Pollo Del Mar

Pollo Del Mar (Paul E. Pratt) is an American drag queen performer, pro wrestling personality, journalist, activist and recording artist.

As columnist, blogger and celebrity interviewer, Del Mar has hosted multiple podcasts and contributed to a wide array of print and online media outlets, both gay and straight.

To date, Del Mar has released five dance music singles "How Embarrassing" (2012), "Made You Look" (2013) with Billboard charting artist Kwanza Jones, "#WhiteLadyProblems" (2014), "Rule the World (A Woman's Got the Power)" (2016) and is featured on the song "Last Night," from the 2017 album Ban2oozle by Billboard Top 5 Dance Chart recording artist and openly gay rapper Jipsta. He is heavily featured in the music video "WannaBe," a cover of The Spice Girls by Billboard Dance chart-topping artist Neon Hitch.

Del Mar established himself as a credible journalist via celebrity interviews on the cover of Northern California's GLOSS Magazine (for which he is also a three-time covergirl), The San Francisco Bay Times and alternative weekly San Francisco Bay Guardian. He contributed celebrity-related content and interviews to The Huffington Post for over a half-decade. Presently Del Mar is a columnist and contributor to the world's foremost professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated.

Del Mar parlayed celebrity interviews into performances with several top stars and acting, appearing onstage with Katy Perry, Iggy Azalea, Lady Gaga, talk-show hosts Wendy Williams and Ross Mathews and opened for Britney Spears during the singer's appearance on Good Morning America. On Nov. 22, 2008, Del Mar and five others opened the inaugural YouTube Live Concert event with Katy Perry, who performed chart-topping single "Hot n Cold" for a global audience of millions. On Dec. 6, 2008, he performed with Grammy-winning singer Cyndi Lauper at the Energy 92.7 Anniversary Party. Del Mar performed stand-up comedy during a June 2018 sold-out series of San Francisco shows with Real Housewives of New York City star Countess Luann de Lesseps.

As an actor, Del Mar has appeared in independent feature films The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Starr and Devious, Inc., various television programs, has cameos in ABC mini-series When We Rise by Oscar-winning writer Dustin Lance Black, HBO series Looking and multiple seasons of National Wrestling Alliance series NWA Powerrr.

Del Mar made his first drag appearance April 27, 2006 at a fundraiser in San Francisco's Castro District. In August 2006, she placed first runner-up in the Miss Gay San Francisco Pageant and gained further attention as "Miss October" in the 2007 Desperate Divas calendar and a subsequent series of post cards.

Del Mar gained attention for her political efforts in the wake of California passing Prop 8, which would effectively ban gay marriage.