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The queen of Broadway was simply honored by drag queens!
Liza Minnelli made a visitor look on the season 17 finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race that aired Friday, April 18.
The EGOT-winner, 79, was honored with one other award: The Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award.
Minnelli sat in a throne on the principle stage clad in traditional black Halston and jewels, and took a visit down reminiscence lane with host RuPaul.
“Take a look at you!” Minnelli complimented the Emmy-winning host, 64.
“I do know. It solely took six hours,” RuPaul joked.
“Seven for me,” Minnelli replied. “I am older than you.”
Minnelli recalled how followers would come to MGM studio to see her mother, actress Judy Garland and her dad, director Vincente Minnelli.
Minnelli’s youthful half-brother Joey Luft, was additionally within the viewers. Garland famously lined the tune “Happiness is a Factor Known as Joe.”
Followers can be taught extra about Minnelli by way of her 2024 documentary Liza: A Actually Terrific Completely True Story.
Minnelli’s look got here forward of the season 17 champion being topped.
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Warning spoilers forward.
The 4 finalists going into the finale have been Lexi Love, Onya Nurve, Jewels Sparkles and Sam Star.
In the long run, Nurve was topped America’s Subsequent Drag Celebrity, succeeding season 16 champion Nymphia Wind.
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Sparkles was runner-up, whereas Crystal Envy gained the title of Miss Congeniality. Suzie Toot gained the title of Queen of She Executed Already Executed Had Herses after profitable the lip sync smackdown the week prior.
RuPaul’s Drag Race airs Fridays on MTV.
