It’s not their first singing competition! If you’ve been wondering who The Beets are on The Masked Singer Season 11, look no further because we’ve decoded the clues leading to their real identities. Keep reading for our best guess to who The Beets are on The Masked Singer 2024 and the celebrities under the mask.
The Beets were one of 16 contestants on Season 11 of The Masked Singer, FOX’s reality TV singing competition where celebrities compete against each other in performances while wearing head-to-to costumes and face masks to conceal their identities. Throughout the season, a panel of judges guess who the celebrities are based on their voices and clues provided before and after each performance. Each week, the contestant with the least amount of votes from a studio audience is sent home and takes off their mask to reveal their identity.
The Masked Singer is based on South Korea’s King of the Mask Singer, which follows a similar format. Since the premiere of The King of the Mask Singer in 2015, The Masked Singer has expanded to dozens of countries across the world including France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil. “It was flypaper TV right from the get-go,” The Masked Singer executive producer Craig Plestis told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 about why he wanted to produce the show in the United States. “I just knew right away this was a special show. It was unbelievable in its appeal — and the game play, spectacle, family-viewing…[and] it was this huge hit in Asia…. If we do the job here, it should work here.”
The Masked Singer premiered in 2019 with host Nick Cannon and judges Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke, and Nicole Scherzinger. Scherzinger was the first judge to leave following Season 10 and was replaced in Season 11 by singer Rita Ora, who was also a judge on The Masked Singer UK for five seasons.
“Of course I was familiar by doing the U.K. show for about five seasons, and when they asked me to do this one, I was so excited,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2024. “I just felt like a hundred percent [yes] because I already knew the show so well, and I just love it and I love the excitement of it. It’s just so crazy and it’s like a huge game show, and such a great family show. You can’t really go wrong. I mean, you may look crazy with the names you [guess], but who cares? Because the whole show is a bit bonkers anyway, so it doesn’t feel like work at all.”
Throughout The Masked Singer‘s 10-plus seasons, dozens of celebrities, including LeeAnn Rimes, Jesse McCartney, Gladys Knight, Donny Osmond, and T-Pain, have competed on the show under secret identities and complex costumes. So who are The Beets on The Masked Singer Season 11? Keep reading for our best guess to who the Beets are on The Masked Singer 2024 and the celebrities we’re convinced will be revealed under the mask.
Who are the Beets on The Masked Singer? Reuben Studdard and Clay Aiken, singers and the winner and runner-up of American Idol Season 2, are our best guess for the Beets on The Masked Singer Season 11 based on their voices and clues. Read on for the clues that support Studdard and Aiken as the Beets on The Masked Singer ahead.
Studdard and Aiken were the winner and runner-up of American Idol Season 2, which aired on FOX in 2003, the same home and network The Masked Singer. The American Idol Season 2 finale was watched by a record-breaking 40 million viewers, according to South Coast Today.
While Studdard and Aiken competed against each other on American Idol, they remain close friends and referred to each other as brothers” in an interview with The Washington Post in 2023. “I think one of the reasons we became not only friends with each other, but friends with everyone in our group, is because we had no idea what we were getting into,” Aiken said. “In subsequent seasons, I happen to know for a fact … the winner and runner-up had not spoken since their season ended. And we were both like, ‘What?’”
Studdard and Aiken competed on Season 2 of American Idol.
This quote is a reference to Studdard’s first name, Ruben, which is also the name of the popular reuben sandwich.
Studdard and Aiken went on a joint tour to celebrate their 20th anniversary of American Idol Season 2 in 2023. “@clayaiken & I are hitting the road this Spring, twenty years after our debuts on American Idol. Join us for the first leg of Twenty | The Tour,” Studdard shared on Instagram, along with the official tour poster and dates for the first leg. The tour concluded in May 2023 in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Both Studdard and Aiken were featured on the 2003 Christmas album American Idol: The Great Holiday Classics.
