With "The Masked Singer" this time the whistle has to say goodbye to the stage. The celebrity behind the mask from another ProSieben format is known throughout Germany. However, only Moschner from the rate team got it right: she recognizes the whistle from the Saarland dialect.
The creative director and longtime "Germany's Next Topmodel" juror Thomas Hayo was disguised as a whistle in the ProSieben show "The Masked Singer" and was thus eliminated. The 53-year-old, who sat next to Heidi Klum on the GNTM jury until 2018, received too few votes from the viewers on Saturday evening and therefore had to reveal his identity. Nevertheless, Hayo was satisfied after his exposure: "It's a dream. You can finally do what you usually do in the shower here and you don't have to be ashamed of it."
Hayo was in a bright blue tracksuit and wore an oversized whistle with big googly eyes as a mask. He couldn't see underneath, he said at the end of the show. That made the performances difficult. "Singing blind is possible, but dancing blind was a bit more difficult." Nevertheless, participation in the show was "great fun". "I never thought I'd enjoy being booed like this," he said at the end.
A member of the prominent rate team had already tracked Hayo down: According to her own words, Ruth Moschner heard a slight dialect under the mask and therefore guessed the Saarland native. Her team member Ross Antony settled on the actor and musician Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, while Yvonne Catterfeld suspected the footballer Sami Khedira under the costume. Ochsenknecht was also the favorite in the online public vote.
In "The Masked Singer" celebrities appear as singers, but hide their identities behind elaborate costumes. Only gradually are they revealed. In the third episode of the current season, the music show started with an innovation: for the first time, several costumed people were on stage at the same time and performed a song together. Black Mamba, Goldi and the Mole showed that they would also work as a boy band. For her solo appearance, Black Mamba again put everything on its "hypnotic effect" and chose the Madonna hit "Like a Prayer" for it.
Ruth Moschner stuck to an assumption. Last week, the rate boss was able to introduce himself to Michael Kessler, because Black Mamba wore his red glitter boots again. This footwear could be a reference to the actor and his boot scene in the movie "Manta, Manta". Or maybe moderator Alexander Mazza is behind the mask?
In the case of the mole, the question had not yet been resolved as to whether his accent was fake or real. While Moschner suspected the pronunciation was fake, Ross Antony believed more in an Irish accent that could suit singer Michael Patrick Kelly.
Grumpy, fluffy and cute - Goldi still didn't want to be considered cute and hoped to be voted out by the viewers. "Because of the inner hatred, it could be Hans Werner Olm," speculated Ruth Moschner. "There is only one who is so cuddly that you want to go to bed with him," said Ross Antony, hoping for actor Simon Pearce behind the mask.
There was also hot speculation about the masking of the werewolf. Yvonne Catterfeld could well imagine "the count" under the fur. According to Moschner, Wolfgang "Wolle" Petry could have disguised himself as a bad wolf. The rate team agreed that the tooth fairy must also be a professional singer.
Ironically, the werewolf and "No Name" made a duet on the "TMS" stage. For this, the unequal couple chose the song "Walk this way", including a rap part of the robot. But "No Name" was looking forward to just one moment all the time - his baptism. The viewers chose their own name for the robot via the app. The fans chose the name Rosty from 36,000 name suggestions such as Schrauby or Büchsen Bernhard. Baptism was of course done with oil instead of holy water.
More than 60,000 votes were cast in total, said moderator Matthias Opdenhövel. Rosty was very satisfied after the baptism. He was happy to finally have a name, he said. Next Saturday the robot will go on stage as Rosty for the first time.
