'If you watch it's very clear I have no idea who it is!' Joel Dommett admits he didn't recognise A-ha's Morten Harket after his identity was revealed on The Masked Singer

Joel Dommett has admitted that he didn't recognise Morten Harket after his identity was revealed on The Masked Singer.

The presenter, 36, said the unmasking back in January of the singer, 61, as Viking 'was the most awkward interview I have done in my entire life'. 

Morten is the lead singer of Norwegian band A-ha, and famously performed the group's 1984 hit Take On Me while dressed in his elaborate costume. 

Joel isn't informed of the identities of the celebrities ahead of the shows, meaning he is in the dark just like the public and judges. 

He told The Mirror: 'If you go back and watch it, it is very clear I have no idea who it is.   

'The problem is that I don't know everyone in the world when they are revealed.

'You can guarantee the less I know them, the more energy I put into the reveal. 'I was like, 'Oh my God, it's Morten Harket!' 

He said judge Mo Gilligan couldn't hold in his laughter at Joel's reaction to the big reveal as it was obvious he was baffled as to who it was.   

He also revealed that he didn't know who Labour politician Alan Johnson was when he was unveiled as Pharaoh on the first series of the ITV show.

The Masked Singer follows celebrity vocalists who perform every week in different costumes, with the judges having to guess their real identities.  

It comes after earlier this week Joel revealed he and his wife Hannah Cooper watched on helplessly on a security camera as a burglar ransacked their Surrey home.

The comedian told how the couple were left in tears when they watched the thief going through thousands of pounds worth of handbags and shoes after he smashed a window to get into their house while they were out.

Speaking during a work-in-progress stand-up show seen by The Sun, Joel said police were forced to use a Taser on the burglar when he tried to flee the scene.

He said: 'After we got married, we finally moved to a new house. We got burgled fairly shortly after we moved in. It was mad.

'It is everyone's worst fear and it was horrible. We saw on our CCTV camera this guy in our garden, and luckily me and her weren't in the house, but we saw it and rang the police and drove home.

'It was mad as we saw on the cameras the police arrive and we weren't sure if the guy had left. We arrived and the police had gone in through the smashed french window and the guy was in there for 15 minutes.'

Joel described how the thief put shoes and handbags into boxes and he and Hannah were 'traumatised' when they finally got back home.

He added that the thief was sentenced to four years in prison. 

MailOnline contacted a representative for Joel Dommett for comment at the time. 

Also during the gig, Joel said he and Hannah are unsure if they want children or not and joked they are getting a sofa instead of a baby. 

Joel and model Hannah married in a romantic ceremony in Mykonos, Greece in September 2019. 

The former I'm A Celebrity star previously revealed the romantic, yet slightly awkward, way he proposed to her.

During an appearance on Celebrity Karaoke Club, he told Scarlett Moffatt and Jess Wright how he popped the question.

He said: 'She was about to get home and I had lit, like, 150 candles or something. I got so hot, I was sweating! I put on this classical music and it was just really bumming me out.'

Joel quickly changed the music he was playing before Hannah got home which made for an awkward moment when he proposed.

He said: 'She was about to get home and I quickly changed it to a soundtrack classical playlist.

'She came in and I got down on one knee and honestly, the mome