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RuPaul’s Drag Race has become a global sensation, with the reality competition series expanding into spinoffs around the world, including in Canada, the U.K. and even Spain. Besides its international companions, the series has even branched out into an arguably just-as-popular spinoff titled RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars. And the devotion for the reality show has helped earn RuPaul an Emmy record as the most-awarded host for a reality competition program.

Watching RuPaul’s Drag Race every week isn’t the only way to profess your love for the reality competition show — the series has spawned a seemingly endless amount of merch, toys and collectibles too.

You don’t have to spend a fortune either — no matter what your budget is, there is a variety of fun merch ranging from games to books and more. And, if you have a squirrel friend out there who is a major fan of the series, finding unique RuPaul’s Drag Race merch will provide a thoughtful gift that won’t have them saying “sashay away.”

What Is the Best RuPaul’s Drag Race Merch?

To help you stock up on a gag-worthy amount of the best RuPaul’s Drag Race merch, Billboard Shopping did the research to find some of the most popular apparel and accessories inspired by the show.

Keep reading to shop our picks below.

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Delve into the story of the legend who created RuPaul’s Drag Race as well as helping to pave the way for drag queens today. RuPaul’s memoir bares it all with the official description describing it to be “his most revealing and personal work to date.” Throughout 256 pages, you’ll learn about his life growing up in San Diego to navigating the punk and drag scenes in Atlanta and New York.


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RuPaul Face Repeat T-Shirt

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Add some RuPaul to your style with this graphic T-shirt featuring the host and their name. It comes in various colors and is made from a 100% combed, ring-spun cotton for extra coziness. It’s also machine-washable. Plus, did we mention it’s also 20% off right now?


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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Monopoly

Ditch the classic Monopoly and pick up this Drag Race version that comes with game pieces inspired by the TV show, including a checkered flag, chocolate bar, reading glasses, lipstick, a purse and a roll of duct tape. As you go around the board, you’ll recognize spots taken straight from the show such as the Winners Circle, All Stars Hall of Fame and Judges Panel.


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You’ll want to make sure this Little People’s figure set has a front spot on your display shelf. Not only does it feature a collectable glittering box inspired by the iconic main stage, inside are three different figurines taken after some of RuPaul’s most beloved outfits.


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“RuPaul’s Drag Race Mad Libs”

As you watch the latest episode, add a touch of interactiveness to your watch party with this RuPaul’s Drag Race Mad Libs. Each page will feature a different theme, and fill-in-the-blanks that you can have fun writing and reading out loud for some laughable fun. It’s also compact enough to throw in your backpack to take with you on the go for games nights, travel and commutes.


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Personalized “Drag Race All Stars”-Inspired Lipstick

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Just like the contestants, you can own your own personalized lipstick with your name engraved on it. You’ll be able to choose between three font options and whether you want there to be lip balm inside. Make sure to write your name in the customization box before adding the product to your cart.


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Top Drags Game

You and your friends can enjoy this card game with a drag queen twist. Each player will compete to win different categories using cards in their hand. Whoever has the highest number in a given category wins the round. The person who wins the most rounds will be the ultimate drag queen.


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Drag Queen Royalty Tote Bag

Redbubble’s tote bag comes designed with a collage of Queens considered drag royalty. This will easily become the statement of your outfit as it features vibrant colors and a sturdy yet spacious build for holding your books and small essentials.


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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Puzzle

Challenge yourself with a RuPaul puzzle that features iconic photos of the host you can build. Once complete, you can take it apart to build again at a later date or keep the 500 pieces together to put on display for all your friends to admire.


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Drag Race Mug

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Show off your charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent every morning with this simple (and cheeky) mug. It comes decorated with the iconic slogan and is made from a ceramic material that can hold up to 11 ounces of liquid.


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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Stickers

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You can decorate your laptop and phone case with these Drag Race stickers, which include 100 pieces inspired by quotes and Queens from past seasons. Right now you can score 20% off the sticker pack dropping the price down to only $8.


For more product recommendations, check out our roundups of the best LGBTQ+ brands, gender-neutral gifts and tarot cards.

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It might be time for a tech upgrade. If you’ve been waiting for iPads to go on sale, Amazon has a few iPad deals that you need to know about.

