Who is Gazelle on The Masked Singer Season 10?
Who is Gazelle on The Masked Singer? Janel Parrish, an actress best known for the TV series Pretty Little Liars, is our best guess for Gazelle on The Masked Singer Season 10. 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)
- 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.
