Tiffany Haddish has fulfilled her desire of being a contestant on Fox’s The Masked Singer, and now that she’s been voted off, she’s spilling the tea.
A nod to her childhood, the Le Who Who persona and costume initially wasn’t the first choice; however, the snuggly little bear was exactly the look she looked for to pay homage to her treasured 1980s pink Monchhichi toy.
“It’s like they had the Le Who Who on point,” Haddish told Blavity’s Shadow and Act, sharing that the first costume presented to her was not it at all. “And then there was like, maybe an hour later, ‘What about this?’ And I was like, ‘That’s it. That’s me. That’s the little soft, snuggly side of me.”
Haddish added, “I had watched The Masked Singer. My friend — he produces on the show, right? And like hiding from him that I was coming on was kind of hard. But, like, I remember when he started doing it, and I was like, ‘Oh, I want to do it, man; I want to do it,’ but the schedules never aligned. It just never lined up. And people would guess me all the time, and I’m like, ‘Man, you gotta have me on the show.’ And, finally, we were able to make it work. I love the show, though. It reminds me of Chuck E. Cheese.”
Most judges thought she was every other Black woman comedian
While Rita Ora was the only person to guess who was under the mask, in part due to the dead giveaway clue of a suitcase, others threw out names like Leslie Jones, Keke Palmer, and even Wanda Sykes.
“I feel like the less likely to give me away was like the spooky, haunted ghost thing they had presented,” she recalled. “That was the movie Haunted Mansion, you know, but that was only in theaters for two days, I think, because it was like a strike during that time when it came out,” adding, “I feel like the best giveaway, though, the best one was the suitcase and maybe that unicorn.”
Speaking of suitcases, what is the tea on the ‘Girls Trip’ sequel?
“Did you see Tiffany Haddish Goes Off on Peacock?” she replied when asked about sharing anything about the Girls Trip sequel. “That’s like a reality series, docuseries, actually, and that was just to test the grounds to see where we should shoot Girls Trip 2.“
If she had to plan the locale for her own dream girls’ trip, Haddish immediately responded with Fiji and the Polynesian islands, with lots of island hopping going on.
“I’m gonna take two of my besties,” she said, “and then I probably would throw somebody young in like Keke Palmer or somebody grown like Leslie Jones so we could be laughing,” adding, “I would not bring Wanda Sykes, because she’s gonna be like, ‘I’ll be in the hammock, girl.'”
Her golden rule
Haddish disclosed that the biggest takeaway for the version of herself who started with a dream is simple: Don’t read the comments.
“They are not real,” Haddish declared. “You read all that stuff, you read all these articles, and you read them comments, and then you feel like, ‘Damn, what the hell?’ And you get a little afraid to go outside, because you think that’s what you’re going to encounter outside.”
She continued, “But then, you go outside, and you realize that’s not; it’s all love. It’s all regular. So don’t read the comments. Don’t believe the hype. Go outside, experience like you are loved,” concluding, “Don’t believe them comments. Don’t even talk about that, because it’s not even worth it.”