Morgan McMichaels

Morgan McMichaels is the stage name of Scottish-American drag performer Thomas White, best known as a contestant on the second season of the reality television competition RuPaul's Drag Race, as well as the third season of the show's All-Stars spinoff.

White was born in Alexandria, Scotland, to a Scottish father and an American mother, and spent parts of his childhood in both Scotland and the United States. He moved permanently from Scotland to Los Angeles when he was 18, and started doing drag in 2001. McMichaels' drag mother is Chad Michaels, who appeared on the fourth season of Drag Race. She briefly attended Paisley University for biochemistry and immunology before moving to California.

RuPaul's Drag Race

McMichaels joined the cast of the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2010. She was eliminated after losing a lip sync performance battle to contestant Sahara Davenport, placing eighth out of twelve.

McMichaels later went on to participate in the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, where she was eliminated first by BenDeLaCreme for saying she would send home the best competitors if she stayed. This placed her 10th in the season. She returned in the sixth episode among five eliminated queens (Thorgy Thor, Milk, Chi Chi Devayne and Aja) and was selected to be brought back by BenDeLaCreme, ultimately placing 5th.

After Drag Race

McMichaels, along with fellow contestants Raven, Jujubee, Pandora Boxx, Nina Flowers, Shannel and Tammie Brown appeared in RuPaul's Drag U, a spinoff Logo series in 2010, where she appeared as a "professor" for three episodes. She remained in the cast on the second season of Drag U, which made its season premiere on 20 June 2011, and was a professor for two more episodes. She returned again for one episode in the third season of Drag U in 2012.

Other than Drag Race related shows, McMichaels was featured in the music video for "S&M" by Barbadian singer Rihanna in 2011. On 11 April 2013, McMichaels made a guest appearance on Tabatha Takes Over at the VIP Nightclub in Riverside, California where McMichaels performed a lip sync as Tabatha. Morgan was also featured in Lady Gaga's lyric video of "Applause" along with other drag queens. She hosted an internet show for WOWPresents called Living For The Lip Sync where she talks about lip sync fan-recorded performances by Drag Race alumni. It premiered to YouTube on September 4, 2014 and ended on January 22, 2015. She made an appearance on Entertainment Tonight to talk about All Stars 3 in 2018. She was featured with Laganja Estranja, Farrah Moan and Jaidynn Diore-Fierce on season 13 of Germany's Next Topmodel as a guest for the episode 14 challenge. He appeared in a music video for Lizzo's song "Juice" in April 17, 2019. She was a backup dancer for Nico Tortorella in an episode of Lip Sync Battle in 2019.

In Episode 4 of All Stars 5, she made a guest appearance as a "Lip Sync Assassin", where she lip-synced against Miz Cracker.

McMichaels released her first single, "Why You Mad Tho?" on February 3, 2018, with the remix by producer Drew G Rdr. McMichaels performed the single live on the Drag Race: All Stars 3 premiere episode talent show. She released a second single, "Yazz Bitch" on May 11, 2018.

On May 28, 2017, Drag Race season-two winner Tyra Sanchez made a Facebook post that reported McMichaels' death after a dispute with one of McMichaels' drag sisters. That night the management of Mickey's WEHO canceled Sanchez's show.

In October 2018, White broke his hand in self-defense after a physical altercation with a man who proclaimed to be a Nazi.

Singles

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