There’s a flurry of truly bonkers activity onThe Masked Singerset when EW visits in late July.
Another former contestant is waiting in the wings to deliver clues.
One special wildcard contestant will be added to each, though, in the second episode of each group.
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“It wasn’t easy.
I have to tell you,” he admits.
It’s a crazy bonkers show from Korea.
Meet Anteater from ‘The Masked Singer’ season 10.Fox
And we’d love to put this celebrity underneath the mask and have them perform.'
Everyone said, ‘Ehhh…
I’m not sure about that.
Meet Cow from ‘The Masked Singer’ season 10.Fox
Come back to us in season 2, when we know it’s working.'"
“They watched the episodes, they saw the charm and magic that was in the original series.
And then everyone started following after that,” he says.
Cow performs on stage in season 10 of ‘The Masked Singer’.Fox
It’s Scherzinger and McCarthy-Wahlberg who are the competitive ones, he says.
That particular twist hasn’t been used since season 7… and possibly with good reason.
Scherzinger admits the added competitiondidfuel some behind-the-scenes clue Googling.
S’more performs in season 10 of ‘The Masked Singer’.Fox
“You know what?
I’m not going to lie.
I think in the beginning we did,” she says.
And we’re on our 10th season, so we don’t Google anything."
Even still, the competition remains, though now it’s more unspoken.
The competitive streak occasionally heats up among the panelists when it comes to voting, too, McCarthy-Wahlberg says.
I’m like, ‘No!
Are you deaf?’
There’s times that we’ll argue and later be like, ‘Oh my God.
It wasn’t that person at all.’
So as the show’s gone on, we kind of just have to surrender.
And thank God for the audience, too, so it’s not all on us."
OrDuff Goldman’s McTerrierhead coming off during his performance in season 7?
Teyana Taylorchoking and needing medical assistance mid-performance, also in season 7?
Plestis swears the producers are just as shocked up in the booth as the audience is at home.
it’s possible for you to’t predict it," he says of the Rourke and Goldman incidents.
Thicke confirms that the panel is not coached beforehand about any potential looming shockers.
They want us to have natural reactions."
And it’s just, again, another name to play the guessing game."
His wife more or less confirms this.
There’s a whole beat of me staring at his head going, ‘Oh my God.’
And that’s when I literally died, died, died, died.
It was such a great shocking surprise.
I loved every second of it."
It’s this mesmerized sense of wonder that first drew Plestis to producing the show.
I gotta find out what it is.'"
That’s a little weird.’
I’m like, ‘Yeah… ButIam weird.'")
And when that happened, it clicked for me."
“My dad loved big tent television,” Thicke says of theGrowing Painsstar.
“He loved these kinds of TV shows.
I know that he’d be proud.
He loved Hollywood, and he would have loved this show.
I don’t think he would have missed an episode to be honest.”
Oh, he was a ham just like his son.
He’d be like, ‘You know, Icanhum a tune or two.'")
“In the end, it’s a guessing game of who’s underneath the mask.
That’s the core of why the show exists.
And that’s why people love it and it trends every week.
We’re never gonna divert from that, that’s the core reason of why.”
