• Liza Minnelli acquired the Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award from RuPaul on the season 17 finale.
• The enduring performer thanked the LGBTQ+ group for supporting her.
• She then launched into a short lip-sync efficiency of 'Ring Them Bells' because the Drag Race queens applauded.

Legendary entertainer Liza Minnelli took the stage as soon as once more for her first efficiency in years on Friday evening's RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 finale.

The 79-year-old closed out her look on the MTV broadcast with a short, highly effective efficiency of the basic music "Ring Them Bells," after she accepted the present's Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award from Emmy-winning host RuPaul.

"I converse for a grateful nation after I say: Liza, we love you," RuPaul mentioned on the finish of her quick interview with the EGOT-winning Hollywood icon and longtime LGBTQ group ally.

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"Thanks. I don't know what else to say, besides, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be me. You made me!" replied the Cabaret actress whereas seated in a chair at some stage in the section, as RuPaul quipped, "Properly, you made us, really! Yet another time, let's ring them bells!"

A slew of backup dancers then rushed out to the stage whereas "Ring Them Bells" (which Minnelli beforehand carried out in her 1972 particular Liza With a Z) performed overhead, with the musician clutching a set of jingle bells in her proper hand and shaking them all through the music.

Minnelli mouthed a number of of the lyrics and struck a number of poses from her chair because the music continued.

For the ultimate be aware, she held open her arms and lip-synced the grand finale of the music just like the celebrity that she is.

The forged of queens watched from the viewers, with a few of them — like theater performer Suzie Toot — getting emotional within the second, earlier than your entire room stood to applaud Minnelli because the present went to a business break.

Minnelli has made fewer appearances lately, although she did hit the stage with Woman Gaga on the 2022 Oscars to assist the pop star current the award for Greatest Image. On the time, Minnelli's former publicist, Scott Gorenstein, informed PEOPLE that "Woman Gaga requested that Liza current the award along with her" for the large evening, which Minnelli attended in a wheelchair.

"You know the way I really like working with legends. And I'm honored to current the ultimate award of the night with a real present enterprise legend," Gaga mentioned, earlier than the present aired a clip bundle of the nominees, with Gaga bending down towards Minnelli, whispering "I acquired you" to the star after serving to her kind her cue playing cards moments prior.

Along with her legendary imprint on popular culture, Minnelli has influenced a wealth of RuPaul's Drag Race queens throughout the worldwide franchise, with 4 queens from world wide portraying her on the Snatch Recreation impersonation problem, together with season 9 and All Stars 8 contestant Alexis Michelle.

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Three extra queens from the worldwide franchise later selected Minnelli as their Snatch Recreation celebrities, together with Canada's Drag Race season 1 star Scarlett BoBo, Drag Race Down Below season 2's Hannah Conda, and RuPaul's Drag Race UK season 6's La Voix — the latter pair of whom additionally gained their respective season's Snatch Recreation challenges.

Moreover, All Stars 7 winner Jinkx Monsoon famously took issues one step additional when she performed Minnelli's mom, Judy Garland, in an all-time-great Snatch Recreation efficiency on the 2022 season.

Watch Minnelli carry out within the video above.

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