Fred van Leer confirmed to host “Drag Race Holland”

14th August 2020

Dutch TV presenter and stylist Fred van Leer is set to hostDrag Race Holland, the latest version of the award-winning television brand. Streaming exclusively on WOW Presents Plus, get ready to start your engines as a fierce group of new queens are ready to take centre stage on Friday 18^thSeptember, as the new series hits the platform. In the Netherlands you can exclusively watch Drag Race Holland on Videoland.

The 8×60 reality competition series features ten incredible Dutch drag queens who compete in weekly challenges which sees the bottom two queens face-off against each other in a legendary lip-synch battle for a chance to remain in the competition; ultimately fighting to be crowned as the first Dutch Drag Race Superstar. The judges and guest judge line-up will be announced in due course.

Fred van Leer made his television debut in 2009 working on RTLs Dames in de Dop. Later he became a coach inHollands Next Top Model and in 2012 van Leer created Shopping Queens, his own daily program on RTL 5 where candidates competed with each other to be the best-dressed of the week. Most recently he presented Say Yes To The Dress Benelux and Fred van Leer: Everything Out Of The Closet.

Drag Race Holland host Fred van Leer said: I still can’t believe I’ll host Drag Race Holland with the blessing of RuPaul! What a dream! This program is everything I believe in and stand for! It’s all about charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent and I cant wait to see all the fantastic creations of the queens on the runway, the lip syncs and all the challenges we created. A first message to our queens: You’d better work bitch! Good luck and don’t fuck it up!

Drag Race Holland is produced by Netherlands based production company Vincent TV Production and Executive Produced by World of Wonder as the format owners.

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