Do The Performers On The Masked Singer Get Paid
Contestants perform as quirky characters including chameleon, pharaoh and butterfly with a panel of judges trying to figure out their identities. Do The Masked Singer contestants get paid? Sadly it has not been revealed whether the contestants get paid to feature on the show. The contestant must eliminate one singer at the end of each of the first five rounds, receiving $10,000 if they eliminate a bad singer. In the first two rounds ('Lip Sync Challenge'), the singers are divided into two groups of three, and participate in a lip sync performance to one song each. The bad singers mime to a recording by someone else. 'The Masked Singer' winner is T-Pain (a.k.a. The Monster), and after he won the show last night, he was given his prize. See what T-Pain was given on the season 1 finale, and info about the other. Every episode of The Masked Singer was filmed in a large theater, filled with people, all of whom could, presumably, spoil the identity of any one of the singers through a casual tweet or message.
The Masked Singer will air its Season 1 finale this week, and now the winner's prize has been revealed.
However, as Bustle reports, the prize is not quite grand as the emerging victor will only leave with bragging rights and a trophy.
The outlet cited other news organizations that had reported the same detail, with USA Today writing that there is 'no particular prize,' and Metro News saying, 'Like most celebrity-based reality television, The Masked Singer doesn't boast a big prize at the end.'
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Find out TONIGHT on our two-hour season finale at 8/7c on @FOXTV. #TheMaskedSingerpic.twitter.com/nC4JnSlXy4
— The Masked Singer (@MaskedSingerFOX) February 27, 2019It is correct that most celebrity-based reality TV competitions do not end with a large prize-bucket of winnings, as the contestants are typically paid a negotiated sum for their appearance.
Recently Masked Singer host Nick Cannon opened up about the show, and revealed that he does not know who is under the costumes, but added that he does know how fans can better guess the celebrity identities.
“I personally stay out of when they pick whoever the celebs are in the costumes because I want to be able to play along with everyone else,” he told Country Living. “I can make all the crazy, random guesses myself because I don’t know who’s underneath the mask.”
“The other singers don’t even know who the other singers are,” Cannon added. “Everyone’s kind of ushered through security and tents that separate everyone. It’s pretty intense.”
“The song choices and the actual mask,” he went on to say. “If you pay close attention to the songs that people are singing and then why they chose the costume that they chose, I think that those are some of the biggest clues that sometimes people just overlook.”
The Masked Singer executive producers Izzie Pick Ibarra and Craig Plestis also previously opened up about the show, and shared how they plan to keep the celebrities identities secret going forward.
'We have a lot of production processes in place for that type of secrecy that can still remain in place, if that makes sense. So few people knew who any of the singers were on our production—and it was very, very, very few people,' Ibarra stated. 'We can carry on that to another season and I feel confident that we can keep [that going].'
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comments'That’s the big part of the show right now: keeping the secret,' Plestis chimed in. 'We want America to guess. We want our panel to guess. We really tried to keep every secret from them because that’s a magic that we got from the show. If we can keep that again, keep all this a secret from everybody, from the crew and from the rest of America, it’s going to be a great season.'
The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
Fox's The Masked Singer started out as a strange, goofy, somewhat bizarre competition between celebrities. It's definitely still all those things, but now it's also a bona fide phenomenon. With the season finale airing Feb. 27, one costumed contestant will finally take home the Masked Singer prize. But what exactly do they win?
Well, right now it seems like it might just be bragging rights. According to USA Today,there's 'no particular prize.' Metro News echoed that sentiment, writing that 'like most celebrity-based reality television, The Masked Singer doesn't boast a big prize at the end.' And per the International Business Times, the main components of the show's prize are just bragging rights and a trophy.
While those may seem like pretty lackluster winnings against a reality TV landscape that frequently hands out record deals and hundreds of thousands of dollars, it makes sense for The Masked Singer. Each person behind the masks is a celebrity of some kind who presumably has plenty of money and opportunities, so it wouldn't make sense to give them even more. Some other celebrity competitions ask competitors to each choose a charity to compete on behalf of, and donate any winnings to, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.
The point of The Masked Singer is pretty obviously not for its contestants to duke it out for a bunch of cash. It's just about having fun — and perhaps there's no need for a prize at all.
The show is an Americanized version of a Korean series, Kind of Mask Singer, according to Vulture, and also has versions in other countries. It's an off-the-wall idea: celebrities obscure their identities behind elaborate, outrageous costumes while performing songs and occasionally dropping clues about who they are until someone guesses right, or they're eliminated. But somehow, it works, and even functions on some level as a deeper commentary about celebrity culture.
Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk even wrote in the same piece that 'The Masked Singer is absolutely imbecilic, except for the fact that it is also a pretty fascinating examination of celebrity culture, mass appeal, performance, image, and fame.'
The has certainly had its fair share of critics, too, but even so, people can't seem to stop watching. As Vox's Todd VanDerWerff wrote:
Do The Celebrities On The Masked Singer Get Paid
'The Masked Singer is so ridiculous and so terrible that it wraps right back around to being one of the most compelling things on television. It's a reality singing competition that's barely interested in the words 'reality,' 'singing,' or 'competition.' It's an excuse for Hollywood to let its freak flag fly, but by 'Hollywood,' we mean, 'Z-list celebrities you might not have heard of.' And yet it's undeniably compelling and compulsively watchable in the way that reality shows that blow up in the ratings often are.'
What's more, according to Esquire, The Masked Singer has yielded between 7 and 9 million viewers every single week right up until the end, which is definitely enough to qualify it as a hit.
Heading into the finale, there's still plenty of speculation about who's behind each remaining mask. Only time will tell who takes home this prize, but no matter what they win, this surprisingly successful show will be sticking around in our minds for some time to come.