One new queen tells EW whose hand she saw “disappear into” another cast member.

RuPaul’s Drag Race season 18 queens are ‘in love’ and ‘in lust’: ‘I can’t wait to meet their babies’ (exclusive)

One new queen tells EW whose hand she saw "disappear into" another cast member.

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- Lydia B Kollins and Kori King's legacy lives on, as the season 18 queens tell EW another romance happened on set.

- Juicy Love Dion tells EW whose hand she saw "disappear into" another cast member.

- One of the parties in question says the energy of her love interest is "very passionate."

Lovers Lydia B Kollins and Kori King's Main Stage kiss paved the way for more *RuPaul's Drag Race* romance — and, uh, apparently some expertly executed hand maneuvers, as the new season 18 cast exclusively reveals to **.

In a round of exclusive video interviews (below) conducted ahead of the new season's return in January, several queens among the roster of 14 contestants tell EW they witnessed a showmance develop between two contenders for the crown.

"Um, all I'll say is I did see Vita [VonTesse Starr]'s hand disappear into Athena [Dion]," admits Juicy Love Dion, Athena's drag granddaughter from the same drag family that also boasts RuGirls like Morphine Love Dion and Plane Jane.

Juicy teases the supposed moment further, explaining, "I don't know how that happened" before prompting fans to "use your imagination" to flesh out the details.

"Have you ever seen that GIF of Stewie [from *Family Guy*] rocking back and forth, shaking after seeing his parents have sex? That's exactly how I felt," Juicy jokes, later adding, "I love Athena, my best friend in this entire world. She loves a kai-kai!"

When EW presses her on the matter, Juicy further teases, "I don't know what the relationship is" now, "but, [Vita is] part of the family tree, now. Somewhere up in there!"

Later, when asked about Juicy's remarks in her own one-on-one interview, Vita confirms that, "Athena is very special to me, so, yeah, tune in once again if you want the tea. Season 18? Watch out, baby, you'll see," all while she starts sensually rubbing her chest in her chair.

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In response to Athena receiving many votes from her fellow cast members as being one of the most dramatic contestants of the new season, Vita says, "Athena is mother. Athena is the grande dame, and both of us actually are Leos, so we share birthdays very close, within a few days of each other. I think I'm more drawn to the energy of Athena. It's very passionate." [*Athena's interview was the first of the day, so EW did not get to ask her about this topic during her Q&A.*]

The girls' other season 18 sisters weighed in on the issue, too, with New York City's DD Fuego answering a superlative-themed question about the likeliest queens to kai kai after the show with a definitive answer: Athena and Vita, of course.

"The most likely to kai kai after the show, during the show, before the show, currently now," DD says. "They are in love, they are in lust, and I can't wait to meet their babies."

'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 18 cast of queens.

Orlando entertainer Myki Meeks adds that they're "pretty public about it," suggesting that most of the cast are aware of the romance.

If their love blossoms on the Main Stage, Vita and Athena's courtship will not be the first on-set romance in *Drag Race *her-story. After several episodes of flirtation, aforementioned season 17 queens Lydia and Kori cemented their love on air by kissing near the end of a lip-sync battle, with Kori eventually moving to Lydia's hometown of Pittsburgh after the show.

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Before them, *All Stars 2* winner Alaska and season 4 winner Sharon Needles (both of whom also resided in Pittsburgh at the time) were a couple for many years before breaking up in 2013. Season 11's Brooke Lynn Hytes and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo were also a borderline item on the set of the show, though they didn't end up pursuing a serious relationship after cameras went down.

*RuPaul's Drag Race* season 18 premieres Friday, Jan. 2, at 8 p.m. on MTV, followed by new episodes of *Untucked*. Watch EW's exclusive interviews with the season 18 cast in the YouTube video above.

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