“Global star”, “huge celebrity”, “true music icon”, “more than 100 million albums sold”, “one hundred trophies around the world”, “best performance of the last thirty years”… N throw more! This Friday April 28 on TF 1, “Mask Singer” welcomed its first international star out of competition. So, after Itziar Ituño, Teri Hatcher, Seal, David Hasselhoff and Tori Spelling, Camille Combal and her four investigators were particularly excited this week to discover the identity of the personality hidden under the costume of the Sun.
Like every year, the jurors only had two magnetos filled with clues and a performance to try to unmask this English-speaking singer. But after her interpretation of “Roar” by Katy Perry, the field of possibilities was reduced: the golden disguise hid the silhouette of a Spice Girls. And if Kev Adams proposed Emma Bunton and Élodie Frégé leaned for Geri Halliwell, Jeff Panacloc and Michèle Bernier managed to identify Melanie Brown, alias Mel B. “I can’t believe you thought it was me! she said once her mask was removed.
Anny Duperey unmasked
If the majority of the investigators had good on this name, they also had the fine nose on certain characters in competition. Jeff Panacloc thus triggered his kabuki for the “golden prono”, certain of having identified the Alien after a cover of “Provided they are sweet” by Mylène Farmer. Kev Adams, he put a certain name with a successful gold prediction for the Zebra, amazing on “All Night Long” by Lionel Ritchie. As for Michèle Bernier, the version of “Historia de un Amor” by Luz Casal by the Phoenix allowed her to validate her intuition.
But the public did not have to wait long to find out the identity of this character, eliminated at the end of the evening and which left some of the jurors lost between Victoria Abril, Mathilda May and Chantal Lauby. He hid the actress Anny Duperey, delighted to have been able to deceive the quartet by playing on her voice. Jurors who have so far triggered their golden prono on all personalities, except for the Doe and the Witch, despite some apparent certainties…