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best known for winning the third series of the
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''. Crowned at the age of 19, Krystal is the youngest ever ''Drag Race'' winner. She is from
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heritage via her maternal grandmother, being the first descendant of Cypriots to compete in the franchise.


Career

Krystal Versace started doing drag at the age of 13. In August 2021, Versace was announced as one of the twelve contestants to be competing on the third series of ''
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''. She won the first two main challenges, one of which including a top two lip sync against Victoria Scone to "
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. In the ninth episode, she landed on bottom two with
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and had to lip sync to "
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, ultimately winning and moving on to the top three alongside
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and Kitty Scott-Claus. As part of the last main challenge, they had to write, record, and perform their own verse to a remix of "
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. After a lip sync for the crown to
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's cover of "
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", Versace was declared victorious, becoming not only the franchise's youngest finalist, but also the youngest ever winner.


Personal life

Fenn uses ''she/her'' pronouns while in drag and ''he/him'' pronouns out of drag. Fenn is
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Discography


As lead artist


As featured artist


Filmography


Television


Web series


Music videos


Awards and nominations


References


External links

* 2001 births Living people 21st-century LGBT people English drag queens English people of Greek Cypriot descent Gay entertainers People with dyslexia RuPaul's Drag Race UK winners {{UK-entertainer-stub