‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Star Kim Chi Says She Would’ve Done ‘All Stars 9’ (Exclusive)

RuPaul’s Drag Race fan-favorite Kim Chi is spilling the tea about no longer being requested to be on All Stars 9, which premiered on Friday, Might 17.

The Korean American drag artist informed PEOPLE that, till now, she were invited to compete on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars each date since completing as a runner-up in season 8 of RPDR in 2016. If manufacturers requested her this generation, Kim says she would’ve joined the solid.

“What’s really funny is that they’ve asked me back to be on every season of All Stars, and this season — the non-elimination season — is the only season they didn’t ask me back for,” the Kim Chi Elegant Attractiveness founder and CEO informed PEOPLE on the Gold Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday, Might 11.

“I think I would’ve done it,” she persisted, explaining she’d need all of the preparation paintings and costumes that might move into being at the display to be aired, which might no longer be the case if she had been eradicated early.

Regardless of no longer competing, Kim stated she is rooting for Plastique Tiara and Roxxy Andrews, who she yells her “IRL [in real life] friends.”

Kim added that she nonetheless assists in keeping in contact together with her season 8 castmates, together with winner Bob the Drag Queen and fellow finalist Naomi Smalls.

“Naomi Smalls I talk to every day,” Kim perceptible. “Bob is a little busy but I talk to him whenever I get the chance to.”

Kim additionally weighed in on Sasha Colby and Nymphia Breeze being the primary Hawaiian and primary East Asian winners of RPDR, respectively.

“I mean it’s amazing. It had become a joke in the Drag Race community for the longest time that Asian queens got casted to get eliminated early on,” Kim stated. “To see people not from the Asian community celebrate them and their culture, we’re looking at a different decade now.”

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Along with Kim Chi Elegant Attractiveness, Kim is internet hosting a culinary podcast with chef Jon Kung and dealing on two books: a cookbook and a youngsters’s keep about an Asian American child coping with his queer id and seeking to save his native library from being demolished.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 9 premiered Might 17 on Paramount+.