The Masked Singer / The Voice 2020 UK

I don't usually watch Strictly but if you like your dancing shows utterly daft, this week's has a tango to the Dr Who theme, as well as dances to The Apprentice, Eastenders and Grange Hill themes

Don't forget dancing the Charleston to the theme tune to Blue Peter, which is a hornpipe and has it's own specific dance.

The concept of Couple's Choice somewhat abandoned to make Molly and Carlos "choose" a thing clearly neither of them gave a shit about and is absolutely not suitable for street dance

I don't like Halloween theme weeks (X Factor's being particularly woeful) but somehow Strictly manages to get away with it.
Meanwhile on The Voice, Tom's jacket looks like something Gary Barlow wore as an X Factor judge.

Watching the end of this I Can See Your Voice thing on BBC1, absolute dregs of UK light ents, and can someone please get Jimmy Carr properly cancelled.

Even for a show that started during the pandemic, and might have been given some benefit of the doubt for having been recorded under those circumstances, it was immediately obvious that I Can See Your Voice was a steaming pile. I guess the BBC continued with it because it's cheap to make?

throw enough stuff at a wall and something's gonna stick

Last night: Ian Beale and Mr Motivator in drag
Tonight: The Masked Singer I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Special Edition

Followed by Matt Hancock and Chris Moyles eating bugs until mid December.

Tonight: The Masked Singer I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Special Edition

The Masked Singer starts tonight at 6:30pm on ITV1 - another genius bit of scheduling to have this series start on New Year's Day to a captive audience.

A whole week before we see the other half of them?!

Gives me time to recover from all the commercial breaks and filler.

Knitting is Claire from Steps. I shall be back with more wrong guesses at some point.

Fleeting Annie Lennox vibes from Fawn. I will also be back with more wrong guesses...

I thought Alison Goldfrapp, but I'm definitely wrong.

Rhino could be Rylan as whoever is in that costume is definitely very tall. Probably not Russell Brand as he doesn't believe in wearing masks...

Judges keeping up their habit of removing a proper singer and leaving in the crap one who can't sing at all, I see.

"Well" was an excellent clue in hindsight.

Took us about two seconds of Piece of Cake singing to go "well, that's Lulu".

I'm very much on the Rylan/Rhino bandwagon. Fawn, I'm thinking Stacy Solomon. Not got much else yet for the rest.

Praying they get rid of Otter, not sure I can sit through that again.

Knitting = Claire from Steps?

Yeah, everyone seems to think so. She's the best from this half.

I have witnesses who can confirm I said Mel Gedroyc for Otter before the telly people did.

Jellyfish is way better than Knitting!

Having a duo just sing the same thing at the same time means you can't actually hear either voice very well so I wasn't too invested in Cat & Mouse staying in.

Last week's was unremarkable
I was getting fed up with this one, was hoping it'd be someone 'funny' enough to be worth the 'haha you are a terrible singer' schtick and was adequately surprised by the reveal.

I said Mel Giedroyc for Otter on Facebook and Twitter couple of weeks ago. I should do these on here too. Knitting is definitely Claire Richards. There appears to be a giant groundswell of opinion that Jacket Potato is Richie Sambora and I have been all over the other social medias insisting it's 100% Shane Richie and I will never stop laughing if it turns out they have identical singing voices.

Fawn is an Appleton - Natalie, I think.

I'm also buying Jellyfish as Amber Riley as suggested by Jonathan Ross in a rare lucid moment. I don't really get him enough but there's so much chatter about Rhino from his fangirls that I have to assume it's the person the internet says it is.

Phoenix is the one I can't get a handle on at all

ffs can they get rid of Otter this time?

Well still a 50% chance, come on!

Still, whatever happens more of this audience voted for Otter than for Knitting so they should probably not be allowed to vote on anything again.

Well I'm disappointed because I like her, but she should never sing again please.

re:otter

Still none the wiser on Phoenix. The internet seems to think it's Ricky Wilson, my current guess is Michael Sheen.

I forgot ailsa suggested Ricky Wilson and was concentrating on Phoenix being/ not being Michael Sheen. Then my kid noticed the ruby ring and I came up with Ricky Wilson. The song choices really threw me - I like that that was a deliberate choice and and suggested someone older. I guessed Rhino some weeks ago.

would never have got Fawn - don't remember All Saints as being that strong singers.
Jellyfish shoulda won!

Britain's Got Talent: Simon Cowell's chin implant makes him look like GigaChad.

Or rather, GigaChad's Mini-Me, as I rather unkindly thought on the bus home from work this evening.

The Masked Singer I'm A Celebrity Special. The first singer is Dunny, a singing toilet. Background music for the pre-performance VT was Salt'N'Pepa's 'Push It' and 'Ring Of Fire' by Johnny Cash. I wish I was joking.

i only just got round to watching last year's I'm A Celeb one. I don't have a clue who has or hasn't been on it so it was a bit lost on me.

Dunny was Joe fucking Pasquale. They should have dressed him in a deer costume.

Christmas one-off was quite good being a single ep. Got Sprout instantly (quite proud) probably because we have been watching him on some old tv stuff with my kids.
Sort of guessed Reindeer. was totally thrown by the guesses on Decorations, my other half guessed the same wrong person. Winner was a surprise. I think my viewing expectations have been drastically lowered over Christmas, ha.

Yeah, spotted Sprout and Reindeer straight away (Reindeer's singing voice sounded exactly like their speaking voice). Guessed correctly for Decorations then was completely swayed to the obvious incorrect option via my husband's guess which I couldn't shift, even when the cracker clue swayed me back to my original guess. Was nowhere near on Partridge and am only glad I wasn't watching live and posting here or Twitter and sharing my guesses on record.

It remains a really fun format, even if the panel are the most ridiculous people on earth and Joel's puns make me all murdery.

Stephen Fry hosting Jeopardy!, Graham Norton hosting Wheel Of Fortune?

That's the thing about watching The Masked Singer and The Voice (final on in about half an hour if anyone can raise a care), I get exposed to all these adverts and programme trailers I'd have no idea existed otherwise.

They do somehow appear to have got Dionne Warwick on dressed as a giant raincloud (will die laughing when it turns out to be Rita from Corrie).

So far our guesses are:

Maypole: Kimberly Wyatt or Jessie J
Cricket: Jay Blades or Danny John Jules
Bigfoot: Alex Brooker
Dippy Egg: Rory Kinnear or Simon Gregson or Matt Baker
Raincloud: Dionne Warwick
Rat:Maisie Adam or Kerry Godlimam

These are purely on the voice, the clues are worth nothing at this stage

Hope it's Dionne Warwick so Britishers can find out how she pronounces her name

Question: Will they eventually run out of slightly out-of-fashion celebrities? Like peak oil?

Like, how many Donny Osmonds and Biz Markies and Sarah Fucking Palins and George Santoses and Drew Careys are there? How many have NOT yet been on one or another of this general group of TV shows?

Are we headed toward a Trumpocalypse with Ivana vs. Donald Jr.?

Well, that was clearly contractual for one night only

Obviously the contract didn't include an agreement where Warwick dropped the choppy cadence for the unmasked performance of the song.

Like, we know who it is now, there's no need for her to continue disguising her voice like that.