{"id":426304,"date":"2026-02-15T01:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426304\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:50:13","slug":"itv-masked-singer-winner-moth-crowned-and-shes-part-of-british-pop-royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426304\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Masked Singer winner Moth crowned and she&#8217;s part of British pop royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winner of the latest series of the Masked Singer has been unveiled, and the star behind the Moth costume has finally been revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tipping Point presenter Ben Shephard was the show\u2019s runner-up as Conkers, while Toastie was revealed to be soul singer Mica Paris, which three of the panel guessed correctly. But the top spot was reserved for British pop royalty &#8211; Sugababes star Keisha Buchanan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 41-year-old singer, who performed songs including Rihanna\u2019s Only Girl (In The World) and Foreigner\u2019s I Want To Know What Love Is during Saturday\u2019s final was correctly guessed by panellist Maya Jama on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/itv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ITV;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ITV<\/a> show. Speaking after winning, shesaid: \u201cHonestly, I\u2019ve had the best time, I think I\u2019m more of an introvert than I am an extrovert, actually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAnd I think this has, you know, without the girls by my side, it\u2019s kind of like made me a lot more confident, and it\u2019s really brought me out of my shell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ben Shephard\u2019s unmasking shocked the judging panel of Jama, Jonathan Ross, Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, and last year\u2019s winner Samantha Barks, because he had appeared on the show\u2019s judging panel earlier in the series, during its Halloween special. The TV presenter said after being unmasked: \u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary experience, having turned 50, I thought I\u2019ve got to do a few more scary things.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"An individual, dressed in an elegant attire, is standing on a stage with hands raised, appearing to be in a moment of triumph. A name board in front of them reads &quot;Keishna Buchanan&quot; along with the titles &quot;Sugababes Singer &amp; Songwriter.&quot; The background features a vibrant and dynamic visual backdrop.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8a856cdea5b5060ffaddd5d36e089827.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Keishna Buchanan -Credit:ITV<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAnd I think tonight was probably my favourite, and it felt like I\u2019d won just being able to come on the show, so I could just really enjoy that song (The Killers\u2019 Mr Brightside), I know my boys love that song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s been such an extraordinary journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The duets also saw Barks sign on the show once again as Pufferfish, while The Corrs singer Andrea Corr and singer Will Young also returned to the programme, as Snail and Lionfish respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paris, who finished third, added: \u201cI\u2019ve had the best time, it\u2019s been so amazing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI wanted to do it for my grandkids\u2026 they don\u2019t (know that I am doing The Masked Singer), they know I\u2019m doing a show but they don\u2019t know what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year\u2019s series of The Masked Singer is available on catch up on ITVX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winner of the latest series of the Masked Singer has been unveiled, and the star behind the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[46589,96,347,78198,575,156394,135608,126574,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-426304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ben-shephard","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-itv","11":"tag-jonathan-ross","12":"tag-maya-jama","13":"tag-mica-paris","14":"tag-samantha-barks","15":"tag-the-masked-singer","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426304","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=426304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}