Warning: This article contains spoilers about Wednesday’s episode ofThe Masked Singer.
The Giraffe is headed back to the savannah.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why did you want to doThe Masked Singer?
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[Laughs] We’d all been sitting at home.
Every industry was shut down.
Just to give them something new and fresh to watch that’s entertaining and that’s fun.
And I think that’s exactly what the show delivers.
Did you watch the show before you signed on to do it?
I’m not a huge TV watcher, but I had seen it a few times.
It’s a really fun show.
Did your kids know you were doing the show?
And they fell asleep.
It was like 8:15.
And they were literally completely sound asleep.
I took a picture of it.
It’s pretty funny.
I’ll post it once the show airs and people know that it was me.
I doubt it, but I’ll try.
How much say did you have in the Giraffe costume?
I had final say.
Early on, they asked me if I had any ideas for a costume.
And I said, “You know what?
That’s not what I do.
And they came back with two.
Just for me, it didn’t give me as much freedom as the Giraffe.
The Giraffe was this really interesting character.
He’s super-Victorian, but he’s also a giraffe.
Nobody saw that one coming, I don’t think.
I sure didn’t.
What was the process like in choosing your songs?
It was really fun.
So if you stay that long, you do those songs.
I thought it was really fitting with a giraffe costume and the Victorian theme and all of that.
So their process is, you pick a song, and then you work with their vocal coach.
And the vocal coach, Tim, and I, we had to do most everything over Zoom.
That was the goal.
And I feel like that’s been accomplished with both songs.
At one point the panelists thought you were yourBeverly Hills,90210costarJason Priestley.
Did you think they were going to guess you when they got there?
They know who I am.
That’s great.”
And then they just completely went off course, and they couldn’t right the ship at all.
Fans thought maybe you were Fred Durst or Vanilla Ice or someone fromHamilton.
Did you keep up with the fan theories?
They get hooked on an idea of who they think it is.
I grew up with Robin Thicke, so that makes total sense.
Are you going to give Robin a hard time for not guessing you?
That’s the first thing I do.
And no disrespect to him, because he’s a super-nice guy, but he sucks at this.
He knows the way that I speak, and the timbre of my voice.
For three years, we were best friends we were at each other’s house every day.
Ben Seaver was our manager or some crazy thing like that.
He knows me really well.
He’s going to know who I am."
And then he just went way off course.
Come on, man, you were on the right path.What do you mean how I walk?
I’m not limited by anything.
Does you doing the show mean that you’re thinking of reviving your own music career?
Would you consider that?
No, I’m way too old.
I would hurt myself.
[Laughs] I have no aspirations of becoming an artist again.
That ship has sailed.
