Johnny Rotten has revealed he agreed to appear The Masked Singer US in a bid to cheer up his wife, who is battling Alzheimer's Disease.
The Sex Pistols frontman - real name John Lydon - was unmasked as The Jester on the latest episode of the US show and he has now revealed he decided to sign up for the programme to make his wife Nora smile.
John explained how he and his manager discussed how it might be a good idea for both him and Nora if he agreed to go on the show as they thought she would "get a great sense of fun out of it" if she was able to guess it was him.
He told Billboard : "Someone contacted my manager and we discussed it and I thought it would be really good because it meant my lovely wife, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, might get a great sense of fun out of it if she managed to guess who it was.
"We’ve lived together for 47 years, Nora and I, so she must have some clues as to who I am and what I can get up to."
John admitted it was the "oddest thing in the world" to go on a show like this but he liked the "challenge".
Speaking after he was unmasked, he said: "It was the oddest thing in the world to ask me onto a show like this. But the way I am and my nature is I like challenges. This was a challenge to see if I could somehow piledrive through this with proper, proper dignity.
"I hope that’s what I achieved and I’ll leave that up to you boys and girls."
During his time on the show, John performed Alice Cooper's hit track School's Out as well as the track I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow by Soggy Bottom Boys.
But none of the five judges - Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke and Will.i.am - were able to correctly identify him as the man behind The Jester costume.
And John is convinced Nora did work out it was him, although he was devastated he couldn't watch it with her.
"I can't travel with my lovely Nora, so I have to do it on FaceTime with her every night," he said.
"I think she did guess... they made me a lovely pair of Jester gloves for me and Nora had them on when I talked to her on FaceTime."
