Rita Menu

Rita Menu (born 1998 or 1999) is a New Zealand drag performer who competed on season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under.

Rita Menu
Born	1998 or 1999 (age 25–26)[1]
Television	RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under (season 3)

Career

Rita Menu is a drag performer. She won Kita Mean and Anita Wigl'it's "Drag Wars" competition.^[1] In 2019, Logo TV's Michael Musto included Rita Menu in a list of the 250 best drag names.^[2]

Rita Menu competed on season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under,^[3] placing seventh overall. She is among the only contestants in the Drag Race franchise to eliminate two competitors in a single episode;^[4] Rita Menu eliminated Ivory Glaze and Ivanna Drink in lip-syncs to "Murder on the Dancefloor" (2001) by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and "Holding Out for a Hero" by Adam Lambert, respectively.^[5][6] On the fourth episode, Rita Menu impersonated Cardi B for the Snatch Game challenge.^[7] Her performance landed her in the bottom two, and she lost a lip-sync against Flor to "Secrets" by Kylie Minogue.^[8] One of her looks on the show paid homage to the character Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.^[9]

Personal life

Rita Menu was raised in Hamilton, New Zealand.^[10] Rita Menu uses the pronouns she/her in drag and he/him out of drag.^[11]

Filmography

Television

• RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under (season 3)