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Delta Work is an American drag queen, hair stylist and performer from Norwalk, California.

Delta Work competed on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3, where she was eliminated in episode 8, placing 7th in the overall competition.

Drag Name Origin[]

At a local bar where she used to go watch, the queens were doing a "Ladies of the 80s" night, and they were trying to do the ladies from Designing Women. There was nobody that could do Delta Burke's character Suzanne Sugarbaker, because they didn't have a big girl. So Delta stepped up and the queens said that she totally looked like Delta Burke. Then one queen said, "You better work Delta! Screw Delta Burke! You're Delta Work!".[citation needed]

Track Record(s)[]

Statistics USA Season 3
Ranking: 7th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 0
Mini Challenges Won: 1 (Ep. 6)
Times as Team Captain: 0
Times in Bottom: 3 (Eps. 3, 6, 8)
Episode Eliminated: Episode 8

Memorable Quotes[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3[]

Farewell Message[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3[]

"WORK HEATHERS xoxo Delta"

Trivia[]

  • She considers Raja as one of her drag mothers, as she knew her prior to competing on RuPaul's Drag Race.[citation needed]
  • Delta Work was a member of the Heathers clique along with Raja, Manila Luzon and Carmen Carrera.[citation needed]
  • Delta entered the competition after having presented a live audition in front of RuPaul and Santino Rice in Hollywood, California.
  • Delta, along with Ongina, appeared as cameos on RuPaul's Drag All Stars Season 1, where they both served as van drivers to bring the remaining Top 4 queens to their interview and Hamburger Mary's challenges.[citation needed]
  • Sometimes Delta impersonates Adele in Los Angeles. In July 2016, Adele invited Delta on stage at her concert.[citation needed]
  • Delta has appeared in various episodes of the WOW Presents Plus web series Fashion Photo RuView with Raven and is one of the most frequent guests on the show.
  • Delta won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special for the wig styling she made for RuPaul during RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10.[citation needed]
  • Delta was in Taylor Swift's music video for "You Need to Calm Down" playing Adele. She, alongside the other queens included in the video, won the 2019 VMA for Video of the Year with Taylor as they were listed as creative producers.[citation needed]
  • From September 2020 to May 2023 Delta co-hosted the podcast Very That with Raja on the ForeverDog and Moguls of Media networks.[citation needed]
    • She has also hosted the solo MOM podcast Very Delta since July 2022.[citation needed]
  • Delta has made frequent appearances on The Pit Stop.
    • In fact, until 2022 she was the queen with the most appearances as a guest on the show, with 7 appearances from 2016 to 2019. Laganja Estranja has since overtaken her with 9 appearances to date.
  • In the Very Delta episode with Venus D-Lite, who was also cast on Season 3 via an open call, Delta revealed that she and Venus found out after the fact they had already been cast on Drag Race but were made to show up to the open call by producers who threatened to cut them from the show if they did not turn up.[2]
  • Delta stated in her Exposed interview with Joseph Shepherd that she would not have had an audition tape for Season 3 without Chad Michaels, who helped her re-shoot her entire tape after she lost all the footage two days before the audition deadline.[3]
  • Delta also went into detail regarding her time as RuPaul's wig stylist on Exposed.[3]
    • She said that she was given barely any time to get ready for the job because she joined while filming for Season 9 was already underway, alongside Raven. She was initially nominated for an Emmy for Season 9 but it was rescinded because she was not on the call sheet for every episode since she joined partway through. [citation needed]
    • In her acceptance speech for her Emmy for Season 10 she thanked Mathu Andersen, her predecessor as RuPaul's wig stylist, whom World of Wonder did not view favorably. [citation needed]
    • She refused to do RuPaul's hair for AJ and the Queen because it would require her to work on set full-time, preventing her from doing other gigs. After that RuPaul informed her that she would no longer be needed for RuPaul's Drag Race or any other project via a very short and impersonal email.[citation needed]
    • World of Wonder removed her name from the show's Emmy nominations for Season 11, despite her being on the call sheet for every episode, so when the show ultimately won the Emmy for Outstanding Hairstyling again, she was not awarded.[citation needed]
      • Because of the Season 9 nomination being revoked and not being credited for the Season 11 win, Delta says that she is actually a three-time Emmy nominee and two-time winner, even if the Academy and World of Wonder do not recognize it.[citation needed]
    • In the interview Delta also said that the last time she spoke to Raven was after she won her Emmy, and Raven's continued relationship to RuPaul has prevented them from rekindling their friendship.[3]

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