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Home *Dragolicious, Arts & Entertainment, Award Worthy, Drag, Drag O'Tainment, Gay 101, Legends, Queer TV, RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8, TelevisionShocker! RuPaul Wins Emmy Award For Best Reality Show Host

Shocker! RuPaul Wins Emmy Award For Best Reality Show Host

September 11, 2016• byMichael Strangeways

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Tonight was the 2nd night (of three!) to present this year’s Emmy Awards honoring excellence in television. The so called “big” awards for Best Actor/Actress/Comedy/Drama etc all happen next Sunday, but a few juicy ones were given out tonight in Los Angeles and…our own beloved drag icon, RUPAUL CHARLES snagged a surprise win in the “Outstanding Reality Show Host” category for hosting the very popular RuPaul’s Drag Race on cable channel, LOGO which broadcast its 8th season earlier this year. It was RuPaul’s first win after his first Emmy nomination.

It’s also a first for a drag queen to win a major entertainment award.

And, it was considered an upset win as RuPaul beat out Dancing with the Stars’ Tom Bergeron, Project Runway’s Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Hollywood Game Night’s Jane Lynch, American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest and Little Big Shots’ Steve Harvey.

A big hearty congratulations to Ru for their historic win!

Though, to be honest, it would have been cool to see Ru have to “lipsync for her life” against Tom, Heidi, Tim, Jane, Ryan and Steve.

We’re thinking Tim, Jane and Ryan could have given Ru a run for the money…

ADDED: Ru talks to Yahoo about his historic win and remarks back stage:

“I haven’t landed yet,” RuPaul gasped backstage. “I can’t believe it. This is really so crazy. I really did not expect this… I’m still not sure if I won! I don’t know if I’m dreaming or not, because I’ve never felt like this before — maybe in a drug flashback or something.”

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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