It must feel liberating for a
famous celebrity to do something under the guise of anonymity. Why not sing in
front of a studio audience in a concealing costume? A South Korean TV network
went with that concept and applied it to a singing competition reality format. Their
original show proved popular enough with overseas viewers to generate localized
spinoffs. The US is just one of them, with “The Masked Singer” impressing audiences
at Fox to earn it two follow-up seasons, one of which is premiering later this
month. But already some of the new anonymous contestants have been revealed in
a Sunday sneak peek.
Entertainment Tonight tells us that a special primer on the new
batch of incognito contestants for season 2 of “The Masked Singer” was shown on
Fox this September 15, ahead of the official season premiere next week. With
far more confidence in the premise, the production unit (Fox Alternative
Entertainment picking up from the now-partly Disney-owned Endemol Shine) has
been able to increase the number of masked participants from 12 to 16, which
likely means more weeks on air as the titular Masked Singers face off in
allotted batches, with weekly elimination/unmasking until one remains.
Similar to how the season 1 batch
of contestants were collectively introduced without revealing their identities,
Fox has compiled a collective statistics on the group as a whole, the same with
what the season 2 singers have in the sneak peek. To wit, these 16 new
anonymous participants have, between them: 140 movies (veteran cinematic
actors/actresses), 22 gold records, 20 platinum records, 6 multi-platinum
records, 31 Billboard #1 singles, 10 Grammy Awards (all for hit music artists),
19 Emmy Awards (TV personalities), 7 Super Bowl appearances (NFL players again),
5 Hall of Famers (can be of any possible sport), 15 marriages, and 8 divorces (now
digging into their personal lives).
One surprise draw for viewers of “The
Masked Singer” last time has been the impressive costuming used to disguise the
contestants. It can be said that the costume department for the show more than
earned their pay, as the season 2 singers include: a Black Widow (spider, not
Marvel superhero), a Butterfly, an Eagle, an Egg(head), a Flamingo, a Flower, a
Fox, an Ice Cream(head), a Lady Bug, a Leopard, a Panda, a Penguin, a
Rottweiler (specific dog breed), a Skeleton, a Thingamajig (he got specific
focus on the trailer above) and finally a Tree.
Season 2 of “The Masked Singer” begins
next week on Wednesday, September 25 at Fox.
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