The Masked Singer US season 8 spoilers follow.
The Masked Singer US season 8 unmasked three celebrities in last night's (September 28) episode, one of whom is from a legendary late 1990s boyband.
Hummingbird was actually voted out in the previous episode, but their unmasking was held until the second episode of the season. As we learned after a week of waiting, Hummingbird turned out to be NSYNC's Chris Kirkpatrick.
Meanwhile, Panther was revealed to be 'This Is How We Do It' singer Montell Jordan, and Pi-Rat turned out to be comedian and puppeteer Jeff Dunham.
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Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kirkpatrick said "tons of people" guessed that it was him.
"There's been all sorts of friends," he said. "Joey [Fatone] didn't even just reach out, Joey said, 'Nice job'. When you're in a band with four other guys for almost 30 years, there's nothing you can do to try to trick them about anything about you.
"And sure enough, since he does watch the show, he was watching it and he said, 'Hey, good job, bro. Sorry you got booted'. It wasn't even a 'Hey, is that you?' It was, 'Good job'."
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He said that he did try and throw the judges and the audiences off by doing something different vocally, and he feels he was successful in that regard.
"I figured if I did something high with a lot of falsetto, that they would figure me out right away, because that's usually what I'm known for in the band," he said. "So it would have stuck out.
"So I tried to go with something a little bit different and try to give them a little bit of a smokescreen, and it worked. I still got booted, but it worked."
The Masked Singer US airs on Fox in the United States.
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