Disastrous Mariah Carey-themed skit leads to six-way elimination on 'Drag Race'

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Not since Mariah Carey had to sit next to Nicki Minaj on American Idol had television seen judges as angry as RuPaul Charles and Michele Visage on RuPaul’s Drag Race this Thursday. Six of the 12 contestants so epically failed in a Mariah-themed skit that Ru basically told all of them -- to quote a recent Carey single -- to GTFO. They had RuPaul feeling emotions, deeper than he’d ever dreamed of… and none of those emotions were good. In fact, Ru described their disastrous performance with just three words: “Stink. Stank. Stunk.” And so, for the first time in RuPaul’s Drag Race’s 11-season herstory, all six queens were up for elimination. These lambs were truly led to the slaughter. So, on Thursday’s RPDR maxi-challenge, two teams starred in 700 Club-style televangelical programs of diva-worship. The It’s Britney Bitch Movement, a show based on the Church of Britney Spears, practically had the panel (including guest judges Troye Sivan and Guillermo Diaz) converting to Britneyism. But the losing team’s When You Believe show, devoted to Mariahism, could not get an amen. More I’m “Mimi I’m Last,” amirite? Blasphemously, this team had chosen to deify a diva that they knew precious little about (and that had been brilliantly impersonated on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars 3 by Shangela, of A Star Is Born fame, just last year). None of them were big Mariah fans, darling. And they’d also all foolishly ignored RuPaul’s Werk Room suggestion to shift focus to a less elusive chanteuse. During deliberations, when no queen was willing to either accept main responsibility for the When You Believe debacle or throw any individual teammate under the bus (this really was RuPaul’s Best Friends Race!), an exasperated Ru ordered all six of them -- Plastique Tiara, Ra'Jah O'Hara, Scarlet Envy, Shuga Cain, and the unrelated Honey Davenport and A'Keria C. Davenport -- to lip-synch for their lives. This was a Drag Race first, a new Drag Race low, and one bittersweet day. In the end, RuPaul sent Honey Davenport sashaying away. Read more from Yahoo Entertainment:

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