{"id":218925,"date":"2026-01-03T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218925\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:08:08","slug":"rupauls-drag-race-producer-talks-cardi-b-being-one-of-our-best-judges-ever-cardi-b-rupauls-drag-race-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218925\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u2019 Producer Talks Cardi B Being \u2018One of Our Best Judges Ever\u2019 | Cardi B, RuPaul’s Drag Race | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardi B<\/a> is set to appear on the season 18 of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/a>! <\/p>\n

The 33-year-old rapper will serve as the season\u2019s first celebrity guest judge on this week\u2019s (January 2) season premiere episode.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the season\u2019s debut tonight, executive producer Tom Campbell gushed over having Cardi as a guest judge. <\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say she was one of our best judges ever. I don\u2019t want to pay any disrespect to the other tremendous judges we\u2019ve had, but Cardi B and Drag Race were a match made in heaven,\u201d he told The Wrap<\/a>. \u201cWe shoot on these exact days. Is Cardi B, the busiest woman in the world, available? She was. Her team was incredible. What she wore was incredible. What she had to say. I\u2019ve always liked her music and I think she\u2019s fun, but spending that time with her up close and seeing not only how hard she works, but how effortless her personality and her joy is was really exciting to be around. She was the perfect, perfect premiere guest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Returning to the judges panel include Michelle Visage<\/a>, with Ross Matthews<\/a>, Carson Kressley<\/a>, Law Roach<\/a> and TS Madison<\/a> rotating. <\/p>\n

Other guest judges include the returning Jamal Sims<\/a>, as well as Teyana Taylor<\/a>, Benny Blanco<\/a>, Dove Cameron<\/a>, Brooke Shields<\/a>, Iman<\/a>, Annaleigh Ashford<\/a>, Zara Larsson<\/a>, Atsuko Okatsuka<\/a>, Danielle Pinnock<\/a>, Amyl, Sarah Sherman<\/a> and Julianne Nicholson<\/a>. <\/p>\n

RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race season 18 premieres TONIGHT (January 2) at 8pm ET\/PT on MTV and streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

Meet the queens competing here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardi B is set to appear on the season 18 of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race! The 33-year-old rapper will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-218925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}