{"id":194144,"date":"2025-12-16T05:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194144\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:17:08","slug":"the-masked-singer-judges-for-2026-season-14-has-3-original-panelists-but-1-still-hasnt-returned-jenny-mccarthy-ken-jeong-masked-singer-nick-cannon-nicole-scherzinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194144\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Masked Singer\u2019 Judges for 2026: Season 14 Has 3 Original Panelists, But 1 Still Hasn\u2019t Returned | Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong, masked singer, Nick Cannon, Nicole Scherzinger, Rita Ora, Robin Thicke, The Masked Singer | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos | Just Jared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/masked-judges-05.jpg\" alt=\"The Masked Singer\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Scherzinger \u2013 WON\u2019T BE BACK<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/nicole-scherzinger\/\" title=\"Nicole Scherzinger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Scherzinger<\/a> is still not returning to the show after leaving to focus on her musical theatre career with her Tony and Olivier-winning work in Sunset Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole sat out from season 11 while performing in the show in London and now she will sit out seasons 12 and 13 while preparing for the New York run. She\u2019s also not returning for season 14.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/masked-judges-06.jpg\" alt=\"The Masked Singer\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rita Ora \u2013 REPLACING NICOLE FOR FOURTH SEASON<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/rita-ora\/\" title=\"Rita Ora\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Ora<\/a> is confirmed to be back as a judge for season 14. This will be her fourthseason!<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>One celeb has already been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/10\/descendants-star-kylie-cantrall-announces-shell-be-competing-on-the-masked-singer-season-14-heres-why-it-was-revealed-early\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed to be a contestant<\/a> on the new season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/15\/the-masked-singer-judges-for-2026-season-14-has-3-original-panelists-but-1-still-hasnt-returned\/\" alt=\"&#039;The Masked Singer&#039; Judges for 2026: Season 14 Has 3 Original Panelists, But 1 Still Hasn&#039;t Returned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab First<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/15\/the-masked-singer-judges-for-2026-season-14-has-3-original-panelists-but-1-still-hasnt-returned\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00ab Previous <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicole Scherzinger \u2013 WON\u2019T BE BACK Nicole Scherzinger is still not returning to the show after leaving to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-194144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}