‘The Masked Singer’ Season 10 Finale: Cow On Bringing Home The Trophy & Fooling Longtime Friend Nick Cannon
21.12.2023 - 03:49
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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 10 finale of The Masked Singer, including the identity of Cow.
The Masked Singer has officially crowned its Season 10 winner.
The two-hour finale of the Fox singing competition series brought its four finalists — Cow, Sea Queen, Gazelle, and Donut — head-to-head for the Masked trophy. After putting on two very different performances, Cow battled his way to the top.
No one should be too shocked by this win, considering Cow is none other than three-time Grammy winner Ne-Yo. Props to Robin Thicke for figuring it out first.
Ne-Yo had been impressing the judges all season. But no one except for Thicke was able to deduce who might be behind the mask until the final moments of Wednesday’s episode. It wasn’t until a rendition of “Take A Bow” by Rihanna, which Ne-Yo wrote and produced with StarGate, that Nicole Scherzinger also realized who had been right in front of her the entire time.
If anyone was going to figure it out, it would have been Thicke or Scherzinger, Ne-Yo told Deadline. But he didn’t just have to fool the judges. He also had to stand alongside longtime friend Nick Cannon each episode and fly under his radar as well.
Ne-Yo spoke with Deadline ahead of the finale about keeping up the ruse and bringing home the Masked trophy.
DEADLINE: You mentioned you’re a fan of the show. But what prompted you to actually compete?
NE-YO: Nick Cannon is a dear friend of mine. He had no idea that I was doing the show. I actually have to give credit to another dear friend of mine. Her name is Danielle Crawley. She’s a mutual friend of me and Nick, and we were literally just talking about it one day, and she was like, ‘How funny would it be if you went on The Masked