“How might you presumably undergo that have and never keep in contact with all people who was concerned?” Aiken puzzled aloud whereas dishing on the pair’s expertise on ‘The Masked Singer.’ “I spotted it would not occur like that on different seasons.”
Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard might have been going head-to-head on American Idol, however after they walked off that stage, they emerged buddies for all times.
TooFab spoke to the pair contemporary off their elimination from The Masked Singer Wednesday night time, the place they spoke about that tight bond they’ve with their fellow season 2 alums, and why they’re “baffled” different casts aren’t as shut.
“We keep up a correspondence with our entire season. All people that was in our season that made the finale, and the producers from our season and the those who labored within the background, like Meghan Michaels, who’s now an government, Studdard shared when requested who he and Aiken keep up a correspondence with from their season 2 run in 2003.
He continued, “She was work with us once we had been all beginning collectively. So, it was simply nice.”
Aiken, in the meantime, stated there’s a complete “bunch” of causes that made the season 2 forged so tightly knit — a type of being the truth that the contestants all lived in a home collectively whereas competing on the present.
“We had been the one season to all stay in a home collectively. We had been one of many solely seasons to go on tour collectively afterwards,” Aiken defined. “They actually did excursions for a number of different seasons, however not as extensively as our season was. We simply stayed in contact due to that. All of us went right into a present that — in a special time.”
Aiken stated that he and Studdard really discover it onerous to grasp that different casts aren’t as shut after going by way of an expertise like they did on Idol.
“How might you presumably undergo that have and never keep in contact with all people who was concerned?” Aiken requested. “I spotted it would not occur like that on different seasons. We went to the Fox finale of the present years in the past, and we each sat there with Kimberley Locke, the three of us hanging out from our season, and had been simply type of baffled that not one of the different finalists that had been on the identical season had been hanging out collectively.”
He continued, “Among the different runners-up had not even spoken to their winner since their season was over. And I used to be like, ‘What the? How is that even doable?’ Ruben and I traded numbers day one they usually’ve by no means left our telephones.”
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“We by no means broke up. We by no means left one another’s facet after Idol,” Aiken added.
The pair, who carried out as “The Beets” on TMS, additionally spoke about returning to a different singing competitors sequence greater than 20 years after their icon run on American Idol.
“I don’t know,” Studdard joked when requested why they determined to compete on TMS. “What I do know, is that the choice to not be actually ‘judged,’ was cool. Folks can let you know what they give thought to your singing, however we all know how we sound.”
As for Aiken, he did not see the present as a lot of a contest, however relatively an opportunity for the pair to have enjoyable.
“I by no means checked out Masked Singer as a singing competitors. It’s a stupidly good present that’s simply so distinctive. And clearly what attracts folks into Idol is the competitors facet of it, what attracts folks into Dancing With the Stars is the competitors facet of it,” Aiken defined.
“Masked Singer — I believe individuals are drawn into the thriller a part of it. Not the competitors a part of it. They create the construction of the competitors to provide it some stakes. However for me, it was at all times like, ‘When else am I gonna get to put on a fancy dress that ridiculous and elaborate and sing?’ It was simply a possibility that I had by no means had earlier than and we might unlikely get once more.”
Whereas this was the primary time in a very long time for followers to see the pair carry out once more on tv collectively, Aiken and Studdard really filmed TMS in-between tour stops on their twentieth anniversary tour, celebrating the many years since their time on Idol.
“It was undoubtedly one thing totally different for us. I do not suppose the efficiency issue was one thing that we weren’t used to, as a result of we had been on tour whereas we had been doing the present,” Studdard shared. “… However simply to be on stage in a fancy dress, as a Beet is one thing that’s utterly sudden. I had no concept that that is how my yr would begin, leaping round in a Beet costume, singing on stage with Clay. I had no concept.”
For extra on the pair’s Masked Singer expertise, and what their children thought of watching them on the present, try the video under.
The Masked Singer heads to the Quarterfinals subsequent Wednesday as Gumball joins Clock, Goldfish, and Poodle Moth at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
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