{"id":199625,"date":"2026-04-16T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199625\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:35:08","slug":"watch-drag-race-season-18-episode-16-finale-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199625\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Drag Race Season 18 Episode 16 \u2014 Finale Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                         &#13;<br \/>\n                                         &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The Season 18 queens of &#8220;RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race&#8221; are bringing it to the runway one last time during Friday&#8217;s grand finale (MTV, 8\/7c), and TVLine has your exclusive first look at the contestants&#8217; glamorous Ru-union.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip above, Michelle Visage begins by welcoming back this season&#8217;s eliminated queens \u2014 DD Fuego, Mandy Mango, Briar Blush, Ciara Myst, Vita VonTesse Star, Mia Starr, Athena Dion, Kenya Pleaser, Discord Addams, Jane Don&#8217;t, and Juicy Love Dion \u2014 for a veritable eleganza parade. She then announces the arrival of Darlene Mitchell, Myki Meeks, and Nini Coco, one of whom will end the night as the winner of Season 18.<\/p>\n<p>And what would a &#8220;Drag Race&#8221; finale be without a performance from Mama Ru herself? Once the contestants have their moment, the hostess vogues her way down the runway with &#8220;Mother of the House,&#8221; a dance track off her 2022 album &#8220;Mamaru.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we get an inside look at how &#8220;Drag Race&#8221; is really powered. (Let&#8217;s just say&#8230; once a Ru girl, always a Ru girl.)<\/p>\n<p>Which of the three remaining queens are you rooting for heading into the Season 18 finale? Weigh in via our polls below, then drop a comment with your thoughts on the Top 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The Season 18 queens of &#8220;RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race&#8221; are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-199625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}