This just in: Monet X Change has been dumped from the Haters Roast Tour after skipping out on a Denver show.
The show’s producers wrote a super dramatic Instagram post publicly firing the winner of Season 4 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars after she accepted a job offer from none other than… Madonna.
Yes, that Madonna.
The post read:
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BREAKING NEWS from #hatersroast Yesterday @monetxchange arrived in Denver to appear on our show. Sometime during the afternoon, we’re told she received a phone call from @madonna with an offer to be in an upcoming music video. Monet asked MP if it would be ok to leave the tour to accept the offer. We said no because it was too short notice to replace her on Haters. Just hours before the show was to start and without telling anyone including the other queens on the Denver show, Monet left the venue and flew to LA to accept Madonna’s offer. Therefore, we have decided that Monet will no longer be on any upcoming Haters Roast dates.
Meow.
When fans and followers came to Monet’s defense (after all, it’s f-ing Madonna!), comments were turned off on the post, prompting Monet to issue a statement on Twitter:
I wish M&P left the comments on, on their petty ass post say I could say, “Madonna!? Bitch…I’m @Beyonce ??.
— Monét X Change (@monetxchange) March 2, 2019
Meanwhile, Season 4 All Stars runner-up Phi Phi O’Hara said she was also approached by Madonna but had to turn down the offer because of schedule conflicts.
(Apparently, Madonna gave the queens less than 48 hours notice when she asked if they could appear in the video.)
O’Hara did mention, however, that “a bunch of queens” will appear in the video.
Because I said no lol. It is cool but I didnt care to stress or anything last min. Madonna's people literally asked us like the day before haha Plus the hassle of having to cancel 2 gigs. So I just decided it wasnt in my cards. But I hope everyone else had fun!
— Jaremi Carey (@PhiPhiOhara) March 1, 2019
Madonna has been at hard at work on her 14th studio album for several months now, which she has kept very secretive, aside from teasing social media with the hashtag #magic.
No official word yet on when the album might be released, but rumor has it it’ll be sometime next month.
The video’s director, Luke Austin, recently posted to Instagram to say: “I damn well cried. The song is great. The video is political. The video will be controversial. She was brilliant. I love you @Madonna. My heart is still going a million miles an hour. We need to wake up!”
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@HarryB
Several days ago there was really beautiful page design for Dragaholic. Why did Queerty change it?
Crystix
Phi Phi was on Season 4 All Stars? No, she was on season 4 AND All Stars season 2. She didn’t do very well on all stars cause no one would play her mind games.
Congrats to Monet though. I think queens should have “cheat” clauses in their contracts. Like agreements between partners of famous people they can cheat with – if a certain diva asks you to do a job, you should be allowed to cheat on your contract and fly out to LA and be in a god damned Madonna video.
Cause you don’t make the Lizard Queen wait.
Brian
Just don’t laminate it.
DCguy
Trinity just quit the same show, saying that not only did they not treat Monet well, but that even though there was a clause that allowed Ginger to be gone for a filming obligation, they fired her in spite of her contractual guarantee. Gingers boyfriend stayed on as part of the crew to finish his contract and when a relative was hospitalized was fired for wanting to visit apparently.
So the company sounds kind of shady, and Trinity seems to definitely have her friends backs.
johnnymcmxxx
The Haters Roast is apparently produced by small minded haters. Don’t rain on Monet X Change’s parade! She’s going after bigger things. Congratulations gurl.