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Valentina is a drag queen, singer, performer, actor, and one of the Season 9 contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race (placed 7th and the winner of the "Miss Congeniality" title), as well as one of the All Stars 4 contestants (once again placed 7th).

On May 12, 2023, Valentina was announced as a co-host of Drag Race México, alongside Lolita Banana.[4]

Name Origin

"Valentina" comes from a Mexican hot sauce brand of the same name.[4]

Track Record(s)

Valentina
Statistics USA Season 9 USA All Stars
Season 4
Ranking: 7th Place
(Miss Congeniality)
7th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 1 (Ep. 2) 1 (Ep. 2)
Mini Challenges Won: 1 (Ep. 8) 0
Times as Team Captain: 0 0
Times in Bottom: 1 (Ep. 9) 3 (Eps. 3, 5, 7)
Episode Eliminated Episode 9 Episode 7

Memorable Quotes

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9

  • "Hello, it's me... Valentina!" (entrance quote)
  • "I'm glad these girls see me as a threat."
  • "I was literally shaking, but I said to myself: ‘Valentina, when in doubt, smile!’" (on Season 9's cheerleading challenge rehearsal)
  • "I'm Valentina, I'm also corny!" (on Season 9's cheerleader challenge)
  • "I'm not gonna say nothing to that." (to Aja, after her rant on Season 9 Episode 3's Untucked)
  • "Escandalo!" (to Farrah Moan, after she explained Tyga's relationship with the Kardashian family)
  • "Yeah, duh!"
  • "Alexis Michelle, you're oh so ♪ Broooadwaaay ♪, but you're also very broad." (on Season 9's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "Trinity Taylor, I once told you you were beautiful inside and out, I lied you ugly stripper!" (on Season 9's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "Ladies, we're gonna do an exercise. Everybody raise your arms up to the sky, and Shea this is for you, one word: DEODORANT, BITCH!" (on Season 9's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "Peppermint. You need one." (on Season 9's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "Steve Harvey!" (to RuPaul, as Ariadna Gutierrez on "Snatch Game")
  • "In my country, we're known for beautiful women, and I think, also... COCAÍNA." (as Ariadna Gutierrez on "Snatch Game")
  • "I can never win anything!" (as Ariadna Gutierrez on "Snatch Game")
  • "You remind me of a cute hamster, I just want to shove you up my butt!" (during the Michelle Visage Roast)
  • "I'd like to keep it on, please." (midway through her lip-sync against Nina Bo'nina Brown)
  • "Hasta luego... los quiero mucho." (exit quote)
  • "You don't need to raise your voice with me Shea, you have a lot of feelings for me tonight."
  • "I didn't come on the show to prove I'm a star, I came on the show to show the star that I am." (to Sasha Velour at the Reunion)
  • "Farrah Moan, just shut up already." (during the Reunion)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4

