The Masked Singer UK is again which implies it’s time to get your notepads and pens out as we focus on clues and theories.
Judges Davina McCall, Mo Gilligan, Jonathan Ross, and Rita Ora all return for the nation’s favorite loopy guessing recreation, with costumes extra elaborate than ever and the voices even tougher to differentiate.
Dippy Egg particularly has obtained everybody scratching their head, with names equivalent to Matt Lucas and even Matt Hancock thrown into the combo by the panel.
Following their first efficiency of Daydream Believer By The Monkees, viewers set to work deciphering the hints, which included references to being an animal lover, having musical expertise, and even having labored on a farm.
Let’s take a deep dive into all of the clues and the judges’ predictions up to now for who could possibly be behind Dippy Egg’s masks…
What clues are there for Dippy Egg’s identification?
- Dippy Egg knowledgeable viewers that they’re ‘exhausting on the skin, however tender within the center’
- On a lunch menu proven within the clue package deal, the dessert ‘cake’ was circled, so may this be somebody from The Nice British Bake Off?
- The celeb was proven on a farm, resulting in suspicions that maybe they’ve a farm or work on a farm in actual life.
- They mentioned that they work with animals, as collectible figurines of creatures, together with a giraffe, rhinoceros, lion, elephant, and hippopotamus perched on high of a pile of greens.
- Whereas Dippy Egg was filmed singing right into a microphone, the cable was unplugged – maybe they’re an acoustic musician?
- They talked about West Aspect Story, so they might have a background in musical theatre.
- They gave a riddle to the panel, which was: ‘I’ve simply carried out subsequently I’m frazzled, nevertheless it’s not the primary time that I’ve achieved dazzled.’
Who may Dippy Egg on The Masked Singer be?
Matt Lucas
Choose Mo Gilligan reckons Matt Lucas could possibly be behind the masks.
With a track about meals taking part in, their food-related costume, and references to GBBO choose Dame Prue Leith, it’s not completely unattainable…
The judges have been additionally fairly sure that the celeb behind Dippy Egg isn’t a skilled vocal expertise.
Matt, 49, can be greatest recognized to viewers as an actor comic, author, and presenter.
He rose to prominence alongside David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy sequence Little Britain and Come Fly with Me.
Gregg Wallace
With loads of references to meals, it’s comprehensible why Jonathan Ross reckons Dippy Egg could possibly be Gregg Wallace.
Jonathan Ross additionally jokingly identified that the MasterChef star, 59, ‘seems to be a bit like an egg’ because of his bald head.
Then once more, Jonathan additionally mocked how Dippy Egg could possibly be a ‘politician who mentioned a scotch egg was a considerable meal’, referring to Matt Hancock.
TV persona Gregg is greatest recognized for co-presenting MasterChef, Celeb MasterChef, and MasterChef: The Professionals, alongside celeb chef John Torode.
Jimmy Doherty
Final yr’s winner Charlie Simpson – who carried out as Rhino – reckoned Jimmy Doherty could possibly be Dippy Egg, as he joined the panel for a visitor stint filling in for Rita Ora throughout this yr’s launch.
His causes? Effectively, the chef has a music pageant that he’s performed at earlier than, and he’s mates with Jamie Oliver.
It appears all of the clues are pointing within the route of cookery…
Jimmy, 48, is a TV presenter and farmer, therefore the connection given the clues about farming expertise.
He’s recognized for the present Jimmy’s Farm, detailing the operation of the Essex Pig Firm that he and his spouse Michaela Furney personal in Suffolk.
The Masked Singer continues on Saturday at 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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