“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” Season 3 winner Trixie Mattel is set to return as the host of “Drag Race’s” Season 16 weekly recap show, “The Pit Stop.”
Mattel and a guest will review and recap each episode of “Drag Race” Season 16, which returns to MTV on Jan. 5. “The Pit Stop” will air on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” YouTube channel every Saturday.
“Making snap judgments is my passion but I also love enduring characters that develop and grow (while dressed as women),” Mattel said in a statement to Variety. “I also love drama.”
As previously announced, “Drag Race” will return to its 90-minute format this season. The queens competing for the Season 16 title of America’s Drag Superstar include Amanda Tori Meating, Dawn, Geneva Karr, Hershii LiqCour-Jeté, Megami, Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige, Mirage, Morphine Love Dion, Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane, Plasma, Q, Sapphira Cristál and Xunami Muse.
Spicing things up this season will be “Rate-A-Queen.” In a new plot twist, once performances have ended, the contestants will have to rank their fellow queens to determine the tops and bottoms of the week.
Joining RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley and Ross Mathews as guest judges for the new season include Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adam Shankman, Icona Pop, Isaac Mizrahi, Kaia Gerber, Kyra Sedgwick, Law Roach, Ronan Farrow and Charlize Theron.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked,” the official aftershow, is also returning and will air on MTV immediately following the series.
Watch Mattel in the teaser for “The Pit Stop” below.