{"id":376846,"date":"2026-01-18T12:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376846\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:21:17","slug":"the-masked-singers-gargoyle-unveiled-as-80s-pop-star-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376846\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masked Singer\u2019s Gargoyle unveiled as 80s pop star | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/the-masked-singer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Masked Singer<\/a>\u2019s Gargoyle was revealed as Shakespears Sister star Marcella Detroit on Saturday night\u2019s show (17 January).<\/p>\n<p>The singer, songwriter and guitarist shot to fame as one half of the pop duo alongside former Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit also co-wrote Eric Clapton\u2019s 1977 hit \u201cLay Down Sally\u201d and released her debut solo album, Marcella, in 1982.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/culture\/masked-singer-matt-lucas-emperor-penguin-video-b2894487.html\" title=\"Masked Singer star shares video of moment family discover Emperor Penguin identity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">During the sing-off, <\/a>Gargoyle delivered a fiery rendition of Joan Jett\u2019s \u201cBad Reputation\u201d before being unmasked by the judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Masked Singer\u2019s Gargoyle was revealed as Shakespears Sister star Marcella Detroit on Saturday night\u2019s show (17 January).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-376846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}