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Shangela Made To The DWTS Finale With A Little Extra Love From Gaga
The power of these two divas is 10s across the board.
It’s official, Shangela is heading to the finale of Dancing with the Stars, a result that feels correct. It’s also earned the dancing diva one major supporter: Lady Gaga herself.
In the semi-finals, Shangela performed the Paso Doble to Gaga’s “The Edge of Glory” with her partner Gleb Savchenko and wowed both the crowd and the judges — and one audience member, in particular, the singer herself.
“My friend Shangela just did an amazing dance to ‘The Edge of Glory’ on the Dancing with the Stars semifinals,” Gaga wrote on her Instagram stories. She encouraged her followers to get in on the DWTS democracy, imploring them to vote for the drag star “10 times” to make sure she made it into the finale.
\u201cLady Gaga supports Shangela on Dancing With The Stars on Instagram Stories.\u201d— Lady Gaga Now \ud83e\udde0 | Fanpage (@Lady Gaga Now \ud83e\udde0 | Fanpage) 1668477260
It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that Gaga is a Shangela stan; the two worked together previously in A Star is Born.
During the semi-finals, Shangela also danced the Viennese Waltz to “I Have Nothing” by Whitney Houston. “We are delivering the divas tonight! Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston! These are people that I love and have looked up to and tonight we get to bring them to the ballroom!” she told GLAAD.
Well, not only did Shangela deliver the divas, the divas delivered her another round of high marks, sending her straight into the finale.
\u201cFINALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc8b\ud83d\udc8b\ud83d\ude0a\u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udffd\ud83e\udd73\ud83e\udd73\ud83e\udd73\ud83d\ude1d\ud83d\ude1d\ud83d\ude06\ud83d\ude06\ud83d\ude04\ud83d\ude04 @officialdwts @Gleb_Savchenko omg y\u2019all. This is our moment!!!! I luv u\u201d— Shangela (@Shangela) 1668481652
The season 31 finale of Dancing with the Stars is set to air on November 21, and you can bet PRIDE is cheering Shangela on all the way to the win.
Rachel Shatto, Editor in Chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and their frequent intersection). Her work has appeared on Dread Central, Elite Daily, Tecca, and Joystiq. She's a GALECA member and she podcasts regularly about horror on the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network. She can’t live without cats, vintage style, video games, drag queens, or the Oxford comma.
Rachel Shatto, Editor in Chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and their frequent intersection). Her work has appeared on Dread Central, Elite Daily, Tecca, and Joystiq. She's a GALECA member and she podcasts regularly about horror on the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network. She can’t live without cats, vintage style, video games, drag queens, or the Oxford comma.
