Who’s Anteater from The Masked Singer?
Who’s Anteater on The Masked Singer? John Oates, a singer best known as a member of the duo Hall & Oates, is our best guess for Anteater on The Masked Singer Season 10. Read on for the clues that support John Oates as Anteater.
Anteater theme (Week 6)
- Hall & Oates’ 1982 single, “Maneater,” is an anagram of Anteater.
Box with a blue eye (Week 6)
- Hall & Oates 10th studio album is titled Private Eyes, which is also the title of the first track from the album.
“There was a time when I performed in front of 40 percent of the entire world.” (Week 6)
- In 1985, Hall & Oates performed at Live Aid, a benefit concert that was watched by an estimated 1.9 billion people in 150 countries, which amounted to almost 40 percent of the world’s population.
“I gave up rock and roll for a farm then fell in love” (Week 6)
“All the signs were telling me I had to get away and take it easy, so I traded the fancy houses for a chicken coop and my entourage became a donkey named Jasper” (Week 6)
- With his wife, Aimee Oates, Oates owned a 4.3-acre ranch in Aspen, Colorado, which had a farm of rescue llamas, alpacas, emus, and peacocks. He put the ranch for sale in 2017.
He was a wrestler in high school (Week 7)
- Oates was the co-captain of his high school North Penn High School’s wrestling team in his senior year and was a Second 2 champion in the 127 lb (58 kg) weight class. He also turned down a wrestling scholarship and wrestled as a freshman at Temple University.
He drove race cars (Week 7)
- Oates opened up about his love of racing and cars in an interview with Road and track in 2021. “I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, and when I was about four or five, my father took me over to Bob Holbert’s garage. He owned a Volkswagen dealership and was one of the first U.S. dealers to import Porsche cars,” he said. “The first sports car I ever saw was a Porsche.”
