Brooke Lynn Hytes
she/her
“Ballet-trained. Pageant royalty. Host of Canada's Drag Race.”
Brooke Lynn Hytes is the stage name of Brock Edward Hayhoe, a Canadian drag performer, classically trained ballet dancer, and television host born in Toronto, Ontario in 1986. She trained at Canada's National Ballet School for five years beginning at age fifteen and went on to dance professionally with Cape Town City Ballet and the all-male comedic ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, where she performed en pointe in drag around the world. Her aesthetic fuses classical dance precision with old-Hollywood polish, showgirl glamour, and technically demanding stage numbers. She was crowned Miss Continental in 2014, one of the most prestigious titles in the pageant drag circuit. In 2019 she became the first Canadian contestant to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race, finishing as runner-up on Season 11. She has since split her time between Toronto and Nashville, Tennessee. Her most visible ongoing role is as the host and lead judge of Canada's Drag Race, a position she has held since the series launched in 2020, making her the first former Drag Race contestant to become a permanent judge in the franchise. She continues to tour live, release music, and appear as a guest judge across the international Drag Race universe.