'The Masked Singer' semi-finals revealed the id of Snowstorm, who revealed that the late Bob Saget impressed her to do the present.
Comic Nikki Glaser was unmasked throughout The Masked Singer semi-finals on November 24. After going through off in opposition to the Lambs, Nikki’s id was revealed. Whereas nonetheless within the Snowstorm costume, Nikki bought emotional speaking about her pricey good friend Bob Saget, who was the Squiggly Monster on the present. She spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife about honoring her late pal by occurring the present.
“It was superior as a result of I simply need to maintain his reminiscence alive,” Nikki stated. “It’ll be a yr in January since he handed, and I feel everybody when he died type of realized the influence he had on totally different individuals that you'd have by no means identified even knew him and the way particular he was. However I’m not somebody who will get overly emotional about issues like that, particularly not on TV. I simply actually felt him within the room that night time.”
Nikki revealed that the “final dialog” she had with Bob earlier than his dying in January 2022 was about The Masked Singer. “I knew how a lot he liked it. I type of talked to him in my head backstage and was identical to, ‘Bob, I’m doing it. That is so foolish. Want me luck. Let’s simply have enjoyable.’ I simply felt like he was there and simply helped me get by means of it,” she instructed HollywoodLife.
She added, “We should always all be so fortunate to have individuals speaking about us the best way individuals speak about Bob posthumously. He was so particular. Any likelihood I get I deliver up Bob. It was superior that The Masked Singer already was very aware of him and had the identical fondness for him. All of the judges, Nick [Cannon], all of the producers, everybody liked Bob, so it was very nice to deliver him into the room at night time.”
The comic confirmed off her vocal chops throughout her run on The Masked Singer. Nikki comes from a musical household and “all the time needed to be a singer. However in highschool, I had a voice coach that took my mother apart and stated, ‘This lady doesn't must have a profession doing this. It’s a waste of your cash, so I stop taking voice classes.'”
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, she began enjoying guitar and singing once more. She additionally wrote comedy songs with the intention to intertwine her love for comedy and music. After signing on to do The Masked Singer, she bought again into vocal coaching. “I labored with a vocal coach Amy Chapman on the present, and she or he simply actually helped me discover ways to use my voice in a brief period of time in ways in which had been current to me,” Nikki famous.
The FBOY Island host continued, “In working with Amy, she’s so astute and so observant that she observed that my voice was simply not doing what I assumed I may presumably do. She was like, ‘I really feel like you have got injury in your vocal cords.’ I had already identified that I had as a result of I speak for a dwelling and do podcasts. I’ve been speaking for 20 years nonstop. I went to a health care provider throughout my time on the present as a result of I used to be having irritation points simply from singing issues a lot and speaking on a regular basis.”
Nikki ended up having vocal twine surgical procedure after acting on the present with “broken cords.” She added, “I needed to be on three weeks of complete vocal relaxation. No speaking for 3 weeks, which was fairly a wrestle for me, however I might have by no means finished that had it not been for the present.”
In mild of her run on the present, Nikki now needs to “pursue singing as a profession. It would take me a couple of years to actually get good at it as a result of it’s not going to be in a single day. I do have a fan base. I might in all probability purchase an album if I put it out, however I do know that it’s a expertise that takes a very very long time to hone.” The Masked Singer finale will air November 30 on FOX.