During a podcast interview, Peppermint, a fan favorite and season nine runner-up of RuPaul's Drag Race, revealed that she managed to outsmart the show's production team. They had forbidden contestants from knowing the time while filming, but Peppermint innovatively used an iPod, provided by production, to keep track of time. This revelation suggests that the team may have had ulterior motives in attempting to control the competition by manipulating the time awareness of contestants. Peppermint's resourcefulness led her to experience friction with the producers.
For a show like RuPaul's Drag Race, which often tells competitors that they have 'X' hours to complete a task, cynics might see how production could take advantage of their cast.
I found a way to tell time, cause I'm quite resourceful. I'm an innovator.
Not only did they take our phones and things, but they hid the notion of time from us. Once we got up and were in the studio, where there weren't even windows and they control the lighting, you have no idea.
There was something that they had to supply us that we had to have, in order for us to do what they wanted us to do some of the time.
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