Miss Congeniality

NOTE: Not to be confused with Fan Favorite, a title determined by a fan vote.

Miss Congeniality is the title awarded to the contestants who are regarded as the kindest, most helpful ones on their respective seasons. Prior to the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, the fans determined which contestant won the title, but has since been changed to the title being decided amongst the contestants themselves.

Originating from the first season of the original American series, the title was announced on the reunion special from the first three seasons which aired after the grand finale. From the fourth season onward, the grand finale and the reunion were combined, the crowning of the season's Miss Congeniality would take place right before the winner's crowning. The only exception being the ninth season as the current reigning Miss Congeniality at the time, Cynthia Lee Fontaine, had competed on the season and handed down the title at the reunion a week before the grand finale.

Across the franchise, the title is known also known as Mejor Compañera (The Switch Drag Race), Miss Simpatía (Drag Race España and Drag Race México), Miss Drag Simpatia (Drag Race Italia, Miss Sympathie (Drag Race France), Miss Simpatia (Drag Race Brasil), and Miss Darling (Drag Race Germany).

The first season of Canada's Drag Race lacks an official recipient of the title but the tradition has since been adopted officially from the second season onward as well as on Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World. On the first season of Drag Race Italia, the title was assigned by hair products brand Wella Professionals Italia, one of the sponsors for the season.^[1] The title is notably absent from every season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under, and Drag Race Sverige which have all chosen to not continue the tradition.

Title Holders[]

Currently Reigning Miss Congenialities[]


Malaysia Babydoll Foxx	Jessica Parker	Maya B'Haro	Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha	Kitten Kaboodle	Anita Wigl'it


Tabitha	Maria Edilia	Samantha Balentines	Silvana della Magliana	Moon	Hana Beshie


	Star	Lady Kero	Aquarela	Victoria Shakespears

All Miss Congenailities[]

See: RuPaul's Drag Race

See: The Switch Drag Race
NOTE: On The Switch Drag Race, the title is referred to as "Mejor Compañera".

See: Drag Race Thailand

See: Canada's Drag Race

See: Drag Race Holland

See: Drag Race España
NOTE: On Drag Race España, the title is referred to as "Miss Simpatía".

See: Drag Race Italia
NOTE: On Drag Race Italia, the title was referred to as "Miss Drag Simpatia" for the first two seasons.

See: Drag Race France
NOTE: On Drag Race France, the title is referred to as "Miss Sympathie".

See: Drag Race Philippines

See: Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World

See: Drag Race Belgique

See: Drag Race México
NOTE: On Drag Race México, the title is referred to as "Miss Simpatía".

See: Drag Race Brasil
NOTE: On Drag Race Brasil, the title is referred to as "Miss Simpatia".

See: Drag Race Germany
NOTE: On Drag Race Germany, the title is referred to as "Miss Darling".

See: Drag Race España: All Stars
NOTE: On Drag Race España: All Stars, the title is referred to as "Miss Simpatía".

See: RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World

Reigns[]

	Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
1	Nina Flowers	March 23, 2009	April 26, 2010	399 days	1 year, 1 month, 3 days
2	Pandora Boxx	April 26, 2010	May 2, 2011	371 days	1 year, 6 days
3	Yara Sofia	May 2, 2011	April 30, 2012	364 days	11 months, 28 days
4	Latrice Royale	April 30, 2012	May 6, 2013	371 days	1 year, 6 days
5	Ivy Winters	May 6, 2013	May 19, 2014	378 days	1 year, 13 days
6	BenDeLaCreme	May 19, 2014	June 1, 2015	378 days	1 year, 13 days
7	Katya	June 1, 2015	May 16, 2016	350 days	11 months, 15 days
8	Cynthia Lee Fontaine	May 16, 2016	June 23, 2017	403 days	1 year, 1 month, 7 days
9	Valentina	June 23, 2017	June 28, 2018	370 days	1 year, 5 days
10	Monét X Change	June 28, 2018	May 30, 2019	336 days	11 months, 2 days
11	Nina West	May 30, 2019	May 22, 2020	358 days	11 months, 22 days
12	Heidi N Closet	May 22, 2020	April 23, 2021	336 days	11 months, 1 day
13	LaLa Ri	April 23, 2021	April 22, 2022	364 days	11 months, 30 days
14	Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté	April 22, 2022	April 14, 2023	357 days	11 months, 23 days
15	Malaysia Babydoll Foxx	April 14, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Jessica Parker	February 5, 2016^[2]	TBD	TBD	TBD
	2	None	-	-	-	-

