Do The Performers On The Masked Singer Get Paid
Network Ten’s hit new show The Masked Singer has already amassed a huge audience – but some fans aren’t convinced the performances are genuine. Viewers were quick to slam the singers on social media, suggesting they weren’t actually performing their songs live. Don’t Forget About America’s Got Talent, Friends. Nick apparently made $70,000 per episode as the host of America’s Got Talent (which he left in 2017), and of course, that’s on top of his. Although it is expected that contestants are receiving some form of a weekly stipend, as they do on 'Dancing With The Stars', it turns out the celebs on 'The Masked Singer', don't make a single penny! According to Bustle, the show itself is purely 'just for fun.' 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.
Do The Judges On The Masked Singer Get Paid
The Masked Singer will air its Season 1 finale this week, and now the winner's prize has been revealed.
Do Singers On The Masked Singer Get Paid
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.'
🏆 Who will win it all? 🏆
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].'
Do The Performers On The Masked Singer Get Paid Money
0comments'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.'
Do The Performers On The Masked Singer Get Paid Singer
The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.