Lexi Love

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Lexi Love
Other namesLexi V. Love [1]
OccupationDrag queen
Years active2024–present

Lexi Love is an American drag performer competing on the upcoming seventeenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race (2025).

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Early life

Lexi Love was raised in Florence, Kentucky. [2]

Career

Lexi Love is a drag performer best known for appearing on season 17 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. She was appointed as the official American ambassador to the United Kingdom-based House of Versace by Drag Race UK winner Krystal Versace. One of her mentors is 2016 Mr. Continental winner Mykul Jay Valentine. [3] She cites her drag inspirations to be Y2K fashion, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and America's Next Top Model . [2]

Personal life

Lexi Love is based in Louisville, Kentucky. [4] She grew up in Florence, a Kentucky suburb near Cincinnati, Ohio. [5] [2] Prior to Drag Race, she worked as one of the Louisville Playmates at Play Dance Bar. Before beginning to work at Play in 2021, she had previously performed within the Cincinnati metropolitan area for nearly a decade. [2] She is most well known for performing in roller skates, billing herself as a "Roller Derby Doll". [6]

Filmography

Television

List of television credits, with selected details
TitleYearRoleRef.
WHAS-TV 2024Guest [7]
RuPaul's Drag Race 2025 Contestant [8]

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