Masked Singer winner Natalie Imbruglia reveals secret DMs from show judge Davina McCall amid fix row
Natalie Imbruglia has weighed in on the row over her friendship with The Masked Singer judge Davina McCall after she won the ITV show.
The Australian star, 47 — famed for hits including Torn and Wrong Impression — beat off competition from Charlotte Church as Mushroom and Mark Feehily who was unmasked at Robobunny.
Natalie said: “I think it’s wonderful that people are so invested in the person that they’re a fan of, or that they’re following, that they feel so strongly about it.
“But my experience being on the show was just such amazing camaraderie.
“It’s a fun family show. I don’t think it should be seriously competitive in that way.
“And I would hope that the overarching thing is that people just really enjoyed the fun that we all had on the show. Everybody’s a winner.”
Fans were surprised to see Davina’s over-the-top reaction to seeing her friend revealed as Panda in the ITV show’s final.
Natalie explained the two had been friends for a long time.
She said: “Davina was DMing me going, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe that.’
Most read in The Sun
“And we’re having this back-and-forth chat. She said, ‘I don’t think it’s sunk into you that you’ve just won an eight week competition’, and it’s true, I wasn’t expecting to win.
“I was convinced that Mushroom had won it so I was just as gobsmacked.
“But yeah, she was really funny and she was talking about the host [Joel Dommett] because he was quite freaked out that I’ve been hugging him all week.
“So that was quite funny.”