Pigeon’s identity revealed on ITV’s The Masked Singer

Katherine Ryan has been revealed as the character Pigeon on ITV’s reality singing competition The Masked Singer.

He, the 39-year-old comedian and actor, finished in second place on Saturday night’s show alongside Jacket Potato, following a studio audience vote.

After much deliberation, the judges decided to unmask Pigeon and make a final guess as to who the character might be – with suggestions including actress Liza Tarbuck, model Jodie Kidd, Nadia Sawalha’s Nadia Sawalha, and Jodie Kidd. Loose Women and actress Emily Atack.

Following her revelation, Ryan explained that she has kept her participation in the show a secret from her daughter Violet, saying, “You can’t tell my daughter anything because of her would reveal it to the whole school so she would find out. with everyone else. We watch the show together.”

Earlier in the episode, Ryan performed Cheryl Cole’s Fight For This Love and upon revealing she said, “I love Cheryl and I used to do a bit of comedy in my play about her. “

She added jokingly, “So I felt like it was a beautiful karmic grace that I performed her song.”

Ryan received further praise from the judges – which included Davina McCall, Mo Gilligan, Jonathan Ross and Rita Ora – after sharing that she was heavily pregnant during her performance.

After host Joel Dommett commented, “You’re very pregnant right now,” Ryan, who has since welcomed his third child, replied, “I’m only a month away, almost. I have baby feet in my lungs all the time. It was actually harder than I thought.”

After playing a celebrity guessing game for a while, Ryan admits she loves her Pigeon character because “she’s a sassy old lady. An East End bird. A real transplant. And the important thing is, a hip hop fan can break out.”

During the competition, Ryan used his cockney accent to try to fool the judges further.

Explaining the reason for choosing to dress up as a Dove, Ryan said: “I was pregnant for quite a while while filming and I thought the big pigeon suit would cover that.

“For me, it’s important that characters have faces because some of them don’t, but personally I connect better with characters with faces.

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“I felt it was important to represent a strong retiree and I liked that Pigeon was purely a comedy and wasn’t trying to be appealing to anyone else.”

The latest episode also saw Fawn, Phoenix, Otter, Knitting, Jellyfish and Rhino – who have yet to be revealed – perform.

McCall described Knitting as “hypnotic” after Little Mix’s performance of Secret Love Song.

Meanwhile, Fawn impressed the judges with Alanis Morissette’s performance of Ironic, leading Gilligan to believe he knew Fawn’s true identity when he guessed singer LeAnn Rimes.

Phoenix opened the show with a performance of I’m Still Standing by Sir Elton John, while Otter sang 9 To 5 by Dolly Parton.

Jellyfish sang Tom Walker’s Leave A Light On, leading Ross to guess the Glee star, Amber Riley, was behind the mask.

Jacket Potato performed Santana’s Smooth and Rhino ended the evening with a performance of The Lion King’s I Just Can’t Wait To Be King.

The Masked Singer continues Saturday at 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX.