Duff Goldmanhad a ruff turn onThe Masked Singer.
But the 47-year-old Food Network star — who competed as McTerrier, the Scottish terrier — didn’t really mind being the first one eliminated from season 7 on Wednesday.
“I wasn’t disappointed,” Goldman tells PEOPLE exclusively, of how he felt about leaving the show. “I was just bummed that I wasn’t able to sing my next song because I was really excited about it.”
Below, Goldman opens up about being an IRL rocker, how much he couldreallysee under the costume and which of his Food Network colleagues would most likely appear onThe Masked Singer.
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PEOPLE: Why did you want to go onThe Masked Singer?Goldman:It’s very outside of my comfort zone. Usually, when I’m performing, I’m baking cookies. So I thought it’d be totally different, a really fun new thing. I love music. Music’s such a huge part of my life. Getting to go out there and celebrate that, it was great. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Why did you select the McTerrier outfit?Have you ever seenBest in Show, the movie?
Yes.So remember Winky the Norwich Terrier? He wins the whole show. And he was like — no pun intended — he was such an underdog. I felt like I was definitely an underdog here. But if Winky could do it, I could do it.
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You really committed to the Scottish accent.They put me in there and they were like, “Hey, can you do a Scottish accent?” I was like, “No. I don’t think so.” So I watched a bunch ofMike Myersmovies. And there’s this guy Billy Connolly, and back in the ’80s, he had a really funny stand-up special on HBO. So I found it on YouTube, and I watched that and kind of listened to his accent. So I was trying to do it. I don’t know if I fooled anyone, though. I don’t think anybody actually thought I was Scottish.
Ken thought you were having a really tough time seeing under there. How much could you actually make out?You can’t see a thing. And it’s hot. God, it’s hot. You can kind of see a little bit out the mouth, but when I was playing the drums, I was totally blind. I played them a few times just so I could feel where everything was, like where the toms were, where the cymbals were. So when the song started, I was like, “All right. I hope I’m centered.” You can’t see anything. That was like a five-foot drop. I did not want to fall off that stage. That was terrifying.
So it’s safe to say you can’t bake in there.It would be super dangerous.
What was going through your mind after you lost your costume head?I was just really worried that I let everybody down. I didn’t want to ruin the show. It’s this big huge Fox production and I was like, “Man, I don’t want to be the one that just completely ruins this episode,” and like, “Oh great, now we can’t use him because his head fell off.” That was my biggest worry.
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That’s great advice!Yeah, as a judge on shows, people don’t realize is I’m really pulling for people. I want them to do well. So when I critique, usually what I’m doing is I’m trying to give them hints to help them win. I’m not saying, “I didn’t like this brownie. It was dry.” Like, “Okay, the brownie was dry. Here’s how to avoid that in future.” All these [Masked Singer] judges, they weren’t really critiquing my singing performance. Nobody thought I was actually a professional singer. We were just all having a lot of fun with it.
Do you think any of your Food Network colleagues would appear onThe Masked Singer?ProbablyGuy [Fieri]. Guy likes to be super famous, so he is probably like, “Wait, Duff is onMasked Singer? I want to be onMasked Singer.”
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The Masked Singerairs Wednesdays (8 p.m.) ET on Fox.
source: people.com
