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LOS ANGELES – “The Masked Singer” celebrated the United States of America\u2019s 250th birthday on Wednesday with a red, white and “clue” celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Plus, the last wildcard contestant joined the season: Pangolin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the contestants battled it out on the “The Masked Singer” stage, Calla Lily was eliminated from the FOX competition and forced to real themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Who is Calla Lily? ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/calla-lily-1-scaled.jpg\")
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Calla Lily performs on “The Masked Singer” stage. (Credit: Michael Becker\/FOX) <\/p>\n
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Calla Lily was revealed as Teddi Mellencamp<\/a>, the television personality and podcast host, known as a former star of the long-running reality series “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “It means so much, because two weeks ago I didn\u2019t think I was going to be able to be strong enough to do it,” Mellencamp shared, adding, “So being out here with all of you guys and to do this and feel strong and feel good is amazing.”<\/p>\n Last year, the 44-year-old was hospitalized after doctors discovered “multiple tumors” on her brain.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Real Housewives’ star Teddi Mellencamp hospitalized with multiple tumors on her brain<\/a><\/p>\n During her reveal, Mellencamp told the audience that her most recent scans indicated “no current trace of cancer.”<\/p>\n Judge Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg accurately predicted that the reality star was underneath the mask and costume.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I can only imagine the strength it took to fight this diagnosis, but also the strength to even come here,” McCarthy Wahlberg said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Next week on \u2018The Masked Singer\u2019 <\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Next week “The Masked Singer” will ring in Valentines Day with Twilight Night, celebrating the most romantic saga, including a pecial performance of the Twilight soundtrack from Christina Perri, who recorded the hit ballad “A Thousand Years<\/a>” for the soundtrack.<\/p>\n RELATED: \u2018The Masked Singer\u2019: Queen Corgi chooses to leave competition; here\u2019s who it is<\/a><\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss the all-new “Twilight Night” episode of The Masked Singer airing Wednesday, Feb 11 on FOX.<\/p>\n The Source: This station is owned by FOX Corporation. This story was reported from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Entertainment<\/a>FOX Shows<\/a>The Masked Singer<\/a>U.S.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – “The Masked Singer” celebrated the United States of America\u2019s 250th birthday on Wednesday with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,152539,111,43,139,69,118477,437,3040],"class_list":{"0":"post-268466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fox-shows","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-the-masked-singer","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}