  • "Am I the villain? Villaintina? Me?" (Meet the Queens)
  • "I know I'm a lot. It's, like, a privilege but, like, a curse." (Meet the Queens)
  • "Valentina is the diva of the season. The rumors are true: I take a long time to get ready. The rumors are true: I have high expectations, like my heels." (Meet the Queens)
  • "Fan favorite is here!" (entrance quote)
  • "Who's a booger now, bitch?" (reading Manila Luzon).
  • "Ru, Mystique was a mistake. Oh, I'm sorry, it's Latrice! I love you, girl!" (during All Stars 4’s "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
  • "I'd like to take it off, please."
  • "Woah... She fell, and she fell HARD bitch."
  • "Ladies! Gentleman! And Trinity!"
  • "You know in your heart that there is not a flaw in this outfit."
  • "I now have the opportunity to completely redeem myself with an Ariana Grande song."
  • "I mean, I know I'm Mexican, but I don't even know how to clean."
  • "Pull my lever!" (as Eartha Kitt in Snatch Game of Love)
  • "Boots the house down, mama, yes gawd." (tongue pop)
  • "So you think I can go home tonight?" (to Trinity The Tuck)
  • "I'm sending your ass home, bitch, because sending Latrice? That's too much." (to Trinity The Tuck)
  • "How dare you."
  • "Sorry I'm late! Sorry I'm late!" (during the "Jersey Justice" challenge)
  • "I work there, I strip there, I live there!" (during the "Jersey Justice" challenge)
  • "Giant tittie lady?" (when asked what 'GTL' means during the "Jersey Justice" challenge)
  • "You look like fuckin' Joan Rivers, you fuckin' whore!" (to Trinity The Tuck during the "Jersey Justice" challenge)
  • "Ladies, I'm boiling, my blood is simmering through my veins and I have some things to say, okay?! I am deeply and utterly offended, that judge with the bun and the gold, I do not appreciate her non-constructive criticism of my beautiful outfit."
  • "Can't you see her now, with a juicy red apple in her mouth and Satan's finger up her ass?" (referring to Lady Bunny, during her roast)
  • "You think this is cute? This story of "Let's Just Get Rid of the Bitch"? Well, you know what, bitches? I still got another motherfucking week!" (referring to Manila Luzon and Monét X Change choosing her lipstick back in Episode 5)
  • "Sending me home doesn't make sense with my fantasy."
  • "But all I can say is that no matter what... we're still in our heels." (to Naomi Smalls)
  • "I'll always remain... your diva with a heart. But bitch, let it be known: she left with a crown." (exit quote)
  • "I love you so much, mi amor, so much I wanna die! If you were to hurt me, baby, I’m leaving tonight. Eres mi amor y te regalo mi coochie-coo! When loving you, baby, no me hagas go crazy, ‘cause I am not the fool!" (verse in Don’t Funk It Up)

Drag Race México Season 1

  • "¡Hola, hola, mis niñes del maiz! Hello, hello!"
  • "¡Suficiente! Solo quedémonos en silencio cinco minutos, ¿eh? Tráeme a las chicas, por favor."
  • "¡Felicidragues! Eres la ganadora de esta semana."
  • "Muy buena suerte, y por favor... no la caguen."
  • "Girls, he hablado con el jurado, pero, al final, la decisión es de Lolita y mía."
  • "Shantay, las dos se quedan."
  • "Sashay, te marchas."
  • "Y recuerden... Si no te amas a ti misme, ¿cómo chingados vas a amar a alguien más?"

Farewell Message

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9

"Ladies, I love you with all my heart. If ever you need me, I'm yours. Con amor, Valentina" ㅤ

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4

"UGH! I have to pack. Love you all, Valentina"

