1. Delta Work is the stage name of Gabriel A Villarreal, an Emmy Award-winning American drag performer and stylist, best known for competing on the third season of the reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race.
22 Facts About Delta Work
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Delta Work hosted the podcast Very That alongside season-three winner and fellow drag performer Raja.
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Delta Work's father was a veteran of the Vietnam War who was subjected to Agent Orange during his service.
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Delta Work started dressing in drag on Halloween 1998, at age 22 when she attended a rave in a "Natalie Merchant" style dress.
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Delta Work was a performer and producer at Southern California's longest running drag show the Dream Girls Revue and frequented the local contest circuit at clubs like Drag-A-Licious at Ripples in Long Beach and Drag-O-Rama at Ultra Suede in WeHo.
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Delta Work was selected, along with twelve other contestants, for the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race, which began airing on January 24,2011, on LOGO TV.
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Points for the wink at Bob Mackie with her look, but otherwise Delta Work just waded around in her nothing-doing.
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Delta Work became RuPaul's personal wig-stylist, for her judges' panel looks, beginning with the second episode of the ninth season, with season two alumnus Raven styling her makeup.
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Delta Work appeared as a guest for the first challenge in the premiere of season eleven.
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Delta Work stated that World of Wonder, the producers of RuPaul's Drag Race, intentionally refrained from submitting her name for Emmy consideration for the eleventh season, despite her having done the same job as the tenth season when she won the award, because she was no longer working with them.
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Delta Work made recurring appearances on WoWPresent's internet show Fashion Photo RuView, filling in for Raja or Raven to critique looks from Drag Race alumni and various other celebrities, with her first appearance on November 19,2014.
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Delta Work made regular appearances on the web show The Pit Stop, which reviews each weekly episode of Drag Race.
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Delta Work was on its debut episode on August 27,2016.
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Delta Work appeared on the cover of Skorch Magazine in 2013.
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Delta Work received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special at the 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for her work.
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Delta Work portrayed Adele in the music video for Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down".
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Delta Work performed with Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus at the MTV VMAs.
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From September 2020 to May 2023 Delta Work co-hosted the conversational podcast Very That on the Forever Dog and Moguls of Media networks, alongside her RuPaul's Drag Race season three castmate Raja, where the duo discussed recent news and answer questions from fans.
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In July 2023 Work began hosting More Very Delta, a supplement to the main podcast available exclusively to MOM Plus Gold subscribers.
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Delta Work released her debut solo single, "The Walkin' Blues ", on May 12,2015.
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Delta Work had previously recorded music as part of The Heathers, with Manila Luzon, Raja, and Carmen Carrera.
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On November 16,2023, Work released the collaborative single "I Want House" with dance music duo BOY2K, based on a viral monologue from Very Delta.