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- Season premiere: February 2, 2009Official Site: RuPaul's Drag Race
- Network: Logo and VH1 (reruns)
- Host and judge: RuPaul
- Judges: Santino Rice and Merle Ginsberg
- Nine contestants
- Run time: 60 minutes
- Show length: Nine episodes
- RuPaul is a former guest judge on Project Runway Season 5
- Viewers helped choose the contestants online
- Viewers will vote for the contestants to stay or leave
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The Logo network reality show RuPauls Drag Race, is a series starring RuPaul, a drag queen and former guest judge on Project Runway Season 5. The show involves contestants competing to win the coveted title of "America's Next Superstar Drag Queen."
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Cast Information
- Akashia, 24, is from Cleveland, Ohio
- Bebe Zahara Benet, 28, is from Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Jade, 25, is from Chicago, Illinois
- Nina Flowers, 34, is from Denver, Colorado
- Ongina, 26, is from Los Angeles, California
- Shannel, 29, is from Las Vegas, Nevada
- Rebecca Glasscock, 28, is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Tammie Brown, 26, is from Los Angeles, California
- Victoria Parker, 39, is from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Guest Judges
- Bob Mackie
- Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child
- Lucy Lawless
- Maria Conchita Alonso
- Robin Antin
- Debra Wilson
- Jenny Shimizu
- Tori Spelling
- Dean McDermott
- Howard Bragman
- Frank Gatson
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Nina Flowers
Flowers was chosen by online viewers to be a contestant on the show. Flowers hails from Denver, Colorado and is 34 years old. He was born in Peurto Rico in 1974, and began female impersonations at the age of 19. Flowers won the Miss Puerto Rico Continental pageant in 1999 and the Miss City Lights Continental pageant in 2001. He currently performs female impersonations at the club Charlies in Denver. -