For starters, iPad Pro got a pretty nice price cut, just in time for spring. The ninth generation iPad Pro is on sale for $250 at Amazon, which saves you $80 off the list price ($329).

Powered by Apple’s A13 bionic chip and an 8-core CPU and Neural Engine NPU, iPad Pro delivers powerful performance, lightning-fast graphics and all-day battery life, with up to 10 hours of web surfing.

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The iPad Pro also has a 10.9-inch True Tone display, 64GB of storage (up to 256GB), a 12MP ultra-wide front cameras and 8MP back cameras.

Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro became available for iPad Pro last year. The upgrade means that movie and music creatives can finally combine the magic of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro with the portability of an iPad.

“We’re excited to introduce Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, allowing creators to unleash their creativity in new ways and in even more places,” Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of worldwide product marketing, said at the time. “With a powerful set of intuitive tools designed for the portability, performance, and touch-first interface of iPad, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro deliver the ultimate mobile studio.”

Final Cut Pro for iPad features an all-new touch interface, intuitive tools and a jog wheel that, according to Apple, “makes the editing process easier than ever.” Logic Pro for iPad lets users unlock an “all-in-one-professional music creation app” that turns your iPad into a portable recording studio that lets you write record, edit music and more directly from the device.

Both are available in the App Store for $4.99/month or $49 annually.

As if you need another reason to upgrade your iPad, Final Cut Pro is only compatible with the M1 chip iPad and later models, while Logic Pro will be available on A12 Bionic chip iPad models or later. Learn more about Final Cut Pro for iPad and Logic Pro for iPad here.

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“Whether it’s a college student taking elaborate notes, a content creator working on their latest project, or a gamer playing graphics-intensive titles, users love iPad Air for its amazing performance and versatility in such a portable design,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said in 2022. “With the breakthrough M1 chip, Ultra Wide front camera with Center Stage, and ultra-fast 5G, iPad Air is now more powerful, more capable, and simply more fun than ever.”

Apple’s iPad Mini (6th generation) has an 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display, 64GB of storage and 12MP front and back cameras.

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For more gadgets to shop, see our roundups of the best tech deals, best laptop deals and best speakers for music lovers.

Tate McRae gushes over The Kid LAROI at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Hunter Schafer revealed to GQ that she dated Rosalía back in 2019. Karina of AESPA and Lee Jae-Wook announce their breakup. Peso Pluma clears up rumors he’s dating Anitta after kissing her onstage at Tecate Pa’l Norte. Our Latin Music Week is set to take place in Miami from October 14th-October 18th. Singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler stopped by Billboard News and opened up about her album ‘Stellaria,’ her collaborations with Jeremy Zucker and more.

Tetris Kelly
Relationship updates on Peso, Tate, Karina and Rosalía, we take you to the iHeartRadio Music Awards. A major Billboard Latin Music Week announcment, Chelsea Cutler stops by our studio and we break down why you should know Tanner Adell. Happy Tuesday April 2nd and welcome to Billboard News. Yesterday I joked about having Beyoncé on the show, but then I got to see her. Like, what? We’re going to show you more from our iHeart coverage in our top story, old flames, new romances, breakups and more. There’s a lot of love going on in the music biz. Let’s dive in. And then you got to tell me this. Would you ever do a song with Kid LAROI?

Tate McRae
Ahh I don’t know.

Tetris Kelly
Last night at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. I just had to ask Tate McRae if there was a chance of making music with her rumored beau The Kid LAROI. “I feel like you guys gotta get in the studio do something. It’d be good.”

Tate McRae
Yeah, maybe. He’s amazing.

Tetris Kelly
We agree, he is amazing. And the two of them on one track would sound great.

Watch the full video above!

As Jay-Z pointed out at the Grammys in February, Beyoncé has been nominated for album of the year four times but has never won — despite the fact that she’s the awards show’s winningest artist of all time, taking home 32 trophies from 88 nominations.

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On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), Katie & Keith are talking about whether her brand-new Cowboy Carter album could break that losing streak in the Grammys’ top category. So far, it’s feeling like a critical and commercial success story that has all the makings of a top album of the year contender. But of course, the eligibility year (Sept. 16-Aug. 30) is young. We even still have new project from the reigning album of the year champ, Taylor Swift, coming later this month.

