“I had an actual panic assault, like the primary time I went out within the go well with. I needed to suppose and I needed to search for right into a sure spot into the helmet that I’d see and give attention to that to relax,” Bush shared. “And the slit to see is so small, it’s totally disorienting. Anybody who tries any main dance strikes — it is actually scary.”
For Billy Bush, showing on The Masked Singer was a serious step exterior of his consolation zone.
Whereas singing is one thing he is been identified to do across the halls of Additional TV, taking his abilities to the massive stage took issues up a notch. Bush spoke to TooFab Thursday after he was unmasked on this week’s present, the place he dished on his expertise and shared why he is glad he did one thing that scared him.
“I’ve all the time had slightly set of jazz fingers going, and I used to be within the spring musical in highschool, Guys and Dolls, I sang within the choir. My father had a barbershop quartet together with his buddies known as the ‘Lengthy Island Sound,’ he was in that group until he died, so we have all the time been singers,” Bush shared. “I sing within the hallways like loopy, and I believe a few the producers began filming me slightly bit and despatched it to The Masked Singer and mentioned, ‘Take him off our fingers.'”
Bush shook issues up on Wednesday night time’s present because the wild card, performing TV theme songs underneath the masks of Sir Lion.
“I believe it was excellent,” he mentioned when requested about coming in because the wild card. “A one-and-done was excellent for me. You are available in, you shake up the night time, you do your factor and also you’re out of there. It was superior. I do not know if I might’ve gone a lot additional, nevertheless it was nice.”
He admittedly had a panic assault earlier than stepping onto the stage, nonetheless, telling TooFab that the costume — a heavy and ornate Bridgerton-inspired go well with full with a lions head — carried a weight with it that the longtime leisure journalist was not anticipating.
“I had an actual panic assault, like the primary time I went out within the go well with. I needed to suppose and I needed to search for right into a sure spot into the helmet that I’d see, and give attention to that to relax,” Bush shared. “And the slit to see is so small, it’s totally disorienting. Anybody who tries any main dance strikes — it is actually scary.”
He continued, “However as soon as I did a pair costume rehearsals, I felt comfy sufficient to nail it. To do it.”
Whereas it was a one-and-done sort of expertise for Bush, he mentioned he is glad he did it, and advised TooFab that he realized an essential lesson about himself within the course of.”
“That I nonetheless have the hearth of a younger man,” Bush mentioned of what he realized. “I am nonetheless a go for it man, and I do not ever wish to change. I am not afraid to swing, and that was a quick ball and I swung at it. And I suppose that is it, you are still unafraid to take probabilities.”
As for who he’d prefer to see grace The Masked Singer stage subsequent, Bush mentioned he would not thoughts slightly extra illustration from the leisure journalism neighborhood, and seconded our suggestion that TMZ‘s personal Harvey Levin would make the right contestant.
“Undoubtedly,” he mentioned when requested if he would encourage his colleagues to attempt their hand on the present. “I’d encourage anybody to step out of their consolation zone. That is undoubtedly out of my consolation zone, to carry out like that in entrance of individuals. Nobody’s seen me try this sort of factor, however that is precisely the explanation to do it. It is extremely exhilarating, and it will get you out of your routine. Do it.”
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Bush continued, “I would like to see Harvey. Particularly Harvey. Get in there. Harvey — he is unimaginable. He is so match.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Bush dished on a few of leisure information’ largest headlines, together with the scandal surrounding Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s at present underneath investigation for crimes together with intercourse trafficking, sexual assault, and soliciting and distributing unlawful narcotics and firearms.
Whereas Bush, who has interviewed the music mogul many occasions during the last twenty years, mentioned the preliminary report was shocking, there’s little that actually shocks him today.
“No,” Bush mentioned if he is shocked by a few of as we speak’s craziest headlines.
“…I by no means imagined a number of the allegations we’re listening to now, I did not know something about that,” Bush added of Diddy. “However, yeah it is slightly shocking, however not jaw-dropping.”
Hear what else he has to say about Diddy within the video beneath.
The Masked Singer returns subsequent Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
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