rupaulsdragraceFilm & TVNewsRuPaul picks up Emmy for best host four years running‘Drag will never be mainstream’ShareLink copied ✔️September 15, 2019Film & TVNewsTextPatrick Benjamin RuPaul has won his fourth consecutive Emmy as a reality host for his work on RuPaul’s Drag Race at the Creative Arts Emmys in Los Angeles. The show, which is soon to make its debut in the UK, was nominated for 14 awards – taking home three of those, for hair, costume, and best host. The win ties RuPaul with Jeff Probst, the host of reality game show Survivor, for the most awards in the category. RuPaul said of his win: “I show up to work because I love drag queens, love dramatic people, love being around people who march to a different drummer”. The host, who admitted having trouble putting words together backstage, added: “Drag is dangerous. Drag is not politically correct… I know people say, 'You’re mainstream,' but drag will never be mainstream.” Elsewhere at the Emmys, Netflix’s Queer Eye scooped up four awards including for their casting, and best structured reality programme, while Beyoncé’s Homecoming inexplicably lost out to James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke in the Variety Special category. RuPaul said that he hopes to continue the expansion of his hit show across the world: “We have a Canadian version, UK version, a Thailand version, a Chilean version, how much bigger would I like it to get? How many countries are there?" he said. "I think it’s a good show. There are drag queens all over the place, I think we can do a lot of them.” Catch RuPaul reflecting on his win below: Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThe Voice of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian drama moving audiences to tearsMeet the 2025 winners of the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards InstagramHow do you stand out online? We asked two Instagram Rings judgesOobah Butler’s guide to getting rich quickRed Scare revisited: 5 radical films that Hollywood tried to banPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, Steve‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the marginsPaul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After AnotherWayward, a Twin Peaks-y new thriller about the ‘troubled teen’ industry