{"id":501831,"date":"2026-01-08T17:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501831\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:41:14","slug":"red-sox-legend-unmasked-in-season-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501831\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox legend unmasked in season premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox\u2019s reality singing competition series, which features famous contestants wearing elaborate costumes to hide their identities as they perform for a panel of judges, returned with a new crop of stars, including a Boston sports legend who is better known for his hits off the Green Monster<\/a> instead of wearing monster costumes. In the first celebrity unmasking of the season, the person wearing the Googly Eyes get-up turned out to be World Series hero and Hall of Fame member David Ortiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Big Papi unfortunately didn\u2019t earn enough votes from the judges and the audience to make it through to the next round after his performance of \u201cTurn Down for What\u201d by DJ Snake and Lil Jon. However, host Nick Cannon noted Ortiz\u2019s monster-style outfit was \u201cthe biggest costume\u201d that the show\u2019s ever had, with Big Papi admitting on the broadcast that wearing it was \u201ca straight up workout.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t need to go to the gym for about a month,\u201d joked Ortiz. \u201cBut it was so much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

The celebrity judges, consisting of Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg<\/a>, Ken Jeong, and Rita Ora, nearly all chose former Red Sox stars as their final guesses before the big reveal (except for McCarthy Wahlberg, surprisingly, who guessed Derek Jeter). Thicke ultimately guessed Pedro Martinez, Ora went with Manny Ramirez, while Jeong correctly picked Big Papi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got something for them: Daa Yankees lose!\u201d Ortiz told the judges after the reveal, poking fun at the Yankees-themed guess.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Prior to Ortiz\u2019s performance on Wednesday night, his Googly Eyes persona teased his true identity during an introduction video, which offered clues like a poster with the words \u201cmonster hits.\u201d The clip, styled like a job interview, also featured Googly Eyes offering references to a potential employer from famous pals like \u201cBacon, Krasinski, Tucker,\u201d noting, \u201cthose guys have my back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big Papi isn\u2019t the first Boston sports star to appear on \u201cThe Masked Singer,\u201d as his former Red Sox teammate Bronson Arroyo<\/a> competed in season 12 wearing the Sherlock Hound costume. Former Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski<\/a>, meanwhile, was revealed as the celebrity in the White Tiger outfit way back in season 3.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Matt Juul can be reached at matthew.juul@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox\u2019s reality singing competition series, which features famous contestants wearing elaborate costumes to hide their identities as they…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":501832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-501831","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115860713225623140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}