Final three celebs revealed in The Masked Singer’s 2023 season finale

An Aussie-born, international pop icon was among the final three contestants revealed in The Masked Singer finale. WARNING: Spoilers.

WARNING: Spoilers.

The final three celebrities of the season were unmasked during Tuesday’s grand finale of The Masked Singer, 2023.

And the winner of the season is …

The Snow Fox! Aka... Dami Im

Snow Fox. Picture: Ten

It's X Factor and Eurovision star Dami Im.

Snow Fox has provided many of this season’s biggest diva moments with her powerhouse vocals, and she was rewarded with the season win on Tuesday night.

Underneath the mask, she’s Dami Im, the South Korea-born Australian singer who shot to fame in 2013 when she won the fifth season of The X Factor Australia.

Three years later, she took her talents to the world stage when she delivered Australia its best result to date at the Eurovision Song Contest: Placing second with her soaring ballad Sound of Silence. Since then, she’s released several more albums, toured extensively and written a memoir.

Im continues Masked Singer Australia’s love of giving female pop singers the win: After Cody Simpson took out the win for the show’s first season, the next winners have been Aussie singer Bonnie Anderson, noughties icon Anastacia and former Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton.

Coming second, Grim Reaper is … Darren Hayes

Grim Reaper … Picture: Ten

It's Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes!

The Masked Singer’s worst-kept secret is finally out. As the voice of some of the most enduring Aussie pop songs of the past 30 years, Hayes was recognisable from the very first note to a lot of viewers, among them legions of Savage Garden fans.

He also didn’t particularly try to disguise his voice, instead treating viewers to the same distinctive tones they’d heard on hits like Truly, Madly, Deeply and I Want You.

Hayes’ Masked Singer stint comes after he last year returned to the music industry after a 10-year absence, releasing his fifth solo album, Homosexual, and embarking on a national tour.

There were emotional scenes after Hayes’ reveal, when panellist Abbie Chatfield - who’d picked him from the start of the season - wept as she told him how much his Mardi Gras performance of the Savage Garden song Affirmation last year had inspired her in her own coming out process.

Darren Hayes, Aussie pop legend. Photo: James Reese

Hayes wept too as he revealed his own long path to accepting his sexuality.

“I was signed to a record company that hated that I was gay, and it was a desperate plea to be loved,” he said of the 1999 single, which included the controversial lyric “I believe you can’t control or choose your sexuality.”

“I used to hate myself because I was gay. I performed at Mardi Gras twice, and the first time I performed at Mardi Gras, I hated who I was,” he confessed.

In third place, Bouncer is … Conrad Sewell

Bouncer. Picture: Ten

It's Aussie singer Conrad Sewell.

Another contestant who fans of the singer could pick early on in the season, Aussie singer Sewell is best known for his vocals on Kygo’s hit Firestone and his own number-one single Start Again. His biggest Aussie hit, Healing Hands, went three-times platinum.

Meanwhile, the contestant who placed fourth this season, Courtney Act, confessed to news.com.au last week that she’d had some teething problems getting used to being The Masked Singer’s Cowgirl.

X Factor winner, Eurovision runner-up and now Masked Singer winner Dami Im. Picture: Steve Pohlner

She said that she returned to her dressing room deflated after her first performance of the season, feeling “like a brooding teenager.”

“I was so grumpy, because I love performing and I love being on stage. And I thought: This takes all the fun out of it, all the fun things I love about performing. The costume’s very heavy, it’s very hard,” she revealed.

Courtney Act says she took a while to warm up …

… while Brendan Fevola's costume needed a hasty rethink.

And another contestant unmasked last week, one-episode wonder Brendan Fevola, revealed that his “Captain” character was actually a hasty pivot after a real-life tragedy forced some big changes behind the scenes.

His costume and them was originally meant to be “Titanic,” but the show filmed shortly after the June submersible tragedy that saw five people die while attempting to visit the Titanic shipwreck.

“They had to change everything, change my name, change everything. The sub exploded and all those people died … it was awful. I didn’t think I was going to be able to do it,” Fevola revealed on Melbourne’s 101.9 The Fox’s breakfast show, Fifi, Fev & Nick.

Here’s the full list of celebs revealed earlier in this season:

Episode one: Former Beverly Hills, 90210 actor Brian Austin Green

Episode two: Ten newsreader Sandra Sully

Episode three: Summer Warne, daughter of late cricketing legend Shane

Episode four: The Block judge Shaynna Blaze

Episode five: UK Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby

Episode six: Aussie singer-songwriter Pete Murray

Episode seven: LaToya Jackson

Episode eight: Amy Sheppard, singer in Aussie band Sheppard

Episode nine: Former AFL player Brendan Fevola

Episode 10: Drag legend Courtney Act

Originally published as Final three celebs revealed in The Masked Singer’s 2023 season finale