The Masked Singer: Wendy Williams reveals 5 show secrets

4. The Masked Singer Really Is Top Secret

In a 2020 world, technology and social media have made anonymity unimaginable, especially when it comes to high-profile celebrities. Wendy Williams confirms The Masked Singer really does do a good job with keeping things under wraps and thoroughly keeping things hush with several rules and procedures in place.

When she boarded the private plane there were only three passengers aboard which included her manager, an assistant, and herself. When commuting for The Masked Singer, she was dressed in all black attire covering her entire body with a black face shield so she could enter the studio incognito, and “underneath that, there’s also a black mask and sunglasses,” Williams shared. Williams added she wore a shorter wig just in case the other layers didn’t conceal her.

There is also a policy where each celebrity is called by their character name at all times.

“All the staffers and everybody on the studio lot — if you called somebody out by their regular name, like if somebody says ‘Wendy’ or ‘I love your show,’ or anything like that. There’s some sort of financial [penalty],” Williams told her fans. “So I was Lips, they kept calling me Lips…I couldn’t get used to answering to that, so I just kept walking.”

The show does allow the celebrity contestants to let two people in on the secret as long as those two people sign a non-disclosure agreement, but most contestants like Williams probably choose not to.

“I told no one,” Williams said. “Everyone I know has a big mouth, like my mother and father. That’s when they’d be at Bloomingdale’s at the counter saying ‘Wendy’s out in LA. She’s doing The Masked Singer.’ Now I didn’t fly all the way out there to get kicked off because now the word is out.”