The Masked Singer Season 10 Finale Reveals: The Four Finalists Unmasked

The Masked Singer Season 10 finale reveals

See who the four finalists were revealed (and predicted) to be in The Masked Singer Season 10 finale and whether the judges guesses were correct.

Who was Cow in The Masked Singer finale?

Revealed: Ne-Yo

Ne-Yo, an R&B singer best known for songs like “So Sick” and “Sexy Love,” is the most likely celebrity to be revealed as Cow in The Masked Singer Season 10 finale. Read on for the clues that support Ne-Yo as Cow.

“Cows like me don’t often make it out of their pen. When I was younger, I felt destined to stay home and live out a simple life in black and white” (Week 1)

• Ne-Yo’s 2008 music video for his song, “Mad” was filmed in black and white.

“The gift eventually led me to No. 1.”  (Week 1)

• Ne-Yo achieved his first number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006 with his single “So Sick” from his debut album In My Own Words. The song was his second single after his debut single “Stay” in 2005.

“I won Grammys, traveled the world and made hit after hit after hit. I guess you could say I was kind of my own cash cow!” (Week 1)

• Ne-Yo has won three Grammy Awards: Best Contemporary R&B Album in 2008; Best Male R&B Performance in 2009; and Best R&B Song in 2009. 

Calendar with July 4 (Week 1)

• July 4 is also known as Independence Day. One of Ne-Yo’s most successful songs is his 2008 single “Miss Independent” from his album, Year of the Gentleman. The song went number one on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

“Two-step coffee” (Week 1)

• Ne-Yo released a remix of Cassidy’s “My Drink n My 2 Step” in 2007 with Kanye West and Swizz Beatz in 2007.

Las Vegas magnet (Week 1)

• Ne-Yo was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, and attended Las Vegas Academy. He’s also a frequent performer at Drai’s Nightclub in Las Vegas. 

Aviator wings (Week 1)

• Ne-Yo played 2nd Lt. Andrew “Smokey” Salem in the 2012 movie, Red Tails. The film followed the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black United States Army Air Forces servicemen during World War II.

“Tonight I’m honored to be part of NFL Night, even though I don’t have many memories of watching the big game with my dad — he wasn’t really around and I didn’t have a lot of positive male role models growing up.” (Week 2)

He was raised in a house of all women who made him the “sensitive cow” that he is.” (Week 2)

• Ne-Yo’s parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by his mother. Ne-Yo has one sister, Nicole Smith, and no brothers.

As a parent, he now knows the “value of being present” for his kids. (Week 2)

“I’ve always achieved a lot of success in my life but my greatest accomplishment has always been my kids” (Week 2)

• Ne-Yo has seven children: Madilyn and Mason Grace with ex-fiancee Monyetta Shaw; Shaffer, Roman, and Isabella with ex-wife Crystal Renay; and Braiden and Brixton with ex-girlfriend Sade Jenea.

“Smoke and mirrors of fame” (Week 2)

• Ne-Yo has a song titled “Mirror” from his debut 2006 album In My Own Words.

Boxing gloves (Week 2)

• Ne-Yo revealed that he boxes and has studied martial arts in an interview with ESPN in 2012. “It’s honestly just for the workout,” he said. “I studied martial arts for about five years when I was a little younger, and I’ve been a boxing fan pretty much forever. As of right now, it’s just part of the workout. I don’t go as far as to spar or anything like that. I would love to. It’s definitely a great way to stay in shape. To do what I do, I’ve got to keep my wind up, I’ve got to get my stamina right and boxing definitely helps that.”

“I feel absolutely psyched to be here for 2000s Night, because that’s the decade it all started for me.” (Week 3)

• Ne-Yo released his first album, In My Own Words, and first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100, “So Sick,” in 2006.

He and his friends went to the Capitol Records building in Hollywood determined to get a record deal. They performed in the parking lot on top of a van and security kicked them out. His photo hangs in the hall at Capitol Records “and big-wigs see me all the time.” (Week 3)

• In an interview with the University of Southern California in 2021, Ne-Yo explained how he and four friends drove to Capitol Records in Los Angeles with no place and no money and stood on their van singing every day for six months hoping that someone will sign them. “There was no Spotify or anything digital so you had to rely on the labels at that time. You had to use the tools you are given and work harder than the guy next to you,” he said.

