in 2023 Originally from
Ottawa,
Ontario, Scarlett BoBo began performing as a drag queen in the spring of 2008. Her drag mother is Tenora BoBo, with their surname coming from house mother Ginette BoBo. She moved to
Toronto in 2009. She studied public relations at
Humber College, and has also taken classes at
circus school, incorporating skills like
fire eating and
aerial silks into her drag performances. Treating her drag as a form of activism, she has performed at a benefit for the
Orlando nightclub shooting, as a host of the city's annual AIDS Walk for
HIV/AIDS, and as the creator of the all-gender-inclusive Absolut Empire's Ball. She was consistently safe or high throughout the season, and won the key ball challenge, ultimately placing as a runner-up in the finale alongside
Rita Baga and behind winner
Priyanka. She was only the second queen in the entire history of the
Drag Race franchise, following
Bianca Del Rio, to make it to the finale without ever having placed low in any challenge during the season. Following the conclusion of the season, she headlined a cross-Canada tour with the other ''Canada's Drag Race'' contestants, which was performed at
drive-in venues due to the ongoing
social distancing restrictions remaining in place during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. In October, she participated alongside Priyanka, Rita Baga and
Jimbo in an online panel discussion as part of the
Just for Laughs festival.
Underneath the Empire, a documentary film about Scarlett BoBo and the Absolut Empire's Ball, was screened at the
TIFF Bell Lightbox in 2019 before having its television premiere on
OutTV in April 2021.
Music In 2014, she released the single "Still Fucking Going", a collaboration with her Toronto drag colleague Allysin Chaynes. She followed up with the album
#BoBosexuality: The ReRelease in 2015 which included Werrrk.com's Drag Song of The Year for 2015, Break My Heart, and later with the singles "Drop the Money" and "Qu'est-ce Que Fuck". ==Personal life==