Chad Michaels was born on 20 March 1971, in Los Angeles, California USA, and is a Cher impersonator and drag performer, but perhaps best known for being a runner up during the fourth season of the reality television show “RuPaul’s Drag Race”. He’s been active in the industry since 1995 and all of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Chad Michaels? As of late-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $15 million, mostly earned through success in drag. He also joined “RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars” for its first season, winning the competition. As he continues his career, it is expected that his wealth will also continue to increase.
Chad Michaels Net Worth $15 million
Chad grew up in San Diego. When he started his drag career, he went under the name “Brigitte Love”, but eventually started to use his real name when working in Las Vegas, as during a show entitled “An Evening at La Cage”, it was required that they use male stage names which resulted in him returning to using Chad Michaels. His net worth started to increase as more opportunities opened up for him. In 2010, he competed in the first California Entertainer of the Year pageant, in which he placed first alternate to the winner Shangela.
Michaels would eventually join the fourth season of Logo TV’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and would find success in it, getting a runner-up position. During the first season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars” he joined once more, and finally won the competition against other previous competitors of “Drag Race” – 12 drag queens joined the competition and he ended up partnering with Shannel and going with the team name “Shad”. He then joined the “Dreamgirls Revue” of which he is a producer as well as performer, which is now California’s longest running female impersonation show. He is joined by other contestants from “Drag Race” including Raja, Morgan McMichaels, Detox, and Venus D-Lite. Her drag daughter is Morgan McMichaels and her drag mother is Hunter, who is also known for doing impersonations of Cher.
Chad also makes frequent appearances on television, often seen as a Cher impersonator. He impersonated Cher in “2 Broke Girls”, “Jane the Virgin”, and “Top Gear”, and also made an appearance in Cher’s “E! True Hollywood Story” and her “A&E Biography”. He had small roles in “MADtv”, “Women’s Murder Club”, and “Kath & Kim” too. In 2013, he released a song entitled “Tragic Girl” which is a collaboration with Liquid360. Chad is known as one of the drag queens with the highest booking fee, and these opportunities have certainly helped raise his net worth further.
For his personal life, it is known that Chad married Adam in 2015 and they have two Chihuahuas. He’s very active on social media, having more than 250,000 followers on Instagram and over 200,000 followers on Twitter; he also has around 74,000 followers on Facebook. His social media pages are updated regularly with upcoming projects, and some of his daily endeavors.
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