The Masked Singer’s Gazelle. Michael Becker / FOX
Janel Parrish efficiently hid her id from the panelists all through season 10 of The Masked Singer, however there was one group who couldn’t be fooled: Fairly Little Liars followers.
Parrish, 35, who performed Mona on the Freeform teen drama, solely instructed Us Weekly that PLL viewers shortly suspected she was behind the Gazelle masks after digging up outdated clips of Mona singing on the present.
“I noticed a hilarious remark from one of many PLL followers,” she recalled forward of the Wednesday, December 20, season finale. “They had been like, ‘You possibly can’t cover, Mona, we all know it’s you!’ I used to be like, ‘Oh, wow.’ These PLL followers, they’re little sleuths! They know what’s up. … There’s an entire community of PLL followers who had been like, ‘We all know it’s you, Mona!’”
One in all Gazelle’s clue packages included a check paper with an A-minus on it, main savvy viewers to suspect that Parrish was behind the masks. (Mona was the unique A on PLL, which ran from 2010 to 2017.)
Parrish’s household, nevertheless, didn’t want the clues to determine it was her. Contestants on The Masked Singer are sworn to utmost secrecy about their participation within the present, however no quantity of denial might persuade Parrish’s aunt that she wasn’t Gazelle.
“She mentioned she thought that it was my voice, however then when she noticed my mannerisms, at the same time as Gazelle with the filter on my voice, she knew that it was me simply from my physique mannerisms,” Parrish instructed Us. “I did quite a lot of mendacity — apparently some dangerous mendacity to some relations who had been like, ‘I do know you’re mendacity, but it surely’s positive, you most likely can’t inform me.’”
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Whereas followers primarily know Parrish as an actress from her roles in PLL and the To All of the Boys I’ve Beloved Earlier than movie franchise, she’s additionally labored in musical theater, showing in productions of Grease and Spring Awakening.
“My first job ever was as Little Cosette on Broadway in Les Misérables,” she instructed Us. “I believed that my profession would turn out to be theater as a result of I used to be a child and I believed that’s the place the course of my life was going to take me, and as destiny had it, it led extra towards TV and movie, and as that occurred, I did much less and fewer singing. So, it type of grew to become somewhat little bit of a concern and a vulnerability. Like, ‘I used to be a child singer — am I nonetheless a singer?’”
After making it to the season finale alongside musical heavyweights Ne-Yo and Macy Grey, Parrish can relaxation assured that she’s nonetheless bought it. (She was the one contestant to be saved this season by the “ding dong preserve it on” bell, that means her efficiency so impressed the judges that they didn’t need her to go house the night time she was initially set to be eradicated.)
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“This present actually gave me the chance to beat that concern anonymously, with no preconceived notions about who I’m or what I do or whether or not or not I’m a singer,” Parrish gushed to Us. “I bought to return out and sing and discover my voice and discover that braveness, and I used to be met with nothing however love and positivity. It gave me a lot confidence to have the ability to type of say, ‘You realize what? I’m a singer.’ And that meant a lot to me. I simply really feel so grateful that this present gave me the stage to do what I like in a really non-scary means by popping out as this creature and seeing what occurred.”
After The Masked Singer, Parrish is concentrated on producing “some actually enjoyable initiatives which are close to and expensive” to her coronary heart, however she’s additionally considering it may be time to plot a return to her musical roots.
“I type of hope that I can return to performing some music stuff like I did after I was a child,” she instructed Us. “To return to Broadway as an grownup could be a dream come true.”
