Warning: This article incorporates spoilers for The Masked Singer, season 11, episode 5, “Group C Finals: Shower Anthems Night.”
Rub-a-dub-dub. It’s Shower Anthem Night on The Masked Singer, and all three returning season 11 contestants got here prepared to clean the competitors.
Host Nick Cannon was appropriately underdressed for Wednesday’s bathing theme, going utterly shirtless below his swimsuit jacket. Thankfully, all 4 panelists — Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, and Rita Ora — had time to get absolutely clothed.
The Group C singers kicked issues off with a efficiency of Becky G’s ” Shower” as bubbles crammed the stage. Then Cannon introduced that there could be a double elimination, first with the bottom vote-getter being instantly ousted, then the remaining two duking it out for a spot within the upcoming quarterfinals. Though, he reminded the judges they’d nonetheless have the possibility to ring the Ding Dong Keep It On Bell to avoid wasting one contestant from elimination this season.
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During the principle competitors, Clock sang “Respect,” by Aretha Franklin; Lizard shocked everybody by taking up Evanescence’s nu-metal hit “Bring Me to Life”; and Poodle Moth carried out “The House That Built Me,” by Miranda Lambert.
Given the double elimination, the bottom scoring singer of the evening was eradicated with no probability to redeem themself in a battle spherical, and sadly Lizard’s huge swing in his track alternative didn’t repay for him, so he was declared first out.
The panelists made their ultimate guesses earlier than the unmasking. McCarthy-Wahlberg switched hers from D’Angelo to Ray J, and Jeong went with Michael Bivens, of Bell Biv DeVoe, which not one of the panel agreed with and even induced Lizard himself to break down on stage. Thicke stated he and Ora had been on the identical web page about their guess for some time, with Ora excitedly declaring they thought it was Sisqo, after beforehand saying if it was, then her complete journey to the United States would have been value it to fulfill him.
Luckily for Ora, her journey stateside was not a waste and, for the primary time this season, the panel was lastly capable of guess accurately — Lizard was revealed as Sisqo, the “Thong Song” and “Incomplete” chart-topper and former Dru Hill member. He revealed that he did the present as a result of his household loves watching it and he is been guessed in earlier seasons.
Ora utterly fangirled out because the now-unmasked Sisqo delivered one ultimate track, s-song, track, track for the group. In a departure from eradicated contestants sometimes performing the identical track from earlier within the episode, he as an alternative delighted followers by singing his 2000 hit ode to the cheek-revealing garment.
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Next up, Clock and Poodle Moth went mask-to-mask within the Battle Royale, every taking up “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Both songs had been flawless, however Clock was in the end declared the evening’s winner, which means Poodle Moth must unmask as soon as the panelists made their ultimate guesses.
After an earlier clue that Poodle Moth has a particular connection to Thicke’s dad, the late Growing Pains star Alan Thicke, the “Blurred Lines” singer was satisfied she was Shania Twain, whom his pops as soon as housed when she first moved to Los Angeles from Canada to pursue a report deal. McCarthy-Wahlberg thought it was This Is Us star Mandy Moore, whereas Jeong guessed Brooke Shields, and Ora went with Sharon Stone, whom Thicke revealed was the “honorary finest girl” at his dad’s wedding ceremony.
However, we nonetheless do not know if any of them had been right, as Ora gave in to the studio viewers chanting “ding dong” and ran over to ring the bell simply within the nick of time, saving Poodle Moth. She and Clock will each compete within the upcoming quarterfinals.
Group A will return subsequent week for Transformers Night, no matter that may entail.
Watch Sisqo’s reveal above. The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.
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