[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Masked Singer Season 8 Episode 7 “Hall of Fame Night.”]
There was some Hall of Fame degree expertise on the stage within the newest Masked Singer, which launched three new celebrities in costume.
Bride, Gopher, and Venus Fly Trap all took the stage in entrance of panelists Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, and Nicole Scherzinger, who have been joined by company Joel McHale and the late Leslie Jordan. (There was additionally a memorial card and tribute for the actor, who handed away on October 24.) While Bride is shifting on, each Venus Fly Trap and Gopher have been eradicated and unmasked as former boxer George Foreman and musician George Clinton, respectively.
Here, Clinton opens up about his time on the Fox hit.
What made you say sure to doing The Masked Singer?
George Clinton: My grandkids had been telling me for some time to do it. I noticed Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick doing it and I knew I needed to do it! I at all times wished to do it! Everyone at all times thought I had carried out it already. But this time I DID IT!
Talk about that costume, particularly shifting round in it with the place your head was in relation to the place the Gopher’s head was. What appealed to you about it?
The costume was wild. [There] was some P-Funk sort of costuming we had carried out again within the day with the Motor Booty Affair, a few of these carnival costumes. So I used to be conversant in the heavy costumes. But you nearly burned up on this factor. It was sizzling as hell in there. [Laughs]
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What went into your track alternative?
They gave me three or 4 songs to select from and the one which I selected I’m in love with. It was straightforward to select from them. The one I did select is from my period so I’m down with that.
What did you consider the panelists’ guesses? Robin figured you out, and Leslie Jordan appeared to have enjoyable along with his guesses.
I believed they was fairly good with the hints and the clues they gave ‘em. If you got some funk in you, you’d know what they was sayin’. So I agreed with the reply they gave once they acknowledged the funk. I couldn’t get away from that. If you bought funk, you bought model. They acquired some good judges up there.
What are you going to remove from the whole expertise of The Masked Singer?
There’s at all times a brand new option to reinvent your self or to be related or turnt on this TikTok era. The Masked Singer remains to be a kind of cases the place you’ll be able to nonetheless have some reside enjoyable and reinvent your self for all generations. It was good to take part on this.
The Masked Singer, Wednesdays, 8/7c, Fox