RuPaul's Drag Race season 5

The fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race began airing on January 28, 2013, with a 90-minute premiere episode, and ended on May 6 of the same year. The winner of season five headlined Logo's Drag Race Tour featuring Absolut Vodka, won a one-of-a-kind trip, a lifetime supply of Colorevolution Cosmetics, and a cash prize of $100,000. Santino Rice and Michelle Visage returned as judges at the panel.

The theme song playing during the runway every episode is "I Bring the Beat", while the song playing during the credits is "The Beginning". Both songs are from RuPaul's album Glamazon.

This is the first-ever series in the show's history to feature a double elimination or a double sashay between two contestants, Honey Mahogany and Vivienne Pinay. It is also the first series to feature a queen, Coco Montrese, lip-sync for their life four times and send 3 people home. This is also the first series where RuPaul allowed fans to vote for a winner.

The winner of the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race was Jinkx Monsoon, with Alaska and Roxxxy Andrews being the runners-up, and Ivy Winters being crowned season 5's Miss Congeniality by fans.

Contestants

Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.

+ Contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race season 5 and their backgrounds Contestant Age Hometown Outcome Jinkx Monsoon 24 Seattle, Washington Alaska 27 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Roxxxy Andrews 28 Orlando, Florida Detox 27 Los Angeles, California 4th place Coco Montrese 37 Las Vegas, Nevada 5th place Alyssa Edwards 32 Mesquite, Texas 6th place Ivy Winters 26 New York City, New York 7th place Jade Jolie 25 Gainesville, Florida 8th place Lineysha Sparx 24 San Juan, Puerto Rico 9th place Honey Mahogany 29 San Francisco, California 10th place Vivienne Pinay 26 New York City, New York Monica Beverly Hillz 27 Owensboro, Kentucky 12th place Serena ChaCha 21 Tallahassee, Florida 13th place Penny Tration 39 Cincinnati, Ohio 14th place

Notes:

Contestant progress

Lip syncs Legend:

Episode Contestants Song Eliminated 1 Penny Tration vs. Serena ChaCha "Party in the U.S.A."(Miley Cyrus) Penny Tration 2 Monica Beverly Hillz vs. Serena ChaCha "Only Girl (In the World)"(Rihanna) Serena ChaCha 3 Coco Montrese vs. Monica Beverly Hillz "When I Grow Up"(The Pussycat Dolls) Monica Beverly Hillz 4 Honey Mahogany vs. Vivienne Pinay "Oops!... I Did It Again"(Britney Spears) Honey Mahogany Vivienne Pinay 5 Detox vs. Lineysha Sparx "Take Me Home"(Cher) Lineysha Sparx 6 Coco Montrese vs. Jade Jolie "I'm So Excited"(The Pointer Sisters) Jade Jolie 7 Alyssa Edwards vs. Roxxxy Andrews "Whip My Hair"(Willow Smith) None 8 Alyssa Edwards vs. Ivy Winters "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On but the Rent"(Gwen Guthrie) Ivy Winters 9 Alyssa Edwards vs. Coco Montrese "Cold Hearted"(Paula Abdul) Alyssa Edwards 10 Coco Montrese vs. Detox "Two to Make It Right"(Seduction) Coco Montrese 11 Detox vs. Jinkx Monsoon "Malambo No. 1"(Yma Sumac) Detox 12 Alaska vs. Jinkx Monsoon vs. Roxxxy Andrews "The Beginning"(RuPaul) None

Guest judges Listed in chronological order:

Camille Grammer, television personality Mike Ruiz, photographer Kristen Johnston, actress Juliette Lewis, actress and singer Coco Austin, model Paulina Porizkova, model and actress Chaz Bono, writer and activist Travis Wall, dancer Julie Brown, actress-comedian Downtown Julie Brown, actress and MTV VJ La Toya Jackson, singer The Pointer Sisters (Anita and Ruth), girl group Leslie Jordan, actor Jeffrey Moran, Absolut Vodka marketing/branding executive Aubrey O’Day, singer Joan Van Ark, actress María Conchita Alonso, singer/songwriter and actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress and singer Clinton Kelly, fashion stylist George Kotsiopoulos, editor and fashion consultant Marg Helgenberger, actress Bob Mackie, fashion designer

Special guests Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage:

Episode 4 Nick Lazzarini, dancer and winner of So You Think You Can Dance season 1

Episode 5 Ian Drew, Entertainment Director of Us Weekly

Episode 6 Lucian Piane, composer and record producer

Episode 7 Deven Green, comedian and musician Nadya Ginsberg, comedian, actress, and writer Bruce Vilanch, writer and actor

Episode 9 Wilmer Valderrama, actor

Episode 12 Gloria Allred, lawyer Mathu Andersen, make-up artist and photographer Candis Cayne, actress and performance artist

Episode 13 Latrice Royale, contestant on season 4 and All Stars season 1 Willam, contestant on season 4 Sharon Needles, winner of season 4

Episode 14 Paula Abdul, singer, dancer, and actress (via video message) Latrice Royale, "Miss Congeniality" of season 4 and contestant on All Stars season 1

Episodes

Reception The overnight ratings for the fifth-season premiere of Rupaul's Drag Race reinforced the show's position as Logo's juggernaut. "Monday night's 9PM season five premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race worked the ratings runway, averaging a .8 rating in the P18-49 demo. This number represents a 33% increase over Logo's previous top-rated season premiere (fourth-season premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race) and clocks in as the highest-rated season premiere in Logo history.

Additionally, the 90-minute premiere tallied a total of 565,000 viewers. The fifth-season premiere night of RuPaul's Drag Race and companion series RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked delivered over 1.3 million viewers.

Furthermore, RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked was the most-watched premiere ever averaging 291,000 total viewers and a .5 rating P18-49. On social media platforms for premiere night, RuPaul's Drag Race and Untucked showed a 136% increase in social activity versus the fourth-season premiere – this includes tweets, Facebook posts and Get Glue check-ins.

RuPaul's Drag Race season 5

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