Kornbread “The Snack” Jete Biography
Kornbread “The Snack” Jete is Demoria Elise Williams’ stage name. She is a drag performer and one of the contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14. Being an exhibition stalwart with her cheeky character she can dazzle anyone’s coronary heart together.
Kornbread “The Snack” Jete Age|Birthday
Jete was born on January 14, 1992. Therefore, she is 29 years old as of 2022 and celebrates her birthday on 14th January every year.
Kornbread “The Snack” Jete Height|Weight
Jete’s body measurements are currently unavailable.
Kornbread “The Snack” Jete Family
The full-time cross-dresser was born in South Carolina to her parents. Later, for additional studies, she moved to Los Angeles, California, and studied melodic theater.
Kornbread ‘The Snack’ Jete Career
Kornbread started going to drag shows primarily for no particular reason and began maintaining typical sources of income. Little did she know the work she considered as something easygoing and which she did not treat in a serious way would transform out into a proficient profession that will bring her acclaim. Moreover, she got the second spot in a drag rivalry. This established her trust and certainty to fabricate her vocation in this field.
She works at The Abbey in Los Angeles and hosts weekly Drag Race watch parties at West Hollywood’s Abbey Food & Bar as of 2022. Currently, she is competing in season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. She used a carton with former Drag Race judge Merle Ginsberg depicted as a missing person in the first episode.
She is friends with Kerri Colby, a fellow Drag Race contestant and trans woman and also a Black trans woman based in Los Angeles. About Colby, she said that Colby literally walked her through so much of her transition that no one understands. However, she added that Colby is not her drag mom but she partly tells her she is definitely partly her trans mom.
Drag Name Origin
The queen’s drag name Kornbread originates from a prison show. She watches prison shows and in one show there was a lady whose husband was cheating on her. The lady caught him as they were eating cornbread and shot him at the table. However, her name was Cornbread hence people in the prison would not eat cornbread with her because she shot her husband. The queen decided her name would be Kornbread if ever she became a drag queen.
Memorable Quotes
The queen’s entrance quote was ‘Is you hungry, ’cause bitch, I’m baked!’ and also that she speaks black folk.
She also added that ‘America, don’t adjust your TV, I’m this fat in person.’
In addition, she referred to Willow’s shoes as comfy couture and that she likes them. She also referred to Willows entrance as the most comfortable when she came in with fluffy shoes! However, as Willow’s sunglasses repeatedly fell off, she told her to just put them in her purse as she was going to have to let that spirit go.
Moreover, she said she thought they meant beach when they said California.
Trivia
Along with Kerri Colby, Kornbread is one of two trans women of color to compete on RuPaul’s Drag Race season fourteen. Coincidentally, Elyse is Kerri’s first name out of drag and Elise is Kornbread’s middle name.
She is Calypso Jete Balmain’s drag daughter, the season 1 winner of the ballroom competition Legendary as part of the House of Balmain. For over ten years, she and Calypso have been friends.
The Haus of Jete is formed by these four namely, Kornbread along with Calypso Jete, Kyra Jete, and Hershii LiqCour-Jete.
Fame
Doing sketch comedy, she rose to popularity on Brandon Roger’s YouTube channel.
Moreover, she reacts to RuPaul’s Drag Race with teens in an episode of the Fine Brother’s REACT and was also in Jubilee’s Spectrum series episode.
She ends each of her Instagram posts using the same quote at the end of each caption with her entrance line.
After Victoria ‘Porkchop’ Parker, she is the second queen in the Drag Race franchise to have a nickname in their drag name. Coincidentally, Porkchop went home on her first episode and Kornbread won the first challenge of her season.
In Episode 1, she revealed that her pastor publicly shamed her for being fat and claimed there were devils inside her, however, as retaliation, she farted on the pastor.
Filmography
Television
2019 – Blame the Hero
2021 – Normal British Series, Wigs in a Blanket
2022 – RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14, RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked
Social media
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Facebook
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14 Contestants
Other contestants of this season’s RuPaul’s Drag Race include:
- Mady Morphosis
- Lady Camden
- Kerri Colby
- June Jambalaya
- Jorgeous
- Jasmine Kennedie
- DeJa Skye
- Daya Betty
- Bosco
- Orion Story
- Alyssa Hunter
- Angeria Paris VanMicheals
- Willow Pill
Kornbread ‘The Snack’ Jete Net Worth
Jete’s net worth is currently under review.
