GIGI GOODE

Good morning campers.

Hi, did you know that Gigi Goode is better than you? That was a reference to her opening line in the Droop commercial by the way, so don’t get mad. But statistically speaking… The 22-year-old performer, birth name Samuel Geggie, made history on the 12th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race earlier this year when she became the third performer to win four maxichallenges on a regular season after Sharon Needles and Shea Coulee. Although she didn’t take home the crown, Gigi cemented herself as one of the fiercest queens to ever sashay into the werkroom thanks to her high-fashion runways and unconventional style of comedy - take her bonkers impersonation of Maria the Robot, for example. (Fun fact: Gigi became the first queen to win Snatch Game, the Ball Challenge and the Rusical in one season.) “I could not be any happier with how it all went down,” Gigi tells me over Zoom from her surprisingly nonchalant childhood bedroom in Woodstock, Illinois. “Nearly every single concept was mine and mine alone… I’m very satisfied with my performance.”

We’re talking with Gigi one day before she reunites with her season 12 sisters Crystal Methyd and Jaida Essence Hall for Drive N Drag, a one-of-a-kind, socially-distanced drive-in tour with several fan-favourites from the Emmy-winning series - including Asia O’Hara, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo and Yvie Oddly. It’s the first time she’s seen Crystal, the other