EXCLUSIVE Drag Race Down Under stars reveal why 2024 season was the best yet READ MORE: Lazy Susan is crowned the new winner of Drag Race Down Under season four and wins $50,000 in prize money By MIKAELA WILKES FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 03:37, 23 December 2024 | Updated: 03:39, 23 December 2024 e-mail View comments It's rare for a TV show to lose its biggest star and then made its best series yet - but that's exactly what happened when RuPaul stepped away from Drag Race Down Under in 2024. Season four, which crowned Melbourne queen Lazy Susan Australia's second winner, wrapped on Friday to rave reviews on social media. When it launched in 2021, Down Under was the seventh version of the show and the third to feature RuPaul as host, with Michelle Visage — who has judged the US show since 2011 — and Australian comedian Rhys Nicholson rounding out the panel.

Daily Mail Australia sat down with joint runners up Oxford Street stalwart Vybe, and Brisbane queen Mandy Moobs, to ask them what changed. 'The beauty of this season is the sisterhood that was forming and we all leaned into that,' Oxford Street stalwart Vybe, 32, said. 'There was this feeling of you do what you can for the sake of the show, not for the individual performer.

If the show is 10, everyone looks 10 so I'm very proud we all achieved that.' Lazy Susan (second left) has been crowned the next Drag Race Down Under winner, taking home $50,000 in prize money after an intimate viewing party on Sydney's Oxfor.