“The glitter games”: La Más Draga announced its fifth season and confirmed Maca Carriedo

After several weeks of speculation regarding the most dredgethe reality show Mexican has issued a surprising announcement that has begun to cause a stir on social networks. And it is that the production that seeks to support the talent of the drag queens mexican launched the promotional video of the fifth and long-awaited season of the program broadcast on YouTube.

“Yes, it was me, this is the fifth wave and let the glitter games begin,” he is heard saying in the promo. Maca Carriedowho joins the project as the new host of the next season to be released on September 27, thus confirming her entry into the program that previously had as presenters Roberto Carlo, Karla Diaz, Vanessa Claudio Y Lorraine Herrera.

This confirmation represents a “relief” for the followers of the Show because in the social networks strong versions circulated that indicated the possible cancellation of the seasonthis after the recent announcement of the arrival on Aztec land of the international program RuPaul’s Drag Race.

The changes in this new installment, in addition to the incorporation of Carriedo, are the participation of new members of the panel of judges, adding the actress, dancer and trans activist Rachel Martinez; and the actor, singer and dancer Roger Suarezwho together with the make-up artist Yari Mejía, Lethal and Johnny Carmona -who continue in the project- will be in charge of evaluating the performance of the “feminine”, as the participants of the project are called. reality show which is characterized by presenting challenges with different themes in each broadcast.

In addition, the new cast of the program produced by Bruno Olvez and his partner Carlo Villarreal is joined by “Venenito”, a small-sized man, who together with “Veneno” and “Tóxico” will be in charge of accompanying those eliminated until “Dragaltar ”.

As part of the confirmed participants at the moment are fab wisheswho is considered the drag queen most popular Mexican in social networks; FiFiesta, who is quite the “lipsync killer”, and Liza Zan Zuziknown as “the aunt that everyone wants to have”, who has collaborated as a host of capsules for Channel eleven and already has experience in competitions in the national drag world.

At the moment it is not known whether or not there will be “secret participants” in this edition, those who keep a low profile and their identity is revealed until the program is broadcast on the air. Another aspect that fans of the show have noted is the absence of Pepe and Teo, the popular LGBT+ influencers who have participated in previous broadcasts of La más draga.

It is also known that after four seasons, the musician Neiko did not participate in the creation of the musical themes of this next batch of episodes, which include water and figures alluding to pre-Hispanic Mexico as part of their graphic elements.

“The most important dredge competition in Mexico and Latin America. He returns with a tsunami full of talent to continue showing and extolling the fabulous world of Drag. LET’S SHINE FEMINOUS !!”, can be read in the description of the promotional posted on YouTube.

And the fact is that the future of La más draga was unknown, since different rumors circulated that assured that Ru Paul, the famous drag queen and mother of drag art in the United States, was struggling to reach Mexico with her RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise, with which It would be willing to “get out of the way” the Mexican program, considering it a direct competition.

The most incisive versions assured that RuPaul’s team would even have filed a legal process against the creators of La más draga for alleged plagiarism, and there was no shortage of those who claimed that he even sought to “absorb” the Mexican show by buying it in order to get rid of his possible competition.