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Drag Race España: All Stars

Drag Race España: All Stars is a Spanish reality competition series, a spin-off of Drag Race España, in which former contestants of the main program return to compete for a place in the Drag Race España Hall of Fame and a cash prize of €30,000.¹ It is broadcast on Atresplayer in Spain and on WOW Presents Plus in other markets, and its first season made the Spanish franchise the first outside the United States to produce its own All Stars edition.²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Format	Sister series of Drag Race España; returning queens compete for the Drag Race España Hall of Fame and a €30,000 cash prize¹
Announcement	Officially announced on 20 September 2022 by ATRESplayer on its social media accounts⁴
Season 1 run	4 February to 17 March 2024 on Atresplayer; 9 contestants, 7 episodes⁵
Signature twist	"El hachazo": the weekly winner eliminates one of the two bottom queens⁶
Season 1 winner	Drag Sethlas, who beat Samantha Ballentines in the final lip sync to "Eloise" by Tino Casal⁵
Host and jury	Supremme de Luxe as host, with Ana Locking, Javier Calvo, and Javier Ambrossi as judges²
Production	Atresmedia Televisión with Buendía Estudios, under an agreement with Passion Distribution in favor of WOW (World of Wonder)²
Second season	Announced on 29 November 2025; the first franchise outside the United States with a second All Stars edition⁷

Spoilers

Season 1 (2024)

The first season brought together nine queens from the first three editions of Drag Race España: Drag Sethlas, Hornella Góngora, Juriji Der Klee, Onyx Unleashed, Pakita, Pink Chadora, Pupi Poisson, Sagittaria, and Samantha Ballentines.² Unlike the main series, the contestants were not anonymous newcomers; viewers already knew them from their original runs.¹¹

The rules changed. Each week, the two best-performing queens faced each other in a lip sync for their legacy, and the winner chose which of the two worst-valued queens to eliminate. This power, called "el hachazo" (the blow), was presented by host Supremme de Luxe as one of the edition's novelties: the contestants themselves held the power of elimination, which opened strategic choices between knocking out strong rivals or protecting a strong final lineup.⁵^•⁶^•¹² In the semifinal, the already-eliminated queens used a save power to keep Hornella Góngora in the competition.⁵

The season ran for seven episodes and ended on 17 March 2024, when Drag Sethlas, a queen from the second season of the main series, won the final lip sync against Samantha Ballentines performing "Eloise" by Tino Casal. Hornella Góngora and Juriji Der Klee finished in third place, and Samantha Ballentines was named Miss Simpatía (Miss Congeniality).⁵

Origin and place in the franchise

RuPaul's Drag Race, the American competition reality show created in 2009, spawned an international franchise system, and Drag Race España premiered on Atresplayer in 2021 as the Spanish adaptation.³ In September 2022, Atresmedia announced it was working on a derived format based on RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, the American spin-off that gives standout queens from earlier seasons a second chance at the crown.⁴^•⁸

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Spanish edition was a first for the format.</span> Although the All Stars concept was well established in the United States, no international franchise had produced its own version, and Spain became the first to do so.³^•⁹ The season was announced on 20 September 2022, but its broadcast was delayed: the cast was revealed in the "Meet the Queens" special on 14 January 2024, and the first episode followed on 4 February.⁴^•¹⁰

Reception and production context

The premiere became the most-watched debut of the format on Atresplayer, and Atresplayer described the season as the best premiere of the franchise on the platform.⁶^•¹³ Critical reception was more mixed: a review in Espinof judged the All Stars season less polished than the surrounding seasons of the main series.¹⁴

The program is produced by Atresmedia Televisión in collaboration with Buendía Estudios, under the agreement reached with Passion Distribution in favor of WOW (World of Wonder), the company founded by RuPaul Charles that owns the format. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, and RuPaul Charles serve as executive producers, and Passion Distribution distributes the program globally.²

Second season

On 29 November 2025, during the Atresplayer Day event, Atresmedia announced a second season of Drag Race España: All Stars, renewing Supremme de Luxe as host. The announcement came alongside the renewal of the main series for a sixth season, which will air before the new All Stars edition. With this renewal, the Spanish franchise became the first outside the United States to have a second season of its All Stars version.⁷^•¹⁵

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026