{"id":206305,"date":"2026-04-22T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:46:53","slug":"rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-season-11-cast-revealed-18-queens-return-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206305\/","title":{"rendered":"RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars Season 11 Cast Revealed: 18 Queens Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Aura Mayari in the Drag Race All Stars 11 promo\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6c4f1858bb38d8bea92ca028ae156955.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race via YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Myki Meeks barely had five days to celebrate her Drag Race Season 18 win before the franchise moved on to something else. The Emmy-award-winning series just announced the cast for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/show\/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars<\/a> Season 11, and it is absolutely stacked.<\/p>\n<p>18 queens are returning for another shot at glory and a big, fat $200,000 check. Here\u2019s how it\u2019s all shaking out.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the queens returning for RPDR All Stars Season 11<\/p>\n<p>Drag Race All Stars is back, back, back, back, back again, and just like last season, it\u2019s the Tournament of All Stars format, with three different brackets consisting of six queens.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2025\/07\/16\/rupauls-drag-race-season-11-cast-rumors-spoilers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:18 queens competing this season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">18 queens competing this season<\/a> range from all across the U.S. franchise. You\u2019ve got girls who were first-outs in their season, recent runner-ups, and two queens who are on their fourth attempt at a Drag Race crown. Here\u2019s who is in each bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Pink Bracket:<\/p>\n<p>Orange Bracket;<\/p>\n<p>Purple Bracket:<\/p>\n<p>Each bracket will compete in a three-episode arc, with the queens earning points for their performances. The top three contestants from each bracket with the most points will advance to the semi-finals, where they\u2019ll compete for the $200,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, this tournament format wound up becoming extremely controversial, with fans accusing the show of favoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/tag\/ginger-minj\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ginger Minj;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Ginger Minj<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2026\/01\/15\/ginger-minj-felt-rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-set-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:loading up her bracket;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">loading up her bracket <\/a>with challenges that catered to her skillset. When she wound up winning the whole thing, the fandom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/entertainment\/rupaul-drag-race-sets-viewership-162410382.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:had a complete meltdown;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">had a complete meltdown<\/a>, so let\u2019s all pray that this season doesn\u2019t suffer the same fate. This cast is too sickening for that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplus.com\/shows\/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars<\/a> returns to Paramount+ on May 8, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplus.com\/shows\/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-untucked\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars: Untucked;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars: Untucked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TELL US \u2013 ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT RUPAUL\u2019S DRAG RACE ALL STARS SEASON 11 AND THE RETURN OF THE TOURNAMENT STYLE? WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE CAST?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2026\/04\/22\/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-season-11-cast-queens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars Season 11 Cast Revealed: 18 Queens Return;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars Season 11 Cast Revealed: 18 Queens Return<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reality Tea;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race via YouTube Myki Meeks barely had five days to celebrate her Drag Race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28797,4942,9,24,63,122,124,123,40346],"class_list":{"0":"post-206305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-all-stars","9":"tag-drag-race","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-rupaul39s-drag-race"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206305","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=206305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}