Masked Singer UK star’s ‘heaviest’ costume weighs the same as two bowling balls

The Masked Singer UK’s costume decorator has revealed which vocalist has the heaviest costume, admitting that he’s amazed that they haven’t collapsed connected stage.

There are presently 5 celebrities near connected this year’s bid of the ITV amusement – Bear, Bush, Dressed Crab, Pufferfish and Wolf.

Dressed Crab has been 1 of the standout performers since the beginning, antecedently astounding the assemblage with renditions of Lean On Me, Let’s Groove and Are You Gonna Go My Way.

During a caller speech with Metro, costume decorator Tim Simpson, who’s the originative manager of Plunge Creations, spoke successful further item astir the crustacean’s costume, which boasts ornate reddish ruffles from apical to bottommost successful a flamenco dress-style.

Tim confirmed that the quality has the ‘heaviest’ of each of the costumes connected this year’s series, weighing an awesome 14kg.

For reference, that’s astir the equivalent of a medium-sized dog, respective gallons of milk, oregon 2 hefty bowling balls.

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‘I would accidental Dressed Crab is the heaviest. It’s got a immense crinoline, which fundamentally comes up to your chest, which is simply a reasonably excessive tallness for a crinoline framework to travel up to,’ helium shared.

‘It’s a large hoop frame, and past there’s tons and tons and tons of cloth successful it. So yeah, I deliberation Crab needs rather a spot of spot from the performer.
‘Even conscionable the pincers with their movement, that’s a big, dense happening to person connected the extremity of your arm.’

Haven’t not known which personage was hidden successful Dressed Crab’s costume erstwhile it was being made, Tim added that whoever was nether the disguise was ‘giving it a batch of vigor successful bid to some execute successful it, sing successful it and not illness connected stage’.

‘None of them illness connected stage, I’m ever amazed,’ helium said.

‘We inactive haven’t had a constituent wherever somebody’s really turned astir and gone, “I’m going to drop,”, due to the fact that they’re blistery and they’re restrictive and they’re weird and they’re claustrophobic and yet, the performers conscionable worker on.’

In 2023, Tim revealed to Metro that Knitting – who turned retired to beryllium Steps vocalist Claire Richards – boasted the heaviest costume of the year.

‘It’s astir apt bordering connected astir 20 kilos. It’s a dense thing. I deliberation Knitting was the heaviest,’ the costume decorator said astatine the time.

On apical of the weight, Tim revealed that conscionable nether 350 metres of wool was utilized to make Knitting.

The erstwhile series, the dense Robobunny was ‘quite a formidable happening for the performer to wear’, aka Westlife’s Mark Feehily.

‘They’re not lone dealing with a truly large costume, wherever they tin lone spot retired past a bunny rabbit’s ears, they’re besides trying to marque definite that bunny rabbit comes live and sings,’ Tim said, aft explaining the puppet mechanics of the rabbit’s rima moving during performances.

‘So I deliberation Robobunny has the toughest telephone successful the costumes overall. And they’re conscionable perfectly rocking it.’

The Masked Singer UK airs connected Saturday nights astatine 7pm connected ITV1 and ITVX.

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