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‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals Ice King as Drake Bell
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‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals Ice King as Drake Bell

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Masked Singer season 12, episode 8, “Miley Cyrus Night.”

This week’s episode of The Masked Singer definitely came in like a wrecking ball, which was appropriate considering it was Miley Cyrus Night.

The Grammy-winning singer and actress herself did not appear in the episode, but her essence was felt throughout. As always, the remaining contestants were tasked with singing various Cyrus hits, and the clues all included cunning connections between the masks and the Hannah Montana star.

And of course, all the evening’s shenanigans started with the rest of Group C – Strawberry Shortcake, Royal Knight, Sherlock Hound and Ice King – performing Cyrus’ 2009 hit ‘Party in the USA’ together.

Ice King on ‘The Masked Singer’.

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Other than that it was business as usual. This week, Sherlock Hound kicked things off with his performance of “Used to Be Young,” which paired well with his vocals. This was followed by Ken Jeong making his own movie and telling the audience, “Don’t let (my) looks fool you – I look fun, wild and young even though I’m boring, mild and old. ” In a surprise, it wasn’t Jeong or Robin Thicke, but Rita Ora who became the first panelist to make a wrecking ball joke.

After the break, the panel presented Cyrus with her flowers by praising her popularity throughout the industry, when Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg addressed the elephant in the room, leading to one of the funniest moments of the evening. “Robin, you know Miley very well,” McCarthy-Wahlberg told him, no doubt referring to the controversial 2013 VMA performance between Thicke, Cyrus and a foam finger. “No, Miley and I have never met,” Thicke deadpanned, causing Jeong to laugh so hard he had to do a few laps around the table to get his energy out.

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From there, Ice King sang “Midnight Sky,” Strawberry Shortcake sang “Wrecking Ball” (someone had to do it!), and Royal Knight ended proceedings with “When I Look at You.”

It wouldn’t be a Miley Cyrus-themed night without someone waving from the ceiling, and before elimination, McCarthy-Wahlberg did the honors, by swinging around on a giant strawberry… which was a choice.

There was nothing left to do after that but to finally say goodbye to someone, and unfortunately for him, that person was Ice King this week. For the most part, the final guesses were based on the child star’s clues, so Ora guessed Shia LaBeouf, Jeong chose Joe Jonas, and Thicke chose Cole Sprouse.

When Ice King was unmasked, he was revealed to be former Nickelodeon child star Drake Bell, who shared his story of child abuse in the explosive docuseries. Quiet on Set earlier this year. Coincidentally from Bell Drake & Jos costar Yvette Nicole Brown also joined in The Masked Singer this season, when she was revealed as Showbird last month.

Drake Bell.

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McCarthy-Wahlberg certainly kicked herself, as she spent the entire episode referencing Bell as Ice King, but changed her last-minute guess to James Franco: better luck next time!

Speaking of next time, The Masked Singer gets a Thanksgiving makeover in next week’s episode, which airs on Thursday instead of Wednesday. As teased at the end of tonight’s episode, the Thanksgiving special will have special guests: the Peanuts gang! – and everyone gets a double helping of cake and eliminations, because it’s the last episode before the quarter-finals and only one participant from Group C can get through.

Stay tuned this Thursday from 8-9 PM ET/PT on Fox.