John Oates reveals if he’d work with Daryl Hall again amid nasty court battle
14.12.2023 - 14:38
/ nypost.com
John Oates is still performing amid his nasty court battle against former Hall & Oates music partner Daryl Hall — on “The Masked Singer.”Oates, 75, was revealed as the Anteater during the Fox show’s latest Season 10 episode on Wednesday. Although his name rhymed with his hit 1982 song “Maneater,” no one on the panel managed to guess his true identity.“That was the first thing I thought of. They were trying to make a connection between ‘Maneater’ and Anteater, but no one else seemed to get that for some reason, which I found kind of surprising,” he told Entertainment Weekly of the clue.
“To be honest with you, I didn’t really like the costume when I first saw the drawing of it, but they twisted my arm and convinced me that it would be cool. And I’m like, oh, God, all right, sure. Why not?”Oates appeared in good spirits on the program despite his ongoing lawsuit with Hall, 77.
He briefly commented on Hall when asked if he would ever perform with him again.“Oh, you know what, I never say never to anything,” he told the outlet. “I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I just want, right now, I’m focused on where I am in life and leading the best life I can and moving forward.”Hall accused Oates of ambushing him with plans to sell Oates’ half of their company, Whole Oats Enterprises, LLP, to Primary Wave, a prominent music publishing company. He filed the lawsuit (with his organization, the Daryl Hall Revocable Trust, suing Oates’ trust, the John W.
Oates TISA Trust, and its co-trustees) in Nashville on Nov. 16. “This recent bad faith conduct by John Oates and the Oates Trust has created tremendous upheaval, harm, and difficulty in my life,” Hall wrote in a second Nov.