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What do we know about The Masked Singer: Christmas Special?

Host of the Masked Singer Joel Dommett, who is joined by panellists
Jonathan Ross, Maya Jama, Davina McCall and Mo Gilligan.Image source, ITV
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It looks to be a show full of festive fun over Christmas

Are you ready to shout "Take it off!" at your TV this Christmas?

Along with some other amazing Christmas telly, The Masked Singer is back for a 2025 Christmas Special on Boxing Day, before a brand-new series drops in the new year.

In the festive treat, celebrities will be dressed in Christmas costumes, which we've just been treated to a first look at ahead of the episode.

As well as a host of mysterious voices, pantomime icons will be joining the show to help the panel out with extra clues.

Which celebrities do you think will be on The Masked Singer over Christmas? Let us know in the comments below!

Who's the goose?

A goose costume on the set of TV show the Masked Singer, with people dressed as stars in the backgroundImage source, ITV

Goose is a very traditional Christmas food, but in the Masked Singer, it's a huge costume with a hidden celebrity inside.

The rural TV show and magazine Countryfile says that geese used to be cheaper than turkeys, which used to be quite a fancy thing to eat until the 19th century.

In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Scrooge treats the Cratchit family to a huge goose for their Christmas dinner once he's realised he needs to change his miserly ways.

Under the Mistletoe

A singer dressed as a large pair of lips with mistletoe dangling over sings next to a Christmas table on a TV setImage source, ITV

This celebrity is dressed as lips and mistletoe, but who do you think it could be?

As well as guest pantomime stars, it looks like there'll be loads of dancers and amazing sets on The Masked Singer - they're even having a big Christmas dinner here!

Oh bring us some Figgy Pudding!

A singer dressed as a large Christmas pudding dances on stageImage source, ITV

Joining goose in the Christmas dinner themed costumes is this giant figgy pudding.

Fiddy pudding, or Christmas pudding, is also mentioned in A Christmas Carol, but the organisation English Heritage say that the dish began as a broth-like meal back in the 14th century.

But it was in the Victorian era, it became the popular dish as we know it today.

What will this present be?

A singer dressed as a sack of presents stands next to a pile of presents and dancers dressed as reindeerImage source, ITV

And finally, it's a sack full of presents - but who's under the box?

In last year's special, the celebrities in the masks were TV personality Josie Gibson, Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse, presenter Davina McCall, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood frontman Holly Johnson, who won the episode.

But who do you think will be singing this year? Comment below with your thoughts!