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Delta Work
Gabriel A. Villarreal, known professionally as Delta Work, is an Emmy Award-winning American drag performer and stylist, best known for competing on the third season (2011) of the reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race.
Work received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special at the 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (2018) for her work as a personal hairstylist for RuPaul on Drag Race.
Work hosted the podcast Very That alongside season-three winner and fellow drag performer Raja. She currently hosts the podcast Very Delta, following the end of Very That, produced by Moguls of Media (MOM) Podcasts.
Villarreal was born in Los Angeles County, California. Her father was a veteran of the Vietnam War who was subjected to Agent Orange during his service. Villarreal grew up in Norwalk, California. She and her mother would go to Escondido, California to go to a bakery called Muffin Break.
Work's drag mother is Miss Coco Peru, whom she met in Los Angeles during the start of her drag career. She names Chad Michaels, her Dreamgirls Revue co-star, as a "mentor". Work started dressing in drag on Halloween night 1998, at age 22, when she attended a rave in a "Natalie Merchant" style dress. She had her real drag debut at Ozz in Buena Park at one of Raja Gemini's Sunday Night Drag shows, dancing to a CD of Katalina's "DJ Girl."
Before her television debut, Work was active in the night club scene. She was a performer and producer at Southern California's longest running drag show, the Dreamgirls Revue, and frequented the local contest circuit at clubs like Drag-A-Licious at Club Ripples in Long Beach and Drag-O-Rama at Ultra Suede in WeHo.
Her drag name originates from when she attended a drag show and the performing group of queens, who were parodying Designing Women, needed a "bigger" queen to play the role of Delta Burke's character, Suzanne Sugarbaker. After agreeing to and finishing the role, one queen commented afterwards that "you are not Delta Burke, you are Delta Work!"
Work was selected, along with twelve other contestants, for the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race, which began airing on January 24, 2011, on LOGO TV. During the season, Work chose to impersonate Cher (a celebrity she is not typically known for portraying) for the "Snatch Game" episode, where contestants embody a celebrity, in look and persona, and participate in an improv challenge similar to shows such as Hollywood Squares or Match Game. Bowen Yang wrote: "Delta barely made an attempt at all... Points for the wink at Bob Mackie with her look, but otherwise Delta just waded around in her nothing-doing. Snap out of it!" She placed seventh overall, losing a lip sync performance to Manila Luzon to Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park". Out called the battle "certainly one of the most famous lip syncs" of the show.
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Delta Work
Gabriel A. Villarreal, known professionally as Delta Work, is an Emmy Award-winning American drag performer and stylist, best known for competing on the third season (2011) of the reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race.
Work received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special at the 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (2018) for her work as a personal hairstylist for RuPaul on Drag Race.
Work hosted the podcast Very That alongside season-three winner and fellow drag performer Raja. She currently hosts the podcast Very Delta, following the end of Very That, produced by Moguls of Media (MOM) Podcasts.
Villarreal was born in Los Angeles County, California. Her father was a veteran of the Vietnam War who was subjected to Agent Orange during his service. Villarreal grew up in Norwalk, California. She and her mother would go to Escondido, California to go to a bakery called Muffin Break.
Work's drag mother is Miss Coco Peru, whom she met in Los Angeles during the start of her drag career. She names Chad Michaels, her Dreamgirls Revue co-star, as a "mentor". Work started dressing in drag on Halloween night 1998, at age 22, when she attended a rave in a "Natalie Merchant" style dress. She had her real drag debut at Ozz in Buena Park at one of Raja Gemini's Sunday Night Drag shows, dancing to a CD of Katalina's "DJ Girl."
Before her television debut, Work was active in the night club scene. She was a performer and producer at Southern California's longest running drag show, the Dreamgirls Revue, and frequented the local contest circuit at clubs like Drag-A-Licious at Club Ripples in Long Beach and Drag-O-Rama at Ultra Suede in WeHo.
Her drag name originates from when she attended a drag show and the performing group of queens, who were parodying Designing Women, needed a "bigger" queen to play the role of Delta Burke's character, Suzanne Sugarbaker. After agreeing to and finishing the role, one queen commented afterwards that "you are not Delta Burke, you are Delta Work!"
Work was selected, along with twelve other contestants, for the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race, which began airing on January 24, 2011, on LOGO TV. During the season, Work chose to impersonate Cher (a celebrity she is not typically known for portraying) for the "Snatch Game" episode, where contestants embody a celebrity, in look and persona, and participate in an improv challenge similar to shows such as Hollywood Squares or Match Game. Bowen Yang wrote: "Delta barely made an attempt at all... Points for the wink at Bob Mackie with her look, but otherwise Delta just waded around in her nothing-doing. Snap out of it!" She placed seventh overall, losing a lip sync performance to Manila Luzon to Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park". Out called the battle "certainly one of the most famous lip syncs" of the show.
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