Crave Reveals Guest Judges and Trailer for CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 3

– Carole Pope, Hollywood Jade, Jeremy Dutcher, JIMBO, Lesley Hampton, Mei Pang, Monika Schnarre, Sarah Nurse, Sarain Fox, and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, join the judges table –
– Neutrogena, Shoppers Drug Mart, Trojan, and MADE l NOUS return as brand partners for Season 3 –
– CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 3 premieres Thursday, July 14 on Crave –

TORONTO (June 29, 2022) – Reporting for judging duty! Leading up to the Season 3 premiere of CANADA’S DRAG RACE, Crave revealed today the lineup of extra special guests joining Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski, and Traci Melchor at the judges table this season. The full-length Season 3 trailer was also released today, revealing special guests, serves, shade, and sizzling runway looks.

The award-winning Crave Original series returns for its nine-episode third season on Thursday, July 14 at 9 p.m. ET, and is available to Canadian audiences in English and French. Subsequent new episodes drop Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET. Season 3 is also set to launch on Thursday, July 14 on World of Wonder’s SVOD platform WOW Presents Plus, in the U.S., and in more than 160 countries around the world. Featuring special guests from the world of drag, music, film, sports, dance, and more, the full lineup of guest judges includes:

Carole Pope – Singer/Songwriter
Hollywood Jade – CANADA’S DRAG RACE Resident Choreographer
Jeremy Dutcher – Musician
JIMBO – International Drag Clown
Lesley Hampton – Fashion Designer
Mei Pang – Makeup Artist/Beauty Content Creator
Monika Schnarre – Model, Actor, and Television Host
Sarah Nurse – Olympic Gold Medallist, Canadian National Women’s Hockey Team
Sarain Fox – Activist, Broadcaster, and Filmmaker
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo – Drag Queen

As well, CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 2 winner Icesis Couture makes a special appearance. It was also confirmed today that Neutrogena, Shoppers Drug Mart, Trojan, and MADE l NOUS, are set to return as brand partners for Season 3. All brands are integrated seamlessly throughout the season with innovative brand solutions across SVOD, digital, and social platforms. Details include:

As the exclusive skincare brand partner, Neutrogena returns for a third season with in-show integrations, branded content, and for the very first time, as a challenge prize sponsor

Shoppers Drug Mart returns as a grand prize partner, providing a massive supply of cosmetics to the Season 3 winner, and custom content for social media such as “Painted by a Queen,” where three queens create everyday drag-inspired makeup looks using products from Shoppers Drug Mart

TROJAN™ Brand Condoms is back for Season 3 as the new grand prize partner delivering the pleasure of $100,000 to the winner, and social media content such as “Moments of Raw Pleasure,” featuring weekly clips from each episode

MADE | NOUS returns for Season 3 with an in-show partnership that continues to integrate their core message of celebrating Canadians in entertainment seamlessly into the show’s narrative

As was recently announced, the queens competing on Season 3 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE are:

In association with Crave, Season 3 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE is produced by Blue Ant Studios. Executive Producers for World of Wonder are Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, and Tom Campbell. RuPaul serves as Executive Producer. Executive Producers for Blue Ant Studios are Michael Kot, Betty Orr, Michelle Mama, and Laura Michalchyshyn. Trevor Boris is Executive Producer/Showrunner. Yette Vandendam is Supervising Producer. For Bell Media, Senior Production Executive is Danielle Pearson. Sarah Fowlie is Head of Production, Original Programming. Carlyn Klebuc is General Manager, Original Programming. Justin Stockman is Vice President, Content Development & Programming. and Karine Moses is Senior Vice President, Content Development & News.

About Bell Media Original Programming

Bell Media has commissioned some of Canada’s most-watched and most-acclaimed original programming, working with the best Canadian independent producers in the country. Hit series commissioned by CTV include #1 Canadian drama TRANSPLANT; record-breaking Canadian format THE AMAZING RACE CANADA; comedy series JANN; and new comedy CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING from the producers of LETTERKENNY. Among the original series on Bell Media specialty and streaming platforms are CTV Life Channel’s culinary series MARY MAKES IT EASY with Mary Berg; CTV Comedy Channel’s ROAST BATTLE CANADA and the upcoming ACTING GOOD. Crave Originals include hit series LETTERKENNY, CANADA’S DRAG RACE, and WAY OVER ME (SORTEZ-MOI DE MOI); docuseries DARK SIDE OF THE RING; and acclaimed documentaries FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK and A.RTIFICIAL I.MMORTALITY. Discovery is home to Bell Media’s hit factual series and franchises HIGHWAY THRU HELL, HEAVY RESCUE: 401, and MUD MOUNTAIN HAULERS, and others. Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. Learn more at www.BellMedia.ca.

About Crave

Delivering more Oscar^®-nominated and Emmy^®Award-winning programming than any other service, Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, with HBO, HBO Max Originals, SHOWTIME^®, STARZ, Hollywood-hit movies, is the exclusive Canadian streaming home of FRIENDS, and boasts a robust slate of English and French original series. Crave is a major supporter of Canada’s production industry, helping to fund numerous film projects, and features acclaimed selections from some of Canada’s prestigious film festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, HOT DOCS, ImagineNATIVE, and Inside Out LGBT Film Festival.

Crave is a bilingual TV and streaming service with thousands of hours of exclusive French-language content. Crave is available directly to all Canadians with access to the Internet at Crave.ca, via iOS and Android, and other platforms such as Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, select LG Smart TVs, PlayStation, Roku, select Samsung Smart TVs, and Xbox One. It’s also available through participating service providers across ten, 24-hour High Definition linear and on demand channels. Crave is from Bell Media, Canada’s leading content company, providing Canada’s most-watched and most-acclaimed television programming on network, specialty, pay and digital platforms. Visit our website at Crave.ca.

Blue Ant Studios

Blue Ant Studios is a leading studio and production business with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. Notable series and documentaries include The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks (Amazon Prime), Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell (Peacock, Sky), Canada’s Drag Race (Crave for Bell Media) and Daytime Emmy Award winning series, The Healing Powers of Dude (Netflix). The company works with all major international streaming, cable and broadcasting companies as well as regional players in the markets it operates in. Blue Ant Studios is a subsidiary of global media company, Blue Ant Media.

About World of Wonder

World of Wonder (WOW) has reshaped international pop culture, earning 28 Emmys, inspiring two Oscars, creating global network WOW Presents Plus across 190 territories, and bringing drag culture to the world stage via “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and DragCon. WOW’s pioneering television portfolio includes other smash-hit franchises like “Million Dollar Listing.” Their film division WOW Docs produces groundbreaking documentaries including “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,” “Party Monster,” and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” WOW also operates YouTube channel WOWPresents, music label World of Wonder Records, the WOW Podcast Network, and year-round international live events. Co-founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have been profiled in Variety’s Reality TV Impact Report. Honors for their trailblazing work include the IDA Pioneer Award, Realscreen’s Global 100 list, and the OUT 100. In 2022, World of Wonder was ranked #2 among film and TV powerhouses in Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.