ITV'S MASKED SINGER IS BACK FOR NEW SERIES

HE MAY be good at keeping quiet about the identities of celebrities competing in The Masked Singer, but when it comes to spilling the beans about some of the show's other stars, presenter Joel Dommett is far from tight-lipped.

- BY MARC BAKER

Ahead of the new series starting on STV tonight, Joel has revealed some hilarious gaffes made during previous shows, admitted that he first thought the idea for the show was nonsense and even exposed the dressing room secrets of panellist Jonathan Ross.

He says: "His dressing room is like a boutique. He gets a whole van to arrive at his house the day before filming, picks up all of this stuff. It's different stuff every time.

"It's fun for us to go in and be like, 'oh, he's decided to bring this chair. His armchairs'. He also has racks full of magazines. He has different vinyls, posters, art for the walls. So, when I'm just sat in a plain dressing room he's got a beautiful boudoir."

But Ross's knowledge of the showbiz world is an asset when it comes to guessing the identities of the stars taking part alongside fellow panellists, comic Mo Gilligan, Love Island presenter Maya Jama and TV presenter Davina McCall.

Joel says: "He's like this encyclopedia of knowledge about this business. His wife [Jane Goldman] is an incredible writer, I can't imagine the conversations they must have in bed."

The 40-year-old also told how he visited Ross's house and found a dressing room with a raised floor and a device that delivers his shoes in Perspex boxes.

He said: "He has a little button that he presses then each of the shoes rise up. You get the shoes out and the Perspex box goes back down. When I was there the box had broken, so he had to get the shoes out one by one."