I see the douche has been let out of the bag!

(I'll do a rundown of all my clues and incredibly nuanced bottoming puns in a bit xo)

We love someone who doesn’t stand for sh*t!

First of all, thanks (and congrats!) to Morgan on making this so much fun to be a part of, and for running the game so well. :love: I hope that means something coming from someone who rarely takes part in games these days! I agree with Withano that the Masked Singer format actually works better as a virtual game than it does in real life, the evidence of which is in the fact that I couldn't make a 100% assured guess as to the identities of any of the remaining contestants (even through process of elimination!)

I chose the Douche as my character because a) I am an incredibly immature adult who still finds bum jokes funny and because b) I'm not always known as the warmest person on TiBB, and this felt like an appropriate way to personify (and hopefully therefore begin to work through) one of my primary personality faults! I was hoping the anonymity of the game would allow me to judge the success of this My Fair Lady/Eliza Douchelittle-esque experiment, but alas, I was immune from the public vote at every opportunity and never got to prove, or indeed, disprove my hypothesis.

So, following Jay's example from last week, I'm going to run through some of the clues I gave regarding my identity over the past few rounds. In other words, caution: long-ass post ahead!

Week 2 (song: Water Me by Lizzo)

There weren't really any significant clues here tbh, other than the fact that I make a lot of puns and am a Lizzo fan (which doesn't mean much in this day and age, when every white suburban mum and her dog considers themselves a Lizzo fan, but hey, that's stardom for you)

Week 4 (song: Bootylicious by Destiny's Child)

This was the week we had to submit two truths and a lie about ourselves. The second one was the lie; I share my birthday with neither former Prime Minister Ashanti nor R&B pop goddess Margaret Thatcher. Our very own Babayaro, on the other hand, does (assuming I did my very limited research correctly), and so I put that one in there hoping it would throw some of the judges off the scent. And given that Mitchell guessed that I was Babayaro right up until the end, I think my red herring sort of paid of! In regard to the other two clues, I typed my entry for that week, much as I'm typing this current post, from the United States, specifically California, and I have indeed been part of a winning Eurovision entry. I just didn't specify that it was a TiBB Eurovision entry (I won in 2017)

Week 6 (song: Little Red Corvette by Prince)

geddit? Mercedes Benz = MB (I was pleasantly surprised that this didn't give my identity away entirely)

I was happy to see this perplex quite a few people, who seemed confused by the fact that I could be in Manchester and the U.S. at once. I in fact saw Janelle the month before I moved out here, and she remains one of my favourite pop stars to this day even if she did just endorse Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders!

Week 7 (song: American Boy by Estelle)

If I was pleasantly surprised that my Mercedes Benz/MB clue didn't raise eyebrows, I was positively amazed that only one person guessed who I was after dedicating an entire performance to Macie Lightfoot :joker:

By "I may be a week older than him", I mean that I joined TiBB six days before he did, something that I only found out while doing my research for this performance! As for the rest of this quote, you'll usually find us cohabiting in the reality TV sub-forums (mostly Survivor, occasionally Big Brother US), and wholeheartedly stanning the Bradley Kleiheges and Aurora McCrearys of this world

Which is to say he watches Survivor three hours ahead of me and I'm still getting to used to having to avoid checking the discussion thread during that time period!

This is some frankly excellent life advice

Week 8: Dead of Night (Orville Peck)

Clearly I must have thought we were doing two truths and a lie again! (they're some pretty cool shoes, fyi) (also Orville Peck is a gay icon and Matthew should absolutely get into it asap)

The 51st state of America is the UK, so I figured that would be a more accurate answer than answering where I currently live in the U.S., and a more correct answer than "Leicester"

tl;dr: none of that really mattered and I would have been better off sending in whichever Sia song was leftover instead :hmph:

Finally, good luck to everyone remaining, and to all, keep up your good anal hygiene practices, as we all know that that's how the coronavirus gets transmitted. Douche out!

Robbed like Kelis

My tap water brings all the boys to the yard!

The more I think of it, the douche was the most characterised of the contestants, so it’s a shame to lose you, but you kept us guessing until the very end, unlike that pesky Natalie in a lion costume obvs

Had no clue you’d moved to America, but you were incredibly smart, the Babayaro birthday clue, mixed with the frequent America visits, it made perfect sense.

I had cottoned on that the whole ‘6 days older’ thing was in regards to the date you joined the forum, yet I hadn’t bothered looking at your profile, which probably further shows your deflection techniques :joker:

:clap1: MB

...#MBisnodouche/nothimtoo....

.....is it just me who has spent a huge amount of time trying to find the ASOS shoes with horses on.../...a crazy horses amount of time...


...are they definitely horses and not llamas, MB...you know your horse from your llama in California, yeah..?...Only because I found some nice llama ones but they were out of stock...:sad:..

I think the ones I got are out of stock too (I bought them well over a year ago), but this is a photo of them from Google. Whoever said I didn't have gaudy taste?...



Some extra, random trivia that I just remembered: I was initially going to pick Will Smith's Miami for "favourite member" week (as a tribute to My Ammi... geddit? Miami? My Ammi? I amaze myself sometimes), but then I realised that it was never a UK or U.S. #1 single and it wouldn't fit the theme. Thankfully, several other contestants rightfully picked you as their favourite, so I guess they just had to share :love:

At least we will all know which stranger is you in America when we spot those shoes

Awww poor Dolphin

Take it off

filth :omgno:

Take it awf!

:hee:

Wait your turn :oh:

:omgno: I hope it's one of the oldies or I am screwed

Gerremoff

oh sorry :laugh:

Adam!!!!

Never would have got this one.

aw Adam

Well done to you Adam.

Well done king!

Well done Adam I thought something smelt fishy

Can I just say the biggest clue was actually in my mask