The calendar just flipped to February, butThe Masked Singeralready has its sights set on March Mask-ness.
In the first season teaser for season 11 of the Fox singing competition, hostNick Cannonintroduces “the newest member ofThe Masked Singerfamily,Rita Ora.” Ora, 33, will takeNicole Scherzinger’s place on the panel.
“I don’t know who you guys are, but I am so excited you’re here,” the “Your Song” singer, 33, tells a pair of contestants in the sneak peek.
Returning judgesKen Jeong,Jenny McCarthyandRobin Thickewill join Ora on the panel.
Rita Ora on ‘The Masked Singer’ season 11.Michael Becker / FOX
Michael Becker / FOX
The Masked Singeralso introduced six of the costumes who will be competing for The Golden Mask trophy: Book, Goldfish, Gumball, Lizard, Starfish and Ugly Sweater.
‘The Masked Singer’ season 11’s Starfish.FOX
FOX
‘The Masked Singer’ season 11’s Goldfish.FOX
Last season saw the show’s first-everfour-person finalebetween Cow, Donut, Gazelle and Sea Queen. Cow ended up nabbing first place and he unmasked as R&B singerNE-YO.
“It gave me the opportunity to step outside my wheelhouse a little bit,” the Grammy winner, 44, told PEOPLE ofdressing as a female cowonThe Masked Singer. “As a male cow, I could probably still dance like me. I’m definitely going to sound like me. And I was like, yeah, I’ll get caught quick like that. But as a female cow, I got huge breasts and hips and the whole nine, so I can’t move the way NE-YO would normally move.”
‘The Masked Singer’ season 11’s Ugly Sweater.FOX
‘The Masked Singer’ season 11’s Book.FOX
Thefather of sevenhad a special place picked out to store his trophy.
“The Golden Mask trophy is going to live in the same place that my Grammys and every other award that I’ve ever won lived, and that is at my mother’s home,” NE-YO said. “My mom has this huge cabinet full of my accomplishments, and we have moved things around and prepared a space for that big, beautiful goldenMasked Singertrophy, right next to the Grammys.”
‘The Masked Singer’ season 11’s Lizard.FOX
‘The Masked Singer’ season 11’s Gumball.FOX
ActorJohn Schneidertook second place from within the Donut costume.The Dukes of Hazzardstar, 63, went on the show while grieving thedeath of his wife Alicia.
“For me,The Masked Singeris really the glue that held me together for the last couple of months. It was vitally important,” he told PEOPLE. “It has made it so people were aware of the music, they’re also aware of grief being a process. I think that grief is something that needs to be talked about publicly. It doesn’t need to be sequestered away and hidden. The more you talk about it, the more power you are giving yourself and the more power, I think, you’re taking away from your grief.”
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The Masked Singerseason 11 premieres March 6 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
source: people.com
