{"id":658141,"date":"2025-12-27T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/658141\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:51:42","slug":"christmas-special-tv-recap-the-masked-singer-gladiators-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/658141\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas special TV recap: The Masked Singer, Gladiators &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/c93wj75p15ko\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas costumes<\/a> were in full show on this year&#8217;s special episode, with celebrities dressed as figgy pudding, mistletoe, presents and a goose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But who was underneath?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After many guesses and shouts of &#8220;Take it off!&#8221;, the stars behind the masks included radio DJ Scott Mills and iconic children&#8217;s presenter Baroness Floella Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was presenter and broadcaster Dermot O&#8217;Leary, best known for hosting the X Factor and This Morning, who won as Mistletoe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Masked Singer will return in a brand new series for 2026 on Saturday 3 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Christmas costumes were in full show on this year&#8217;s special episode, with celebrities dressed as figgy pudding,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-658141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115792568876763244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}