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RuPaul's Right-Hand Woman

Michelle Visage stops by Number Nine to help launch Ru Paul's Drag Race's Season Five

Michelle Visage long thought she might become the next Gwen Verdon or Bernadette Peters. ''As a kid growing up in New Jersey, I was a theater queen,'' Visage says. ''That's what I went to college for,
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