The Masked Singer - ITV

[TheGreek]

Just watched the first episode...without putting out any spoilers, I would never have guessed the first singer to have to leave - amazing voice that I wouldn't have associate with them...

[Maude]

We just watched that and Mrs. M correctly guessed that one. 

Shh... Unicorn is John Barrowman and hedgehog is Alfie Boe 🤔

[TheGreek]

 

[NancyJohnson]

I haven't watched this, but (from a trivia perspective), I do recall my mum correctly identifying P J Proby as the Masked Singer on Opportunity Knocks 40-odd years ago.  Reading his bio, it does seem quite shocking now how his career nosedived after two on-stage trouser splitting incidents, especially considering how Flea did a good chunk of a show I saw at Wembley wearing nothing at all.

[SICbass]

5 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

I haven't watched this, but (from a trivia perspective), I do recall my mum correctly identifying P J Proby as the Masked Singer on Opportunity Knocks 40-odd years ago.  Reading his bio, it does seem quite shocking now how his career nosedived after two on-stage trouser splitting incidents, especially considering how Flea did a good chunk of a show I saw at Wembley wearing nothing at all.

I did a couple of gigs backing PJ Proby some years ago. An utter and irredeemable cockwomble of the highest order.

 

[nige1968]

3 minutes ago, SICbass said:

I did a couple of gigs backing PJ Proby some years ago. An utter and irredeemable cockwomble of the highest order.

 

Do tell

[SICbass]

There were numerous aberrations. Two in particular spring to mind. 
1.) While rehearsing in a complex of rehearsal rooms he insisted on sitting in the doorway with the door open and wanted everything really loud. When we suggested that this wouldn‘t be cool for other bands rehearsing there, his response was. “F*ck ‘em!”

 

2.) Our sax player was a German guy of mixed race who spoke good English but wasn’t familiar with all forms of colloquial English. Mr. Proby asked him to play some yackety sax. Our sax player didn’t immediately understand what he meant. His response? “Ya know, play me some of that n*gger sh*t.”

Fortunately for Mr. Proby, our Sax player, who’s about 6” taller than him, is a very calm person. I would have snotted the tw*t on the spot.

Edited January 5, 2020 by SICbass

[nige1968]

53 minutes ago, SICbass said:

There were numerous aberrations. Two in particular spring to mind. 
1.) While rehearsing in a complex of rehearsal rooms he insisted on sitting in the doorway with the door open and wanted everything really loud. When we suggested that this wouldn‘t be cool for other bands rehearsing there, his response was. “F*ck ‘em!”

 

2.) Our sax player was a German guy of mixed race who spoke good English but wasn’t familiar with all forms of colloquial English. Mr. Proby asked him to play some yackety sax. Our sax player didn’t immediately understand what he meant. His response? “Ya know, play me some of that n*gger sh*t.”

Fortunately for Mr. Proby, our Sax player, who’s about 6” taller than him, is a very calm person. I would have snotted the tw*t on the spot.

Nice

Edited January 5, 2020 by nige1968
Hamfistedness

[Cuzzie]

Happy to oblige in slapping Proby should the need arise again

[Fitz666]

Watched the first one, thankfully recorded the second one so we could just whizz to the singing and revealing, managed to reduce the whole this to 10 mins.

[Burns-bass]

I was told by a reliable source that the celebrities pre-record their tracks and then it’s backing dancers in the costumes until the ‘big reveal’ when the celebrities finally don the outfits.

[Newfoundfreedom]

Just watching it now. Jesus the American, oriental looking judge guy is irritating! Don't know if I'll bother watching any more. 

To be honest, I probably won't have the fist idea who the so called "celebrities" are even once they're revealed. 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

4 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

I was told by a reliable source that the celebrities pre-record their tracks and then it’s backing dancers in the costumes until the ‘big reveal’ when the celebrities finally don the outfits.

