IT’S the celebrity guessing game that combines weird and wonderful costumes with a whole load of warbling.
And the new series will be more riddlesome than ever, as a duo has been thrown in the mix.
In the all-new twist for the fourth outing of the starspangled Cluedo, Cat & Mouse will sing together.
Joel Dommett is back as host, as are judges Jonathan Ross, Mo Gilligan, Rita Ora and Davina McCall.
Joel said: “Cat and Mouse are great. Weirdly, you would’ve thought, because there’s two of them, it’d be easier to guess, but it’s harder, I think.
“It’s really difficult, because there are two of them, you can’t hear the voice as much. So, it’s very interesting.”
Davina added: “But I’ve been looking at them thinking, ‘You’re not a couple’, but then they might be acting like they are a couple.
Wossy agreed: “The clues could be about one of them or both of them, you know what I mean? So it’s harder in many ways but it’s a lot more fun to watch because you try and pick up from them what is their relationship?
“Are they people who are together off screen? Are they people who work together?
“So it feels like a different element and it means that they can do different things on stage together as well!”
Cat & Mouse will be aiming to join previous winners Nicola Roberts — who appeared as Queen Bee — Joss Stone — alias Sausage — and Natalie Imbrulgia – Panda – as the 12 new hopefuls pull on their creative costumes.
This time a knitted jumper will compete with a pigeon, a binful of rubbish and a scuba diving otter.
Other contenders include a jellyfish, a phoenix, a rhinestone-clad rhino, a little deer called Fawn, and a tinfoil-covered jacket potato.
A cartoon ghost, and a slice of cake will also each be masking a celeb, and the line-up is completed by nightmare rabbit Robobunny.
Before the start of series four on New Year’s Day, we kick off the Masked Singer guessing game.
While some celebrities’ identities have a costume clue — like exNottingham Forest footballer Teddy Sheringham as a tree — that is not always the case. We introduce the special guessed stars and speculate who they might be . . .
THE MASKED SINGER returns on January 1 at 6.30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
