Fans of The Masked Singer UK looking for giveaway hints might check out Dippy Egg.
Bubble Tea was removed from the ITV competition last week, revealing Absolutely Fabulous star Julia Sawalha beneath the disguise.
The next day, when interviewing her on Sunday Brunch, co-host Simon Rimmer inadvertently revealed that he, too, may be one of the covert celebs involved.
During a recent conversation with costume designer Tim Simpson, he was asked if there are any specific costumes that include concealed Easter Egg hints pointing to the vocalists’ identities, such as Rhino and Badger’s ensembles from earlier series.
He said that Dippy Egg is worth a closer look among this year’s innovations. If we’re not mistaken, this revelation might lend credence to the hypothesis that chef Simon did, in fact, unintentionally disclose information.
When asked if there were any secret signs on the costumes that viewers should look out for, Tim replied: ‘I don’t know that there are this time around. I can’t think of us actually putting any major clues into the costumes.
‘I can’t think of anything that I was specifically asked to include in the costumes that I thought, “That’s definitely a clue.” There are always little changes along the way that the producers request that may be to do with clues.
‘So there may be details in the costume on Piranha or there might be something to do with the suit of Owl, the blazer or something. I don’t know, but I am absolutely unaware of any particular Easter Eggs that we’ve put in this time round. Well, except Dippy Egg.’
Except
Dippy egg, eh?
We took another look at the contestant’s outfit to see if there was anything that shouted’massive hint’ to us, such as the 10 stripes on their egg cup ensemble and the piece of cutlery protruding out of their head.
As a result, the only possible intended hint that Plunge Creations managing director Tim was referring to when he said Dippy Egg is the singer’s food-related appearance.
If we had to be more particular, you might call it a brunch costume. A Sunday Brunch-themed outfit…
So it appears that Simon’s apparent misstep in disclosing that he is Dippy Egg was not a joke, but rather a genuine mistake.
He had said on the Channel 4 programme: ‘I always assumed that you picked your own costumes. Because I know with me as Dippy… ooh!’
When it came to designing Dippy Egg’s outfit, Tim explained how they purposefully tried to create something that resembled a cartoon.
‘Dippy Egg was a later addition. We wanted something that just looked stupid and much more cartoony than some of the others,’ he shared.
Comparing the character to someone like Dionne Warwick’s Weather who looked ‘really beautiful and elegant’, he continued: ‘That’s the point. We need that mix. You want a range of different costumes and you need them to have different energies on stage, almost sometimes to suit the performer and other times to actually throw people off the scent.’
He explained how in some cases, the celebrities ‘feel at home’ as their characters straight away and are immediately able to ‘bring the costumes to life’.
‘There’s no telling where those people are gonna come from, you don’t know whether they’re going to be sports people, stage or screen stars, classical singers, you don’t know who they’re going to be. Some of them just get in their costumes and they know who they are from the get-go and that character just bounces out the screen.’
The Masked Singer UK returns tonight at 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
Source My Celebrity Life.
