Scarlett BoBo is the stage name of Matthew Cameron (born December 1, 1989), a Canadian television personality and

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most noted as a finalist in the first season of the reality competition series ''

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'' in 2020.

Career

Originally from Ottawa,

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, Scarlett BoBo began performing as a drag queen in the spring of 2008. Her drag mother is Tenora BoBo, with their surname coming from house mother Ginette BoBo. She moved to

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in 2009.Brooke Porter
"Absolut wants you to meet the Canadians changing our communities"
''

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'', December 23, 2019. She studied public relations at

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, and has also taken classes at circus school, incorporating skills like

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and

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into her drag performances. Treating her drag as a form of activism, she has performed at a benefit for the

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, as a host of the city's annual AIDS Walk for

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, and as the creator of the all-gender-inclusive Absolut Empire’s Ball. She has also been an active supporter of Rainbow Railroad, regularly directing a share of the proceeds from her endeavours to the organization. In May 2020, Scarlett Bobo was announced as a contestant in the first season of the reality competition series ''

''. She was consistently safe or high throughout the season, and won the key ball challenge, ultimately placing as a runner-up in the finale alongside

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and behind winner

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. She was only the second queen in the entire history of the ''Drag Race'' franchise, following

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, to make it to the finale without ever having placed low in any challenge during the season. Following the conclusion of the season, she headlined a cross-Canada tour with the other ''Canada's Drag Race'' contestants, which was performed at

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venues due to the ongoing

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restrictions remaining in place during the

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. In October, she participated alongside Priyanka, Rita Baga and

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in an online panel discussion as part of the Just for Laughs festival. For Fierté Montréal's special online edition of its annual Drag Superstars show, which featured all of the ''Canada's Drag Race'' queens in prerecorded video performances, Scarlett Bobo performed to

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's single " Just Like Fire". ''Underneath the Empire'', a documentary film about Scarlett BoBo and the Absolut Empire's Ball, was screened at the

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in 2019 before having its television premiere on

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in April 2021.

Music

In 2014, she released the single "Still Fucking Going", a collaboration with her Toronto drag colleague Allysin Chaynes. She followed up with the album ''#BoBosexuality: The ReRelease'' in 2015 which included Werrrk.com’s Drag Song of The Year for 2015, Break My Heart,Jonathan Currinn
"Canada’s Drag Race Runner-Up Scarlett BoBo Has Dropped Her First Single Since The Show Titled 'C.E.O.'"
''CelebMix'', October 28, 2020. and later with the singles "Drop the Money" and "Qu'est-ce Que Fuck". In October 2020, she released the new single "C.E.O." In 2022, she joined the music label '' So Fierce Music''.

Personal life

Matthew Cameron became engaged to Pete Maragos, a former political assistant to Ontario MPP Han Dong, in 2018.Bobby Box
"Matty And Pete: A Drag Queen Meets His King"
''Lift & Co.'', February 13, 2019.

Filmography

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scarlett BoBo 1989 births Living people Canada's Drag Race contestants Canadian drag queens Canadian LGBT singers Gay entertainers Humber College alumni Musicians from Ottawa Musicians from Toronto