The Masked Singer bosses have opened up in regards to the resolution to tug a efficiency from Saturday night time’s broadcast on the eleventh hour.
Over the weekend, the Bafta-winning celeb singing competitors returned for its seventh season, with the launch present initially billed to characteristic six well-known contestants performing for the panel incognito.
Nevertheless, mere hours earlier than Saturday’s broadcast, it was reported that the present was being lower brief by 10 minutes, and it was later revealed that one of many characters, generally known as “Pink Panda”, wouldn’t be included as a part of the episode in any case.
As hypothesis grew about why the character was being eliminated, ITV later confirmed that the choice had been made in gentle of the current fireplace catastrophe at a bar in Switzerland, by which 40 individuals had been killed and greater than 100 others had been injured.
In a press release to TV Zone, a Masked Singer spokesperson mentioned: “In gentle of the tragic occasions in Switzerland, we took the choice to take away Pink Panda’s efficiency on The Masked Singer in tonight’s programme owing to potential insensitivities inside the theme and lyrics of the track.”
They added that viewers would nonetheless “get to see Pink Panda carry out within the coming weeks”.
Of their inaugural efficiency, Pink Panda was seen in firefighter apparel, whereas their efficiency of The Trammps’ Disco Inferno was nonetheless included within the model of The Masked Singer proven on the streaming service ITVX.
After the weekend’s double invoice, The One Present presenter Alex Jones and rapper Professor Inexperienced have now grow to be the primary two celebrities to be unmasked.
In the meantime, early hypothesis has urged that the likes of Sugababes singer Keisha Buchanan, actuality star Sam Thompson and comic Tom Allen are below among the remaining disguises.
The Masked Singer continues on Saturday night time at 7pm on ITV1.
