THE Masked Singer UK fans slammed judge Jonathan Ross during tonight’s Christmas special over a repeated ‘habit’ that drives them wild.
Jonathan was trying to guess the identity of Turkey Crown in the festive one-off, where he was joined by regular panellist Mo Gilligan and guest detectives French and Saunders.
The mystery singer sang A Wonderful Christmastime, and teased various clues about their identity – including a clue about ‘relative values’ and let slip that that they were popular with kids in Kindergarten.
But Jonathan rubbed viewers up the wrong way by guessing Mary Berry – a guess he makes most episodes, despite the baking legend never appearing behind the masking.
Naturally, viewers took to X, formerly twitter, to vent at him trotting out the same prediction over and over.
One ranted: “Can we please get Mary Berry on the show if only to stop Jonathan making the same crap joke?”
A second screamed: “If i hear one more Mary Berry thing from Jonathan i’m gonna lose it.”
A third wrote: “Wouldn’t be a masked singer episode without Jonathan guessing Mary Berry.”
A fourth eye-rolled: “Jonathan guessing Mary Berry klaxon!”
And a fifth chimed in: “It wouldn’t be a Masked Singer episode if Jonathan didn’t guess Mary Berry at least once.”
It turned out that, once again, Jonathan was way off the mark.
Turkey crown was, in fact, unmasked as Strictly Come Dancing judge, Motsi Mabuse.
The Kindergarten clue was a reference to her living in Germany and running a dance school there.
Meanwhile, the ‘relative values’ mention was a clue that referred to her equally famous sibling, Oti.
Earlier in the episode, Christmas Cracker was exposed as This Morning star Josie Gibson.
“This is so out of my comfort zone!” Josie confessed after she lifted the mask.
But the biggest shock came when second place finisher Star was revealed to be none other than The Masked Singer’s own Davina McCall.
The long-running panellist has revealed how she pulled a sickie to fake the big reveal.
Davina said: “I was texting the bosses at eight o’clock, who were obviously in on it, but I had to text them and to tell them I had to miss the recording of the Christmas special.
“They had to text the whole production team and tell them.”
Davina came second to Nutcracker, who won the show and was unmasked as Frankie Goes to Hollywood frontman Holly Johnson.
The Masked Singer returns for a new series on Saturday Jan 4 at 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
