From legendary voices that were impossible to disguise to clever detective work by the panel, join us as we celebrate the moments when the judges hit the nail on the head! Whether it was Jenny McCarthy's Golden Ear or Nicole Scherzinger's musical expertise, these reveals proved our panel knows their celebrities.
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00:00This is Vanessa Hudgens.
00:03Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the times The Masked Singer panel
00:08correctly guessed the celeb beneath the mask before their big reveal.
00:12I agree with what Robin said. It's Dionne Warwick.
00:18Number 10. Caitlyn Jenner as Phoenix.
00:21Season 5. Caitlyn Jenner has a long and impressive resume,
00:24but we don't think she'll be adding singing to her special skills anytime soon.
00:27Don't stop, make it pop, DJ, blow my speakers up tonight, I'ma fight till I see the sunlight.
00:36Some of the clues really found the flames until the answer was burning bright.
00:39Then there was the voice. Come on, Caitlyn. Were you even trying to disguise it?
00:44Top drop and playing my favourite CDs, pulling up to all the parties, gonna get a little bit tipsy.
00:51Anyway, you know something or someone is a dead giveaway when even Ken Jeong guesses it correctly.
00:56Together with Jenny McCarthy, he guessed the former Olympian as his first impression guess.
01:01By the unmasking, it was only Jenny who stayed with her initial inkling.
01:04With Ken switching to RuPaul, well, just a few moments later, karma would sashay his way.
01:10With the gold medalist, TV personality and author, Caitlyn Jenner!
01:18Good! You guessed it!
01:24Ken, you've always been an idiot. What are we gonna do with you? I don't know.
01:29Number 9. Catherine McPhee and David Foster as Banana Split.
01:32Season 6. It's hard enough for the judges to decipher one voice, but here they had to
01:37Banana split their attention between two.
01:40I'm singing in the rain. I'm just singing in the rain.
01:46What a glorious feeling. I'm happy again.
01:52Well, kind of.
01:53Most weeks, they had just one voice to scoop out of their guesses,
01:56since Banana usually accompanied ice cream on the piano.
01:58Even so, after their first performance, everyone except Robin guessed musical powerhouse couple
02:03David Foster and Catherine McPhee.
02:05The brightest colours fill my head. A million dreams are keeping me awake.
02:15It wasn't the first time McPhee had been guest on the show.
02:18Robin and Nicole thought that she was the son in Season 4.
02:21Anyway, they were unmasked in the semi-finals, with everyone sticking to their guesses except Robin,
02:26who changed his, and was still wrong.
02:28Singer-songwriting actress Catherine McPhee
02:31is 16-time Grammy Award winning David Foster.
02:36Oh my god!
02:38No!
02:39Yes! Come on!
02:41Yes!
02:41God! Oh my god!
02:43Oh my god!
02:44No way!
02:45Number 8. Tori Spelling as Unicorn
02:48Season 1.
02:49Let's cast our minds all the way back to Season 1,
02:52where we were still getting used to the sight of the elegant unicorn singing pop on our televisions.
02:57This is my unicorn!
02:59Unity!
03:00Security!
03:02Definitely not Madonna!
03:06The panel was still warming up, so their first guesses included Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Ireland Baldwin.
03:13No one guessed the Beverly Hills 90210 star.
03:16Well, not yet.
03:17This unicorn had the panel chasing rainbows and coming up empty until week 5.
03:21As soon as I heard the voice, it's someone older, and it's someone who's not a singer.
03:26I can't figure it out.
03:28After singing I Love It by Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX,
03:31it was time for the judges to make their final guesses.
03:34Robin went with Gabby Douglas.
03:36Jenny guessed Lauren Conrad.
03:37Nicole thought it might be Denise Richards.
03:39And Ken guessed...
03:41It's Tori's Ballad!
03:44It's Tori's Ballad!
03:45It's Tori's Ballad!
03:46It's Tori's Ballad!
03:46It's Tori's Ballad!
03:47Redemption!
03:48Ken got it right!
03:51I'm never right!
03:52Number 7.
03:53Macy Gray as Sea Queen.
03:55Season 10.
03:56The Sea Queen made her debut in week 5 as a wildcard edition.
04:00We'd say it's a huge compliment when your voice is so iconic that viewers recognize it instantly.
04:05I don't know if it was day or night I started kissing everything inside
04:12But when I kissed the car I found on 37 night
04:16It broke my little bottle of love The portion of the night
04:21Unfortunately, that doesn't exactly serve many singers well in this competition.
04:25Still, the panel's first impression guesses showed that they were way out of their depths.
04:29Rescue me And take me in your arms
04:33Rescue me
04:34I've been judging the car
04:36Meanwhile, Sea Queen sailed through to fourth place,
04:39blowing away the panel and audience with hit after hit.
04:43Still, by her elimination, the judges were all in agreement on who was under the mask.
04:47The amazing and iconic Macy Gray!
04:55Yes!
04:57Gray also competed in the UK version, where her easily distinct voice led to an early elimination.
05:02Number 6, Leigh-Anne Rimes as Sun
05:05Season 4
05:06Season 4 was a bright spot for the panel, with them shining on correct guesses all over the place.
05:11For instance, Nicole correctly guessed Snow Owls, while Jenny guessed Gremlin from the off.
05:23However, Sun kept them in the shade for a while, with the panel guessing the likes of Natasha Bedingfield, Demi Lovato, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
05:30I hope you find your peace, falling on your knees, praying...
05:39Just before the Season 4 winner was unmasked, the panel made their final guesses.
05:44Robin thought it might be Catherine McPhee, while Ken guessed Mandy Moore.
