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shallownessOllie Murs and Jennifer Saunders were stand-ins for Rita, and Ellie Goulding, Lenny ‘Blob’ Kelly, Lorraine ‘Owl’ Kelly and Rob Brydon joined the regular panel, but none of them turned out to be amazing guessers, and I think there’s a case for a full-time replacement for Rita. At the least, someone should ban her from saying ‘this is the best voice we’ve ever had on The Masked Singer.’
From the third episode on, it was simply a question of whether Cricket was Lemar or Simon off Blue (there was one week where the clues suggested the latter, but he always sounded most like Lemar.) Nonetheless, I thought he consistently produced the most interesting interpretations of songs and sang with the most variety.
I soon figured out that Bigfoot wasn’t who I thought it was. Credit to Mo, he started guessing he was Alex Brooker in episode 5, which I accepted was the case by the next episode, by which point I was fed up with the studio audience who kept voting him through. Yeah, yeah, some of them were kids, he had a cute face, but they ditched professional singers for him.
There was a recurring discussion about Dippy Egg’s calves. I assumed he was Scottish after he sang ‘500 Miles’, and forgot about it the next episode. His take on ‘Moon River’ was rather affecting. Air Fryer started singing well, I liked her ‘The Final Countdown’, and once she sang ‘The Lonely Goatherd’ it was clear she was musical royalty, backed up by her ‘Let It Go’. I enjoyed Eiffel Tower’s Kylieish take on ‘Flowers’, and really enjoyed her ‘Paradise City.’ Piranha was probably the stand-out singer all series for me, but I welcomed him rocking out for a change, with a still great vocal, on ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’, with a band of other sea creatures, named Hake That. Oh, show. He killed his ballads in the semi.
Basically, I was terrible at guessing, but so was everyone else. Most of the reveals were shocks. I felt a bit bad for not getting the Press Gang clues for Julia ‘Lynda Day’ Sawalha, but Jennifer Saunders played her mother for years. She also worked with Keala Settle – I’d glomped on to the guess that Air Fryer was Cynthia Errivo. Davina failed to recognise Nicky Campbell, despite co-presenting a show with him and knowing him for years. The panel nearly went through all the Pussycat Dolls but failed to guess who Maypole was. Jonathan had mentioned Tiffany, but guessed wrongly that Eiffel Tower was Debbie Gibson at the last. I thought it was it’s a shame they demanded she sang ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’, classic though it is, when she was unmasked because she’d been demonstrating her range and that she should be more than a one-hit wonder all series. So, the final would be all male.
Cricket opened up the final proper and despite the costumed ‘orchestra’ this was one of his most boring vocals until he broke out the falsetto and gave us the dramatic ending. To prove it’s David Tennant weekend, he ‘read a story about Cricket’ (and the other two) that was a clue. Respect to ‘Bigfoot for the song choice: ‘I Am The One And Only’. Piranha’s clue package strongly suggested he was in a band (I didn’t think it was necessarily a boy band). He went for it vocally, but I frankly found it overwrought. The panel seemed to be guessing Tom Brennan (and I was unsure of who exactly he is.)
Next round: Cricket was duetting with Charlotte ‘Mushroom’ Church and their voices blended well enough. Like all the singers who have guested on the show, she guessed he was Lemar. Bigfoot and Ricky ‘Phoenix’ Wilson performed ‘Dancing on the Ceiling’, and I was reminded of how much I’d enjoyed Pheonix. Lastly, Piranha and Natalie ‘Fawn’ Appleton sang ‘Love After Love’ as a ballad and somehow made the lyrics work as a declaration of love. Certainly my favourite performance of the finale at that point.
First results and Piranha was safe, as was Bigfoot (SERIOUSLY!?) And so, it was confirmed that Cricket was Lemar, reprising with a ‘Bigfoot, can you reach THIS note?’
Bigfoot reprised his ‘You’re Welcome’, and I remembered the journey we’d gone on to agree with Mo that it was Alex Brooker. Piranha reprised ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me’, with some bizarrely beautiful underwater staging, and well, you can’t go too overwrought on that song, but he sang it well. Another highlight of the final.
Second set of results and OH THANK GOODNESS they picked the proper singer. Bigfoot was indeed Alex Brooker, who’d been doing it for his kids a little, and who acknowledged how silly it would have been if he’d won. Complete disagreement from the panel about who Piranha was, with Jonathan not even trying to guess.
And it was Danny Jones, who Davina had mentioned once, and he looked chuffed to bits, and said that thanks to the show he’d found out he could sing a whole tone higher than he thought. And better than he and we knew, I’d wager. Presumably they’d booked him after some guesses that he was Rhino last year. Second man to win, and in a year where, famously, so many (more important) votes are happening, right call – I always thought he was the best singer, although I could never work out who he was. The big take out is that it’s good to know the show can still surprise us, I suppose.