Listen to the new podcast below to hear our full conversation about Beyoncé’s early Grammy chances, as well as what song could be the next single following the seven-week Hot Country Songs chart-topper “Texas Hold ‘Em.”

Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how Future and Metro Boomin debut atop both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Hot 100 songs charts, how Hozier is suddenly back in the top 10 on the Hot 100 for the first time in nine years with his gone-viral hit “Too Sweet,” and how five songs from Olivia Rodrigo’s new expanded deluxe edition of her Guts album debut on the Hot 100.

The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard‘s weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion about the latest pop news, fun chart stats and stories, new music, and guest interviews with music stars and folks from the world of pop. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard‘s executive digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard’s managing director, charts and data operations, Keith Caulfield every week on the podcast, which can be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast provider. (Click here to listen to the previous edition of the show on Billboard.com.)

Jean-Paul Vignon, the romantic French vocalist and actor who impressed audiences on both sides of the Atlantic during an eight-decade career, died March 22 of liver cancer in Beverly Hills, his family announced. He was 89.

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Performing a repertoire of contemporary pop and American standards, Vignon debuted in the U.S. in 1963 at the famed New York supper club The Blue Angel, where he opened for stand-up comic Woody Allen.

Ed Sullivan would soon showcase him on his Sunday night CBS variety show in eight appearances — including one in which he sang a duet with young Liza Minnelli — and he became a regular guest on Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin’s programs.

Signed to Columbia Records, Vignon released his first U.S. album, Because I Love You, in 1964. Three years later, he had a supporting role opposite William Holden and Cliff Robertson in the World War II film The Devil’s Brigade.

In a 1994 profile in the Los Angeles Times, reporter Robert Koehler noted, “Vignon fulfilled the American image of the romantic, singing Frenchman. Ironically, rather than compare his voice to such renowned Gallic crooners as Maurice Chevalier and Gilbert Bécaud, Vignon says that he has a Bobby Darin kind of voice, able to sing fast and passionate or gentle and slow.”

He continued to play some of the top rooms in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and other major cities into the early 1970s, and in ’74 he recorded a single, “You,” with Farrah Fawcett, then a relatively unknown young actress and model.

Changing audience tastes stalled his career, but he did host a Canadian TV show produced by Dick Clark called The Sensuous Man, which ended each week with him reclining in a bathtub. And for a Playgirl centerfold in 1973, he sported a sweater once worn in a famous photo shoot by Marilyn Monroe and little else.

Born on Jan. 30, 1935, in the port city of Dire-Daou in the colonial territory of French Somaliland (later known as Djibouti), Vignon was schooled in Avignon, France. He briefly studied medicine in Marseille and law at the Sorbonne in Paris but decided to pursue music full time.

He was in his early 20s when, on the recommendation of Belgian singer-actor Jacques Brel, he secured a prestigious cabaret job in Paris that would launch his career.

The baritone debuted in front of the cameras as the star of the 1956 feature Les Promesses Dangereuses, then followed with a performance opposite Francoise Arnoul in the romantic drama Asphalte (1959).

Meanwhile, he had signed as a vocalist with France’s Disques Vogue, which aimed to develop him as an artist along the lines of such balladeers as Charles Trenet (his idol), Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour. His first album was 1957’s autobiographical Djibouti.

His career in France began to lag after he served 17 months of compulsory military service, but after opening for Edith Piaf and performing on board the French liner Liberté before such ocean-going celebrities as Ernie Kovacs, Edie Adams and Carol Burnett, he decided to try his luck in the States.

As he wrote in his 2018 memoir, From Ethiopia to Utopia, “My adventurous spirit was telling me, ‘Marco Polo did not hesitate to go to China, Henry Morton Stanley did not hesitate to presume exploring Central Africa and find Dr. Livingston, Christopher Columbus did not hesitate to sail west to discover America … so it is your turn to discover the United States.’”

After years of career ebbs and flows, he returned to the L.A. cabaret scene in 1993, encouraged by such pop vocalists as Harry Connick Jr., Michael Feinstein and Tony Bennett and the smash success of “Unforgettable,” which paired the late Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie. He would remain active into his 80s with appearances at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s and the Catalina Jazz Club.

Along the way, he would also appear on such shows as The Rockford FilesHotelFalcon CrestL.A. LawColumboDays of Our Lives and Gilmore Girls; voice one of the Merry Men in Shrek (2001); and narrate the romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer (2009).