Birthday cake with one candle (Week 3)

• Ne-Yo competed as Badger on Season 2 of The Masked Singer UK in 2022, one year before Cow appeared on The Masked Singer US.

Who’s Gazelle in The Masked Singer finale?

Revealed: Janelle Parrish

Janel Parrish, an actress best known for the TV series Pretty Little Liars, is the most likely celebrity to be revealed as Gazelle in The Masked Singer Season 10 finale. Read on for the clues that support Janel Parrish as Gazelle.

The first clue to Gazelle’s identity is Gremlin in Season 4 (Week 1)

• Gremlin’s identity in The Masked Singer Season 4 was actor and boxer Mickey Rourke. Parrish and Rourke starred together in the 2018 movie Tiger.

“After seeing a Broadway show at 6 years old, I knew that I wanted to perform for a living.” (Week 1)

• In an interview with Broadway World in 2017, Parrish revealed that she wanted to be a performer after seeing Phantom of the Opera on Broadway around the age of five years old. “My dad loves to tell this story. I must have been five? They loved musical theatre, so really, I thank them (and I blame them),” she said. “They were listening to Phantom of the Opera while taking me to pre-school and my dad heard singing in the background (on the high note in ‘Think of Me’). And he was like, ‘What was that?’ Meanwhile, I was just in the back, living my best life – singing. I don’t remember that obviously, but I do remember always loving musical theatre and wanting to sing-along in the car.” She continued, “Because of that experience, they took me to see Phantom of the Opera. It was the first musical I had ever saw on stage and I was just transfixed. Apparently I just turned to my parents and said, ‘I want to do that.’ So they let me audition for Les Misérables, and that was it. I was bit by the Broadway bug.”

“When I was just a teenager, I took a huge chance and performed in a national talent competition, but I crashed and burned.” (Week 1)

• When she was 14 years old, Parrish competed on the 2003 series, Star Search, on which she performed the song “On My Own” from Les Miserables. 

Hawaiian shirt (Week 1)

Hula skirt, lei and surfboard (Week 2)

• Parrish was born in Kāne’ohe, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Poster with “Hello Doll!”

• Parrish starred in the 2007 movie Bratz based on the dolls of the same name. A in Pretty Little Liars—which Parrish’s character, Mona Vanderwaal was one of—was also known for their Dollhouse, which had dolls of each of the main four characters. 

Vinyl record with “Movie Soundtrack” + “Not only do I act in movies, I also sing in them

• Parrish recorded three songs — “Rainy Day,” “Open Eyes,” and “Bratitude” — for the Bratz soundtrack. She’s also sung on shows like Guiding Light, Pretty Little Liars, and Rosewood, and movies like Adventures in Appleton, April Showers, and Triple Dog.

Cheer moves + pom-poms

• Parrish played a professional basketball cheerleader in an episode of the series Drop Dead Diva in 2014. 

“I’m ready to tackle the competition because I am feeling right at home here on this stage. There were a lot of times I didn’t know if there was a place for me in the entertainment industry.” (Week 2)

“Casting directors couldn’t figure out where I fit because of my unique look.” (Week 2)

• In an interview with SheKnows in 2015, Parrish opened up about how she din’t know if there was a “place” for her in Hollywood because she was mixed race. (Parrish is of Chinese, English, Irish, and German descent.) “Being a mixed-race actress was very difficult, especially growing up,” she said. “When you’re younger and you have to fit into a family and you’re of mixed race, you don’t quite fit into the Hollywood look — which is usually the blond-haired, blue-eyed girl next door — and so I would audition for those roles, and they didn’t quite know where to place me,” she said. She continued, “Now that I’m older and I don’t really have to fit into a family in roles, it’s not that much of an issue, and I think also Hollywood and the world has become a little less color-blind, which is wonderful.”

Test with an “A” on it (Week 2)

Football with “villain” + “I’m not actually a villain, but I can play the part. Gazelle’s got range!” (Week 2)

• Parrish’s character on Pretty Little Liars was revealed as the series’ first “A”—a villain who stalks and threatens the four main characters—in the Season 2 finale.

“Deer are really meaningful to me because they are a symbol of someone I loved and lost” One of the most important people to her and her husband died right before their wedding. (Week 3)

• Parrish got a deer tattoo on her neck in July 2019. The tattoo came a year after her father-in-law was was killed by a drunk driver two weeks before her wedding to her husband, Chris Long, in 2018.