From the third episode on, it was simply a question of whether Cricket was Lemar or Simon off Blue (there was one week where the clues suggested the latter, but he always sounded most like Lemar.) Nonetheless, I thought he consistently produced the most interesting interpretations of songs and sang with the most variety.
I soon figured out that Bigfoot wasn’t who I thought it was. Credit to Mo, he started guessing he was Alex Brooker in episode 5, which I accepted was the case by the next episode, by which point I was fed up with the studio audience who kept voting him through. Yeah, yeah, some of them were kids, he had a cute face, but they ditched professional singers for him.
There was a recurring discussion about Dippy Egg’s calves. I assumed he was Scottish after he sang ‘500 Miles’, and forgot about it the next episode. His take on ‘Moon River’ was rather affecting. Air Fryer started singing well, I liked her ‘The Final Countdown’, and once she sang ‘The Lonely Goatherd’ it was clear she was musical royalty, backed up by her ‘Let It Go’. I enjoyed Eiffel Tower’s Kylieish take on ‘Flowers’, and really enjoyed her ‘Paradise City.’ Piranha was probably the stand-out singer all series for me, but I welcomed him rocking out for a change, with a still great vocal, on ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’, with a band of other sea creatures, named Hake That. Oh, show. He killed his ballads in the semi.
Basically, I was terrible at guessing, but so was everyone else. Most of the reveals were shocks. I felt a bit bad for not getting the Press Gang clues for Julia ‘Lynda Day’ Sawalha, but Jennifer Saunders played her mother for years. She also worked with Keala Settle – I’d glomped on to the guess that Air Fryer was Cynthia Errivo. Davina failed to recognise Nicky Campbell, despite co-presenting a show with him and knowing him for years. The panel nearly went through all the Pussycat Dolls but failed to guess who Maypole was. Jonathan had mentioned Tiffany, but guessed wrongly that Eiffel Tower was Debbie Gibson at the last. I thought it was it’s a shame they demanded she sang ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’, classic though it is, when she was unmasked because she’d been demonstrating her range and that she should be more than a one-hit wonder all series. So, the final would be all male.
Cricket opened up the final proper and despite the costumed ‘orchestra’ this was one of his most boring vocals until he broke out the falsetto and gave us the dramatic ending. To prove it’s David Tennant weekend, he ‘read a story about Cricket’ (and the other two) that was a clue. Respect to ‘Bigfoot for the song choice: ‘I Am The One And Only’. Piranha’s clue package strongly suggested he was in a band (I didn’t think it was necessarily a boy band). He went for it vocally, but I frankly found it overwrought. The panel seemed to be guessing Tom Brennan (and I was unsure of who exactly he is.)
Next round: Cricket was duetting with Charlotte ‘Mushroom’ Church and their voices blended well enough. Like all the singers who have guested on the show, she guessed he was Lemar. Bigfoot and Ricky ‘Phoenix’ Wilson performed ‘Dancing on the Ceiling’, and I was reminded of how much I’d enjoyed Pheonix. Lastly, Piranha and Natalie ‘Fawn’ Appleton sang ‘Love After Love’ as a ballad and somehow made the lyrics work as a declaration of love. Certainly my favourite performance of the finale at that point.
First results and Piranha was safe, as was Bigfoot (SERIOUSLY!?) And so, it was confirmed that Cricket was Lemar, reprising with a ‘Bigfoot, can you reach THIS note?’
Bigfoot reprised his ‘You’re Welcome’, and I remembered the journey we’d gone on to agree with Mo that it was Alex Brooker. Piranha reprised ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me’, with some bizarrely beautiful underwater staging, and well, you can’t go too overwrought on that song, but he sang it well. Another highlight of the final.
Second set of results and OH THANK GOODNESS they picked the proper singer. Bigfoot was indeed Alex Brooker, who’d been doing it for his kids a little, and who acknowledged how silly it would have been if he’d won. Complete disagreement from the panel about who Piranha was, with Jonathan not even trying to guess.
And it was Danny Jones, who Davina had mentioned once, and he looked chuffed to bits, and said that thanks to the show he’d found out he could sing a whole tone higher than he thought. And better than he and we knew, I’d wager. Presumably they’d booked him after some guesses that he was Rhino last year. Second man to win, and in a year where, famously, so many (more important) votes are happening, right call – I always thought he was the best singer, although I could never work out who he was. The big take out is that it’s good to know the show can still surprise us, I suppose.