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	B Ella	April 5, 2018	April 5, 2019	365 days	1 year
	2	Maya B'Haro	April 5, 2019	TBD	TBD	TBD

	Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
2	Suki Doll	December 9, 2021	September 15, 2022	280 days	9 months, 6 days
3	Vivian Vanderpuss	September 15, 2022	January 18, 2024	490 days	1 year, 4 months, 2 days
4	Kitten Kaboodle	January 18, 2024	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Ma'Ma Queen	November 26, 2020^[3]	September 24, 2021	302 days	9 months, 29 days
	2	Tabitha	September 24, 2021	TBD	TBD	TBD

	Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
1	Pupi Poisson	July 18, 2021	May 29, 2022	315 days	10 months, 11 days
2	Samantha Ballentines	May 29, 2022	June 18, 2023	385 days	12 months, 2 days
3	Maria Edilia	June 18, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

	Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
1	Luquisha Lubamba	December 23, 2021	December 8, 2022	350 days	11 month, 16 days
2	Nehellenia	December 8, 2022	December 29, 2023	386 days	1 year, 21 days
3	Silvana della Magliana	December 29, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Elips	August 11, 2022	August 25, 2023	379 days	1 year, 14 days
	2	Moon	August 25, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Lady Morgana	October 12, 2022	October 4, 2023	357 days	11 months, 23 days
	2	Hana Beshie	October 4, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	CA	Anita Wigl'it	January 11, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Valenciaga	April 6, 2023	March 21, 2024	350 days	11 months, 15 days
	2	Star	March 21, 2024	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Lady Kero	August 31, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Aquarela	November 8, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Victoria Shakespears	November 14, 2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	1	Samantha Ballentines	March 10, 2024	TBD	TBD	TBD

Season		Miss Congeniality	Coronation	End of reign	Duration
	2	Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha	March 29, 2024	TBD	TBD	TBD

█ The title winner reigned for more than a year.

█ The title winner reigned exactly for a year (365/366 days).

█ The title winner reigned for less than a year.

█ The title winner is currently reigning.

Prizes[]

Season	Prizes
1	$1,500 A three day, two night trip at the Paris Eiffel Tower Experience in Las Vegas
2	Tickets to see Cher live in concert A three day, two night trip to Las Vegas with airfare
3	A trip for 2 to Grand Lucayan Resort in Grand Bahama Island
4	A round trip, first class flight with hotel accommodations anywhere in the US
5	A six night trip for 2 at any Hilton Hotel or Resort with airfare
6	$2,500 gift card from Overstock.com
7	$5,000
8
9
10	N/A^[4]
11	$10,000
12
13
14
15

Season	Prizes
1	N/A
2	Photoshoot with Fritz Kok

Season	Prizes
1	3,000€ Sewing Kit Being part of crowning the winner

Season	Prizes
1	N/A
2	$1,000 gift certificate from Wigs and Grace $2,000 worth of jewels from Amped Accessories

Season	Prizes
1	₱40,000
2	₱40,000

Season	Prizes
1	$18,000 MXN

Congratulatory Images[]

Trivia[]

