Diva Worship
| "Diva Worship" | |
|---|---|
| RuPaul's Drag Race episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 11 Episode 3 |
| Presented by | RuPaul |
| Featured music | "Waiting for Tonight (Hex Hector Mix)" by Jennifer Lopez |
| Original air date | March 14, 2019 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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"Diva Worship" is the third episode of the eleventh season of the American television series RuPaul's Drag Race.[1] It originally aired on March 14, 2019. The episode's main challenge tasks the contestants with performing in evangelical-inspired talk shows worshipping music divas. Guillermo Díaz and Troye Sivan are guest judges. Nina West wins the main challenge. Honey Davenport is eliminated from the competition after placing in the bottom six and losing a lip-sync contest to "Waiting for Tonight (Hex Hector Mix)" by Jennifer Lopez.
Episode
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For the mini-challenge, the contestants are tasked with seducing their way into a Seduction concert.[2] Nina West and Ra'Jah O'Hara win the mini-challenge. For the main challenge, the contestants are tasked with teaming up and starring in a "she-vangelical" (evangelical-inspired) talk show worshipping a diva.[3][4] Team Britney Spears includes Ariel Versace, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Mercedes Iman Diamond, Nina West, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, and Yvie Oddly. Team Mariah Carey includes A'keria C. Davenport, Honey Davenport, Plastique Tiara, Ra'Jah O'Hara, Scarlet Envy, and Shuga Cain[5][6]
On the main stage, RuPaul welcomes judges Michelle Visage and Ross Mathews, as well as guest judges Guillermo Díaz and Troye Sivan. The runway category is "Fringe". Team Britney Spears is the winning team, and Nina West wins the challenge. Team Mariah Carey is the losing team, and A'keria C. Davenport, Honey Davenport, Plastique Tiara, Ra'Jah O'Hara, Scarlet Envy, and Shuga Cain are announced as the bottom six.[7] They face off in a lip-sync contest to "Waiting for Tonight (Hex Hector Mix)" by Jennifer Lopez. A'keria C. Davenport, Plastique Tiara, Ra'Jah O'Hara, Scarlet Envy, and Shuga Cain win the lip-sync and Honey Davenport is eliminated from the competition.[8][9]
Production and broadcast
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The episode originally aired on March 14, 2019.
The six-person lip-sync contest spawned multiple memes.[10] Honey Davenport, who stumbled off the stage during the contest,[11] has said, "I was thinking, ‘This can not be the moment that I go home. This cannot be the way it ends for me.’ I just had so much more to offer in that competition and I did not want this to be my final bow."[12]
Fashion
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Reception
Kate Kulzick of The A.V. Club gave the episode a rating of 'B+'.[14] Writing for Vulture, Matt Rogers rated the episode three out of five stars.[15] Emma Kelly of Metro described the Carey sketch as "disastrous"[16] and Ryan Shea of Instinct called the team's performane "a monstrosity".[17]
Kevin O'Keeffe of Xtra Magazine opined, "I think Honey was destined to go this week with or without a six-way lip sync, what with her disastrous musical tribute to Mariah Carey. But her flailing about on the ground to the tune of 'Waiting for Tonight' did her no favours."[18] Joey Nolfi of Entertainment Weekly said the "I don't know her" meme in which Carey shares her thoughts on Lopez "made the Mariah Carey team lip-syncing to a Jennifer Lopez song at the end extra hilarious".[19] Rashad Sultana of Queerty questioned why producers chose to use the song's dance remix.[20] Sam Brooks ranked the "Waiting for Tonight" performance number 156 in The Spinoff's 2019 "definitive ranking" of the show's 162 lip-sync contests to date.[21]
See also
References
- ↑ Jones, Charlie (2019-03-15). "RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 episode 3: Well, that was awkward". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 2024-03-14. Retrieved 2024-03-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Swift, Andy (2019-03-15). "RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: Which Queens Weren't Feeling The Spearit?". TVLine. Static Media. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ Daw, Stephen (2019-03-15). "Honey Davenport Talks Shocking Lip Sync Battle, Activism in Drag & More After 'Drag Race' Exit". Billboard. Penske Media Corporation. ISSN 0006-2510. OCLC 732913734. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ "'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 11 Episode 3 recap: The six merry murderesses of the Lip Sync for Your Life". Xtra Magazine. Pink Triangle Press. 2019-03-14. ISSN 0829-3384. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ Street, Mikelle. "'Drag Race's' Mariah Carey Diva Worship Team Being Punished Is Justice". Out. Pride Media. ISSN 1062-7928. Archived from the original on June 22, 2025. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The lack of Mariah Carey knowledge on RuPaul's Drag Race is a travesty". Metro. DMG Media. 2019-03-15. ISSN 1469-6215. OCLC 225917520. Archived from the original on January 27, 2025. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bradley, Laura (2019-03-15). "RuPaul's Drag Race: Honey Davenport Recaps That Insane Lip-Sync". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast. ISSN 0733-8899. OCLC 8356733. Archived from the original on March 23, 2019. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Guzzo, Bianca (2019-03-15). "RuPaul's Drag Race Season 11, Episode 3 Recap: Diva Worship". IN Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ "'RuPaul's Drag Race' Recap: Episode Three, 'Diva Worship'". Columbus Monthly. USA Today Co. ISSN 2333-4150. Archived from the original on February 25, 2024. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Damshenas, Sam (2019-03-18). "10 of the best memes about Drag Race's sickening six-way lip sync". Gay Times. ISSN 0950-6101. Archived from the original on April 26, 2025. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 11: Honey Davenport Exit interview". Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on April 25, 2025. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Damshenas, Sam (2019-03-22). "Drag Race star Honey Davenport spills the T on that six-way lip sync". Gay Times. Archived from the original on June 8, 2024. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Diva Worship". RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 11. Episode 3. March 14, 2019. VH1 / WOW Presents Plus.
- ↑ "Diva-licious RuPaul's Drag Race takes us to church, and the bottom queens to the woodshed". The A.V. Club. 2019-03-15. Archived from the original on 2023-11-09. Retrieved 2024-03-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rogers, Matt (2019-03-14). "RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: Glitter Bomb". Vulture. Vox Media. Archived from the original on 2024-02-23. Retrieved 2024-03-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Drag Race's Honey Davenport working on projects with her cousin - Lee Daniels". Metro. 2019-03-19. Archived from the original on March 20, 2019. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Is a Love Connection Happening on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 11?". Instinct. 2019-03-15. ISSN 1096-0058. Archived from the original on December 12, 2024. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 11 power ranking lip syncs for its life". Xtra Magazine. 2019-03-15. Archived from the original on December 9, 2024. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "'RuPaul's Drag Race' eliminee on failing a Mariah Carey challenge: I said 'Do we know her?'". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on March 18, 2019. Retrieved 2026-02-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Sultana, Rashad. "'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 11: Honey Davenport reveals how Ru inspired her drag name completely by accident". Queerty. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ Brooks, Sam (2019-10-03). "A definitive ranking of all 162 Lip Syncs on RuPaul's Drag Race". The Spinoff. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
External links
- Diva Worship at IMDb
- Watch Act 1 of S11 E3 on YouTube
- Team Britney Takes On The Diva Worship Maxi Challenge 💋 RuPaul's Drag Race on YouTube
- Team Mariah Gives Glory To Mimi In The Diva Worship Maxi Challenge 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race on YouTube
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