Rita Menu
New Zealand drag performer
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Rita Menu (born 1998 or 1999) is a New Zealand drag performer who competed on season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.
Rita Menu | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1998 or 1999 (age 26–27)[1] |
| Television | RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under (season 3) |
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
- RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under (season 3)