Li-Lo is trolling us on Masked Singer
THE other guessing game on The Masked Singer — which improbable celebrity is Lindsay Lohan going to claim is going incognito next?
Lohan was paid handsomely to tell Australia she genuinely believed Stevie Nicks was singing Proud Mary in a unicorn suit.
That’d be 71-year-old dual Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Stevie Nicks, worth over $100 million, who is spending the year playing sold-out shows around the world with her band, Fleetwood Mac.
Plus, she was touring overseas when this TV show was filmed a few months ago in Sydney. Plus, just, no.
Everyone from Beyonce to Sia, Shakira to Shania Twain, Keith Urban to Conor McGregor, Usher to Bruno Mars, Serena Williams to Rhonda Rousey, Angus Young to Ed Sheeran has been spat out, straight-faced, by the judges – sorry, guessing panel – as the people who just sang in front of them under a mask. Please.
The wackiest guesses have come from Li-Lo. Come on.
Channel 10 probably dropped high six figures to get Lohan to Australia to have celebrity Tourette’s on screen.
She knows what it would cost to lure an international A-lister to Australia and is maybe just trolling us with improbable celebrity names because she has no idea who Nikki Webster and Millsy are.
Mind you, a lot of Australian viewers probably wouldn’t recognise a Deni Hines or a Jade MacRae should they be under a mask, so how would Lohan be expected to know them?
Before the show started we were told Lohan personally knew four of the singers, which suggests there’s possibly a few internationals.
But has Channel 10 spent all its budget on her?
Because, let’s face it, there’s a level of celebrity who do not have the time or inclination to appear on this show. And they’re generally the calibre of people Lohan guesses. Channel 10 wouldn’t even bother making the call to their agents.
Dannii Minogue is the only panellist making sensible guesses — and actually listening to the singing voices (a dead giveaway if they’re actually singers).
The show gives a mixture of cryptic clues and clues so obvious they’re designed to throw people off the scent.
Maybe Lindsay ripped up the cheat sheet of Aussie celebrities someone printed off from Wikipedia for her and is just working through her own list of unlikely superstar names just to keep herself amused?
Maybe she’s decided to do a trojan horse and troll her own show from within?