{"id":214416,"date":"2026-01-02T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/rupauls-drag-race-producer-talks-cardi-b-being-one-of-our-best-judges-ever\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:30:39","slug":"rupauls-drag-race-producer-talks-cardi-b-being-one-of-our-best-judges-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/rupauls-drag-race-producer-talks-cardi-b-being-one-of-our-best-judges-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u2019 Producer Talks Cardi B Being \u2018One of Our Best Judges Ever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/cardi-b\/\" title=\"Cardi B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cardi B<\/strong><\/a> is set to appear on the season 18 of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/rupauls-drag-race\/\" title=\"Rupauls Drag Race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/strong><\/a><\/em>! <\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old rapper will serve as the season\u2019s first celebrity guest judge on this week\u2019s (January 2) season premiere episode.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the season\u2019s debut tonight, executive producer <strong>Tom Campbell <\/strong>gushed over having <strong>Cardi<\/strong> as a guest judge. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2169401\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say she was one of our best judges ever. I don\u2019t want to pay any disrespect to the other tremendous judges we\u2019ve had, but <strong>Cardi B<\/strong> and <em>Drag Race<\/em> were a match made in heaven,\u201d he told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/tv-shows\/drag-race-season-18-cardi-b-executive-producer-interview\/?wtid=\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/tv-shows\/drag-race-season-18-cardi-b-executive-producer-interview\/?wtid=&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wrap<\/a><\/em>. \u201cWe shoot on these exact days. Is <strong>Cardi B<\/strong>, the busiest woman in the world, available? She was. Her team was incredible. What she wore was incredible. What she had to say. I\u2019ve always liked her music and I think she\u2019s fun, but spending that time with her up close and seeing not only how hard she works, but how effortless her personality and her joy is was really exciting to be around. She was the perfect, perfect premiere guest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race Season 18 \ud83c\udf1f Official Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYgJZarzKxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the judges panel include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/michelle-visage\/\" title=\"Michelle Visage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Michelle Visage<\/strong><\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ross-matthews\/\" title=\"Ross Matthews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ross Matthews<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/carson-kressley\/\" title=\"Carson Kressley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Carson Kressley<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/law-roach\/\" title=\"Law Roach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Law Roach<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ts-madison\/\" title=\"Ts Madison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TS Madison<\/strong><\/a> rotating. <\/p>\n<p>Other guest judges include the returning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jamal-sims\/\" title=\"Jamal Sims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jamal Sims<\/strong><\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/teyana-taylor\/\" title=\"Teyana Taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Teyana Taylor<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/benny-blanco\/\" title=\"Benny Blanco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Benny Blanco<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/dove-cameron\/\" title=\"Dove Cameron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dove Cameron<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/brooke-shields\/\" title=\"Brooke Shields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brooke Shields<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/iman\/\" title=\"Iman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Iman<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/annaleigh-ashford\/\" title=\"Annaleigh Ashford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Annaleigh Ashford<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/zara-larsson\/\" title=\"Zara Larsson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Zara Larsson<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/atsuko-okatsuka\/\" title=\"Atsuko Okatsuka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Atsuko Okatsuka<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/danielle-pinnock\/\" title=\"Danielle Pinnock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Danielle Pinnock<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Amyl<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/sarah-sherman\/\" title=\"Sarah Sherman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sarah Sherman<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/julianne-nicholson\/\" title=\"Julianne Nicholson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Julianne Nicholson<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> season 18 premieres TONIGHT (January 2) at 8pm ET\/PT on MTV and streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/02\/rupauls-drag-race-season-18-cast-revealed-meet-the-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet the queens competing here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/02\/rupauls-drag-race-producer-talks-cardi-b-being-one-of-our-best-judges-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardi B is set to appear on the season 18 of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race! The 33-year-old rapper will serve as the season\u2019s first celebrity guest judge on this week\u2019s (January 2) season premiere episode. Ahead of the season\u2019s debut tonight, executive producer Tom Campbell gushed over having Cardi as a guest judge. Keep reading to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}