Yahoo Lifestyle “Drag Race” season 17 star Hormona Lisa is inspired by JonBenét Ramsey: '“Toddlers & Tiaras” type of situation is so campy'
Hormona also jokes to EW that she thinks "it’s a good idea" for RuPaul — who cast Hormona in person at a book signing — to get a restraining order against her.
Hormona Lisa knows RuPaul should probably get a restraining order against her.
“I do think it’s a good idea,” the sweet-as-pie Tennessee darlin’ tells Entertainment Weekly, after submitting four consecutive RuPaul's Drag Race audition tapes, appearing on camera to ask the season 14 queens a question from the audience during a taping of Bring Back My Girls at DragCon, and stalking Mama Ru all the way to the Atlanta stop of RuPaul’s House of Hidden Meanings book tour earlier this year — where she finally charmed the Emmy-winning drag superstar into casting her on season 17, on the spot.
To be fair, it’s not like Hormona didn’t have it coming — her stardom, that is. She’s earned a powerful reputation in Chattanooga, where the trans activist is president of the local board that oversees the city’s pride festivities, and, as a skilled designer, has even had her esteemed fashions displayed as art in galleries after teaching herself to sew at a young age.
It’s that level of dedication, professionalism, and confidence she thinks caught RuPaul’s attention in Atlanta, where she says she noticed Ru taking mental notes while Hormona greeted every member of the event’s staff, directed the meet & greet photographer to get her best angle, and paid extra-special attention to guiding the light source to frame her face.
“I think people that have that attitude may not be a natural-born winner, and I believe that I am, so I don’t have to do that whole thing, you know?” she explains when asked if her roots as a pageant competitor have made her a cutthroat queen.
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JonBenét Ramsey; 'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 17 star Hormona LisaInstead, she’s far more interested in fantastical divas of both the animated realm (she’s known as Chattanooga’s Disney Princess, after all) and the real world, as she cites slain child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey as one of her creative inspirations.
“The whole Toddlers & Tiaras type of situation is so campy, and I think that’s why that inspires me,” Hormona says. “Of course I don’t want to get murdered, or whatever happened. Poor little thing!”
Yes — Hormona will call you “punkin’” and use phrases like “hangin’ on like a hair on a biscuit” to charm your pants off with hootin’-hollerin’ flair, but then throw in a deliciously rotted joke about your suit to make sure you know who’s running the show.
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When you think about it, she pretty much steamrolled the world of Drag Race before cameras ever rolled on her season. “It was pretty iconic, honestly,” she remembers of leaving RuPaul’s tour stop with a golden ticket to season 17 in tow. “After the book tour was over, security at the venue had to basically get me to my car because everybody in the theater stayed there.” Something tells us that sentiment will carry through to the Drag Race fandom on the global stage, too.
RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on MTV. Watch EW's full interview with Hormona at the top of this post.
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