If that's true, they went to great lengths to replicate Alan Johnson's physique.

[Burns-bass]

27 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

If that's true, they went to great lengths to replicate Alan Johnson's physique.

He may have been lying. We’d had a lot to drink by this point. I’ve just seen some of the show and it’s truly dreadful.

[Newfoundfreedom]

The best thing about the whole show is the costumes. Some of them are superb! The costume department should be proud. Everyone else involved should hang their heads in shame. 😂

[Cosmo Valdemar]

21 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

He may have been lying. We’d had a lot to drink by this point. I’ve just seen some of the show and it’s truly dreadful.

It's beyond dreadful, but my girls (8 and 5) love it, and it's harmless enough.

[Burns-bass]

6 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

It's beyond dreadful, but my girls (8 and 5) love it, and it's harmless enough.

It certainly is. I imagine my daughters (1 and 3) would find it frightening!

[Cosmo Valdemar]

12 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

It certainly is. I imagine my daughters (1 and 3) would find it frightening!

That Tree was truly macabre.

[Guest gazzatriumph]

Watched bits of the first show, it's utter shite, unfortunately the wife likes it so may have to endure more. 

[knicknack]

6 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

I was told by a reliable source that the celebrities pre-record their tracks and then it’s backing dancers in the costumes until the ‘big reveal’ when the celebrities finally don the outfits.

You can hear the autotune giving them a fight during the masked ‘performances’...

Strangely mesmerising though!

[Ted Theodore Logan, III]

I've heard that they will be airing a new “Z-Lister Celebrity" show in the spring called “What Did I Have For Dinner?..."

 

The premise involves a bunch of “has-beens" who are so desperate to not be forgotten by a bunch of people that they've never met that they willingly fart into Tupperware containers in front of a live audience of “wannabe has-beens" whilst another group of “has-beens" (now passing themselves off as fart sniffing experts) take a whiff of the contents of the Tupperware container and attempt a guess at what the original “has-been" has had for their dinner...

Hence the title “What Did I Have For Dinner?.."

 

Sounds like guff to me...

 

On the “plus side", Holly Willoughby is set to be a guest presenter...  

[DoubleOhStephan]

8 minutes ago, Ted Theodore Logan, III said:

What Did I Have For Dinner?...

I reckon if you pitched this to channel 5 you'd be offered a 5 episode run. 

[Ted Theodore Logan, III]

3 minutes ago, DoubleOhStephan said:

I reckon if you pitched this to channel 5 you'd be offered a 5 episode run. 

“5 episodes?!!" Are you kidding?!!... 

I'm thinking 5 decades!!! 

[steantval]

1 hour ago, gazzatriumph said:

Watched bits of the first show, it's utter shite, unfortunately the wife likes it so may have to endure more. 

Thankfully, my wife also thought it was shite.

[yorks5stringer]

On 05/01/2020 at 10:48, SICbass said:

There were numerous aberrations. Two in particular spring to mind. 
1.) While rehearsing in a complex of rehearsal rooms he insisted on sitting in the doorway with the door open and wanted everything really loud. When we suggested that this wouldn‘t be cool for other bands rehearsing there, his response was. “F*ck ‘em!”

 

2.) Our sax player was a German guy of mixed race who spoke good English but wasn’t familiar with all forms of colloquial English. Mr. Proby asked him to play some yackety sax. Our sax player didn’t immediately understand what he meant. His response? “Ya know, play me some of that n*gger sh*t.”

Fortunately for Mr. Proby, our Sax player, who’s about 6” taller than him, is a very calm person. I would have snotted the tw*t on the spot.

When I first moved to Leeds as a student I lodged in house where there were a number of Leeds College of Music students living too. They used to dep. at Batley Variety Club for visiting artists, one of whom I remember them telling me was Mr Proby, who I seem to recall them saying was well past his best then, which was around late 76, early 77. I believe by then he was resident in the UK also.