Meanwhile, his company, Côte d’Azur Productions, provided French audiences with translations and overdubs of Scarface and other American films.

Survivors include his longtime partner, Suzie Summers; daughters Marguerite Vignon Gaul (from his marriage to late American actress Brigid Bazlen) and Lucy Brank; and granddaughters Leah and Hannah.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

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Michael McMartin, the Canada-born entrepreneur who settled in Australia, where he established the framework for a professional music management community and guided the Hoodoo Gurus for four decades, died Sunday (March 31) following a lengthy illness. He was 79.

“Michael had been undergoing treatment for cancer for a number of years but, despite the best efforts of his medical team, he succumbed to his illness peacefully around noon on Easter Sunday, surrounded by his beloved family,” reads a statement from the McMartin family.

Born on Vancouver Island on March 12, 1945, McMartin completed his BA (Political Science) at Loyola College in Montreal. He relocated to Australia in 1971, and, several years later, joined forces with producer Charles Fisher to form Trafalgar Records, the independent recording and publishing enterprise.

In 1985, he established Melody Management. His first clients were the Hoodoo Gurus, whom he signed to their first record deal in 1982 and commenced managing three years later, in 1985. It was a relationship that would see the Gurus enter the ARIA Hall of Fame, in 2009, and would last until McMartin announced in February of this year that he would be stepping down from that role due to ill health.

“I really can’t find the words to express my feelings at this time but respect, love and gratitude would be among them,” he wrote in a message distributed Feb. 22, announcing his decision to hand over Gurus duties to Mick Mazzone of Mighty Management. “Thanks to the Hoodoo Gurus I have lived a life that I only otherwise could have dreamt of.”

McMartin was a founding member of the Music Managers’ Forum in Australia, he served as chairman and then executive director of the International Music Managers’ Forum (IMMF), the umbrella organization for managers from some 24 countries which has NGO status at WIPO, the United Nations agency dealing with worldwide copyright issues, and was, for 19 years, a board member of Support Act, the music industry benevolent charity.

The much-loved artist manager received the APRA Ted Albert Award for his lifetime contribution to Australian Music in 2007, one of the Australian music community’s highest honors, and in 2015 he was awarded the Medal of the Order Of Australia (OAM) for “services to the performing arts, especially music.”

He’s the reigning legacy award recipient at the AAM Awards, presented last year in Sydney.

John Watson was on hand to present McMartin, his mentor, with the special honor. “When someone passes it’s easy to list what they did but it’s much harder to explain how they did it. In an era where far too many men acted badly, Michael proved that nice guys don’t have to finish last,” Watson writes in a statement to Billboard. “He was an unbelievably kind mentor to hundreds of people, including me, and his political advocacy for the industry as a whole – and managers in particular – was an inspiration across decades. Without him there would not be an AAM and Support Act would be nowhere near the force that it has become.”

Colin Hay, former frontman of Men At Work, remembers McMartin for his kindness. “After I was dropped by MCA Records in 1991, I was unsure of what to do next. I knew Michael McMartin a little. He said to me one day, ‘why don’t you just make an acoustic album, and I’ll release it.’” That happened, and the pair became friends. “Friends that could tell each other the truth. He told me one day that I was wallowing in self pity, and that I could be a much better person. He was right. He helped me whenever I asked, even when I didn’t,” explains Hay. McMartin was “a rarity among men,” someone who “believes in making the industry that we inhabit a better place for all, a place that fosters creative endeavor, instead of the all too often obstacle course that this here music industry can be.”

McMartin “left an indelible mark on the Australian music industry, and his loss is acutely felt within our management community which he supported and uplifted so generously,” reads a statement from the Association of Artists Managers. In recent years, the AAM points out, McMartin “formalized his desire to lift up developing managers” by spearheading the Patron’s Gift; a fund that would enable opportunities to bring in diverse communities, POC and First Nations emerging managers.

McMartin is survived by his wife, Saskia, and his son, Hamish and his extended family, including Michael’s two grandchildren, Kiara and Koby.

A private family funeral held in the coming days and, a little later, an announcement of a public gathering to be held in Sydney to celebrate the late music man’s life and legacy, with friends and music industry acquaintances invited.