The first Miss Congeniality of each series in the Drag Race franchise are...
- Nina Flowers on RuPaul's Drag Race,
  - Additionally, she is also the...
    - ...first ever Miss Congeniality.
    - ...highest placing Miss Congeniality, placing second on the season she won the title.
- Jessica Parker on The Switch Drag Race,
- B Ella on Drag Race Thailand,
- Suki Doll on Canada's Drag Race,
- Ma'Ma Queen on Drag Race Holland,
  - Additionally, she is the first to originally win the title unofficially and later have it be made official by passing down the title in the second season's finale.
- Pupi Poisson on Drag Race España,
- Luquisha Lubamba on Drag Race Italia,
- Elips on Drag Race France,
- Lady Morgana on Drag Race Philippines,
- Anita Wigl'it on Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World,
- Valenciaga on Drag Race Belgique,
- Lady Kero on Drag Race México,
- Aquarela on Drag Race Brasil,
- Victoria Shakespears on Drag Race Germany.
- Samantha Ballentines on Drag Race España: All Stars.
  - Additionally, she is the first to win the title twice.
- Arantxa Castilla-La Mancha on RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World.
Nina Flowers, Ma'Ma Queen, Luquisha Lubamba, Nehellenia, Silvana Della Magliana, and Samantha Ballentines are the only Miss Congenialities to win the title on the same season they were finalists in.
- Coincidentally, this means every Miss Congeniality of Drag Race Italia was also a finalist.
Pandora Boxx and Yara Sofia are the only pair of Miss Congeniality to compete against each other twice (USA All Stars Seasons 1 and 6).
Katya is the first returning Miss Congeniality to reach the finale in an All Stars season.
- Additionally, she is the most followed Miss Congeniality.
Cynthia Lee Fontaine is the first Miss Congeniality to return to compete on the following season (USA Season 9) from her original one (USA Season 8).
Valentina and Monét X Change are the first Miss Congeniality pair to lip sync against each other (episode 2 of USA All Stars Season 4).
Monét X Change is the first Miss Congeniality to...
- ...be voted on by fellow contestants.
- ...later win a season (USA All Stars Season 4).
- ...return as a Lip Sync Assassin on All Stars (USA All Stars Season 5).
LaLa Ri is the first Miss Congeniality to also win the Golden Boot Award.
Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté is the first Miss Congeniality to leave the competition due to an injury.
Maria Edilia is the first Miss Congeniality to be eliminated first on the season she won the title (España Season 3).
- Additionally, this makes her the lowest placing Miss Congeniality, placing 13th overall.
The Miss Congeniality and winner duos to have lip synced against each other are...
- Nina Flowers and BeBe Zahara Benet (USA Season 1),
- Heidi N Closet and Jaida Essence Hall (USA Season 12),
- Elips and Paloma (France Season 1),
- Nehellenia and La Diamond (Italia Season 2).
  - Albeit, Aura Eternal was a part of this lip sync as well.
- Samantha Ballentines and Drag Sethlas (España All Stars Season 1)
Moon is the first queen to be crowned Miss Congeniality after quitting the competition.
Jessica Parker has had the longest reign out of all Miss Congenialities of the Drag Race franchise; a reign that is still ongoing. As of December 2021, she has been reigning for almost 6 years.
- This is due to the fact that the second season did not featured a Mejor Compañera.
B Ella is the only Miss Congeniality to have reigned exactly for a year (365 days).
- Yara Sofia has reigned only a day fewer (364 days).
B Ella and Maya B'Haro are the only pair of Misses Congeniality to have been crowned on the same date (April 5) of two separate years.
Three pairs of Miss Congenialities have reigned the same amount of time:
- Pandora Boxx and Latrice Royale (371 days)
- Ivy Winters and BenDeLaCreme (378 days)
- Monét X Change and Heidi N Closet (336 days)

Controversies[]

Sin título-1 — Valentina being crowned by the predecessor Cynthia Lee Fontaine.

Season 9's Miss Congeniality, Valentina, was dubbed to be a 'fan-favorite', rather than congenial by the other season 9 girls, as they felt she played up the role to the camera, but was not actually congenial with the rest of the girls during, and after the filming of the season. This 'Miss Congeniality versus Fan-Favorite' controversy also brought up winners of previous seasons (mainly Pandora Boxx, BenDeLaCreme, and Katya) as even though they were congenial, the fans felt that other queens in their seasons were more congenial, but the winners were more beloved by the fans and they felt that the queens were eliminated too early. Valentina has since admitted on the popular web series 'Hey Qween', that she won the Miss Congeniality vote because her fans want her to 'win something' at that time, even claiming that Cynthia Lee Fontaine or Peppermint should have won the title instead.

This made fans want a fan-favorite and congeniality divide, where fan-favorite was voted for by the fans and Miss Congeniality was chosen by the queens on the season.

Season 10's voting also sparked controversy, as the voting had been hacked by robots, which resulted in The Vixen taking the lead with 18 million votes. The hacking was later resolved by the show, which, after the hacking, the Season 10 queens themselves voted. This also showed that the producers listened to the fans after last season's controversy and allowed the queens to choose their own "Miss Congeniality". The queens continued to choose Miss Congeniality after Season 10.

Other Contestants[]

Other contestants that came close to the title on their respective seasons include:

Hornella Góngora, España All Stars Season 1

References[]

↑ (IT) ‘Drag Race Italia’ arriva su Discovery+ con Mac Cosmetics, Wella e Santero | Brand News — November 15, 2021
↑ https://youtu.be/aexd44iqqbE
↑ https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=717764915786021&id=2231863166873411
↑ Post by monetxchange | Twitter — September 29, 2019

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[1] (IT) ‘Drag Race Italia’ arriva su Discovery+ con Mac Cosmetics, Wella e Santero | Brand News — November 15, 2021

[2] ttps://youtu.be/aexd44iqqbE

[3] ttps://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=717764915786021&id=2231863166873411

[4] Post by monetxchange | Twitter — September 29, 2019

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