05:48However, Nicole and golden-eared Jenny had pieced together some clues that shed some light on who was under the mask.
05:54The one and only Leigh-Anne Rimes.
05:57There were all these clues, early riser, blue clues, blueberries, blue wings everywhere, for her song Blue, which won her Grammy.
06:06Oh!
06:06So, I agree with Jenny, and I believe this is Leigh-Anne Rimes.
06:12Number 5, Marlon Ackerman as Squirrel
06:14Season 9, this masked singer managed to squirrel away her identity for just two episodes, before getting eliminated.
06:22Where there is desire, there is gonna be a flame
06:25Where there is a flame, someone's bound to get burned
06:30She wasn't the only one sent packing that night, nor the only one the panel correctly guessed.
06:35Yes, even on the wholesome Sesame Street night, Jackalope and Squirrel got the boot.
06:39Just the two of us, building them castles in the sky
06:45Just the two of us, you and I
06:48Before Squirrel's unmasking, the panel threw out some nutty guesses like Heather Graham, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Heigl and Kate Hudson.
06:55By the final round, only Jenny cracked the right answer.
06:58It was a bit embarrassing for Ken, who'd missed a clue about Couples Retreat, a film that they both appeared in.
07:04Well, someone who definitely should have recognized you.
07:07I'm so sorry.
07:09I totally forgot about Couples Retreat.
07:12Why was that memorable?
07:13I cannot believe.
07:15Unbelievable.
07:16Old GoldenEars struck again with Night Owl that very same season.
07:20Number 4, Penn and Teller as Hydra
07:23Season 7, Penn and Teller are masters of illusion, and their time on The Masked Singer was no exception.
07:28Some people can recognize my voice, so we gave Teller actually most of the singing, so that maybe you wouldn't recognize his voice as much.
07:37For starters, the three-headed creature was enough to throw anyone off their game.
07:41Since Teller is usually the silent one in their magic act, they pulled off a sleight of hand by giving him the majority of the vocals.
07:49Even then, Teller manipulated his voice to keep the panel guessing.
07:52They throw out guesses ranging from Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, and Steve Buscemi, to Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase, and even Bert and Ernie.
08:10Only one person managed to break the duo's spell, and she wasn't even a regular panelist.
08:16She got it, Nicole!
08:17You nailed it!
08:18You nailed it!
08:19This is her first day on the job!
08:20Yeah!
08:21Good job, Nicole!
08:22She did way better than Ken Jeong has ever done!
08:25Number 3, Vanessa Hudgens as Goldfish
08:27Season 11
08:28As Robin and Nicole will tell you, some leopards can't change their spots, but Goldfish was a little harder to reel in.
08:35I shouldn't know it was strange
08:38You only come out at night
08:42The panel was sure that this was someone who'd grown up in the spotlight,
08:45Throwing out guesses like Hilary Duff, Sarah Hyland, Selena Gomez, and Lea Michele.
08:50But it was Rita Ora who hooked the right answer before Goldfish's unmasking.
08:54Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
08:59Known for her eye-roll-inducing guesses on the UK version,
09:03Rita proved that she had her head in the game this time.
09:06She realised Goldfish was someone she had a close personal connection to, and Jenny agreed with her guess.
09:11Princess clues are for the movie Princess Switch.
09:15The vampire clue, she played one in the movie Freaks of Nature.
09:19This is...
09:20Vanessa Hudgens.
09:22It turns out that they had both been swimming in the right direction.
09:26Number 2, Dionne Warwick as Mouse
09:28Season 3
09:29This season had some solid guesses, with Jenny and Ken correctly identifying Rhino,
09:34and nearly everyone guessing T-Rex's identity.
09:37But as we've seen before, some legends are just too big to hide their voices.
09:40You can make it in a big faduna
09:44But you'll ever get here soon
09:47The only thing that might throw the judges off is thinking.
09:52There's no way someone like Dionne Warwick would do this show.
09:55It could be a legend, it could be someone singing like a legend.
09:58In everlasting love
10:01Oh yes it will now
10:04You've brought sunshine out to my life
10:07Maybe it was wishful thinking, or perhaps her voice was just too unmistakable to be anyone else.
10:13But by the time Mouse was unmasked, everyone, except Ken, who guessed Tina Turner, knew exactly who it was.
10:19Warwick created quite the storm on the UK version of The Masked Singer 2.
10:23It's Dionne Warwick
10:27Yes it is
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10:45Number 1. Shaka Khan as Miss Monster Season 3
10:49Warwick wasn't the only legend unmasked this season.
10:51Though Nicole and guest panelist Jamie Foxx actually guessed Warwick for this one.
10:56They weren't the only ones guessing musical royalty, with Jenny guessing Mary J. Blige, and Ken suggesting Dolly Parton.
11:02Miss Monster was eliminated in week two. By then, everyone had changed their guesses.
11:15Jenny went with Queen Latifah, Ken guessed Reba McIntyre, and guest judge Leah Remini picked Mary Wilson.
11:22I'm young, and I love to be young. I'm free, and I'm free, and I'm free, to live my life the way I'm on.
11:34But Robin and Nicole connected the clues to the voice for a guess that was more marvellous than monstrous, and they didn't miss.
11:40Nick Cannon, however, claimed that he knew from day one, and was just waiting for everyone else to catch up.
11:45I heard that iconic voice when you hit that first. I said, that's Shaka Khan.
11:52Oh, I had to keep it, but I was like, how did you guys not hear?
11:55Did you guess any of these celebs? Let us know in the comments.
11:58You guys guessed us right away. What the heck?
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