![]() If not, I couldn’t have made it through one song.Benjamin Joseph Levin (born March 8, 1988), known professionally as Benny Blanco (stylized in all lowercase), is an American record producer. ![]() My focus on fitness gave me a real advantage. They did say with your boy band background and Broadway experience, they wanted to give me a lot of choreography, and I said yes and then later I almost regretted it singing these songs - which takes so much breath - and adding the choreography. I am 42 years old, so it’s not quite the same as in my 20s. But judging by the many ripped, shirtless pics on your Instagram, it seems like you’re probably in the best shape of anyone who has ever been on the show. You said you were nervous at first and you said you did tons of cardio to get your breath. With Niall from One Direction, of all the boy band members he looks like my younger brother and doing another boy bander was a nod to my boy band past. And the KC song, that’s one of my all-time favorite disco songs. ![]() Was it fun to tap into those different aspects of your vocals? You got to show off your indie rock, disco and pop chops on the show with songs by Maroon 5, Plain White T’s and the Sunshine Band. She knows her MTV, as she said, and I feel like because of that clue the night that she guessed, that was unique to what I’ve been doing the last five years. Jenny seemed to know it was you from the jump, though. One of the things was that the mask looks so much like Kevin Richardson with that goatee, but that would have been almost too on-the-nose. It was, and the one I loved the most was Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20… I’m a huge fan and it was an honor and a privilege to have that guess. So many of the guesses were other boy band members - was that flattering? I’m always excited about evolving to the next stage and taking on new challenges. I get questions about an O-Town reunion and I’m not excited about that at this time in my life. I have no plans to launch an album or do music again. It will always be a part of who I am, but no. I’ve been getting this question a lot and the truth is I love what I’m doing now as a health and wellness coach, but I had this opportunity now that my son is older and I wanted him to have a moment where he could see his dad on stage because I’d stepped away for a solid amount of time. Is this a precursor to you returning to the music biz? Who doesn’t love to see their favorite celebrity get revealed? So I said, “hell yeah!” When I got the call for The Masked Singer, I already loved the show, so it was kind of perfect. I told my agent this was what I was focused on and they were ready to let me me go because I was turning down so many things and stepping away from entertainment, which is what I’d done for 20 years as a singer, actor and performer. ![]() I had taken a break from performing for a little while after Wicked on Broadway and I moved home to focus on being a dad and then the pandemic hit and I started an online fitness company and it ended up being so fulfilling working with people who had followed my career and it felt like I was making an impact helping people change their lives for the better. Why now? What inspired you to do this show at this point? But I never thought I’d be in a giant S’more costume performing these awesome songs I got to sing. I had watched the previous seasons and a lot of my family are obsessed and I’d had a lot of people guessing I was characters from previous seasons. This was unlike any other experience Ive ever had. You’ve done time on a number of reality shows - Celebrity Cooking Showdown, Celebrity Surf Invitational, Making the Band - how did this experience compare? Other clues along the way included his journey from obscurity to worldwide fame and “heartthrob status” in just weeks, as well as a Chicago deep-dish pizza and oranges, which led to some more close-but-not-quite boy band guesses, including *NSYNC’s JC Chasez, Backstreet Boys’ Kevin Richardson and Jeong’s other swing-and-misses: Shang-Chi star Simu Liu or BSB’s AJ McLeanĪll wrong, however - except for McCarthy-Wahlberg, who, as it turns out, had already correctly guessed that the singer was none other than Wicked‘s Fiyero Tigelaar, aka O-Town’s Ashley Parker Angel.īillboard spoke to Angel before his elimination, asking what inspired his return to singing, whether this is a precursor to a boy band reunion, and how he felt watching one of his favorite groups, *NSYNC, come back together after a 20-year hiatus. 29) Disco Night Group A finals, where S’more went up against Cow and Gazelle as he took on one of his favorite dance-floor hits, “That’s The Way (I Like It)” by KC and the Sunshine Band. His last splash was on Wednesday night’s (Nov.
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