Delta Work is the stage name of Gabriel A. Villarreal , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] an Emmy Award -winning American drag performer and stylist, best known for competing on the third season of the reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race.
Work hosted the podcast Very That alongside season-three finalist and fellow drag performer Raja. Villarreal was born in Los Angeles County, California. Her father was a veteran of the Vietnam War who was subjected to Agent Orange during his service. Work's drag mother is Miss Coco Peru , whom she met in Los Angeles during the beginnings of her drag career. Before her television debut she was an active night club performer. Her drag name originates from when she attended a drag show and the performing group of queens, who were parodying Designing Women , needed a "bigger" queen to play the role of Delta Burke 's character, Suzanne Sugarbaker.
After agreeing to and finishing the role, one queen commented afterwards that "you are not Delta Burke, you are Delta Work! Bowen Yang wrote: "Delta barely made an attempt at all Points for the wink at Bob Mackie with her look, but otherwise Delta just waded around in her nothing-doing. Snap out of it! After season three, Work was seen as an audience member attending the season five and season six finale episodes, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and was a guest with other Drag Race alumni for the first-episode challenge on season ten In a interview with Joseph Shepherd, Work revealed that she did not work as RuPaul's wig stylist beyond the eleventh season.
This was largely because of contractual disagreements over her involvement in RuPaul's Netflix series AJ and the Queen , which led to another wig stylist being hired, who continued to work with RuPaul after that. Work also stated that World of Wonder , the producers of RuPaul's Drag Race , intentionally refrained from submitting her name for Emmy consideration for the eleventh season, despite her having done the same job as the tenth season when she won the award, because she was no longer working with them.
As a cast member of Drag Race , Work appeared on a episode of E! She also made regular appearances on the web show The Pit Stop , which reviews each weekly episode of Drag Race. She was on its debut episode on August 27, Work appeared on the cover of Skorch Magazine in They took a selfie, which quickly went viral.
