to make folks uncomfortable within the sense of actually your self.”
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