By this point in time, Fox TV is
absolutely certain that they have a winning potentially long-running program
with “The Masked Singer,” the quirky fun anonymous reality singing competition
where a panel and audience make guesses based on hints dropped by contestants,
and the losers get unmasked. Season2 of the show has been a total blast since
it started in September, but this week the finale played out last Wednesday as
the final three fought for prize. Between Flamingo, Fox and Rottweiler, it
would be great match and guessing game on whether there were any actual
recording artists between them.
As Entertainment Weekly tells
us, it turns out there were indeed actual singers left among the finalists for “The
Masked Singer.” As for whether one of them actually did win, the way rapper
T-Pain triumphed in the inaugural season as “Monster,” the answer would be a
surprising no. With identities left uncovered until the end, the usual panel of
Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Ken Jeong decided to give
it up for Fox, after his final performance of Otis Redding’s “Try a Little
Tenderness.” Flamingo’s go at “Proud Mary” by Tina Turner and Sia’s “Alive” from
Rottweiler were both good with panelists and audience, but Fox simply
dominated.
Flamingo was unmasked first as
second runner-up, and the panel had enough of a handle from her clues to
correctly out her as singer and former Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon (her
cheetah-print for the finale was a clincher). Second runner-up Rottweiler was a
difficult guess however, with not a panelist getting it right that he was Chris
Daughtry, rock star and front-man for his self-named band. With both singers
not being named the winner the last one standing, Fox, triumphantly revealed
himself as actor Wayne Brady, former Fox game show host himself and part of “How
I Met Your Mother”
Brady’s victory is something of a
reassurance that with the element of anonymity, a non-singer celebrity with a
good enough voice can carry the day on “The Masked Singer,” seeing as the panel
were betting on Fox/Brady winning it all since praising his rendition of “Tennessee
Whisky” on Week 8. Perhaps a third season could form a definitive trend on the
chances of victory in this show, with “The Masked Singer” returning to Fox next
year in February 2020, premiering right after Super Bowl LIV.
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