Solely 4 episodes into its third season, The Masked Singer has already despatched extra A-list talents away than a Hollywood nightclub on a Friday evening. In Wednesday’s newest (“A Model New Six Pack”) one other well-known movie star acquired the boot, though this one falls exterior the standard lane of entertainers and TV varieties.
This week, professional skater Tony Hawk needed to make that unhappy Uber request, unable to stay with the remainder of the brand new rivals in Group B. Whereas not a performer within the standard sense, Hawk has appeared in dozens of films and TV exhibits (The Suite Lifetime of Zack & Cody, CSI: Miami, Are You Smarter Than a fifth Grader?) since he began skating as a child within the 1980s, and naturally impressed a collection of video video games.
Apparently recreation for absolutely anything, Hawk jumped into The Masked Singer fray singing “Friday I am in Love” by The Treatment, and although he was a reasonably respectable singer, his good wasn’t sufficient to maintain him within the recreation. As he tells TV Information, which may’ve been for the perfect: he did not anticipate to final lengthy and is type of glad he did not. Learn on to see how he felt about that track, why he selected to return on and why no person in his world goes to suspect he was on the present.
Why’d you get knocked out so early?
Hawk: I am unable to deny I wasn’t the perfect singer within the crowd. Additionally, my track selection was not as thrilling or as Prime 40 because the others.
I assumed you sounded OK! I do know you have sung with James Corden, and there is a YouTube video of you covering a song by The Adolescents, however do you might have a lot expertise singing in any other case?
Hawk: Solely in that my sister is a successful singer. She helped me work out [how to do some of the vocals]. She’s executed background singing for Michael Bolton, The Righteous Brothers, John Denver. And my dad used to play a variety of devices. Having that background gave me some sense of of confidence.
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So does that imply you may need to maintain singing? Perhaps a Tony Hawk album on the best way?
Hawk: No. All that stuff is protected. I did not really feel as a lot stress in these conditions. This was daunting.
Your clue bundle confirmed the drums. Do you actually play?
Hawk: I believe they have been simply attempting to throw folks off with that one. I acquired interviewed for the clue packages, however I am not a part of how they put them collectively; I do not know the place they acquired the drumming factor but.
There was a man voguing within the bundle too; I do not think about you might have a lot expertise with that.
Hawk: Nicely, for Vogue, I did a shoot with my son final yr. However that is fairly obscure, you’d have to actually go deep into somebody’s historical past to get that one.
How’d this come about? Did they strategy you otherwise you strategy them?
Hawk: They approached me. This isn’t one thing I am reaching out about. I needed to watch it over a pair episodes to determine if it was match. As quickly as I began speaking about songs, we landed on The Treatment, and that is once I determined. The opposite songs I rehearsed have been “Born to Be Wild” and “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” by Joan Jett and that was not my strongest. I am nearly grateful we did not get there.
You’ve got youngsters – did you inform them you would be on? What is going to their response be like?
Hawk: We’ve two at house [that] we informed however we’ve got two in school and it’ll come as a whole shock. The folks in my workplace, in my basis too. I do not suppose they’d ever anticipate me to do one thing so out of the skateboard world. The whole lot I do is pretty near that trade of sports activities and skateboarding. That is extra mainstream.
Yeah, it isn’t very punk. However then, it is so not punk that it is type of punk, proper?
Hawk: [Laughs.] Perhaps.
Are you unhappy to be leaving so quickly?
Hawk: No. It was good to go one spherical, however I did not need to go previous two. That was going to be an excessive amount of stress.
The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays 8/7c on Fox.