‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals the Identity of the Swan: Here’s the Star Under the Mask – Variety, Variety.com

SPOILER ALERT : Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 3, episode 8 of “ The Masked Singer ,” which aired March (on Fox .

Bella Thorne is the latest celebrity to be revealed on “ The Masked Singer , ”and to do so without any of the show’s panelists figuring out her identity.

Thorne, who was costumed as the Swan, performed “I Hate Myself for Loving You” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, a song she jokingly dedicated to “Masked Singer” panelist Ken Jeong. In an interview with Variety, Thorne revealed that she was sick while shooting that performance – which perhaps played a role in her exit.

“I got really, really sick right before I was singing and I basically didn’t have a voice,” she said. “I was like, guys, what happens if I literally lose my voice tomorrow completely and I can’t talk? They were like, ‘well, you’ll still have to sing like that.’ And I was like, ‘what? You don’t have any backup plans? I can’t pre-record or something? ’

“But I made it out,” she said. “I did lots of warm tea and honey and whatnot and I really tried to have a voice.”

Thorne said she was filming a project in Puerto Rico at the same time she shot “The Masked Singer,” which added to the hectic experience. “I was doing a lot of fight training, so it was singing and fight training. Singing and fight training, ”she said. “It was really a tiring schedule.”

At the same time, Thorne said she was prepared for “The Masked Singer” to be more challenging than it was.

“And then I got there and I realized that I could do this,” she said. Thorne chose the Swan costume because she liked the look, but also because it appeared to be the easiest to navigate.

“And so I got super lucky,” she said. “I didn’t have huge wings, wings are really hard. My head was really big and the hardest part was talking out of my neck. That was a little weird. I couldn’t stand up anywhere except for on the stage because I was so tall. To be squatting anytime I had my mask on, which was so funny looking, my crown would break touching the ceiling. But I could only talk out of my neck and my eye holes had the better sound than my mouth holes, so I actually put the mic to my eyeholes. So singing out of my eyeballs, which was very interesting. Sometimes i couldn’t see because i had a mic in front of my eye. ”

Thorne said she was also surprised that no one figured her identity out. Robin Thicke guessed Nina Dobrev, Ken Jeong guessed Olivia Munn, while Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Kristen Stewart, Nicole Scherzinger named Megan Fox and guest panelist Joel McHale chose Mila Kunis.

“When you get on set they take everything so beyond to a serious point,” Thorne said. “No names, no face, no inch of skin, no fingernail, nada, nothing. This is way more serious than what I thought. The swan really became my persona because it’s all people could reference me as. People were telling me swan facts all the time. So I also learned a lot about swans, which was pretty cool. ”

Thorne may not be continuing on as the Swan on “The Masked Singer,” but she got a pretty great consolation prize: “The Duff” star has sealed a new deal with Fox to develop scripted and unscripted fare.

Thorne is the second star to be kicked off in Group C, the final of three groups of six celebrities (making total) competing in this year competition. Describing this collection of six celebrities, Cannon revealed that “between them they have one Guinness World Record, three ‘New York Times’ bestsellers and (gold records. ”

Thorne’s exit this season follows Lil Wayne, Drew Carey, Chaka Khan, Tony Hawk, Dionne Warwick, Tom Bergeron and Sarah Palin.

Here’s a recap of the other contestants and their performances on Wednesday: