

When it came to their costumes, both loved the results, though each presented their challenges. I think you would do great on it.’ I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, if you only knew. In fact, his costar Leslie Jordan was a guest panelist - not for one of Jackson’s episodes - and “after he did it, he came up to me and said, ‘you should definitely do The Masked Singer.

Robin Thicke actually guest starred on Call Me Kat this season, but they weren’t able to speak about Jackson’s time on The Masked Singer - filmed before it - because “we had to be so stealth about it.” Only a handful of producers and Mayim Bialik knew he was doing the singing competition. Meanwhile, Scherzinger did guess Jackson in the end, and he’d actually been hoping that someone would figure him out “for my ego,” he admits, “but it would make sense they didn’t just because I’m not primarily known as a singer first, but once they started getting closer and closer and naming all of my peers and my real-life friends - Ben Platt and Matt Bomer and stuff - I was like, ‘You’re very close!’ I could tell Nicole was circling.” And her Goldbergs castmates didn’t guess, either, she shares. “Thankfully they did not figure it out,” she adds. She’d also expected Nicole Scherzinger to maybe know since the panelist had been a judge on the X Factor season she’d been on and brought up a former contestant from that show, but it was Zara Larsson. The identity of Ringmaster was one that fooled all the panelists, even though Ken Jeong seemed to be getting close with his “Hailee … Steinfeld” guess.
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TV Insider spoke with Orrantia and Jackson about their time on the show. Coming in second was Ringmaster, The Goldbergs‘ Hayley Orrantia, and third was Prince, Call Me Kat‘s Cheyenne Jackson. The Season 7 finale saw the top 3 - all Team Good - take to the stage for the final times, and in the end, the winner was Firefly, revealed to be singer-songwriter Teyana Taylor. Another winner has been crowned on The Masked Singer.
