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Kyle O'Sullivan

The Masked Singer fans furious as Unicorn 'illegally announced' as John Barrowman

The Masked Singer fans are furious at John Barrowman being 'announced' as The Masked Singer's Unicorn.

A lot of viewers were convinced that the Doctor Who star was behind the mask, but it was seemingly all but confirmed on Sunday night's Dancing On Ice launch show.

The 'fa-u-lous' new judge came stomping out onto the ice, bizarrely in the same studio that The Masked Singer is filmed, prompting speculation he was the hoofed singer.

The hints were that Unicorn has always "stood out from the crowd", "been different", has "flair", and is "a bit of a show pony".

Dancing On Ice viewers watched in disbelief at John Barrowman's response to Holly Willoughby asking if he was "moonlighting as a Kate Bush loving Unicorn".

The Unicorn was a firm favourite on The Masked Singer's first show (ITV)
John Barrowman addressed claims he is the Unicorn (ITV)

Pointing the finger, Phillip Schofield said: "If last night's show is anything to go by it seems one of our judges is leading a secret life."

Holly asked: "Right John Barrowman I’m only going to ask you this once. Are you or are you not moonlighting as a Kate Bush loving Unicorn?"

A sheepish looking John told Holly he would not tell her even it was him behind the mask.

When Holly claimed it was him and asked to borrow the outfit, he replied: "You’d have to rip it out of my closet if i had it."

Phil cried: "It is you."

They pointed the finger at John (ITV)
The Unicorn made a great entrance (ITV)
The Masked Singer - who is the Unicorn?

Stunned Dancing On Ice viewers could not believe that they had spoken so openly about John being the Unicorn.

One angry fan said: "Wtf John, you're not supposed to actually out yourself as Unicorn yet!"

"At least we know the unicorn is John Barrowman now, "added another.

A third said: "Why are they announcing john being the unicorn surely this isn’t allowed"

"Right..... that totally did not give away the Unicorn.. at all. LOL wtf," said a fourth.

John made a fab-u-lous entrance (ITV)
Phil and Holly needed answers (ITV)

There wasn't too much evidence that John was behind the mask until he came out during Sunday night's Dancing On Ice opener.

The 'fa-u-lous' new judge came stomping out onto the ice, which bizarrely happens to be in the same studio where The Masked Singer is filmed.

Dancing On Ice fans flocked to Twitter to insist that John was dancing in the same way as Unicorn did.

Unicorn (ITV)

One convinced viewer said: "Unicorn is definitely John Barrowman!!"

"I see @JohnBarrowman isn't dressed as a unicorn tonight," added another.

A third said: "John Barrowman just came out on dancing on ice, doing the same dance the 'Unicorn' did on masked singer last night"

*The Masked Singer airs tonight on ITV at 8.00pm

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