Brooke Lynn Hytes
Brooke Lynn Hytes atRuPaul's DragCon LA, 2023
Born	Brock Edward Hayhoe (1986-03-10)March 10, 1986 (age 39) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship	Canada United States
Education	National Ballet School
Occupations	Drag queen Ballet dancer Performer Television personality Executive producer
Years active	1999–present
Career
Former groups	Cape Town City Ballet Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Known for	Miss Continental RuPaul's Drag Race Canada's Drag Race 1 Queen 5 Queers
Website	brookelynnhytes.com

Brooke Lynn Hytes is the stage name ofBrock Edward Hayhoe (born March 10, 1986),^[1] a Canadiandrag queen, ballet dancer, and television personality. After working as a dancer withCape Town City Ballet andLes Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Brooke Lynn Hytes began toperform in drag, competing in severalpageants, winning theMiss Continental title in 2014. Brooke Lynn Hytes achieved international recognition for competing on theeleventh season ofRuPaul's Drag Race; Brooke Lynn Hytes finished as a runner-up to winnerYvie Oddly. Brooke Lynn Hytes is the first Canadian to compete in the series.^[2][3] Since 2020, Brooke Lynn Hytes has been a main judge on the spin-off seriesCanada's Drag Race, and is the firstDrag Race contestant to become a full-time judge inthe franchise.

Hayhoe was born on March 10, 1986,^[4] inToronto. He attended high school atEtobicoke School of the Arts. When he was 15, he was accepted into theNational Ballet School of Canada, where he trained for five years. As a student, he worked with the choreographersJiri Kylian,Toer van Schayk,James Kudelka, andRudi van Dantzig, who cast him as Death's Angel in a mounting ofFour Last Songs.^[5] Hayhoe danced this role in Toronto and later in Cape Town.^[6]

In 2006, at 20 years old, Hayhoe moved to South Africa and joined thecorps de ballet of theCape Town City Ballet.^[7][8] In 2007, he was promoted to the rank of soloist.^[9] While in Cape Town, he danced several of the major classical principal male roles, including the Nutcracker Prince inThe Nutcracker, Solor inLa Bayadère, and Albrecht inGiselle.^[6]

Hayhoe was more interested in dancingen pointe than in the traditional male roles. He moved to New York City in 2008 in order to join the drag ballet troupeLes Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. He toured internationally with the Trocks for four years under the names 'Andrei Verikose', as a male dancer, and 'Vanya Verikosa', his ballerina alter ego.^{[10][11][12][13]}

As a drag queen, Hayhoe initially tried out the names Jackie D, Carmen and Bianca. After moving back to Toronto to pursue drag full-time, he was adopted by local queenFarra N. Hyte, who named her new drag daughter Brooke Lynn Hytes. Shortly after returning to Toronto, Brooke Lynn Hytes won a local drag pageant called Queen of Halloween, and quickly began to attract attention in the Toronto drag scene.^[14] Brooke Lynn Hytes began to regularly compete on thedrag pageant circuit. In 2013, she won Miss Gay Toronto, Derby City Entertainer of the Year, and Miss Michigan Continental, and placed as first alternate in theNational Entertainer of the Year andMiss Continental pageants on first entry. In 2014, Brooke Lynn Hytes won the prestigious Miss Continental title.^[15] In 2015, Brooke Lynn Hytes accepted a residency as a performer in PLAY Dance Bar inNashville, Tennessee.^[16] She auditioned for the ninth and tenth seasons ofRuPaul's Drag Race, but was unable to join either season as she did not yet have agreen card.^[17]

Brooke Lynn Hytes was announced to be one of fifteen contestants competing onseason eleven ofDrag Race on January 24, 2019.^[18] She won the main challenges in episodeone,five andeleven, placing in the top of a challenge a record-breaking nine times throughout the season. This is the most top 3 positions achieved by any contestant in a single season inRuPaul's Drag Race history.^[19][20][21] She was in a "double-shantay" alongsideYvie Oddly in theSnatch Game episode after bombing herCeline Dion impersonation; the duo'slip sync toDemi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry" was lauded over by critics, and declared by many to be one of the best lip syncs in the history of the series.^[22][23]

Throughout the season, Brooke Lynn Hytes developed an on-show romance withVanessa Vanjie Mateo, dubbed "Branjie".^[24][25][26] The two placed in the bottom two ofepisode twelve, with Brooke Lynn Hytes emerging victorious in a lip sync battle toAretha Franklin's "A Deeper Love", making Vanessa Vanjie Mateo the last queen to be eliminated prior to the finale.^[27][28][29] Brooke Lynn Hytes finished as a runner-up, ultimately losing toYvie Oddly in the final lip sync for the crown.^[30] In June 2019, Brooke Lynn Hytes was one of 37 queens to be featured on the cover ofNew York magazine.^[31] On November 11, she won aPeople's Choice Award for "Most Hypeworthy Canadian".^[32]

On September 26, 2019, Brooke Lynn Hytes was announced as a full-time judge forCanada's Drag Race, the Canadian spin-off ofRuPaul's Drag Race.^[33] She was the first contestant from any series in theDrag Race franchise to become a full-time judge. As of 2024, Brooke Lynn Hytes is the only judge to have appeared on all four seasons ofCanada's Drag Race, as well as its spin-off,Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World. She and her fellow judges have won threeCanadian Screen Awards for Best Host or Presenter in a Factual or Reality/Competition Series, in 2021, 2022, and 2023 respectively.^[34]

On March 25, 2021, Brooke Lynn Hytes released asingle featuringPriyanka, the winner ofCanada's Drag Raceseason one, titled "Queen of the North".^[35] She has since expressed her dislike of the single, and her reluctance to release any more music.^[36] In May 2021, Brooke Lynn Hytes launched a podcast with Priyanka,Famous This Week, and was announced as the host of1 Queen 5 Queers, a reboot of1 Girl 5 Gays, forCrave.^[37] The second season of1 Queen 5 Queers premiered in 2022.^[38]

In June 2021, Brooke Lynn Hytes appeared as a "lip-sync assassin" on thesixth season ofRuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, and lip-synced to the song "Miss You Much" byJanet Jackson against contestantRa'Jah O'Hara, one of her formerDrag Race competitors. The result of the lip-sync was declared a draw. In May 2022, Brooke Lynn Hytes appeared alongside Vanessa Vanjie Mateo inBluebella's Pride Month lingerie campaign.^[39]

Brooke Lynn Hytes continues to make international club appearances, and regularly tours alongside otherDrag Race alumni. In 2019 she joined the Voss EventsRuPaul's Drag Race Season Eleven tour, which visited seventeen cities across North America.^[40] In 2020 she hosted a tour for theCanada's Drag Race season one queens, which played exclusively in drive-in venues due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[40] In 2022 she hosted theCanada's Drag Race Tour again, headlined by the season two queens.^[41] In 2024, she is scheduled to co-host theCanada's Drag Race Tour alongsideJaida Essence Hall, headlined by the season three and four queens.^[42] In 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, Brooke Lynn Hytes joined the annual Murray & Peter tourA Drag Queen Christmas, branded as the longest-running drag queen tour in America.^[43]

Hayhoe came out as gay when he was 18.^[44] After his stint onRuPaul's Drag Race, Hayhoe moved first toLos Angeles, where he took overBianca Del Rio's old apartment, and then toChicago.^[45][46] On May 22, 2023, via his Instagram page, Hayhoe posted a photograph showing both a Canadian and an American passport, thus confirming he had become a naturalized U.S. citizen.^[47]

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