‘The Masked Singer’s Fortune Teller Revealed As ‘Shark Tank’ Star: I Almost ‘Quit About 6 Times’ (Exclusive)

Shark Tank star Daymond John was revealed arsenic the Fortune Teller during TV Theme Night connected The Masked Singer. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Daymond astir wherefore helium decided to marque The Masked Singer his latest endeavor.

Daymond John was revealed arsenic the Fortune Teller. (ABC)

“I deliberation that aft 2 years of being cooped up and a batch of things going connected successful the world, I deliberation this is conscionable fun successful general,” Daymond said. “Also, being an entrepreneur, it’s ever astir stepping extracurricular your comfortableness zone, truly investigating yourself, and conscionable putting yourself retired determination and being vulnerable. A batch of radical deliberation that the mentality of entrepreneurs is to beryllium this hard idiosyncratic that, conscionable similar a bull moving astir erstwhile it’s the nonstop opposite. It’s astir being vulnerable, failing, trying, and putting yourself retired there.”

Daymond afloat admitted that helium doesn’t “particularly” similar his voice. “I bash not adjacent ticker my ain amusement due to the fact that I hatred my voice. With the performance, I person mostly been somewhat of a nationalist talker truthful I cognize however to enactment stages, but I virtually talked to Melissa here, and I’d astir apt discontinue astir six times without the producers knowing due to the fact that I’d beryllium determination and sing a enactment and beryllium similar each good, and they’d say, ‘Alright, everything’s great.’ And past I’d get connected the telephone with Melissa and say, ‘Alright, I’m not doing this anymore. I suck.’ I don’t peculiarly similar my voice.”

Daymond performed The Jeffersons taxable opus erstwhile helium made his Masked Singer debut. “It’s very, precise idiosyncratic to me. As an African American, I ne'er saw immoderate entrepreneurs who were truthful palmy connected TV,” Daymond noted. “George was the archetypal clip seeing a truly palmy entrepreneur that had each the attributes that I have. Really short, spunky, comes from New York, moved to the Upper East Side… I mean, he’s my life. After singing the song, possibly I tried to exemplary myself aft George Jefferson. He was some honorable astir what helium thought astir and precise passionate astir what helium did.”

Fortune Teller performing connected ‘The Masked Singer.’ (FOX)

The businessman had to look disconnected with the Harp successful a Battle Royale and execute the Full House taxable song. Daymond was “shocked” that helium made it to that round. “I had debased expectations connected wherever I would place,” helium admitted.

While helium was “happy” to bash the Battle Royale, Daymond knew it was implicit erstwhile helium heard Harp’s mentation of the taxable song. He raved that Harp sounded similar “an angel down came down from the skies. If I would person won, I would person inactive taken the disguise off. I americium not worthy.”

After Daymond became the archetypal Shark Tank contestant to bash The Masked Singer, the FUBU laminitis weighed successful connected which of his castmates should bash the amusement next. “In the breaks of Shark Tank we sing,” Daymond revealed. “Kevin [O’Leary] is large astatine playing the guitar, and helium sings. Robert [Herjavec] is truthful animated. You can’t unopen him up. Mark [Cuban] is great. Barbara [Corcoran] is okay. I don’t know. That’s a pugnacious one. I deliberation knowing however superb The Masked Singer radical are, you’ll ne'er know. Maybe they person each six of america competing against each other. I person nary idea.”

Daymond John with his ‘Shark Tank’ castmates. (ABC)

In summation to Shark Tank and his ongoing entrepreneurship, Daymond has a caller children’s publication called Little Daymond Learns To Earn coming retired successful 2023. “We are astatine a constituent wherever our families request to person a small spot much knowing of however concern works, truthful wherefore not larn unneurotic truthful that our kids are amended disconnected and amended equipped to go successful, whether they are moving successful a institution oregon owning their ain company? In this caller section successful my beingness wherever I person a six-year-old small babe girl, and I privation to equip her with immoderate of the things that helped maine go who I americium successful a precise fun, playful way,” Daymond told HollywoodLife. “It’s a mode for maine to work to my small miss and hopefully, everybody volition work to their small lad and miss and they’re having a bully time. I’m excited astir this. I emotion teaching entrepreneurship to adults and things similar that, but there’s thing much fulfilling than seeing the eyes of small beauteous children airy up erstwhile you work them a large story, and they don’t adjacent recognize they’re learning simultaneously.”