Why Brian Austin Green Wanted To Be Voted Off ‘The Masked Singer’ First
Just a gentle warning that there are SPOILERS ahead for The Masked Singer (if you haven’t already figured that out from the headline). So look away now if you’d like to remain in ignorant bliss.
The Masked Singer is well and truly back – which means sleep paralysis demons are singing on stage to a panel of baffled judges while Osher bops around with potentially his most fetching haircut yet (big call). It’s total mayhem and I live for every chaotic moment of it.
Osher is in his Reputation era 💇♂️ Image credit: The Masked Singer
Those watching the first episode saw a Crash Test Dummy and an Avocado go head-to-head before the Avocado smashed the Crash Test Dummy in a vocal slamdunk. (This may be my favourite sentence I’ve ever written in my entire journalism career.)
The human behind the loser Crash Test Dummy then had to de-head to reveal themselves – showing the world it was none other than Brian Austin Green.
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The judges were flabbergasted, Osher was squealing, but BAG (as he’s known to his friends and me) was… relieved? Chuffed, even?
I nabbed him for a chat to see what was going through his non-mask head at the time.
“That was the most relief I felt in a long time!” he told me.
“For somebody going on that show that is not a singer, you start preparing like multiple songs in case you’re here for a while … You’re doing all of this stuff – and for me, I’m pretty confident in life but I’m not confident when it comes to singing. It’s just nothing that I’ve ever aspired to do – I’ve never wanted to be a singer. So when the time was up for me, and it was like, ‘Okay, we’re going to do the unmasking’. I was just so relieved. Thank GOD I don’t have to do any more songs!”
One thing that Brian Austin Green was stoked about was his designated mask. If you didn’t know he actually appeared on the US version of The Masked Singer where he was allotted the Giraffe mask. While a lot less creepy looking, Brian told me that the long ass neck of the Giraffe was “very cumbersome”, so he was happy to scoop up the Crash Test Dummy for his stint down under.
Brian Austin Green as both the Crash Test Dummy and the Giraffe. Image Credit: The Masked Singer.
As for any spoilers that BAG could share with me regarding the other contestants hiding behind their lavish masks, he royally let me down. And not because he didn’t want to share, but because he’s proper naff at recognising celebrities.
“Like, I don’t I literally know nobody. I would probably recognise famous DIYers before famous actors and musicians.”
And for that very reason, I told him he would make a god-awful judge on The Masked Singer too – and he agrees!
“I would be a terrible judge. Yeah, I would literally only have like five names to guess and then I would just recycle those people. I’d just keep saying, ‘Is that Eminem?’”
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Image Credit: @themaskedsingerau Instagram + Punkee