Vivienne Pinay

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Vivienne Pinay
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Michael Donehoo
NationalityAmerican
Occupation Drag queen
Television RuPaul's Drag Race (season 5)

Vivienne Pinay is the stage name of Michael Donehoo, [1] [2] a drag performer who competed on season 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race .

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Early life

Donehoo became interested in drag at a young age after seeing RuPaul on VH1. [3]

Career

Pinay is a drag performer; he has said of his female persona Vivienne Pinay: "Vivienne is named after my Southern Grandmother. And Pinay means Filipino girl." [3] Pinay also sells wigs. [1]

Vivienne Pinay competed on season 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race , which aired in 2013. On the fourth episode, she and Honey Mahogany placed in the bottom two of a challenge in which contestants performed in a ballet based on the life of RuPaul. Neither contestant impressed RuPaul enough during a lip-sync to "Oops!... I Did It Again" (2000) by Britney Spears, [4] and both were eliminated from the competition in the show's first-ever double elimination. [1] [5] Thrillist's Brian Moylan ranked Vivienne Pinay number 75 out of the show's 113 contestants in 2017. [6] In 2019, Bernardo Sim of Screen Rant called the lip-sync between Honey Mahogany and Vivienne Pinay "so bad, so boring, and so low-energy", and wrote: "It is fair to say that Ru made the right call to send them both contestants home that week, and fans have certainly enjoyed forgetting about that lip sync." [7] Since Drag Race, Vivienne Pinay "decided to keep a low profile and abandoned this drag persona", according to Out magazine. [8]

In 2015, Vivienne Pinay was among Drag Race contestants to appear on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards during Miley Cyrus and Wayne Coyne's performance of "Dooo It!" (2015). [9]

Personal life

Pinay was born in the U.S. and is of Filipino descent. [1] In 2013, he had a boyfriend and two dogs. [3]

Filmography

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