Masked Singer star was so grumpy backstage - news.com.au

The Masked Singer’s top four became three on Tuesday night, with the Cowgirl ousted from the competition – and finally revealed to be …

… Courtney Act. The Aussie drag legend is also an international reality TV veteran at this point, carving out a career here, in the US and the UK since she got her big break as a contestant on the first season of Australian Idol way back in 2003.

Since then, Act has competed on reality shows including RuPaul’s Drag Race, UK’s Celebrity Big Brother, and Dancing With The Stars Australia.

But speaking to news.com.au the morning after her reveal aired, Act - out of drag as her boy self, Shane Jenek - confessed she had a few teething problems with The Masked Singer.

She said that she returned to her dressing room deflated after her first performance of the season, feeling “like a brooding teenager.”

“I was so grumpy, because I love performing and I love being on stage. And I thought: This takes all the fun out of it, all the fun things I love about performing. The costume’s very heavy, it’s very hard,” she revealed.

But by the second performance, Act said she had embraced the limitations of performing inside a giant suit.

“It’s big, it’s inanimate, and you’re trying to give a personality and work out what you can do with it. And that became the fun thing about it. And, it was very fun to be back on TV doing variety performances. I would adore it to be next time with the same level of production and not in a giant cow suit,” she said.

Act’s reveal was perhaps the most memorable of the season, given she was inside the “Cowgirl” costume in full drag. As the mask came off, out came a seemingly neverending cascade of curls, complete with high-drag hair flip.

“I wanted the most ridiculous, ‘Charlie’s Angels removing a helmet with perfectly styled hair underneath’ thing. That was what I was going for,” Act said. Mission accomplished.

Act’s departure from the competition leaves just three celebs yet to be unmasked in next Tuesday’s grand finale: The Grim Reaper and Bouncer, who I’m fairly certain are Aussie singers Darren Hayes and Conrad Sewell respectively, and Snow Fox, who has been a harder voice to place. Many viewers seem convinced she’s Dami Im, but I hear too much of an American twang in her vocals – I’m still picking former Glee star Amber Riley, who has participated in both the US and UK versions of The Masked Singer.

Last week saw one of the biggest surprises of the season: That “Burger Gal” was none other than a member of pop music’s royal family, the Jacksons.

And in Monday’s episode, a wildcard contestant entered the competition, and left the same night, unmasked as former AFL player Brendan Fevola.

He later revealed that his costume – the “Captain” – was a hasty pivot from his original costume “Titanic,” as the show filmed shortly after the June submersible tragedy that saw five people die while attempting to visit the Titanic shipwreck.

“There was dead bodies and drowning and I was surrounded by boats, and I was the Titanic. So, they couldn’t use that as my costume because it was literally happened a week before,” Fevola revealed on Melbourne’s 101.9 The Fox’s breakfast show, Fifi, Fev & Nick, the morning after his episode aired.

“They had to change everything, change my name, change everything. The sub exploded and all those people died … it was awful. I didn’t think I was going to be able to do it. The costume was made – I thought, what are they going to do?”

Here’s the full list of celebs revealed so far this season:

Episode one: Former Beverly Hills, 90210 actor Brian Austin Green

Episode two: Ten newsreader Sandra Sully

Episode three: Summer Warne, daughter of late cricketing legend Shane

Episode four: The Block judge Shaynna Blaze

Episode five: UK Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby

Episode six: Aussie singer-songwriter Pete Murray

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Episode seven: LaToya Jackson

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Episode eight: Amy Sheppard, singer in Aussie band Sheppard

Episode nine: Former AFL player Brendan Fevola.

The final episodes of The Masked Singer this season air 7:30pm next Monday and Tuesday on Ten.

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