5 Surprising Things Delta Work Said About 'Drag Race' & RuPaul

Delta gets most of the blame from the Heathers group on ‘Drag Race’ season three.

Season three of Drag Race featured the legendary rivalry between the Heathers ­– Raja, Manila Luzon, Carmen Carrera, and Delta Work – versus the so-called “boogers,” which was basically everyone else that didn’t qualify as a Heather.

Though many negative things were said by the Heathers about the other contestants on the show, Delta does feel like she’s gotten most of the blame from fans. “I got a lot of backlash for that. I still get backlash to this day,” Delta said on Exposed. “The backlash doesn’t come from anyone protecting who they believe to be the ‘boogers.’ The backlash comes from the place that it’s always come from – there’s a huge chunk of people that don’t like fat people, people of color, people who don’t look like them.”

She added, “They love fat people… in a cage. They love fat people who are jovial, who look like Santa Claus. Even to this day, 12 years later, they come with messages like ‘I love X, Y, and Z, but you were so mean to this person on Drag Race.’”

Delta received very limited directives when she was hired to do wigs for RuPaul.

As previously mentioned, Delta was hired to become RuPaul’s personal wig stylist starting in season nine. This new opportunity came about due to Mathu Andersen – who was Ru’s makeup artist and wig stylist for many decades – suddenly exiting the team.

Going into the new job, Delta knew that she’d be doing wigs and would work alongside a makeup artist to do RuPaul’s drag. It turned out that the makeup artist was Raven, who is still working with Ru as of 2023. With that said, Delta and Raven were given very limited direction as to what their jobs would actually entail. “When I went into it, I didn’t know who the makeup artist would be. We were going right into an episode,” Delta told Shepherd. “There were no conversations about what’s to be expected, really. We’re just going to learn as we go.”

She noted, “My directive was just, ‘Keep it off my face. Keep it big. Keep it off my face. Cheat it for the camera. That’s where we’re going to go and then we’ll move on from there.’ This is a person who is not just a drag queen, but the queen of drag. And she has been used to just one person, always working with that person.”

The real reason why Delta stopped working with RuPaul.

Despite so much drama and back-and-forth between Delta and the production team of Drag Race, she intended to keep doing RuPaul’s wigs moving forward. When production started on the Netflix series AJ and the Queen, Raven was hired to do Ru’s makeup, and Delta expected that she’d also be brought on to work on the titular star’s wigs. And yet, Delta was told that she’d have to do hair not only for RuPaul, but for all other actors on the show.

“The idea was you need to become part of the union in order to be a part of this show. And while you’re on the show, you will be doing hair on extras,” Delta explained. “And I said ‘I don’t do hair on extras, I do hair for the star of the show and then I’m done.’ I’m not trying to be f*cked-up, but I’m already in my mid-40s and I know what I want.”

Ultimately, producers hired someone else, Curtis William Foreman, to work on the wigs for AJ and the Queens. Foreman was then brought on to do RuPaul’s wig on subsequent seasons of Drag Race as well. According to Delta, she received a short email from RuPaul that read, “Hey D, [AJ and the Queen] has me busy. Working with Curtis from now on. Let you know if I ever have extra work.”

Delta concluded this section of the interview saying, “That’s when I realized I could always have respect for the image of the supermodel, I always will. But I question the ethics of a person like that.”