RuPaul's Drag Race season 5

RuPaul's Drag Race
Season 5
Promotional poster for season five
Hosted by	RuPaul
Judges	RuPaul Michelle Visage Santino Rice
No. of contestants	14
Winner	Jinkx Monsoon
Runners-up	Alaska Roxxxy Andrews
Miss Congeniality	Ivy Winters
Companion show	RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked!
No. of episodes	14
Release
Original network	Logo TV
Original release	January 28 (2013-01-28) – May 6, 2013 (2013-05-06)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

The fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race began airing on January 28, 2013, with a 90-minute premiere episode, and ended on May 6 of the same year. The winner of season five headlined Logo's Drag Race Tour featuring Absolut Vodka, won a one-of-a-kind trip, a lifetime supply of Colorevolution Cosmetics, and a cash prize of $100,000. Santino Rice and Michelle Visage returned as judges at the panel.^[1]

The theme song playing during the runway every episode is "I Bring the Beat", while the song playing during the credits is "The Beginning". Both songs are from RuPaul's album Glamazon.

This is the first-ever series in the show's history to feature a double elimination or a double sashay between two contestants, Honey Mahogany and Vivienne Pinay. It is also the first series to feature a queen, Coco Montrese, lip-sync for their life four times and send 3 people home. This is also the first series where RuPaul allowed fans to vote for a winner.

The winner of the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race was Jinkx Monsoon, with Alaska and Roxxxy Andrews being the runners-up, and Ivy Winters being crowned season 5's Miss Congeniality by fans.