Masked Singer’s Joel Dommett confirms "exciting specials" are in the works

the masked dancer host joel dommett on stage, holding a gold theatre style face mask on a stick in his right hand and his microphone in his left hand
Joel Dommett teases more Masked Singer specialsKieron McCarron/Bandicoot TV - ITV

The Masked Singer host Joel Dommett has teased that further specials might be on the way.

The show has been a huge hit for ITV, branching out into The Masked Dancer and a one-off I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! special.

"We may or may not have some very exciting specials in the works," host Joel Dommett told Radio Times. "It feels like it really worked last year, people really liked the I'm a Celeb special and it felt like a really lovely introduction to the entire series.

"It was also just really lovely because those one-off specials, it has everything in the show — because you get that gratification immediately, you find out in that one show who everybody is.

the masked dancer host joel dommett on stage, holding a gold theatre style face mask on a stick in his right hand and his microphone in his left hand
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"It works really well, and so, yeah, hopefully we've got some specials planned this year — but I won't tell you what they are or whether they're happening... wink, wink."

When asked which shows he thought would make good Masked Singer specials, Dommett was full of ideas, stating that he feels like one-off specials could "run and run" with collaborations.

"We could do a Loose Women special, we could do a Coronation Street special," he said.

"When you suddenly start thinking about what the specials could be, you realise it's fairly endless. You could do a Strictly special. There's so many things you could do and such a huge population of people you could pull from.

pearly lion, joel dommett, the masked dancer
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"So, yeah, I really hope they start to do more of them because it's really lovely — and you could just litter them throughout the year, as well. I think it'd be a really exciting thing to be a part of."

Elsewhere, Dommett was announced as one of the guest judges for RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 5.

The Masked Singer and The Masked Dancer air on ITV1 and ITVX.

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