Grab your wigs, up your attitude and prepare to tuck: Season Three of "RuPaul's Drag Race" begins tonight (Logo, 9 p.m) and just to make things even more yummy, one of the 12 queens competing is a Tar Heel.
Her name is Stacy Layne Matthews from the gloriously named Back Swamp. Seriously. It's a township near Lumberton.
Stacy says she watched the first two seasons of the show and knew she had to be on. Unlike Raleigh's plus-size diva Victoria 'Porkchop' Parker who appeared on the first season of "Drag Race," Stacy is one of three full-figured queens.
Stacy wants you to know that being bigger doesn't put her at a disadvantage. "People underestimate me, but I'm just as fierce and can do anything they can do and as well.
"A lot of people expect plus-size girls to just walk around. I can dance, I can do splits, if I want to."


If there's one reality show genre that never seems to get old, it's the makeover. There's no shortage of bad taste or bad choices, so there are no shortage of rooms or wardrobes in need of salvation.
American Idol (8pm, Fox) - The first night of real competition begins with the Top 12 female singers and viewer voting. Simon believes a woman will win this year, so pay attention.
Winter Olympics (NBC) - Figure skating, snowboarding, speedskating, Alpine skiing. Check out the
It's perhaps the guiltiest of guilty pleasures, and it's back for a second season tonight.

