\n Fogle, 52, was eliminated in Saturday night’s semifinal after being unmasked as Sloth.\n<\/p>\n
\n Throughout the series, he performed hits including \u2018Tainted Love\u2019 by Soft Cell, \u2018Green Green Grass\u2019 by George Ezra and \u2018Tubthumping\u2019 by Chumbawamba.\n<\/p>\n
\n His participation showed a different side to Fogle, whose television career launched in 2000 when he took part in BBC programme Castaways.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe experience was bonkers,\u201d he told the Journal.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe reason I did it was to challenge myself and people\u2019s perceptions of me.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhen I started on that reality show 25 years ago, I struggled to be taken seriously.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI became an adventurer, and now I\u2019m \u2018just an adventurer\u2019, and I struggle to be taken lightly.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe point of doing The Masked Singer<\/a> 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.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s not just about showing that to other people, but my own children.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n He said that was particularly important given conversations around toxic masculinity.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cI 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,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s 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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n Part of the experience relied on him keeping his secret identity hidden.\n<\/p>\n \n Fogle said: \u201cI don\u2019t keep secrets. I say what is in my head, so it was almost impossible.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cI told my wife, but I did not tell my children. I really struggled with that.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cAs a parent, we really encourage openness and honesty and conversation about everything, and it was quite an intense period of filming.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cIt 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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n Fogle, also known for presenting New Lives in the Wild and Longleat-filmed Animal Park, is bringing his theatre show WILD<\/a> to Salisbury City Hall on March 25.\n<\/p>\n \n He launched the show in 2023, adding two sets of new dates due to high demand.\n<\/p>\n \n 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.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cAs a pupil who would travel to Salisbury to get to my school in Blandford Forum<\/a> every single weekend, I know and love Salisbury very much,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cIt sort of broke my heart when people were avoiding the city for whatever reason they had to do it.\n<\/p>\n