The stockings are stuffed, the wigs are excessive, and the queens are jingling all the way in which. The Drag Queen Christmas Tour is sleighing its means throughout the nation with a snowstorm of sequins, sass, and seasonal cheer and on the coronary heart of this winter wonderland is none apart from season 17 runner-up Jewels Sparkles.
A Drag Queen Christmas returns for its eleventh yr, launching a 38-city nationwide tour this November. Produced by Murray & Peter Current, the 2025 version is hosted by fan favourite Nina West and encompasses a glowing lineup of drag superstars from RuPaul’s Drag Race, All Stars, and past. Along with Jewels, this yr’s solid consists of Onya Nerve, Suzie Toot, Lydia B Kollins, Bosco, Crystal Methyd, Shea Couleé, and Brooke Lynn Hytes.
Identified for her signature mixture of high-glam camp and heartfelt storytelling, Jewels Sparkles is popping Christmas right into a full-on drag spectacle. Whether or not she’s belting out a vacation ballad or serving peppermint couture on stage, she’s bringing sparkle, soul, and side-splitting comedy to each cease on the tour.
We caught up with Jewels forward of her subsequent efficiency to speak about drag in the course of the holidays, reinventing basic traditions, and what it means to share pleasure within the fiercest means doable.
How did you become involved with the Drag Queen Christmas tour?
Oh my God. I imply, as a child, I used to go to the Christmas tour, like in highschool. I consider it’s an all-ages present. Don’t quote me on that, however yeah, I might go after I was in highschool and watch the present. I’d make my mother drive me from Miami Shores all the way in which to Fort Lauderdale and she or he would wait within the car parking zone whereas I watched the present. I did the meet and greet with the queens and it’s all the time been one thing that I went to go see. And the truth that I’m now headlining it and touring with it and being part of it’s simply so full circle. I’m excited to place a quantity collectively for the little child within the viewers whose mother is ready for him within the car parking zone as a result of yeah, I’ve to.
What’s the vibe of the Drag Queen Christmas tour and the way do you propose to convey your distinctive sparkle to it?
Oh my God. I imply, it’s going to be such a contented vibe. It’s going to be an enormous celebration for the vacations. Pay attention, we’re going to have everyone there. It’s going to be fierce. I’m excited to place that quantity collectively. I’ve had a few years to plan and picture what I might do on the tour. It’s not the truth that I’m truly engaged on it, I’m anticipating very fierce ferocity for my quantity.
Now do you are feeling such as you’re extra on naughty record or good record? How are you going to steadiness between the 2?
Pay attention, Jewels Sparkles is certainly on the good record this yr, however on the tour we’re going to get a bit naughty.
Who’re you most trying ahead to performing with on the tour?
Shea Couleé is such a queen. She is such an icon. She was truly on the tour that I went to go see after I was in highschool, and I nonetheless have movies of her acting from that tour.
She’s completed a lot together with her profession and she or he is such an icon and such a celebrity. She’s probably the greatest of the most effective and the truth that I’m going to be on tour together with her may be very surreal and I can’t wait to harass her. She’s most likely going to ask for a restraining order as a result of I’m going to be throughout her. However I’m obsessed and I like her.
What do you like essentially the most and the least about touring?
Oh my god, you already know what I like essentially the most? Getting to satisfy new individuals on the highway, getting to go to totally different states and totally different nations, and see all of the touristy stuff. I like seeing touristy stuff.
I suppose what I just like the least is being away from residence and my household, my pals and my associate, that may be robust. However, you already know, touring is basically enjoyable, so I’m excited and it’s all new to me. I’ve been doing it since this yr however I’ve been dealing with it effectively and I’m having fun with it.
Do you’ve got any vacation traditions your self?
My dad is a chef. He cooks a fierce Christmas and Thanksgiving meal each single yr. My dad cooking is all the time an enormous factor. The entire household comes over and we all the time have time.
Do you’ve got a favourite vacation music?
“Mi Burrito Sabanero”, that’s the one…additionally Ariana Grande’s Christmas album. I needed to put that in there.
Would there ever be a Jewels Sparkles Christmas album?
Completely not. Perhaps, probably I’ll do like a “La Leche” and cookies or one thing, however no, no Christmas album from me. You don’t need to hear me sing. I’ll go away that to the professionals. I’ll go away that to Suzie Toot.
The vacations may be robust for some, particularly within the LGBTQ+ group. How do you assume the tour will assist create a way of belonging and celebration?
Oh my God. I imply, hopefully individuals can come to the tour and meet new pals and discover individuals who have the identical issues in frequent with them and construct that group. That’s what I did. I made pals after I went to the present. I used to be on my own within the viewers and bought to speak to the individuals subsequent to me and the individuals within the meet and greet line and all of us had that one factor in frequent, that drag was one thing that we’re very enthusiastic about. And so, hopefully this time of yr individuals can go on the market and make pals and have a reminder that you simply’re not alone. Go searching, you’re in an viewers of people who find themselves identical to you. Drag means the identical to all of us, and all of us have that queer connection and I’m so lucky to be part of this tour.
Now, past the tour and no Christmas album, what’s subsequent for Jewels Sparkles?
Undoubtedly not a Christmas album, however lots. I’m very completely happy proper now touring the world. Getting to do this has been so thrilling. I’m occurring an Australian tour, I’m occurring a European tour. I’m clearly occurring the Christmas tour, so lots is occurring. I’m additionally engaged on a bit mini-series in the intervening time. So sure, the, the gears are grinding and I’m very excited.
Tickets for A Drag Queen Christmas can be found now at Drag Followers. Sustain with Jewels Sparkles on Instagram.
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