As for his clue after the performance? His partner made an offscreen appearance, with Owl answering the phone to hear the message, “Hey baby, Lady Owl here. Watching you has been enchanting. Good luck tonight and Happy Valentine’s Day.”
Judge Jenny McCarthy immediately clocked that Lady Owl had an accent, and Ken Jeong asked if she was British. The judges all turned to Rita Ora—who was raised in the U.K.—as she joked, “You guys are all looking at me like I should know every single British person on planet Earth.”
When asked for his thoughts on the message, Owl became incredibly emotional and could be heard holding back tears.
Unfortunately, he found himself on the losing end of the matchup against Stingray, and the judges gave their final guesses as to who could be under the mask.
While Robin Thicke thought it could be Walton Goggins—noting he and the Owl have “Southern, groggy kind” of voices—he returned to his original guess of Dennis Quaid. Jenny remembered the clue about a heart monitor as she wondered if the masked man played a doctor on TV, closing her case with Ted Danson, who portrayed Dr. John Becker on the TV show Becker. Ken had originally wondered if it could be Matthew McConaughey, and while he was also thinking about Woody Harrelson, he agreed with Jenny’s guess of Ted Danson. Rita also went back to her original guess, closing her case with Kurt Russell.
But all of the judges were wrong: The Owl was revealed to be Billy Ray Cyrus, with Jenny exclaiming, “Oh my god! How did I not get that?”