Vivienne Pinay is the stage name ofMichael Donehoo,^[1][2] an American retireddrag performer known for competing on thefifth season of the American television seriesRuPaul's Drag Race. She has also appeared on theninth season ofFace Off andSkin Wars.

Donehoo was born and raised in Atlanta^[3] and is of Filipino descent.^[1] He became interested indrag at a young age after seeingRuPaul onVH1.^[4]

Donehoo sells wigs.^[1] As of 2020, he was also apersonal assistant toDrag Race contestantAlyssa Edwards.^[2]

Donehoo also appeared in theninth season of the television seriesFace Off in 2015.^[5][6]

Donehoo has been adrag performer; he has said of his female persona Vivienne Pinay: "Vivienne is named after my Southern Grandmother. And Pinay means Filipino girl."^[4] Vivienne Pinay has been a member of the Haus of Edwards, which has also includedDrag Race contestants Alyssa Edwards,Cheryl Hole,^[7]Gia Gunn,Laganja Estranja,Plastique Tiara, andShangela.^[8][9]

Vivienne Pinay competed on thefifth season ofRuPaul's Drag Race, which aired in 2013. She entered the Werk Room wearing apolka dot dress and red heels;Hyphen magazine said she resembledBettie Page.^[10] On the fourth episode ("Black Swan: Why It Gotta Be Black?"), she andHoney Mahogany placed in the bottom two of a challenge that tasked contestants with performing in aballet based on the life of RuPaul. Neither contestant impressed RuPaul enough during alip-sync contest to "Oops!... I Did It Again" (2000) byBritney Spears,^[11] and both were eliminated from the competition in the show's first-ever double elimination.^[1][12][13]

Thrillist's Brian Moylan ranked Vivienne Pinay number 75 out of the show's 113 contestants in 2017.^[14] Stephen Daw ofBillboard included the double elimination in a 2018 list of the show's "most shocking" moments.^[15] In 2019, Bernardo Sim ofScreen Rant called the lip-sync between Honey Mahogany and Vivienne Pinay "so bad, so boring, and so low-energy", and wrote: "It is fair to say that Ru made the right call to send them both contestants home that week, and fans have certainly enjoyed forgetting about that lip sync."^[16] Sim also included the double elimination in the website's 2020 list of the show's ten "most shocking" eliminations.^[17] Similarly, Mariana Fernandes included the double elimination in the website's 2020 overview of the ten "most shocking" eliminations on the show andRuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.^[18] She also included the performance in a 2020 list of the ten worst lip-syncs onDrag Race.^[19]

SinceDrag Race, Vivienne Pinay "decided to keep a low profile and abandoned this drag persona", according toOut magazine.^[20][21] In 2015, she was amongDrag Race contestants to appear on stage at theMTV Video Music Awards duringMiley Cyrus andWayne Coyne's performance of "Dooo It!" (2015).^[22] She also appeared on the seriesSkin Wars.^[23]

In 2013, Donehoo had a boyfriend and two dogs.^[4] He was based in New York City, as of 2015.^[24]

• RuPaul's Drag Race (season 5, 2013)
• RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
• Vivienne Pinay's Holiday Takeover (2013)^[25]
• Haus of Edwards Holiday Special (2015)^[26]
• RuPaul Drives^[27]
• Alyssa's Secret^[28][29]
• Face Off (season 9, 2015)
• Skin Wars (2015)
• Skin Wars: Naked Truth (2015)

• Vivienne Pinay atIMDb

• Living people
• 20th-century American LGBTQ people
• 21st-century American LGBTQ people
• American drag queens
• American LGBTQ people of Asian descent
• American people of Filipino descent
• Drag performers from Atlanta
• Drag performers from New York City
• LGBTQ people from Georgia (U.S. state)
• RuPaul's Drag Race contestants

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