As fans anxiously wait for the new season of RuPaul's Drag Race, one of the series' former contestants is just as pumped with anticipation. Season 6 contestant Joslyn Fox spoke exclusively with EnStars about the upcoming queens, the celebrity guest judges and what a queen must do to prove that she deserves to be there.

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Fox told us that she did a show in Nashville with Season 7 contestant Jaidynn Diore Fierce and they clicked the second they met. Fierce was apparently a little worried that she wouldn't make it on the series since she hadn't heard anything from Logo TV in a while, but the former contestant made it clear that that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

"She mentioned how she auditioned and she hadn't heard back and was kind of losing hope," Fox admitted. "And me, I auditioned four times before I [was] on the show so I just kind of gave her a pep talk and said, 'don't give up yet. Just keep going for it.'"

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"And of course, then I saw the cast when they announced it in December and saw her face on there and I was doing my little 'I told you so' dance," she added.

Fox gushed over Fierce, saying that she's going to be an excellent performer with great surprises up her sleeve.

"She's an amazing queen," the season 6 competitor revealed. "She's a really incredible performer and I was just in awe of all of her costumes, jewelry and wigs when I did that show with her [in Nashville] and I was just kind of shopping through her suitcase, loving everything she had so I'm excited to see everything that she presents on the runway because she definitely has a lot of tricks up her sleeve."

Fox, who started off as a DJ before making her way into the drag universe, gave some words of encouragement for those in the competition. Being that a giant range of different acts will be expressed, she feels the most important thing is for the contestants to stay true to themselves.

"You have to keep your head in the game and your eye on the prize, and remember it's a competition, but don't get yourself so blinded by trying to take another queen down because it is a competition, but it's really a competition with yourself," Fox noted. "It's being what you can do and surprising yourself."

"It's just important to be ready for all of that and put your best heel forward because there's just so much going on when you're there," she added. "You kind of have to not get into your head too much. You just kind of be the best you can be and only worry about yourself."

The 28-year-old, who came in at sixth place in the race last season, also gave advice to the contestants who are going to have to 'sashay away.'

"It doesn't say anything about you as a queen or as a person," she said. "Every week someone has to go home. And what it really comes down to is whoever's going home, it's really just the luck of a draw. It's whoever performed 'not as well'- not necessarily the worst- but not as well as the other queens who remain, and someone's got to go home, and there's just such incredible opportunities that come out of it.."

The upcoming race will have a variety of big names appearing as judges, including Olivia Newton-John, Mel B, Ariana Grande, Kat Dennings, Alyssa Milano and plenty more; leaving the former contestant in total awe.

"To see the season 7 judges- holy crap! There are some really big names!" the lady quipped. "I'm so happy for those queens that they got to experience that. I can't believe Olivia Newton-John, oh my gosh! Super, super freaking cool. Not one of them is somebody I would not be over the moon excited to be in the same room as. Scary Spice?! Come on!"

Fox made it pretty clear that this is going to be a race that viewers, or herself for that matter will not want to miss out on.

"I've realized in the past year that I'm still such a fan of the show and the queens, and I'm just super excited to be able to watch a season without having to see myself on there and I'm just really excited for the queens," she said.

Since the end of her RuPaul days, Fox has been keeping it "foxy" *WONK WONK,* taking her passion all around the world by doing what she loves most.

"I get to travel all over the world and meet the fans and I'm happiest when I'm on stage, I love to perform," the queen revealed. "But the meet and greets are really my favorite time because I really like to interact with the fans and just get to know them and answer their questions. It's fun because it reminds you what the experience is for everybody when it comes to drag race."

Fox also addressed the way drag queens are referred to when it comes to gender. Interestingly enough, she would not be offended if she was referenced in male form (whether she was in drag or not). However, it might be beneficial for some to know that she thinks that drag is a much deeper concept than simply playing a character.

"From my perspective, I'll catch myself calling somebody 'she' even though they're out of drag and we do that with the queens. You work with them as their alter egos, their aliases so I still call all the girls from season 6 by their girl names. I know their boy names- but everybody refers to them [as girls]," the star explained. "It's not like it's a character. It's not like running into Tom Hanks and calling him Forrest."

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 is set to premiere on Monday, March 2 at 9 p.m. ET on Logo TV.

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RuPaul's Drag Race, Logo TV, Reality TV, Joslyn Fox