‘Masked Singer’s Hummingbird Admits NSYNC’s Joey Fatone Knew His Identity ‘Right Away’

Hummingbird was unmasked arsenic NSYNC subordinate Chris Kirkpatrick astatine the opening of The Masked Singer’s September 28 episode. For Chris, doing The Masked Singer was a treble triumph for him. “I emotion the show. And much importantly, I emotion a challenge, and this is some of those combined,” helium told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY.

Chris Kirkpatrick was revealed arsenic the Hummingbird. (Gpa/Imagespace/Shutterstock)

Chris showed disconnected his vocals during the play 8 premiere. HollywoodLife asked Chris if helium reached to chap NSYNC subordinate Joey Fatone, who came successful 4th spot successful play 1, earlier helium went connected the show. “I did not scope retired to him, but helium decidedly knows,” Chris said. “You can’t sing with 4 guys for astir 30 years and — knowing that they ticker the amusement — that they won’t fig it out. I mean, it was beauteous obvious. He texted maine close away, ‘Hey, large job, Hummingbird.’ There was nary putting the wool successful beforehand of his eyes.”

The 50-year-old vocalist was candid that performing successful the Hummingbird costume was “tough” astatine times. “There were decidedly immoderate constrictions that usually if I wanted to spell bash a backflip connected stage, I wasn’t doing it successful the Hummingbird costume. But it was amusive to benignant of alteration who I was and effort to go a character,” Chris continued.

Chris chose to sing Gavin DeGraw’s “I Don’t Want To Be” for his performance. “I tried to bash thing that was not successful my precocious falsetto oregon my precocious dependable due to the fact that I figured if I did 1 of those, they would benignant of fig maine retired immediately,” Chris told HollywoodLife. “So I went with thing a small little and thing that would benignant of propulsion them disconnected of not proceeding my dependable connected grounds doing that benignant of song.”

Chris Kirkpatrick connected ‘The Masked Singer.’ (FOX)

Chris admitted that helium initially didn’t archer his son, Nash, astir him being on The Masked Singer due to the fact that “he has a truly large mouth.” However, Chris and his woman did uncover Chris’ Masked Singer astonishment to small Nash connected the nighttime of the play 8 premiere.

“He laughed. He thought it was truly cool,” Chris said of his son’s absorption to his dada arsenic the Hummingbird. “He wanted to spot it again a mates of times. He’s really conscionable successful the past fewer months been discovering NSYNC arsenic well. He loves to sing, it’s truly chill to perceive him singing random NSYNC songs retired of the blue. Just due to the fact that he’ll beryllium doing thing and conscionable commencement spitting retired the lyrics of 1 of the songs. I’m like, I didn’t adjacent cognize you knew that.” The Masked Singer play 8 airs Wednesdays connected FOX.