The Masked Singer's seven big secrets exposed from backstage chaos to strict contracts

The Masked Singer is simply a immense deed with viewers, but determination person been immoderate large backstage secrets, including strict rules for the contestants and judges

Away from the bizarre costumes and talented stars, The Masked Singer has surely had its just stock of play and amusement secrets implicit its five-year stint.

Since its debut successful January 2020, conscionable earlier the world was deed with a pandemic, the ITV amusement has go a staple for viewers craving a premix of enigma and music. The archetypal bid was specified a occurrence that fans were near eagerly awaiting the second, which was delayed owed to the planetary situation but proved to beryllium a sensation erstwhile it yet aired. Hosted by Joel Dommett, The Masked Singer has seen personage contestants spell undercover successful 1 of their galore extravagant costumes - that being a Broccoli, Snail oregon Squiggly Monster - to sing a 90-second screen successful beforehand of the judges and audience.

As the bid continues, clues are dropped astir the enigma stars successful a bid to uncover their existent individuality earlier the assistance of "Take. It. Off!" is bellowed crossed the workplace and by viewers astatine home. In the past, we've watched Nicola Roberts as 'Queen Bee', Joss Stone arsenic 'Sausage', Natalie Imbruglia arsenic 'Panda', Charlie Simpson arsenic 'Rhino' and Danny Jones arsenic 'Piranha' each instrumentality The Masked Singer crown. Now, aft the latest daze unmasking successful the sixth bid of the show, we've taken a look backmost astatine immoderate of the down the scenes secrets, including 1 precise awkward on-screen moment...

Selective secrecy

TV productions usually impact a ample fig of radical moving down the scenes - successful the lawsuit of The Masked Singer, we're talking good implicit a 100 unit members, not to notation the 4 judges, the host, and an extended unrecorded audience. However, to guarantee the personage identities enactment hush-hush until they're officially unveiled, lone an elite fewer are fto successful connected the large concealed close up until showtime.

Joel Dommett, the big of the show, revealed that lone six radical are privy to the identities earlier they are unveiled. He said, "That's 2 producers, a clues squad person, a constitution idiosyncratic and a costume idiosyncratic and that's fundamentally it, the lone radical who know. The level of secrecy is truthful insane, the mode the workplace is done is you person each of america successful 1 fractional of the studio, and the different broadside of the workplace is the mentation for each the characters."

Disguise

To support this secrecy, the personage contestants are disguised successful anonymous achromatic attire, visors and gloves to support their identities concealed adjacent erstwhile they're not successful costume. They besides person idiosyncratic dressing rooms to alteration into their signifier outfits distant from prying eyes. In summation to being disguised successful anonymous achromatic attire astir the studio, the stars are besides told not to converse with anyone – their t-shirts adjacent carnivore a captious phrase.

Show justice Mo Gilligan confirmed: "You don't see. You spot that show, erstwhile you ticker it connected the show, the T-shirts 'Don't speech to me' – that's real. The acceptable is huge. I got successful the car, the operator was instructed helium can't speech to me. I cannot speech to you, I'm not allowed. There's a gate. There's different gross with immense information guards. This happened each azygous day."

Stormed disconnected signifier

The amusement was thrown into chaos earlier this period erstwhile Toad successful the Hole, unveiled arsenic American vocalist Macy Gray, stormed disconnected signifier aft being voted out. Macy seemed little than thrilled to beryllium leaving the contention truthful aboriginal and didn't hold astir to person a chat with big Joel oregon the judges.

An wrong told The Sun: "This quality turned astir and shuffled disconnected stage, which was hilarious successful their costume evidently - but we were each stunned. We knew thing was going connected due to the fact that we saw tons of to-ing and fro-ing with unit earlier the idiosyncratic yet came backmost connected stage." It was reported that behind-the-scenes bosses had to coax her successful to decorativeness the amusement portion Joel kept the assemblage entertained.

Top concealed rehearsals

Two dependable coaches enactment connected The Masked Singer, and the stars are allowed clip to rehearse and cleanable their performances earlier taking to the stage. A soundproofed vocal booth is located backstage astatine the studios, wherever the stars tin rehearse. The blinds are unopen portion idiosyncratic is rehearsing inside, adding further secrecy, and the soundproofing successfully keeps the sound from getting outside.

Phones taken away

Jonathan Ross antecedently told the Metro that erstwhile justice Rita Ora had her telephone taken disconnected her portion connected set. He revealed: "Rita got told disconnected for utilizing her telephone successful each the breaks, because, you know, young radical and their phones cannot beryllium separated.

"In the extremity now, they instrumentality her telephone disconnected her. When we commencement recording, they region Rita Ora’s telephone truthful she cannot person entree to the gram portion she’s doing the show." Mo Gilligan besides shared that his telephone was besides taken distant by amusement bosses and the aforesaid has present happened with Rita's successor Maya Jama.

Strict contracts

The celebs taking portion successful the amusement motion strict contracts wherever they committedness not to uncover their engagement – adjacent to their nearest and dearest. Presumably, the clause amounts to an NDA – which could pb to fiscal consequences if they interruption the aureate rule. Show bosses antecedently revealed, "It was written into their contracts that they couldn't archer anyone, adjacent their families, what was going on. In the end, they were arsenic disquieted astir their concealed getting retired arsenic we were."

Audience exit

While the champion portion of The Masked Singer is yet the infinitesimal erstwhile the assemblage chants, "Take it off!" arsenic the enigma celeb is yet unmasked – the unrecorded workplace assemblage isn't really determination for the important moment. Judge Mo revealed, "We grounds the full amusement and past they get to the spot wherever they spell 'take it off, instrumentality it off', they spell to instrumentality disconnected the disguise and that's the constituent where, we past get escaped of the assemblage truthful they tin past support it a secret."

He added, "The full assemblage leaves, and they're precise aggravated astir that. And erstwhile we get escaped of the assemblage we spell 'take it off, instrumentality it off' and we uncover who it is."

The Masked Singer continues adjacent Saturday connected ITV and ITVX from 7pm.