All The Tea From RuPaul’s Drag Race

The Competition Is Filmed In Only Four Weeks

BERLIN, GERMANY – APRIL 03: Members of the RuPaul’s Drag Race perform live during a concert at the Admiralspalast on April 3, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Frank Hoensch/Redferns)

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The show may boast a $100,000 cash prize, but they still cut the costs when they can. They present each episode in a season as a new week, but it happens much faster than that. Each season of RuPaul’s Drag Race lasts three months on TV but is filmed in only four weeks.

To do this, they film two or three episodes on back to back days. This means the queens end up pulling 12-hours shifts multiple days in a row. And they’re doing it all while being laced up and wearing six-inch heels.