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Cricket tips and theories on The Masked Singer UK, including the legend of the repair shop

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by Terry Alexander
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Cricket has already delighted the audiences with his lively voice and performances (Image: ITV)

Joy The Masked Singer UK are finally back, bringing with them the fun of some of the craziest costumes ever seen on TV.

This year, characters like Maypole, Rat, Bigfoot and Dippy Egg compete in the hopes of winning before a panel of Davina McCall, Mo Gilligan, Jonathan Ross and Rita Ora (plus current champion Charlie) reveal their identities. Simpson in the first episode).

In the first episode, Cricket took the stage to perform a lively rendition of Reef's Place Your Hands and won over the studio audience so they wouldn't risk elimination, before sending Weather home.

They left a lot of interesting clues in their VT package, as well as the mystery they told the committee.

So what did you do with all this? This is what we know so far.

What clues are there to identify cricket?

Let's take a look at everything Cricket has said so far to see if there are any clear clues about their true identity…

When Cricket started speaking in his first VT, they had a very posh accent, but the panelists concluded it was most likely fake.
The singer showed how the makeup artist applied “gold dust” to her.
When you were at the cricket field, you could see numbers behind him, including '60 total', a possible reference to his name.
Cricket looks at a flyer mentioning the cricketers “Bow Tuffers and Mo Viggo”, the former perhaps referring to Phil Tufnell.
Cricket continued to use the word “happy”. Was this intentional for a reason we have yet to discover?
In a riddle he presented to the committee, Cricket said: “I hope my speech shocked you as much as it did when I felt dizzy while sitting on the sofa.”

Who could be the cricketer in The Masked Singer, UK?

Some big names have already been mentioned about the cricket character… and some of them seem to have legs.

Fibrous roots

Could Levi Roots be behind the mask? (Photo: Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images)

After listening to Cricket's performance of Reef's Put Your Hands Up, Mo pointed out Davina's observation that the singer sounded like he was singing to the tune of a Caribbean song.

This prompted the comedian to suggest that Cricket could be musician and TV presenter Levi Roots, who rose to fame after appearing on Dragons' Den in 2007, during which he pocketed £50,000 for Reggae Reggae Sauce.

Since Levi is from Jamaica in the Caribbean, could Mo have guessed correctly?

Jay Blades

Davina also noted that Cricket may appear older than he actually is and… more vaguely related… that he was standing on a “blade of grass”.

As we've discovered over the years on The Masked Singer, there's no very definitive clue.

Wide Stewart

When the scoreboard appeared behind the cricket in the video evidence package, suspended singer Charlie noticed certain numbers, thinking it might mean the singer was 6ft 5ins tall.

Thinking of tall cricketers, Steward came across Broad, who was very tall.