They’re one of the best-kept secrets in Australian entertainment and host Osher Günsberg has revealed he’s just as in the dark as to who is under the masks on The Masked Singer Australia as we are!
Speaking to Chattr right before the fifth season’s premiere, the long-time host admitted that the unmasking is a huge surprise… even to him!
“I know who they all are now because we’ve shot it,” he admitted, “So I know all the answers, but I didn’t [during filming]. When the heads come off, I’m legitimately quite thrilled that it’s happening. It’s a genuine moment of surprise.”
In terms of how they keep the celebs a secret, he joked: “It is so watertight and they won’t tell me what happens or how they do it because I will tell people he said of the secrecy behind the masks.”
He continued: “I just know that they show up in a mask and if it’s too big for them to walk onto the stage, they’re wearing like an Obi-Wan Kenobi kind of cloak but with a huge hood over the top with a panel that they can see out of.
“You can’t see in, you can’t see their hands. They wear gloves all the way down. You can’t see their body shape or whatever. And it’s only maybe five metres that I see that person walking by if I see them at all.”
Osher Günsberg on the “most surprising reveal ever”
In the lead-up to the September 11 launch we were fed a bevy of promos that said “Is this the most surprising reveal ever”?
When asked what they meant by that Günsberg said: “I don’t work in promos, mate, you’re gonna have to talk to those guys. I just show up, I do my bit and then I leave.”
He continued: “They’re not wrong. It’s an extraordinary season. Any relationship that you’re in, whether it be a friendship a romantic relationship or a relationship with the kids, it’s important that you grow and adapt and reinvent that relationship and refresh it, and make sure that it’s still meeting your needs for both of you.
“The same goes for our relationship with our audience. It’s super important to make sure you give enough of what it is that you came here for in the first place, but also enough to be like, here’s a little thing that you keep fresh now.”
According to The Bachelors Australia host, “this is one of the most emotionally intense shows” he’s ever been a part of.
“That includes the one where people fall in love and get married and have lots of babies,” he joked. “It is such an extraordinarily emotional season because of who the people under the mask are and what they mean to us.”
Clarifying, he said: “If your super favourite — I can say it because he’s done the American one — say Taylor Hanson pops his head off. Suddenly, if you’re of a certain age, you are a teenager [again]. ‘Oh my god, I used to kiss that poster every night’, or if you’re another age, you might say, ‘Oh my god, I used to hate that band.’
“So it’s quite a powerful one.”
The Masked Singer Australia continues Monday at 7.30pm on 10 And 10 Play.
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