The Drag Race
star, who has won the award every single year since 2016, beat out the likes of
Nicole Byer (Nailed It), the Queer Eye team, Amy Poehler (Making It), Padma
Lakshmi (Top Chef), and the Shark Tank team.
“You guys are
so sweet! I’ve got to tell you, I love, love, love television and it is a
privilege to be on television and do this thing I’ve loved my whole life,” he
said during his acceptance speech.
“I want to
thank all you people out there tonight. Norman Lear, please thank him for
everything he’s done.
“I’d also like
to thank everyone I’ve worked with. I got in the union by being on the Arsenio
Hall Show. I want to thank Arsenio for getting me on TV.”
RuPaul’s Emmy
tally now adds up to 12 awards, extending his reign as the most decorated Black
artist in the award show’s history.
Aside from his
recent achievement, Mama Ru will have the opportunity to win another coveted
award for RuPaul’s Drag Race at the upcoming 2022 Primetime Emmy’s on 12
September.
The beloved
series, which is nominated for Outstanding Competition Program, is set to go up
against The Amazing Race, The Voice, Top Chef, and Lizzo’s Watch Out For The
Big Grrrls.
RuPaul’s
groundbreaking win comes a few days after the BBC announced that the fourth
season of Drag Race UK would be returning on 22 September.
The new batch
of episodes will see the return of Mama Ru, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and
Alan Carr as regular panellists.
Hannah
Waddingham, Dame Joanna Lumley, Alison Hammond, Boy George, Lorraine Pascale,
Mel B, Leomie Anderson, Olly Alexander and FKA Twigs are also set to lend their
expertise as the season’s guest judges.
Strictly Come
Dancing hosts Tess Daly and AJ Odudu will “offer up their best blankety blanks”
in the Snatch Game, while Strictly dancer Giovanni Pernice puts the queens
“through their paces” for an all-singing, all-dancing challenge.
Lastly, Irish
comedian Aisling Bea will “drop by to bring some comedy to the competition,”
and legendary singer-songwriter Cathy Dennis provides the contestants with “a
songwriting masterclass.”
RuPaul’s Drag
Race UK season four will air on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.
SOURCE: GAY TIMES
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