ITV Masked Singer fans believe pop icon is behind Snail costume after fresh accent clue

The Masked Singer fans are convinced they person worked retired the individuality of 1 character

The Masked Singer's latest occurrence had viewers connected the borderline of their seats arsenic a large caller hint led them to judge they've cracked the individuality of 1 of the contestants.

This week the amusement had a superhero theme, with the judges, Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Maya Jama, Jonathan Ross each dressing up arsenic fictional characters, joined by impermanent judge, Olympian Tom Daley.

The formed of concealed characters connected signifier successful Saturday's occurrence (January 18) included Tattoo, Snail, Kingfisher, Teeth, and Dressed Crab. While their identities remained a secret, viewers picked up connected a portion of Snail's dependable that led them to judge it belonged to a Girls Aloud star, reports the Express.

Over connected X, 1 armchair detective declared: "Sounds similar there's a Irish twang... going with Nadine Coyle." Echoing the sentiment, different penned: "#Maskedsinger snail decidedly sounded Irish!"

A 3rd hint collector hypothesised: "Snail = Nadine Coyle disguising her tone? Dreams that glitter. Can't talk French."

Convinced of a miss set origin, idiosyncratic other pronounced: "Snail is decidedly a subordinate of Girls Aloud! #TheMaskedSinger." While different instrumentality surmised: "I similar the Nadine Coyle guess, deffo disguising her dependable though."

Throughout the instalment, Snail dished retired immoderate cardinal clues that acceptable the judges and home-audience tongues wagging with theories.

In a revealing moment, Snail expressed: "I've been schooled successful the champion way," starring the Olympic champ Tom to speculate: "Girls Aloud, didn't they execute successful St Trinians?"

Davina noted that the contestant was clutching a cross-stitch bearing the operation "Je t'aime," prompting Tom to speculate they mightiness beryllium "French speaking," oregon "lives successful France."

This reflection sent fans into a frenzy, suggesting it hinted astatine Nadine Coyle from Girls Aloud, who famously released the smash deed Can't Speak French backmost successful 2007. The guessing crippled didn't halt there, with names similar Leona Lewis, Darcey Bussell, Paris Hilton, and Amanda Seyfried thrown into the premix by Jonathan and others.

So acold connected the show, the celebrities that person been unmasked see Spag Bol, who was revealed arsenic Good Britain big Kata Garraway; Pegasus who was Great British Bake Off justice Prue Leith; Toad successful the Hole who was Macy Gray and astir precocious Tattoo, who was revealed to beryllium the vocalist Carol Decker.

The Masked Singer airs Saturday nights connected ITV1 from 7pm