Fogle, 52, was eliminated in Saturday night’s semifinal after being unmasked as Sloth.
Throughout the series, he performed hits including ‘Tainted Love’ by Soft Cell, ‘Green Green Grass’ by George Ezra and ‘Tubthumping’ by Chumbawamba.
His participation showed a different side to Fogle, whose television career launched in 2000 when he took part in BBC programme Castaways.
“The experience was bonkers,” he told the Journal.
“The reason I did it was to challenge myself and people’s perceptions of me.
“When I started on that reality show 25 years ago, I struggled to be taken seriously.
“I became an adventurer, and now I’m ‘just an adventurer’, and I struggle to be taken lightly.
“The point of doing The Masked Singer was to show that I do have a sense of humour and can smile, laugh and be stupid, and bounce around a stage in a tutu.
“It’s not just about showing that to other people, but my own children.”
He said that was particularly important given conversations around toxic masculinity.
“I want people to see that you can be a strong male and still prance around a stage in a pink tutu, singing The Frog Chorus,” he said.
“It’s quite important that, as a parent, I practice what I think, and I practice what I preach, and I certainly did that on The Masked Singer.”
Part of the experience relied on him keeping his secret identity hidden.
Fogle said: “I don’t keep secrets. I say what is in my head, so it was almost impossible.
“I told my wife, but I did not tell my children. I really struggled with that.
“As a parent, we really encourage openness and honesty and conversation about everything, and it was quite an intense period of filming.
“It was very strange to come back from a big, glitzy Saturday night stage show with Jonathan Ross and Davina McCall and the other judges, and an audience and singing, and having got through to another week, get back to a house and eat a bowl of pasta because everyone was in bed and wake up the next morning as if nothing had happened.”
Fogle, also known for presenting New Lives in the Wild and Longleat-filmed Animal Park, is bringing his theatre show WILD to Salisbury City Hall on March 25.
He launched the show in 2023, adding two sets of new dates due to high demand.
Fogle is well acquainted with Salisbury, having stopped off in the city on his old commute to Bryanston School in Dorset from his London home.
“As a pupil who would travel to Salisbury to get to my school in Blandford Forum every single weekend, I know and love Salisbury very much,” he said.
“It sort of broke my heart when people were avoiding the city for whatever reason they had to do it.
“I feel very grateful that I can be part of a vanguard of people not only reminding people what a beautiful city it is and what a safe city it is, but also of the fact that City Hall has opened again, and what a marvellous venue it is.
“They can expect me to bring a bit of adventure, wilderness, wildlife and sunshine to the stage.
“The show is a consolidation of 25 years of travel and adventure and encounters all around the world, from climbing Everest to 15 years of making New Lives in the Wild, with little detours to Chernobyl, Slab City and remote Hebridean islands along the way.
“It’s wide and varied, a little bit like my career.”
He added: “There’s quite a lot of heavy, negative, dark news in the world.
“I think social media algorithms are trained to focus on negativity, so I wanted to write something and create something unashamedly positive.
“It’s a celebration of people, places, animals and challenges, highlighting the risks and the difficulties along the way, but leaving people feeling hopeful.
“We thought we would just do a single tour of 30 venues, and it sold out, so I did a second, and it sold out.
“Due to popular demand, I’m bringing it back again. This will take us to 100 venues, which is a lot of people – around 100,000 people.
“I feel really proud and humbled that people are actually spending money to come and see me in a theatre, on a stage.
“This is the last tour that I will do of this show, so this will be the last time anyone in Wiltshire can come along and hear me talk about these stories.”
To book tickets to his City Hall show, visit www.salisburycityhall.co.uk/event/ben-fogle-wild/