Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “The Masked Singer” didn’t have to look far to find a fill-in for panelist Nicole Scherzinger, who spent the fall starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard on London’s West End.
Singer/songwriter Rita Ora has served as a panelist on “The Masked Singer UK” for several seasons — making it an easy trip across the pond to take Scherzinger’s chair alongside Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg and Robin Thicke.
U.S. audiences will get their first look at Ora behind the panelists’ table as “The Masked Singer” returns on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
ET on Fox. The show opens with Ora singing The Who’s “Who Are You?” (one of the signature “Masked Singer” themes). In arriving on these shores, Ora said she was immediately blown away by the level of celebrity talent that signed up for the Fox series. “I think here in the U.S.
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