Masked Singer 2025: Starts Saturday 4th Jan

[WhoseThatBehindTheFlask]

I'm not saying I'm keen but I could see a thread for this year so thought I'd get one started.

Anyone watch the Xmas special? I found it too hard to guess who was under the mask just based on one or two songs...

Unless you’re Will Young. Or Lenny Henry.

Guess so, the January tax bills loom large all year round , so a bit of extra for messing about in a big costume might appeal.
Plus it's a very popular show.

Or Morten Harket singing one of your own songs 🤣

Yes, just to make it even more difficult! Because I’m totally convinced Wolf is an 80s singer, I’d like to also chuck Martin Fry into the mix - a very distinctive voice, I think, hopefully he’ll slip up!

I think Bear is singing down - feel like I can hear a hint of Gaston but I do need to listen again so may be completely off.

Also Bush sounds like Natalie Cassidy to me.

Where is Rita Ora? Has she finished for good?

I’d assumed Rita was going to be one of the contestants as unless I’ve missed it they haven’t mentioned her at all. But I didn’t “hear” her in any of them so maybe not.

I’m not a fan of the new permanent judge or the guest judges

Billy Idol will swagger off this mortal coil. He doesn't know how to not swagger. Would he do this programme though?!

And I would bet my house that Paul Weller will never be on this programme.

I thought the bishop's mitre thing looked more like a young Egyptian pharaoh 😆.

I think Maya Jama is good so far. She's really getting into it and properly looking at the clues etc. Any daft guesses, she knows are daft. Rita Ora didn't.

This is always the question, isn't it?

If someone is free, thinks it could be fun, or a nicely timed publicity boost, then I guess a lot would say "why not?"

He's doing at least one UK music festival next summer. Likely has new music coming out, too.

And I'd just convinced myself it was Paul Weller..

What I’ve noticed is she will often say “From the clues I initially thought…” and then she doesn’t get the chance to say that she realised it wasn’t when they started singing, as everyone cuts her off there and then to jeer at the ridiculous answer.

Wolf 100% Marti!!! The way he moves and his voice. Hope its him. Though I'd be even more delighted for it to be Billy Idol and especially Jason Donovan!!

If it's Paul Weller, we will start getting Jam and Style Council refs and possibly cycling as they cycled in a video and Sir Bradley adores PW.

I mean, I must say it sounds like him and moves like him.

Wolf is definitely MP! Like I say, I know that voice, it's him!

I can hear Marti now people have said it

Its definitely not Paul Weller! I'm a massive fan, and its not his voice.. plus hes skinny and Wolf has chunkyish legs.

I said not MP, but hes got a tour coming up this year apparently, so...

Massively late to the party, really just peacemaking now. Anita Dobson for Teeth. Will try watch earlier this week!

Never saw him as Frank N Furter eh? 😆

That's a great typo!

Nope, and no desire to either 😆. I still remember him on Strictly boring everyone to death and droning on and on and onnnnnn so much that Monkseal (fantastic blogger at the time) christened him the Donobot. His dancing did nowt for me either.

Marti Pellow has just posted a vid of him singing a David Bowie song

Are we sure that disappearing Rita isn't in one of those costumes? They did Davina at Christmas, and Prue is another perennially guessed sleb, so the producers might be thinking along those lines?

I've just watched that on his ig. I'm totally convinced he's Wolf now!

Is there a link to this that someone not on Instagram can use, please?

I think this should work as you don't need the app to view Instagram. It should just open as a Web page

https://www.instagram.com/martipellowofficial/reel/DEkn1NegB6m/