{"id":1850161,"date":"2023-02-16T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850161"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:51:03","slug":"i-think-some-people-thought-i-was-dead-dick-van-dyke-shocks-judges-with-masked-singer-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-think-some-people-thought-i-was-dead-dick-van-dyke-shocks-judges-with-masked-singer-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Think Some People Thought I Was Dead\u2019: Dick Van Dyke Shocks Judges With \u2018Masked Singer\u2019 Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-think-some-people-thought-i-was-dead-dick-van-dyke-shocks-judges-with-masked-singer-reveal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Legendary actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dick-van-dyke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dick Van Dyke<\/a>On Wednesday, 97-year-old Jeremy caused a stir when the gnome faces were removed and the audience realized who he was. \u201cThe Masked Singer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox had announced the season-opener on its website \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/the-masked-singer-season-9-everything-we-know\/\">the most legendary, decorated and beloved unmasking in history<\/a>\u201d \u2014 and if judge Nicole Scherzinger\u2019s response was any indication, the advertising had been spot on: she burst into tears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3 TAKE IT OFF TAKE IT OFF \ud83d\udde3<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheMaskedSinger?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheMaskedSinger<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aEi2sC59sf\">pic.twitter.com\/aEi2sC59sf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Masked Singer (@MaskedSingerFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaskedSingerFOX\/status\/1626034199940456469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMary Poppins\u201d star spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/the-masked-singer-gnome-revealed-dick-van-dyke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> about his appearance on the show, admitting that he had never even seen an episode prior to being asked to do it himself \u2014 but that once he had seen how the show worked, he thought it looked like fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so positive that nobody would ever guess it was me, that they would have somebody 97 years old on there. And the experience was weird, because they have to keep it a secret from the crew. So I walked around with my head covered with people leading me. They\u2019ve got a nice crew, but I never got to meet any of them!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the show \u201cthe weirdest thing I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d Van Dyke went on to describe the gnome costume, saying that he could only see out of two very small holes in the headpiece: \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing I\u2019m not claustrophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once he got on stage and sang, however, people began to guess who might be behind the mask \u2014 and Van Dyke wasn\u2019t sure about their guesses. Among them: singer Tony Bennett, actor Dustin Hoffman, and actor Robert De Niro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait a minute, those guys can\u2019t sing,\u201d Van Dyke laughed, adding, \u201cWell, I felt pretty good about Tony Bennett. I wasn\u2019t crazy about any of the other ones. But I knew that they couldn\u2019t guess who I was. I don\u2019t think they expected anybody from my generation to be on that show. So I knew I was gonna fool them. They were so surprised. I stepped out and everybody\u2019s mouths dropped open. I think some people thought I was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the mask came off, however, Scherzinger had the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/16\/dick-van-dyke-97-performs-revealed-as-gnome-on-the-masked-singer\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongest reaction<\/a>: she cried. \u201cI love you so much, we love you, the whole world loves you so much. It\u2019s an honor to have you on our show. I can\u2019t believe you\u2019re here, I\u2019m trying to play it cool. You look so gorgeous, you look so handsome,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cYou\u2019re our childhood!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous reveals have also sparked strong reactions from the panel \u2014 when former New York City Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/the-masked-singer-judge-ken-jeong-storms-off-the-stage-following-rudy-giuliani-reveal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rudy Giuliani<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/next-week-harvey-weinstein-cnns-john-berman-blows-up-over-rudy-giulianis-masked-singer-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unmasked<\/a>, panelist Ken Jeong walked off the stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary actor Dick Van Dyke, 97, caused a ruckus on Wednesday when the gnome face came off and the audience realized that he was \u201cThe Masked Singer.\u201d Fox had advertised the season-opener as \u201cthe most legendary, decorated and beloved unmasking in history\u201d \u2014 and if judge Nicole Scherzinger\u2019s response was any indication, the advertising had &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1850164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18875,7156,3642,5710,18876,7580,4370,5937,14969,8665,6856],"class_list":["post-1850161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-masked","tag-i","tag-dead","tag-dick","tag-dyke","tag-judges","tag-people","tag-reveal","tag-shocks","tag-singer","tag-van"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}