Warning: This article contains spoilers fromThe Masked Singerseason 8 premiere.
The Masked Singerseason 8 is off to the races, and it’s already full of surprises.
First up was Knight, who wasrevealed to beStar Trekicon William Shatner(kudos toJenny McCarthy-Wahlbergfor guessing him).
Hedgehog performs on season 8 of ‘The Masked Singer’.FOX
Plus, Idle talked candidly about why he has no plans for anotherMonty Pythonreunion.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What convinced you to doThe Masked Singer?
ERIC IDLE:Well, it was odd.
Eric Idle.John Lamparski/WireImage
I had just arrived in Europe, and I’d been gone for three years.
And I went, “Oh, gosh, I have to go all the way back to LA.
I just got here.”
Then I thought to myself, actually, this is in my wheelhouse.
I played all sorts of singing animals.
I’ve been a singing moon.
It is a silly show, but I have been in a few silly shows.
This would be fun.
And so that, for me, became the motivation to do it.
Plus, they were very nice and very sweet on the phone and on their Zoom calls.
Nice to meet you, Hedgehog.
How are you?"
That just made me giggle.
[Giggles] See, I still giggle.
I miss it now.
I’m gonna ask everybody to call me Hedgehog, because I really enjoyed it.
So it was kind of interesting and a wonderful experience.
That’s wonderful news about the cancer.
Thank you for sharing that.
And I thought no, no, I’m going to do something.
There’s more money in crying.
So that’s what I’m doing.
That all happened because ofThe Masked Singer.
That whole experience was an epiphany for me, and was very, very important in my life.
And I’m very glad to have done it, and learned that.
So now we can help people.
We’ve got some good news, and let’s share it.
And that’s all I decided I would do.
Does this make you want to do any moreMonty Pythonreunions per chance?
Oh, no, no.
They’re all dead anyway.
[Laughs] No, they’re not.
But [the last]Pythonreunion was like in 2014, I directed that show.
And it was a wonderful experience, andTerry Joneswas still alive, you know.
So we’re in that category now where we’re heading towards the exit.
We can’t make people laugh now.
We made people laugh then, you know what I mean?
And there’s a huge body of work.
I love that that show goes on.
I knew lots of them.
I’m going to take a stab at be funny, and write and perform comedy."
And so there we are.
So this is full circle now.
Because people need a bit of cheering up, you might have noticed.
Yes, andThe Masked Singercan be good for that.
The Masked Singeris that, yeah.
I think it cheers people up and you know that people will dress up and do these silly things.
It’s all so very human and encouraging.
I’m very grateful.
Speaking of other contestants, were you aware that William Shatner had been revealed before you?
Did you get a chance to catch up with him?
Yeah, I mean, when he was revealed, I sat next to him.
I’ve known him for many years.
I was once in production [with him] and he’s a brilliant actor.
It’s quite hard.
But I was thrilled he said that, because it made me feel a lot better.
Yes, it was very hard, but you always feel good that you actually got through it.
And sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t.
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Watch Idle’s unmasking below:
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