The final episode of The Masked Singer aired on Wednesday night (Dec. 16) and LeAnn Rimes was revealed as the singer in the sun costume and the winner of Season 4.
Two of The Masked Singer judges, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg and Nicole Scherzinger, were able to guess that Rimes was the performer dressed as the sun. Ken Jeong went with his guess of Mandy Moore, while Robin Thicke thought it might be Katharine McPhee behind the mask.
Rimes, 38, sang “When the Party’s Over” by Billie Eilish during the semi-finals and closed out her run on the show with a cover of “The Story” by Brandi Carlile in the finale.
“I never thought I would do anything like this and I don’t think I’ll ever do anything like it again,” Rimes said in an interview after the show. “It’s such a unique show. I had no idea what I was getting myself into and I’m so glad I did.”
Rimes also added that she was happy to have a place to perform during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I haven’t been off the road and not performed live since I was 13,” she said. “I was really craving to be on stage. And then, when I thought of what I could bring to this dark moment in time, it felt like perfect timing. This show in itself is just so joyous, unlike really any show on television.”
Just before her unmasking, the Grammy, CMA and ACM award winner released a new song, “Throw My Arms Around the World.” Rimes says the song is “full of passion, hope and sacred rage” and that she wants to “dance and cry every time I listen to it.”
Rimes wasn’t the only country singer to appear on this season of The Masked Singer: Clint Black and his wife, Lisa Hartman Black, were also mystery singers behind the snow owls masks.