Trivia

  • Valentina worships the Virgin of Guadalupe (an apparition of the Virgin Mary that occurred in Mexico during colonial times) as the mentor of her life and drag career.
  • At the Season 9 reunion, Valentina's title of "Miss Congeniality" was renamed "Fan Favorite" by her fellow castmates, however, she is still officially titled the Miss Congeniality of Season 9.
  • Valentina is the latest queen to hold Miss Congeniality for over a year, with Monet X Change (the Season 10 Miss Congeniality) and onward holding it for less than a year.
  • She's trilingual (speaks Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese).[5] Thus, she's one of the 5 RuPaul's Drag Race alumni able to speak at least 3 languages alongside Envy Peru, Gia Gunn, Katya and Vanessa Van Cartier.
  • In 2015, she won the club version of the Boulet Brothers' DRAGULA.[4]
  • Valentina is the first contestant to be present at 3 different roasts. She was on the Season 9 Michelle Visage Roast and All Stars 4 Roast In Peace as a contestant, and was a guest at the Nice Girl Roast during Season 13.
    • She would later be followed by Trinity The Tuck, although Trinity is the only contestant to compete in 3 different roasts.
  • She was featured in the fashion magazines Vogue and Vogue México.[4]
  • She was the 1st contestant revealed for Season 9, being interviewed by Michelle Visage during a Facebook live-stream.
  • She claimed to have only been performing professionally in clubs for 10 months at the time of Season 9's filming, and was accepted on her 1st time auditioning for the show.
  • During Season 9, she revealed she was struggling with an eating disorder.
  • Nina Bo'nina Brown and her are the only contestants so far to be stopped by RuPaul during a lip-sync. RuPaul later said that Valentina's lip sync is one of his Top 3 shocking moments on the show, with the other two being Roxxxy Andrews' abandonment story and Ongina's announcement of her HIV status.[6]
  • Her elimination became a popular meme, inspiring All Stars 2 winner Alaska to create a parody of Luis Fonsi's song "Despacito" called "Valentina", and the cosmetics company Lush which referenced for advertising on one of their face masks.[4]
  • She is the first contestant to participate in a lip-sync with her mouth covered.
    • During Season 13, RuPaul joked that Valentina was right to keep her face mask on in reference to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Like Farrah Moan's and Nina Bo'nina Brown's, her elimination was leaked online prior to the episode's airing.
  • She is the youngest "Miss Congeniality" title winner and is tied with Season 5 contestant Ivy Winters as the 4th-lowest "Miss Congeniality" placement, as both came 7th on their respective seasons. Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté is the lowest placing "Miss Congeniality", placing 12th due to an injury.
  • She was invited to return for All Stars 3 along with Aja after Trinity The Tuck and Shea Couleé declined, but reportedly turned it down.
  • Her All Stars 4 track record is similar to her Season 9 track record (won her 1st and only main challenge in Episode 2, never placed low before declared safe, was eliminated after paired with a fellow contestant, and placed 7th).
  • She is sometimes known as Valentina Bagini.
  • Valentina is the only contestant to be eliminated twice (both Season 9 and All Stars 4) right before a Makeover episode.
  • She is non-binary.
  • Valentina is the only Drag Race contestant to be the lowest placing challenge winner on two separate seasons.
    • Valentina is also the only Drag Race contestant to place 7th on two different seasons, those being Season 9 and All Stars 4.
  • On both seasons Valentina competed in she won the first “normally” formatted episode with; a maxi challenge, followed by a runway.
  • Though Ariana Grande is the most lip synced artist on the show, with 7 songs having been performed, Valentina is the only queen to have performed to more than one of her songs on the show.
  • Valentina is one of four contestants to have both won and lost a lip sync to the same artist. She lost a lip sync to "Greedy" by Ariana Grande in Season 9, but won a lip sync to "Into You" by Ariana Grande in All Stars 4.
    • The other three are Shangela, who won and lost a lip sync to RuPaul, Trinity the Tuck, who won and lost a lip sync to Britney Spears, and Monet X Change, who won and lost a lip sync to Lizzo. Trinity is the only one to do this on a single season. She was Followed by Kandy Muse, who also won and lost a lipsync to Britney Spears.
  • Valentina made an appearance in a scene of In The Heights.
  • Valentina was the last fan-voted Miss Congeniality in the US series.
  • After Supremme de Luxe, Valentina is the second host of a Drag Race franchise to guest judge on another franchise, having served as a guest judge on Season 3 of Drag Race España.
    • She is, however, the first to do so before the franchise she is hosting began airing.

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RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13

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Drag Race México Season 1

Drag Race México Season 1 Looks

Drag Race España Season 3

Drag Race España Season 3 Looks

Videos

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4

Drag Race México Season 1

​​​​​​Discography

Non-Album Singles

  • "A Prueba de Todo". (2018)
  • "All Eyes On Me". (2020)

Appearances

  • "Don't Funk It Up" by The Cast of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, Season 4. (2018)

Filmography

TV

  • RuPaul's Drag Race, on Season 9 as herself/contestant. (2017)
  • America's Next Top Model, as herself on Cycle 24. (2018)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, on Season 4 as herself. (2018-2019)
  • RENT: Live, as "Angel Dumott Schunard". (2019)
  • AJ and the Queen, on Season 1 as one of "The Box" club drag queens. (2020)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race, in Season 13 as special guest. (2021)
  • Drag Race España, Season 3 as a guest judge. (2023)

Web Series

Music Videos

Film

  • Invasión Drag as herself (2020)
  • In the Heights as patron of Daniella's salon (2021)

Tours

Supporting

External Links

References

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