Ariana Madix. Amanda Edwards/Getty Photographs
Whereas there might solely be one winner in every class on the 2024 Individuals’s Selection Awards, there have been a number of champions vying for Competitors Contestant of the 12 months.
Ariana Madix acquired the dignity on the Sunday, February 18, awards present, which came about on the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. She couldn’t attend resulting from her Broadway function as Roxie Hart in Chicago.
The class was rounded out by Xochitl Gomez for Dancing With the Stars, Charity Lawson for The Bachelorette, Theresa Nist for The Golden Bachelor, Keke Palmer for That’s My Jam, Iam Tongi for American Idol and Anetra and Sasha Colby for RuPaul’s Drag Race.
As for every particular person’s influence on their respective present, Gomez, 17, gained season 32 of Dancing With the Stars, whereas Madix, 38, completed in third place. Tongi, 19, and Colby, 39, have been the champions of season 21 of American Idol and season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race (with Anetra because the runner-up), respectively. Inside Bachelor Nation, Lawson, 28, served because the season 20 lead of The Bachelorette, and Nist, 70, grew to become the primary winner of The Golden Bachelor. Regardless of her loss on That’s My Jam, Palmer, 30, wowed the viewers along with her vocal abilities throughout season 2.
Fan-favorite stars are rocking the pink carpet on the 2024 Individuals’s Selection Awards. Film stars, filmmakers, TV personalities and influencers gave Us a trend present at Santa Monica’s Barker Hanger on Sunday, February 18. There have been billowing robes, flirty frocks, trendy fits and a few outfits it’s essential see to consider. Along with trend, […]
Competitors Contestant of the 12 months was added to the checklist of nominations in 2018 and has since unfold the like to a number of reveals inside the style. Previous winners embrace Maddie Poppe for American Idol in 2018, Hannah Brown for The Bachelorette in 2019, Gigi Goode for RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2020, JoJo Siwa for Dancing With the Stars in 2021 and Selma Blair for Dancing With the Stars in 2022.
This yr, greater than one of many stars within the class has acquired recognition from the Individuals’s Selection Awards on different events. For example, Palmer beforehand earned nods for The Feminine Film Star of 2022 and The Drama Film Star of 2022 for her function in Nope, whereas Madix can also be up for The Actuality TV Star of the 12 months for Vanderpump Guidelines throughout Sunday’s ceremony.
In the meantime, Madix and Colby each made Us Weekly’s checklist of the highest actuality stars of 2023. The drag queen defined on the time why the victory on RuPaul’s Drag Race was so necessary amid anti-drag and anti-trans laws.
“This isn’t only for me, that is for all these youngsters which can be actually, actually scared proper now,” Colby solely instructed Us in October 2023. “It was for me to be robust for them and use the platform and the privilege that I’ve to make individuals uncomfortable within the sense of actually your self.”
