The Masked Singer finale proved us all right
The Robot, The Monster and The Wolf have finally been unmasked after weeks of speculation. Did you guess correctly?
After bursting into our lives in a cloud of shiny suits, daggy dad dancing and pyrotechnics, The Masked Singer Australia season one has come to a close in the most gloriously insane episode yet.
With weeks of wild social media speculation leading up to it, the finale of the popular “who sung it” guessing game proved, once and for all, that the Australian public’s local celebrity knowledge is unmatched, even by some of the industry’s finest.
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The three final slightly-terrifying giant creatures were unmasked to reveal Cody Simpson, Rob “Millsy” Mills and Gorgi Coghlan, the celebrities we’d long suspected while simultaneously chastising Lindsay Lohan and Hughesy for their silly guesses.
Before the finalists gave their performances, the previously umaksed celebs; Gretel Killeen, Brett Lee, Wendell Sailor, Darren McMullen, Adam Brand, Kate Ceberano, Nikki Webster, Paulini and Deni Hynes united for a group performance.
The Wolf was up first with a rocky rendition of The Beatles’ hit Come Together, prompting Jackie to correctly lock in Rob Mills, Hughesy trying his best with a guess of Jason Donovan, Dannii with Stefan Dennis, and Lindsay with Hugh Jackman.
The Monster made the judges emotional — yet again — with Pink’s What About Us, one of many ballads she’d belted out throughout the season.
Jackie O hit the nail on the head with Gorgi, Hughesy locked in Kasey Chambers, while Lindsay opted for Isla Fisher, and Dannii — who had remained the guessing pro up until the finale — gave Lisa McCune a shot.
Upping the tempo with Lady Gaga’s The Edge of Glory, this year’s winner The Robot gave a rambunctious performance securing Lindsay’s first correct guess of the season.
“It’s Cody Simpson,” she knowingly said, before awkwardly telling a still-masked Simpson: “I want my furniture back because I bought your furniture for your house in Venice.”
Simpson had dated her sister Ali Lohan briefly last year.
Meanwhile, Jackie O and Dannii were certain it was Niall from One Direction, while Hughesy thought it was Ashton Irwin from Five Seconds of Summer.
While Monday and Tuesday nights are, for now, over as we know them, we can live through the madness all over again next year, with the program confirmed for a second season.
Lindsay Lohan is even secured for another stint the judging panel, Channel 10’s chief content officer told news.com.au earlier this month amid rumours she wouldn’t be returning.
“Despite what you may have read, we will have exactly the same judging line-up and exactly the same host,” Beverley McGarvey said.
“We’re thrilled that they’re all coming back and you know how these things work, the more that people get familiar with each other and familiar with everything it just gets better and better because they get more comfortable. The potential upside for us next year is really exciting.”
McGarvey also told news.com.au the masked singers would be of a similar level of fame in season two.
“The calibre of people we’ve got this year is probably where we’ll go,” she said. “We spent a bit of time looking at the Fox version and talking to our colleagues in other markets and really what is important is when the masks come off, that you are impressed by something. Either you have to go, ‘Wow, I didn’t think that person would do that’, or, ‘I didn’t know they could sing’.
“Having watched, for example, a super, super famous person who can’t sing, it’s kinda just annoying because someone singing badly in an outfit is really just someone singing badly.
“I think that the ambition for us next year would be to cast it differently so that we were surprising people in different ways and that might be that some of them are more famous or some of them are from completely different industries.”
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