An American singer, television host, radio DJ, performer, television producer and media personality who is famous for being a member of the band Seduction and appearing as a judge on the American reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race since season 3 and on all seasons of the spin-off show RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars is named for Michelle Visage. She received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Competition Program as a producer of the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race in the year 2019. It was announced that she is taking part in series 17 of Strictly Come Dancing in the UK on the BBC on 5th August 2019. And on September 7 it was confirmed that she was partnered with Giovanni Pernice.
Early Life of Michelle
On 20th September 1968, Michelle Visage was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the USA. As of 2019, she celebrated her 51st birthday. Her full name is Michelle Lynn Shupack. She attended an art high school in South Plainfield, New Jersey, graduating in 1986 and she moved to New York and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan for two years. She was born to her mother, Arlene, and his father. She adopted her surname, Visage, after gaining the nickname "Cara" ('face' in Spanish) from the people she spent time within the New York ball scene. Her religion is Christian.
Body Measurements of Michelle
Michelle is a very hot and sexy woman with an average height of 5 ft 4 in or 163 cm. Her body weight consists of 85 KG. Her sexy look and attractive body personality attracts a lot of people towards him. But her other body measurements including her shoe size, bra size, hip size and more have not been revealed yet. Overall, she has got a healthy body with a charming smile and an attractive personality.
Music Career
- In the year 1990, Michelle won a place for Seduction, an R&B and dance vocal trio assembled by Robert Clivilles and David Cole that signed with A&M Records.
- The group had several hits, the most famous being "Two to Make It Right".
- She then collaborated with the freestyle dance act TKA as a guest vocalist on the song "Crash (Have Some Fun)" after the breakup of the group.
- She also provided lead vocals and was the recording artist of another dance act assembled by Clivilles and Cole, The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.
- The song "It's Gonna Be a Lovely Day", which was a cover version of the Bill Withers song "Lovely Day", was included on the soundtrack to The Bodyguard.
- She has also been featured on several of RuPaul's music albums and appears in the music videos for "New York City Beat" and "From Your Heart" which originally premiered on RuPaul's Green Screen Christmas Special (2015).
- She has made guest appearances in the videos for RuPaul's songs "Glamazon", "Responsitrannity", "The Beginning" and "Nothing for Christmas".
Radio Career
- Michelle was the co-host of The Jamz Session on Hot 92 Jamz (KHHT) in Los Angeles between 2002 and 2005.
- She returned to New York City in the year 2005, where she served as co-host of The Morning Mix on WNEW-FM until December 2006.
- She also hosted on Sirius Satellite Radio's The Beat 66 from 2003 to 2006.
- She became a co-host of the morning show on SUNNY 104.3 in West Palm Beach, Florida on 12th March 2007.
- She joined 93.9 MIA in Miami as the host of the new MIA Morning Show on 10th January 2011.
- She left Miami and MIA on December 2011, moving back to Los Angeles.
- She also started co-hosting the weekly podcast RuPaul: What's the Tee? on 9th April 2014.
- The pair interview celebrities and discuss many topics ranging from their personal lives to RuPaul's Drag Race and the podcast won a 2018 Webby Award.
Television Career
- Michelle worked with RuPaul on a variety of television shows throughout her career.
- She became the co-host of RuPaul's VH1 talk shows The RuPaul Show in 1996.
- Also, she co-hosted WKTU's morning show with RuPaul from 1996 to 2002.
- And when Ru began casting judges for season one of RuPaul's Drag Race he invited Visage to become a permanent member of the show.
- Later she was contacted by RuPaul again and invited to appear on season three of the show.
- She debuted as a permanent judge, along with Santino Rice and Billy B, on season three of RuPaul's Drag Race, replacing Merle Ginsberg on 24th January 2011.
- She has also appeared on all four seasons of the spin-off show, RuPaul's Drag Race: All-Stars, and will appear on RuPaul's Drag Race UK, which is set to air on BBC Three in the year 2019.
- She became one of the contestants on the fifteenth series of the British reality series, Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5 on 7th January 2015.
- She left the house in fifth place in 2015.
- She has appeared on some episodes of Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side.
- She has made several other TV appearances including hosting VH1's red carpet coverage of the 1998 Grammys and in 2002, Grease's 25th-anniversary re-release party.
- She along with Ross Mathews were the commentators for Logo TV's coverage of the Live Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest on 13th May 2017.
- She has appeared as a judge on the first two seasons of Ireland's Got Talent, the first of which began airing on TV3 in February 2018.
- It was announced that she is taking part in series 17 of Strictly Come Dancing in the UK on the BBC on 5th August 2019.
- And on September 7 it was confirmed that she was partnered with Giovanni Pernice.
Moreover,
- She performed in her West End debut as "Miss Hedge" in Everybody's Talking About Jamie between 18th October 2018 and 26th January 2019.
- She published her first book, The Diva Rules on 10th November 2015.
- The book was released in Swedish through the rainbow company Tallbergs Forlag in late 2019.
Personal Life of Michelle
She suffered from an eating disorder which she says began when she was around 13 years old and continued into her adult life. On Episode 214 of What's the Tee?, her podcast with Ru Paul, Visage says that as an adult, she has had sex with both men and women. "I've been with women; I've had sex with women," she says. "All of it. All of it. Hands, items not food, no. I don't do the food thing. But I realized I never wanted to have a relationship, it was just sexual for me, 'cause women know what women want-so I understand it-but...or there'd be a man involved, but it was never...I never had a relationship, um, never been offered one, to be honest...so I've never been tempted to be solely that, but I think women are very sexy and sensual and beautiful, so I can still look at a woman and say, 'She's hot.'" At present, she is living in California. She revealed she had Hashimoto's disease in April 2019, which led to getting her trademark breast implants removed.
Marital Status, Husband, Child
Michelle is a married woman and she was married to author and screenwriter, David Case. The couple is blessed with two daughters named Lillie and Lola. As of today, the couple is living a happy life without any disturbances. They are enjoying their life a lot and the couple is often spotted in the public places holding hands.
Net Worth of Michelle
Michelle is an American singer, radio DJ and TV figure with a net worth of $800 thousand. This sum goes back from the work of Visage on the RuPaul Drag Racing, who became an Ireland Got Talent judging in its first season and competed in the UK’s Big Brother Celebrity. Visage also discusses several logo programs together with Ross Matthews. Her exact salary, income, and other earnings have not been disclosed yet but we will try adding it fast and quick. Overall, she is satisfied with her earnings.
Social Media Profile of Michelle
Michelle Visage is quite active across online and social media. She has an impressive number of followers and fans on her social networking sites, for example, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. She has more than 471k followers on Twitter. Moreover, she has more than 1M followers on Instagram. Likewise, her Facebook page has more than 285k followers.
