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Shangela Makes DWTS History arsenic First Drag Queen Contestant
Shangela is cha-cha-chaing her mode into history.
How so? She's the archetypal ever resistance queen to vie connected Dancing with the Stars, partnering with Gleb Savchenko for the show's upcoming 31st season. Though ne'er technically trained successful dance, successful an exclusive interrogation with E! the prima assures, "Trust me, I'm coming to enactment connected a show."
That's a amusement we're looking guardant to see. The performer besides expressed her joyousness astir the upcoming episodes saying, "First of all, I americium thrilled and honored they asked maine to beryllium a portion of this. It's called Dancing With The Stars—I conscionable see myself a moving girl," she shared. "I'm successful the radical with stars, arsenic well. Like Wayne Brady judged maine on Rupaul's Drag Race back erstwhile I was connected play three—that was similar a decennary ago—and told maine astatine that time, 'Shangela I judge successful you. I deliberation you person prima power.'"
Though she's clearly excited to be hanging with the stars on the creation floor, Shangela shares there's 1 peculiar idiosyncratic she's looking guardant to seeing much than anyone.
"My mom. You cognize my ma conscionable had surgery," she noted. "I was conscionable successful Dallas with her astatine the hospital. She said, 'I privation you to spell New York and I privation you to spell win.' So, I privation my ma to beryllium capable to consciousness amended and travel to the show."
The resistance star continued, "I would emotion for my grandma, my small nieces and nephew to come. Like that's who I truly privation to spot successful the assemblage due to the fact that I truly privation to crook it for them."
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We'll spot however she makes it hap erstwhile Dancing With the Stars premieres unrecorded connected Disney+ Sept. 19.
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