Lydia B. Kollins had just five days to prepare for All Stars 10: ‘F**k yeah, why not?’
Lydia B. Kollins had just five days to prepare for All Stars 10 (WOW)
Lydia B. Kollins had just five days to prepare for All Stars 10 (WOW)
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17 star Lydia B. Kollins has revealed that she had just five days to prepare for All Stars 10, three weeks after leaving her first season.
Well, the rumours are trumours – despite season 17 of RuPaul’s Drag Race literally just climaxing all over our TV sets, All Stars 10 has announced its cast of eighteen queens.
That includes about half of season 14, a season 15 finalist (Mistress Isabelle Brooks), Ginger Minj (again) and Jorgeous (despite being on All Stars 9) – but it also includes a queen that literally just left the set of season 17.
That’s right, winner of the Villains’ Roast challenge, Kori King’s boo and unexpected lip-sync assassin, Lydia B. Kollins, walked right out of season 17 and into All Stars 10.
Speaking to The Playlist, she revealed that she did just that with only five days to prepare for the season.
“I had gotten back from season 17 filming, and it was like three weeks later they called [with the All Stars 10 invite],” she revealed. “And I had about five days to a week to sort of get it all prepared and already, but it was chill. I think that if there’s anyone who could do it, it is LBK.”
It was also, Lydia added, an “automatic yes” to an immediate Werk Room Ru-turn, a feat that has only been achieved by five other queens – Latrice Royale and Chad Michaels (season 4 to All Stars 1), Aja (season 9 to All Stars 3), and Monét X Change and Mo Heart (season 10 to All Stars 4) – two of whom won their All Stars season.
“To go back, I feel like you can’t pass up an opportunity to A, be on TV, and also B, get to share your art in front of RuPaul. So yeah, automatically I was like, ‘F**k yeah, why not? What do I have to lose?'” she told the publication.
Lydia also teased that even though we’ve just seen her season 17 package (so to speak), she’s still had an All Stars glow up.
“For the next part, for part two, the Rumix, I went balls to the wall, and it was something that I am doing things that I would’ve never previously thought of doing. So, I’m very excited to let that out.”
Lydia will be joined by a cast of seventeen other Drag Race alumni, including Ginger Minj (for her third All Stars),
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 will be available to stream on Paramount+ in the US and WOW Presents Plus internationally from 9 May.
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