“Gazellez Love Story.”

“The 2000s are a special time for me because it was when I had my film debut.” (Week 3)

• Parrish starred in her first movie, Bratz, in 2007. The Z in Gazellez is a nod to the Z in Bratz.

Who’s Donut in The Masked Singer finale?

Revealed: John Schneider

John Schneider, an actor best known for the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, is the celebrity most likely to be revealed as Donut on The Masked Singer Season 10. Read on for the clues that support John Schneider as Donut.

“I’ve been really lucky in my career — I was part of a mega hit that catapulted me to No. 1. But it also put me in a box, and people only associated me with this one rough and tough flavor.” (Week 6)

• The Dukes of Hazzard, which ran for seven seasons on CBS from 1979 to 1985, was a top-rated TV series in the late 1970s and often ranked only second to Dallas. 

Neon sign with two cowboy boots, a badge, bow and arrow (Week 6)

• On Dukes of Hazzard, Schneider played Beauregard “Bo” Duke, a man from rural Georgia, who, along with his cousin Luke Duke, are on probation for moonshine-running. The probation prevents the Duke Boys from owning guns, and so the duo arm themselves with bows and arrows instead.

He loves theater, “from Chicago to 42nd Street.” (Week 6)

• Schneider starred as Billy Flynn in the Broadway adaptation of Chicago in 2008. He wa also in a regional production of 42nd Street.

“The love of my life is no longer here and it has left a huge hole in my heart” (Week 7)

• Schneider’s wife, Alicia Allain Schneider, died of breast cancer on February 21, 2023. She was 51 years old. “I of course told her it was OK,” Schneider told People in 2023 of his wife’s death. “‘If you’re tired, if you want to go see your grandma, you want to go see your grandpa, if you want to go, then it’s OK. You go.’ And that was all the truth.” He continued, “But then I lied, because I said, ‘Don’t worry about me; I’ll be OK.’ That was a lie I had to tell, but she knew it. OK is a long way away.”

Clapoard with #1 (Week 7)

• Schneider’s 1985 album, A Memory Like You, reached number one on Billboard’s Top Country albums chart. He’s also had four songs on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart: “I’ve Been Around Enough to Know,” “Country Girls,” “What’s a Memory Like You (Doing in a Love Like This)”; and “You’re the Last Thing I Needed Tonight.”

Who’s Sea Queen in The Masked Singer finale?

Revealed: Macy Gray

Macy Gray, an R&B and soul singer, is the most likely celebrity to be revealed as Sea Queen on The Masked Singer Season 10. Read on for the clues that support Macy Gray as Sea Queen.

She went to a “fancy boarding school” because she was a “smart cookie” but she got kicked out. (Week 5)

• Gray revealed in an interview with The Guardian in 2012 that she was asked to leave a boarding school she attended with Marilyn Manson because she caused too much trouble. [“Marilyn and I] didn’t know each other then. They did a special on him on VH-1 and I saw my picture in his class photo. I knew we were from the same state, but I didn’t know we were in the same class,” she said. When asked if she was expelled, Gray responded, “Not expelled … It was suggested that I leave my boarding school [laughs]. I was getting into a lot of trouble. I wasn’t prepared to be on my own at that age.”

“But all the wild twists and turns have made me the triple threat that I am today — comedy, writing, singing, I’ve done it all.” (Week 5)

• Along with releasing 10 studio albums, Gray has also starred in several comedy films, including the 2004 romantic comedy Second Time Around. She’s also written a lot of her own music.

Shes’ preparing “for a new tour.” (Week 5)

• Gray announced her current tour The Reset Tour—which supports her recent album, The Reset—in July 2023. The tour started in Troy, New York, on September 29, 2023, and ended in Bethesda, Maryland, on October 15, 2023.

Black widow (Week 5)

• Gray was cast in the movie Mama Black Widow in 2008, along with Rihanna, Kerry Washington, and Anthony Anderson.

Trains (Week 5)

• Gray appeared in the “Soul Train Special” episode of Lip Sync Battle in 2017. The music video for her 1999 song “I Try” also saw her traveling through New York City by bus and train to meet a man in a park.