Do The Contestants On The Masked Singer Get Paid
- It's based on a South Korean show. The viral competition series isn't an American original — it's.
- Network Ten’s hit new show The Masked Singer has already amassed a huge audience – but some fans aren’t convinced the performances are genuine. Viewers were quick to slam the singers on social media, suggesting they weren’t actually performing their songs live.
It is correct that most celebrity-based reality TV competitions do not end with a large prize-bucket of winnings, as the contestants are typically paid a negotiated sum for their appearance. Recently Masked Singer host Nick Cannon opened up about the show, and revealed that he does not know who is under the costumes, but added that he does know how fans can better guess the celebrity identities.
The Masked Singer have anonymous celebrities dress up in costumes and perform. The panel and everyone at home can then guess their identity. Of course, the premise of the show really relies on costumes to hide people’s identities. Fans may wonder if celebrities get to choose their costumes. Well, here is everything to know about how the costumes are selected and more.
Costume designer, Marina Toybina started with 20 sketches of costumes but selected 12
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Marina Toybina is the mastermind behind the elaborate costumes, according to Vanity Fair. She started by sketching 20 possible characters but ended up using 12. So do those characters get assigned or picked by the celebrities?
Celebrities are given options of a rendering of possible costumes and then get to choose
(L-R) Nick Cannon, Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke Rachel Luna/Getty Images
Margaret Cho revealed to E! News how her poodle costume on the show was chosen. First, she looked at renderings of possible costumes, she picked one, then had to go through multiple fittings.
“I was presented first with an artists’ rendering of the Poodle and the Alien,” the comedian explained. “I could choose between which one I wanted and chose the Poodle because I’m a dog lover, and I thought that would be really fun, and I loved how strangely robot the dog was, so I went with that.”
The costume got the job done because Cho is good friends with Ken Jeong and he had no clue it was Cho. She still was very nervous he would find her out.
“He, of anybody, is, of course, going to know,” said Cho. “But lucky for me, they kind of went on a different track, like oh it’s Judge Judy or Jane Fonda, and then they got kind of warm with Kathy Griffin. But it was tough, because I was really nervous, like Ken is going to know my voice, he’s going to know me.”
Toybina talked about the poodle design with Vanity Fair saying she was inspired by the dogs that are popular in Beverly Hills. She then put a twist on the recognizable breed by including geometric shapes “so it had this playful, high-end fashion feel to it, but also was a little bit on the diva side.”
Some celebrities don’t have a preference and then are assigned a costume
Picking one of the crazy costumes sounds fun. But not all celebrities have a preference of what they would like to perform in so when that happens Toybina has assigned the costume.
The designer revealed to Vanity Fair that her favorite costume so far is the lion “because it was so rich, as far as doing a sketch and figuring out how to make this character be royal, in a sense—god-like.” The mask is mostly likely expensive given it’s made out of pure gold.
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So celebrities are given sketches to choose from but not all of them decide to choose so they get assigned a costume. They then have to go through multiple fittings before the show.
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The Masked Singer will air its Season 1 finale this week, and now the winner's prize has been revealed.
However, as Bustle reports, the prize is not quite grand as the emerging victor will only leave with bragging rights and a trophy.
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The outlet cited other news organizations that had reported the same detail, with USA Today writing that there is 'no particular prize,' and Metro News saying, 'Like most celebrity-based reality television, The Masked Singer doesn't boast a big prize at the end.'
🏆 Who will win it all? 🏆
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Find out TONIGHT on our two-hour season finale at 8/7c on @FOXTV. #TheMaskedSingerpic.twitter.com/nC4JnSlXy4
— The Masked Singer (@MaskedSingerFOX) February 27, 2019It is correct that most celebrity-based reality TV competitions do not end with a large prize-bucket of winnings, as the contestants are typically paid a negotiated sum for their appearance.
Recently Masked Singer host Nick Cannon opened up about the show, and revealed that he does not know who is under the costumes, but added that he does know how fans can better guess the celebrity identities.
Do The Contestants On Masked Singer Get Paid
“I personally stay out of when they pick whoever the celebs are in the costumes because I want to be able to play along with everyone else,” he told Country Living. “I can make all the crazy, random guesses myself because I don’t know who’s underneath the mask.”
“The other singers don’t even know who the other singers are,” Cannon added. “Everyone’s kind of ushered through security and tents that separate everyone. It’s pretty intense.”
“The song choices and the actual mask,” he went on to say. “If you pay close attention to the songs that people are singing and then why they chose the costume that they chose, I think that those are some of the biggest clues that sometimes people just overlook.”
The Masked Singer executive producers Izzie Pick Ibarra and Craig Plestis also previously opened up about the show, and shared how they plan to keep the celebrities identities secret going forward.
'We have a lot of production processes in place for that type of secrecy that can still remain in place, if that makes sense. So few people knew who any of the singers were on our production—and it was very, very, very few people,' Ibarra stated. 'We can carry on that to another season and I feel confident that we can keep [that going].'
0comments'That’s the big part of the show right now: keeping the secret,' Plestis chimed in. 'We want America to guess. We want our panel to guess. We really tried to keep every secret from them because that’s a magic that we got from the show. If we can keep that again, keep all this a secret from everybody, from the crew and from the rest of America, it’s going to be a great season.'
The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.