Brooke Lynn Hytes
| Brooke Lynn Hytes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Brock Hayhoe March 10, 1986 |
| 🏡 Residence | Nashville, Tennessee |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏡 Home town | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Brooke Lynn Hytes is a Canadian drag queen, performer, dancer and television personality. She is best known for being a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11..[1]
Career[edit]
Brooke Lynn Hytes was born in Ontario, Canada, growing up in Scarborough. She attended Canada’s National Ballet School for five years before dancing as a principal ballerina with “Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo”, an all male, comedic drag ballet company.[2]. Brooke Lynn’s experience as a drag ballerina translated into drag pageantry when in 2013 she was named the Derby City Entertainer of the year. In 2014 she went on to be crowned Miss Continental, a highly prestigious title in the drag pageant world[3]. In 2015, Brooke Lynn accepted a position as one of the renowned Playmates at Play Dance Bar in Nashville, Tennessee. Working there provided Brooke Lynn with the experience she needed to hone her skills before becoming a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11.
As the first Canadian contestant of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Brooke Lynn has achieved her goal of bringing Canadian drag into the global spotlight. Having won multiple challenges and placing highly in many others, she has quickly emerged as one of the frontrunners of the season. As the eleventh season continues to unfold, Brooke Lynn has become known for excelling on the runway thanks to her polished looks and dancerly performances on the main stage.Her runway performance on Episode 8 blew up online, going down in Drag Race history as one of the most legendary reveals on the show[4].
Since appearing on Drag Race, Brooke Lynn has gone on to gain extensive media attention. The Canadian Government’s official Twitter account even mentioned her in a congratulatory tweet. From Canadian to International media outlets, she has been featured in articles and interviews for such online publications as ET Canada[5], Toronto Life[6], Blog TO[7], The Toronto Star[8], Dance Magazine[9], Out and About Nashville[10], NOW Toronto[11], Huffington Post[12], Paper Magazine[13], Refinery 29[2], Entertainment Weekly[14], Metro UK[15], Global News[16], CBC[17] and CTV News[18]
Filmography[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | RuPaul's Drag Race Season 11 | Brooke Lynn Hytes | Contestant |
References[edit]
- ↑ VH1 (2019-01-24), Meet Brooke Lynn Hytes: 'First Canadian Queen' | RuPaul's Drag Race Season 11, retrieved 2019-05-06
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shea, Courtney. "RuPaul's Drag Race Has Its First Canadian Queen: Meet Brooke Lynn Hytes". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ↑ "ContinentalGalleries". www.thebatonshowlounge.com. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ↑ "We cannot get over THAT iconic runway reveal on RuPaul's Drag Race". Metro. 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ ET Canada (2019-04-04), Brooke Lynn Hytes: Queen Of The North! | FULL VERSION, retrieved 2019-05-16
- ↑ "Everything we know about Brooke Lynn Hytes, the first Canadian queen on RuPaul's Drag Race". Toronto Life. 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "Yass Qween with Brooke Lynn Hytes". www.blogto.com. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "Brooke Lynn Hytes becoming the first Canadian on RuPaul's Drag Race is no surprise to her fellow Toronto queens | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "Meet "RuPaul's Drag Race's" First Professional Ballet Dancer: Brock Hayhoe AKA Brook Lynn Hytes". Dance Magazine. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ Grady, James (2019-01-26). "Brooke Lynn Hytes on Cast for RuPaul's Drag Race". Out & About Nashville - LGBT news, events and gay guide. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ Lozowska, Marianna (2019-01-24). "First Canadian queen to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race is from Toronto". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "1st Canadian Competitor To Shantay Into 'RuPaul's Drag Race'". HuffPost Canada. 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "People Are Swearing This Is the Best Lip Sync Ever". PAPER. 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "Vanjie, Brooke Lynn Hytes discuss their romantic future in exclusive 'Drag Race' clip". EW.com. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "We cannot get over THAT iconic runway reveal on RuPaul's Drag Race". Metro. 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "Brooke Lynn Hytes announced as first Canadian 'RuPaul's Drag Race' contestant | Globalnews.ca". globalnews.ca. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ↑ "You better work: 1st-ever Canadian queen to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race". CBC. The Canadian Press. Jan 24, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
- ↑ "Brooke Lynn Hytes becomes first Canadian 'RuPaul's Drag Race' competitor | Entertainment & Showbiz from CTV News". www.ctvnews.ca. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
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