Martin and Shirlie Kemp have shared how they saved their large The Masked Singer secret from their two grownup youngsters.
The married couple lately revealed their true identities as Cat and Mouse on the favored ITV singing present the place contestants conceal their true selves beneath costumes till the viewers votes them out of the present.
Each discovered fame as singers within the Eighties – Martin was a part of Spandau Ballet whereas Shirlie was in pop group Wham! and Pepsi & Shirlie – and tied the knot in 1988 earlier than giving delivery to Harley Moon, 33, and Roman, 29.
On Saturday, the duo’s time on the programme got here to an finish with a shock reveal as they lifted the heavy costume heads and flashed realizing grins at viewers and the judges.
Branding it ‘the very best reveal ever’, not a single panellist got here near guessing the names of the faces beneath the masks.
Showing on Unfastened Girls, the crafty couple admitted they labored arduous to maintain the key from everybody they knew, together with their two youngsters.
Martin credited the truth that Roman and Harley Moon stay out of house in serving to them stay tight-lipped on their newest endeavour.
He stated: ‘My boy and my woman, they don’t stay with us anymore, they’ve bought their very own houses so it was our secret.
‘We have been simply going out to work every single day and so they didn’t find out about it nevertheless it was all to do with like “how good wouldn’t it be if we may hold it a secret and have that second we noticed”’.
Spouse Shirlie then chimed in with: ‘That’s the purpose of the present.’
She then admitted she was an amazing secret keeper: ‘I’m a great little actress.’
When questioned over Roman’s preliminary suspicions that his mother and father have been collaborating within the competitors, the mother-of-two confirmed her son did speculate however shared: ‘I used to be deep in denial.
‘I informed him I didn’t actually just like the limelight and I wouldn’t do this kind of factor in order that’s why Roman was like “you’re mendacity saying you didn’t just like the limelight”’.
The broadcaster’s reaction to finding out what his mum and pa have been as much as generated plenty of consideration for its dramatics after a clip did the social media rounds.
Within the video, the breakfast radio present host might be heard screaming: ‘I knew it’ earlier than repeatedly branding his mum a ‘liar’.
The Masked Singer continues at 7pm subsequent Saturday on ITV1.
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