Dave “Hughesy” Hughes has revealed which of his showbiz mates asked for his help to replace Lindsay Lohan on The Masked Singer.
Lohan was unable to appear on the second season of the show which starts on Channel 10 tonight due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
When it was announced there would be void on the coaching panel, Hughesy said his Hit Network radio offsider Ed Kavalee put up his hand.
“He did, and I quickly swatted it down” Hughesy told news.com.au. “I said, ‘You’ve got enough screen time mate, just back off!’”
But Kavalee, who appears on Have You Been Paying Attention?, wasn’t the only star who reached out to Hughesy.
“There were certainly mates left, right and centre trying to muscle in,” Hughesy said. “Everyone wants to be on the show. It’s THE show to be on.”
Hughesy confirmed that he and fellow season one judges Dannii Minogue and Jackie O were consulted about who should replace Lohan on the show.
“It was a collaborative effort,” he told news.com.au. In the end, the gig was offered to Urzila Carlson.
“We’re all really happy that Urzila jumped on board,” Hughesy said. “She’s a real character and she’s great for the show.”
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HUGHESY NERVOUS SHOW WOULD FLOP
Last year’s first season of The Masked Singer was a huge success for Channel 10, but Hughesy admits he was quite nervous in the lead-up that it could flop.
“No doubt. I was,” he told news.com.au. “I signed on because it looked like a lot of fun, and the thing about this show is that it’s so ridiculous that it just makes you laugh. Whether people watched it or not it was still going to make me laugh.”
RATINGS SUPERSTITION
The first episode of The Masked Singer last year was a ratings hit with more than 1.16 million people (five city metro) tuning in.
It was a massive relief for Hughesy, and it gave birth to a new superstition that he now follows religiously.
“I remember the first morning that the ratings were coming out,” he told news.com.au. “I had a shower and as soon as I got out of the shower I looked at my phone and saw that it was a good number. So now my big thing is to turn my phone off until I know the ratings are out. Then I have to have a shower before I look at the numbers.
“There’s a lot of superstition that goes on,” he said.
REVEALS SO FAR
Channel 10 has been spruiking that some big-name celebrities are behind the masks on the show this year, including an actor from an Emmy-winning series.
In May, Channel 10’s Beverly McGarvey told news.com.au: “There’s a lot of (high-profile) people in Australia at the minute who normally wouldn’t because everyone’s come home to hunker down.”
Grey’s Anatomy star Kate Walsh, Rebel Wilson, Zac Efron and Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman star Jane Seymour are just some of the big name stars who are currently in Australia.
Hughesy told news.com.au that they’ve so far recorded three ‘reveal’ episodes of The Masked Singer in Melbourne, and he was shocked by the calibre of the stars.
“I’m very happy; they’re big stars,” he said. “There were real shocks.”
The Masked Singer premieres tonight on Channel 10 at 7.30pm
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