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This Morning's Holly Willoughby struggled with keeping Masked Dancer secret

Holly Willoughby has admitted she struggled with having to keep the identity of the final four acts on The Masked Dancer having been a guest judge on the show.

This Morning host Holly joined Davina McCall, Jonathan Ross, Mo Gilligan and Oti Mabuse for Saturday's grand finale, which saw Olympic gymnast Louis Smith triumph as Carwash.

Bonnie Langford provided the night's biggest shock when she was revealed to be runner up Squirrel, while Howard Donald finished third as Zip and Tamzin Outhwaite was voted out in fourth place.

The ex EastEnders star being on the show came as huge shock to her cousin-in-law Holly who failed to guess it was her and, as she and co-presenter Phillip Schofield interviewed Take That star Howard on Monday; Holly told him how she didn't know how he managed to keep his involvement a secret.

Having been present for four consecutive reveals, Holly was privy to top secret Masked Singer information that barely anyone else knew and she confessed she found it hard not to let the cat out of the bag.

She told Howard: "I imagine that one of the hardest bits is keeping it a secret.

"'I mean, 'cos I only knew who the last four were, because obviously I'd done and filmed the show and keeping that a secret and not telling anyone was....my kids were like 'but you know! Tell us who's on it!'

"And I was like I can't and I found it difficult, but you actually being The Masked Dancer - is it hard to keep it a secret?"

Howard replied: "It's really hard. You're walking about backstage with a hoody with Don't Speak To Me on.

"You've got a visor, you've got a balaclava on, you've got gloves on so no-one can see they can't see your skin colour."

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