{"id":2305021,"date":"2026-02-28T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2305021"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:46:07","slug":"rupauls-drag-race-guest-star-gabe-lopez-died-weeks-before-episode-aired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rupauls-drag-race-guest-star-gabe-lopez-died-weeks-before-episode-aired\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u2019: Guest Star Gabe Lopez Died Weeks Before Episode Aired"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/a> guest star Gabe Lopez<\/a> died weeks before appearing in a February episode of the reality competition series. What happened to him? On Friday, February 27, Lopez \u2014 an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter and producer \u2014 was featured in Season 8 of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/a>. He helped the queens record vocals as part of the Rusical challenge for Fannie<\/a>, a spoof of the musical Annie<\/a>. Lopez and the songwriter Leland<\/a> both assisted the queens in the episode. On January 25, Lopez\u2019s mother, Connie Howard<\/a>, announced his death on Instagram. She described her son as \u201cloving, kind, talented, hilarious\u201d and revealed that he died after a battle with lymphoma. \u201cWe the family are heartbroken to…<\/div>\n

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RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race guest star Gabe Lopez died weeks before appearing in a February episode of the reality competition series. What happened to him? On Friday, February 27, Lopez \u2014 an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter and producer \u2014 was featured in Season 8 of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race. He helped the queens record vocals as part of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2305022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2305021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018RuPauls-Drag-Race-Guest-Star-Gabe-Lopez-Died-Weeks-Before.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305023,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305021\/revisions\/2305023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}