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‘The Masked Dancer’ Spoilers: Who is Cotton Candy? Julianne Hough to Pink and Jenna Dewan, here are all the clues

Panelists Brian Austin Green, Ken Jeong, Paula Abdul and Ashley Tisdale were left completely stunned when Cotton Candy showed her exceptional dancing skills with an aerial performance

The spin-off series of the popular singing reality show, ‘The Masked Singer’, called ‘The Masked Dancer’ premiered the group B performances on January 6, 2021, where we saw an unidentified celebrity in the character of Cotton Candy. Decked up in a shimmery pink and purple outfit with a gorgeous head gear, she enthralled the judges on singer P!NK’s popular title track ‘Glitter In the Air.’

What are the clues for Cotton Candy?

Before Cotton Candy took over the stage with the popular number, we saw a short montage in order to pick clues for Cotton Candy. The video opened with the masked celebrity saying, “I am definitely a perfectionist but things in my life haven’t always been sweet.” leading the viewers to further clues where she revealed she was a Wiz kid in her growing up years. The panelists and the audience also saw Cotton Candy revealing that she had to live with another family and she used to get homesick all the time. The visual clues also included a candy, a ladybug, a wizard’s hat, 3-pound weights, an English-style breakfast, a bowl of corn flakes, cupcakes and a clock. The unidentified celebrity added in the video that she had trouble keeping up but now she was feeling glamorous more than ever. In the montage, we also saw how Cotton Candy fell during the rehearsal of her debut performance on the show and got injured.

Did panelists make the right guess?

The panelists including Brian Austin Green, Ken Jeong, Paula Abdul and Ashley Tisdale were left completely stunned when Cotton Candy showed her exceptional dancing skills with an aerial performance. After her set ended, it was time for all the judges to make their wildest guesses by joining all the dots from the visuals. To help the panelists, Cotton Candy used the “Word-Up” feature in her original voice with the word – Prime Time. Looking at the extraordinary dancing skills of Cotton Candy, Jeong said she was definitely a trained dancer adding that he picked the clues of a wizard hat from the visuals. In the end, he was confident it was dancer and TV personality, Julianne Hough. Paula Abdul went for actress Jenna Dewan whereas, Ashley Tisdale opted for Julianne Hough too, same as Jeong’s guess adding that the wizard hat refers to the Harry Potter film where Hough was roped in as an extra. With an intention to solve the mystery behind the mask, Brian Austin Green said Cotton Candy was a trained performer for sure adding that he noticed the word “Bird” in the visuals along with clouds in the background concluding that Cotton Candy might be none other than singer P!NK.

How did the fans react?

The viewers of ‘The Masked Dancer’ were quick to make guesses on who Cotton Candy can be. A lot of them rushed to Twitter to speak on the same. One user said, “CALLING IT NOW @juliannehough THE COTTON CANDY ON MASKED DANCER. I GOT THE SAFE HAVEN REFERENCE, BOO. I CUT MY HAIR BC OF U IN THAT MOVIE SO I KNOW!!! ILL WAIT TO BE RIGHT AFTER U GET UNMASKED WHEN U WIN!!!!!” Another expressed, “Cotton candy dancer masked singer: I think it’s pink #MaskedDancer #TheMaskedDancer” One added, “Watching Masked Dancer, I believe Cotton candy is Gabrielle Douglas.” One user asserted, “COTTON CANDY IS BRIE BELLA She was a wrestler hints the working out & her daughters name is Birdie.”

On ‘The Masked Dancer,’ costumed celebrities will be joined on stage by masked partners and back-up dancers, as they perform a series of dances together spanning from hip-hop to salsa, jazz to tap dancing and more. The brand new reality dancing series is being hosted by actor and comedian Craig Robinson. The contestants of this series are said to have sold more than 38 million albums worldwide, 20 Emmy Awards wins, 20 Grammy nominations, 10 World Dancing titles, five New York Times Best-Selling Author titles, four Olympic gold medals and three Broadway show appearances.

'The Masked Dancer' airs on Wednesdays at 8 pm ET on Fox.