Rita Menu

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Rita Menu
Born1998or1999(age 24–25) [1]
Television RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under (season 3)

Rita Menu (born 1998 or 1999) is a New Zealand drag performer who competed on season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under .

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Career

Rita Menu is a drag performer. She won Kita Mean and Anita Wigl'it's "Drag Wars" competition. [1] In 2019, Logo TV's Michael Musto included Rita Menu in a list of the 250 best drag names. [2]

Rita Menu competed on season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under , [3] placing seventh overall. She is among the only contestants in the Drag Race franchise to eliminate two competitors in a single episode; [4] Rita Menu eliminated Ivory Glaze and Ivanna Drink in lip-syncs to "Murder on the Dancefloor" (2001) by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and "Holding Out for a Hero" by Adam Lambert, respectively. [5] [6] On the fourth episode, Rita Menu impersonated Cardi B for the Snatch Game challenge. [7] Her performance landed her in the bottom two, and she lost a lip-sync against Flor to "Secrets" by Kylie Minogue. [8] One of her looks on the show paid homage to the character Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show . [9]

Personal life

Rita Menu was raised in Hamilton, New Zealand. [10] Rita Menu uses the pronouns she/her in drag and he/him out of drag. [11]

Filmography

Television

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  2. ↑ "The 250 Best Drag Names of All Time". www.logotv.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  3. ↑ "Drag Race: Can the Kiwi queens keep the crown in Aotearoa?". 1 News. Archived from the original on 2023-09-09. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  4. ↑ "Rita Menu Dishes 'Drag Race Down Under', Double Eliminations & The Power of The RuPaul Critique - WERRRK.com". 2023-08-30. Archived from the original on 2023-10-02. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  5. ↑ Magaletti, Douglas (2023-08-13). "Ivory Glaze Reveals The Reason She Fainted On Drag Race Down Under Season 3". Star Observer. Archived from the original on 2023-08-16. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  6. ↑ Magaletti, Douglas (2023-08-14). "Drag Race Down Under Was A Roller Coaster Ride, Says Ivanna Drink". Star Observer. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  7. ↑ Guerra, Joey (2023-08-23). "'Drag Race Down Under' Q&A: Rita Menu talks about being Cardi B in Snatch Game and that Kylie Minogue runway". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  8. ↑ "RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under: "Snatch Game" (S03 E04) - WERRRK.com". 2023-08-18. Archived from the original on 2023-10-02. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  9. ↑ "DRDU's Rita Menu On The Pain & Pleasure Of Snatch Game & Who's In Her DMs". www.pride.com. Archived from the original on 2023-08-23. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  10. ↑ Magaletti, Douglas (2023-08-20). "RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under's Rita Menu Has A Snatch Game Regret". Star Observer. Archived from the original on 2023-08-25. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
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