Once you know his real identity, you won’t be able to unhear his voice.
THE MASKED SINGER: UGLY SWEATER IN THE MASKED SINGER “TRANSFORMERS NIGHT” EPISODE AIRING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 (8:00-9:02 PM ET/PT) ON FOX. CR: MICHAEL BECKER / FOX. ©2024 FOX MEDIA LLC.
Ugly Sweater was one of 16 contestants on Season 11 of The Masked Singer, FOX’s reality TV singing competition where celebrities compete against each other in performances while wearing head-to-to costumes and face masks to conceal their identities. Throughout the season, a panel of judges guess who the celebrities are based on their voices and clues provided before and after each performance. Each week, the contestant with the least amount of votes from a studio audience is sent home and takes off their mask to reveal their identity.
The Masked Singer is based on South Korea’s King of the Mask Singer, which follows a similar format. Since the premiere of The King of the Mask Singer in 2015, The Masked Singer has expanded to dozens of countries across the world including France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil. “It was flypaper TV right from the get-go,” The Masked Singer executive producer Craig Plestis told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 about why he wanted to produce the show in the United States. “I just knew right away this was a special show. It was unbelievable in its appeal — and the game play, spectacle, family-viewing…[and] it was this huge hit in Asia…. If we do the job here, it should work here.”
The Masked Singer premiered in 2019 with host Nick Cannon and judges Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke, and Nicole Scherzinger. Scherzinger was the first judge to leave following Season 10 and was replaced in Season 11 by singer Rita Ora, who was also a judge on The Masked Singer UK for five seasons.
“Of course I was familiar by doing the U.K. show for about five seasons, and when they asked me to do this one, I was so excited,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2024. “I just felt like a hundred percent [yes] because I already knew the show so well, and I just love it and I love the excitement of it. It’s just so crazy and it’s like a huge game show, and such a great family show. You can’t really go wrong. I mean, you may look crazy with the names you [guess], but who cares? Because the whole show is a bit bonkers anyway, so it doesn’t feel like work at all.”
Throughout The Masked Singer‘s 10-plus seasons, dozens of celebrities, including LeeAnn Rimes, Jesse McCartney, Gladys Knight, Donny Osmond, and T-Pain, have competed on the show under secret identities and complex costumes. So who is Ugly Sweater on The Masked Singer Season 11? Keep reading for our best guess to who Ugly Sweater is on The Masked Singer 2024 and the celebrity we’re convinced will be revealed under the mask.
Who’s Ugly Sweater on The Masked Singer?
Who’s Ugly Sweater on The Masked Singer? Charlie Wilson, the lead singer of the group The Gap Band, is our best guess for Ugly Sweater on The Masked Singer Season 11 based on his voice and clues. Read on for the clues that support Wilson as Ugly Sweater on The Masked Singer ahead.
Rabbit in a hat (Week 1)
The Gap Band’s debut album is titled Magician’s Holiday. Wilson also released a solo song in 2005 titled “Magic” from his album Charlie, Last Name Wilson.
Blue train (Week 1)
The Gap Band have a song titled “Party Train” from their 1983 album Gap Band V: Jammin’.
Blue Record (Week 1)
The Gap Band have a song titled “Out of the Blue” from their 1977 album The Gap Band.
Alarm clock with hands at 2 and 8 (Week 1)
The Gap Band have a song titled “Early in the Morning” from their album Gap Band IV, which was released in 1982.
Ugly Sweater went from living in “penthouses” to “sleeping on park benches” and his life was “hanging on by a thread.” (Week 1)
In a video on his Facebook in 2020, Wilson explained how he used to sleep in the parking lots. “This parking lot here where some homeless people, him and his wife, used to feed me and let me sleep in there. There were three shopping carts. I had a brick for my pillow, a piece of cardboard for my bed and three shopping carts were wrapped in cellophane,” he said in the video. He captioned the post, “I went from sleeping in parking lots to selling out arenas. 💪🏿 Never give up on yourself.”
“There’s one person in my life who helped me tap into my inner Optimus Prime: my wife. When I met my soulmate, we couldn’t be more opposite. My life was unraveling and hers was all buttoned up.” (Week 6)
Wilson credited his wife, Mahin Tat, was a social worker at the drug rehabilitation program where he was treated in the mid-1990s after he was struggling with homelessness and alcohol and cocaine addiction. The couple married in 1995 and Wilson has been sober ever since.
The Ugly Sweater spends his time wisely. So much so that he even has a Lifetime Achievement award.” (Week 6)
Wilson received a BET Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
