“Got played dirty”: RuPaul’s Drag Race fans upset after Jax gets eliminated in season 15 episode 8
Isabella Floyd
Updated on February 23, 2026
RuPaul’s Race season 15, one of MTV’s most famous unscripted television drag contest series, returned for an all-new episode on Friday, February 17, at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT.
The excess cross dressers entered the werkroom competing for the best position in the current week’s test and in order to make it one bit nearer to the great finale. Unfortunately, it was the stopping point for one hopeful who disappointed Mother Ru and the adjudicators.
Jax was the competitor who was dispensed with in the most recent episode. In the wake of winning the lip sync fight against Air last week, fans guaranteed that the cross dresser was a “lipsync professional killer.” Unfortunately, notwithstanding, this week, subsequent to positioning in the base once more, the challenger lost the lip sync fight and needed to sashay away as their time in the opposition reached a conclusion.
Fans who saw Jax being sent home on Friday night subsequent to losing the lipsync fight, took to virtual entertainment to communicate their shock.
Named Lipsync Lalaparuza Smackdown, the authority rundown for RuPaul’s Race season 15 episode 8, read:
“Procedure and partnerships arise as the sovereigns go head to head in a progression of lip matches up, all prompting a last unexpected demise disposal round.”
Mom Ru stunned everybody by adding another wind in the Lalaparuza Smackdown challenge this week. This made a gigantic change in the power balance when it came to the hopefuls.
This week, all the cross dressers were matched against one another and needed to fight it out in a lip sync until three sovereigns positioned at the lower part of the table. They were Anetra, Flavor, and Jax.
For their last test, Mother Ru uncovered that the “whimsical finger of destiny” was being executed, which implied that she would request one from her group individuals to haphazardly pick a cross dresser. That contender would have the advantage to save one of the two in the base and permit them to progress straightforwardly to the following week. Mom Ru picked Bruno, who picked Anetra.
Anetra chose to save Zest, guaranteeing that she was unable to win the lipsync fight against her in RuPaul’s Race. In light of the choice, Jax shared:
“This is a punch to the stomach. I thought we were nearer than that. Be that as it may, on the off chance that Anetra needs to lipsync against me, it’s a fight she will get.”
Eventually, Jax and Anetra lipsynced against one another and Mom Ru proclaimed Anetra the champ of the fight, sending Jax home.
RuPaul’s Race season 15 airs each Friday at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT on MTV. Perusers can actually look at their neighborhood postings for more data.