The third season of “The Masked Singer” will premiere after Super Bowl LIV, and now we know what characters to expect on the show.
What’s going on: Fox will premiere the third season of “The Masked Singer” two months after the end of its second season, which wrapped up in December 2019, according to E! News.
- Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke, Nicole Scherzinger, Jenny McCarthy and host Nick Cannon will all return.
- Jamie Foxx will be a guest judge in the premiere episode.
- Season 3 will have 18 contestants.
- Bigger celebrity names are expected for this third season, according to E! News.
What they’re saying: “The Masked Singer” show-runner Izzie Pick Ibarra touted the show’s new cast in an interview with Variety.
- Ibarra: “We’ve got some really good, big names. And we’ve got a real variety of people, which is fantastic. We have a wish list. We do our research for who might be interesting for the show, so the way we cast is mixture of things that we look for — we look for people who have amazing stories that can drive that person’s narrative throughout their singing on the show, and then there are people who are very much in the zeitgeist.”
New characters: So what new characters will you see? Here is a list of characters who have been revealed so far:
- Miss Monster
- The White Tiger
- The Robot
- The Llama
- The Turtle
- The Banana
- The Kangaroo
- The Frog
- The Astronaut
Previous winners: T-Pain won the first season, defeating Gladys Knight and Donny Osmond in the finals. Wayne Brady won the show’s second season, defeating Chris Daughtry, Victor Oladipo, Fortnite gamer Ninja and several more.