Think of a drag queen, think of RuPaul, the man who is easily America’s most commercially successful drag queen. He has more firsts to his name than we could document. In fact, no other drag queen-related show is as popular as his RuPaul’s Drag Race, which has aired worldwide for more than eleven seasons in Europe since its premiere on February 2, 2009.
The series earned him two consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program in 2016 and 2017. In addition to hosting the show, RuPaul is also a singer, actress, and model. Here’s everything you need to know about this man considered America’s most famous drag queen.
Biography of RuPaul, how old is he?
RuPaul could have just been named Paul, but his mother Ernestine Toni Charles loved the sound of roux (PS: roux is a mixture of flour and fat used to thicken sauces). So he called him RuPaul. He is sometimes referred to simply as “Ru”. His name is RuPaul Andre Charles and he was born on November 17, 1960 in San Diego, California. His parents divorced when he was a child, he was around 7 years old and Ru would come to spend the rest of his childhood with his mother. and three sisters… which sort of explains her femininity.
Ru was very fond of one of his sisters, Renetta, and at the age of 15 he moved with her to Atlanta, Georgia, where he began to study performing arts. After getting proper training, Ru starts a career in entertainment and becomes part of underground cinema. Apart from performing, Ru also started singing and performing in various nightclubs with the drag image. He then moved to New York. By the mid-1990s, RuPaul’s prominence grew enough to land him a deal with MAC Cosmetics.
Her 1993 debut album single “Supermodel (You Better Work)” was her first big hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Her first talk show, The RuPaul Show, followed her success. He conducted celebrity interviews there. He also started hosting a radio show on WKTU with Michelle Visage. Despite TV and movies, Ru continued to make new music. Over the years he has released at least 14 studio albums.
Some of Ru’s notable movies include The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), and Hurricane Bianca (2016). Besides his show, Ru has appeared in a number of TV shows including Netflix. Girlboss. Ru has written at least two books. Outside of drag, he’s appeared as a male in some movie roles.
Net value
Music, television, film, modeling and endorsement deals are RuPaul’s main sources of income. However, her reality show remains her main livelihood. The show focused on two successful spin-offs. He launched his first makeup line in collaboration with Colorevolution in the fall of 2013.
Although the total value of his estate has been estimated between 10 and 16 million dollars, we have not yet provided any information on this subject.
Wife or husband, is he gay?
Rupaul’s sexuality is not news to the world. He is proudly gay and dates back to the mid-90s. He started dating Georges LeBar, the man who is now her husband in 1994. Born on January 24, 1973, Georges LeBar is of Australian descent and, unlike Ru, he doesn’t give a damn about the spotlight, rarely talks about him to the media.
RuPaul’s husband is a painter and rancher. He owns a huge ranch in Wyoming that spans two states. The pair met on the dance floor of Limelight, an infamous New York nightclub. According to Ru, LeBar was dancing like crazy on the dance floor when he approached him to find out what he was going through. It turned out that LeBar was ecstatic over his new year, that day being his birthday. That was in 1994 and the couple have since started and remain devoted to each other.
In 2015, Ru told Buzzfeed that he wasn’t considering marriage and was fine with having LeBar as a devout partner. However, as it says, time changes things and in January 2017 the couple got married in a private ceremony. Their wedding took place the same day they met, which was LeBar’s birthday, 23 years later. Ru waited two months after their union before announcing to the media, in March 2017, his marriage to LeBar.
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