'RuPaul's Drag Race' star Jiggly Caliente dies at 44 after leg amputation


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Jiggly Caliente competed on the fourth season of 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' and later on 'RuPaul’s Drag Race Allstars'. Photo: Jiggly Caliente/Instagram

Drag performer Bianca Castro-Arabejo, who was known as reality television star Jiggly Caliente on RuPaul’s Drag Race, died Sunday at age 44, days after her family reported hospitalisation for a serious infection.

Castro-Arabejo, who became a judge on Drag Race Philippines in 2022, scrapped plans to appear on the upcoming season after a recent hospitalisation for a "severe infection” and a leg amputation surgery, her family said in a statement on her Instagram page.

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