After Drag Race won the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Series five years in a row the drag franchise giant finally had their winning streak ended by Peacock's The Traitors at last night's ceremony.
What made headlines though was that upon their loss a correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter posted a clip of the Drag Race girls allegedly walking out during Alan Cumming's award acceptance speech.
However, the queens would not stay silent on the rumors and decided to set the record straight.
"It was a commercial break and the girls wanted a drink," Plane Jane wrote in response. "We all stayed until the end of the ceremony. Take your pseudo-journalism elsewhere."
Amanda Tori Meating added, "It was a commercial break are we allowed to go piss girl."
The Hollywood Reporter correspondent later posted that the cast was still present at the ceremony despite leaving the original tweet online.
After five wins, RuPaul’s Drag Race loses for best reality competition to The Traitors. After the category was announced the team from Drag Race (including all the queens) cleared out and headed to the lobby. #Emmys pic.twitter.com/B4UIJh13L7
— Chris Gardner (@chrissgardner) September 16, 2024
Alan Cumming and the Traitors team made quite the impression at this Emmy ceremony as they took home an Emmy win for Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program at the Creative Arts Emmy's.
"We are so grateful because we are a new show,” Alan said while accepting the award. “And you guys, you know when you like something, you tend to stick to it, which is a good quality, but we appreciate it all the more.”
“I also want to thank Scotland, I owe it everything and it's such a beautiful costar,” he added. "I also want to thank Holland, because I don't think we thank Holland enough, because so many of these shows, like The Traitors, were first made up in Holland, and they obviously have something in the water, so let's find it, let's drink it and all of America's problems will be solved.”
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