On Friday, February 27, Lopez — an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter and producer — was featured in Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. He helped the queens record vocals as part of the Rusical challenge ...

RuPaul Drag Race Down Under star Maxi Shield died months after sharing her throat cancer diagnosis. Here’s how Michelle Visage and more have remembered their Drag Race family member.

RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Season 1 queen Maxi Shield has died at age 51. The performer and activist’s death was announced on Monday by Universal Sydney, a Sydney, Australia-based LGBTQ+ venue at ...

Maxi Shield, the beloved Sydney drag performer and “RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under” season 1 contestant, has died at 51.

RuPaul's Drag Race has been a cultural phenomenon since it started airing in 2009, however, some of the franchise's popular stars have since passed away. HELLO! pays tribute to those gone too soon ...

Drag racer Ed Robbins died earlier this month after his car went off the track at Jackson Dragway in Jackson, Tennessee. Robbins was 74 years old. His family released a statement following his death, ...

RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under star Maxi Shield has died at age 51 of an undisclosed cause. Vanity, a friend of Shield’s, announced the star’s death via Instagram, saying, “We are all mourning the loss ...

The drag world is in mourning following the death of the Australian performer Maxi Shield. Internationally, Maxi – the drag alter-ego of Kristopher Elliot – will be best known to RuPaul’s Drag Race ...

Emmy-nominated songwriter Gabe Lopez died on January 25, 2026, from lymphoma, weeks before his RuPaul’s Drag Race guest ...

Maxi Shield, a Sydney-based star of Australia's RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, has died at 51 six months after announcing a throat cancer diagnosis.

Maxi Shield death: Australian drag queen and RuPaul’s Drag Race star dies aged 51 - Shield shared in September that she had ...