1. Michelle Visage was born on Michelle Lynn Shupack, September 20,1968 and is an American television personality, singer, broadcaster, producer, and actress.
37 Facts About Michelle Visage
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Michelle Visage gained recognition as a member of the dance-pop group Seduction, who charted five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1989 and 1990.
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In 2011, Visage joined the American reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, and has served as a permanent judge since season three.
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Michelle Visage is a permanent judge on its spin-off series RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World, and Drag Race Down Under, hosting the latter.
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Michelle Visage has won 3 Primetime Emmy Awards as a producer of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Michelle Visage was a contestant on the British reality shows Celebrity Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing, and was a judge on the talent competition show Ireland's Got Talent.
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Michelle Visage was adopted and was aware of this from an early age.
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Michelle Visage attended South Plainfield High School in South Plainfield, New Jersey, graduating in 1986.
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When Michelle Visage was 16, she won a Madonna lookalike competition.
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Michelle Visage then moved to New York and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan for two years.
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Michelle Visage became prominent in the New York drag ball scene and learned voguing from various people including Willi Ninja.
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Michelle Visage became involved with Cesar Valentino and the pair appeared voguing together on the television show The Latin Connection in 1988, which they said was the first time voguing had appeared on national TV.
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Michelle Visage met her future friend and co-star RuPaul for the first time in the late 1980s, when she attended club nights and parties hosted by Susanne Bartsch.
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In 1989, Michelle Visage performed at "The Love Ball", which was organized by Bartsch as a benefit for the Design Industries Foundation For AIDS.
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Michelle Visage has been featured on several of RuPaul's music albums, and appears in the music videos for "New York City Beat" and "From Your Heart", which originally premiered on RuPaul's Green Screen Christmas Special, and were later uploaded to World of Wonder's YouTube channel.
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In February 2021, it was confirmed that Michelle Visage had teamed up with Steps on a reworked version of "Heartbreak in This City".
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Michelle Visage was the co-host of the morning show on WKTU in NYC from 1996 to 2002 where she and co-host RuPaul started working together professionally.
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When RuPaul left radio, Michelle Visage continued on to many morning shows including: Hot 92 Jamz in Los Angeles between 2002 and 2005.
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In 2005, Michelle Visage returned to New York City, where she served as co-host of The Morning Mix on WNEW-FM until December 2006.
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Michelle Visage hosted on Sirius Satellite Radio's The Beat 66 from 2003 to 2006 On March 12,2007, she became a co-host of the morning show on SUNNY 104.3 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Michelle Visage left Miami and MIA in December 2011, moving back to Los Angeles.
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In February and March 2025 Michelle Visage covered for Elaine Paige On Sunday.
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Michelle Visage has worked with RuPaul on a variety of television shows throughout her career.
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Michelle Visage co-hosted WKTU's morning show with RuPaul from 1996 to 2002.
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When RuPaul began casting judges for season one of RuPaul's Drag Race, he invited Michelle Visage to become a permanent member of the show.
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At the time she was on a five-year contract with a CBS radio station in West Palm Beach; after asking her boss if she could join the show he said no, which Michelle Visage put down to the show's links with the LGBT community.
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Two years later, Michelle Visage was contacted again by RuPaul and invited to appear on season three of the show.
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On January 24,2011, Michelle Visage debuted as a permanent judge, along with Santino Rice and Billy B, on season three of RuPaul's Drag Race, replacing Merle Ginsberg.
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Michelle Visage has appeared on all nine seasons of the spin-off show, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
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In 2021, Michelle Visage served as a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.
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In 2024, it was confirmed that Michelle Visage would be the permanent host on the fourth season of Drag Race Down Under.
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On January 7,2015, Michelle Visage became one of the contestants on the fifteenth series of the British reality series Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5.
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On February 6,2015, Michelle Visage left the house in fifth place.
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Michelle Visage has made several other TV appearances including hosting VH1's red carpet coverage of the 1998 Grammys and in 2002, Grease 25th-anniversary re-release party.
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Michelle Visage appeared on the televised Grand Final in February 2021, after the plans for the original live Grand Final were scuppered by COVID-19.
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Michelle Visage performed in her West End debut as "Miss Hedge" in Everybody's Talking About Jamie between October 18,2018, and January 26,2019.
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Michelle Visage played Morticia in the West End premiere of The Addams Family in concert opposite Ramin Karimloo as Gomez in February 2024.