‘The Masked Singer’s Hedgehog Reveals How Surviving Cancer Pushed Him To Do The Show

The Masked Singer’s Hedgehog was revealed arsenic Monty Python legend Eric Idle during the season 8 premiere. While his tally on The Masked Singer didn’t past long, Eric isn’t lying low. Eric is simply a subsister of pancreatic crab and utilizing his dependable to dispersed consciousness and support. He revealed EXCLUSIVELY to HollywoodLife that the amusement was a “great experience” for him aft his crab battle.

Eric Idle was revealed arsenic Hedgehog connected ‘The Masked Singer.’ (Birdie Thompson/SIPA/Shutterstock)

“I thought to myself, this would beryllium a precise bully acquisition for maine to spot if I could inactive really bash this. Be silly and sing and creation due to the fact that precocious I person been precise lucky. I survived pancreatic cancer, acknowledgment to immoderate superb doctors successful LA who saved my life,” Eric said. “I wanted to spot if I could really inactive bash it, truthful it was a large acquisition for maine to spell and bash it. There was a unrecorded assemblage and they were large bands. It was amusive to play with. And truthful yes, I recovered that I really could get done it, which was amazing.”

The 79-year-old besides gave an update connected his health. “I’m overmuch amended than recovering. I’ve lived 6 months astatine a clip portion they checked, but present I asked my doc however agelong I’ve got. He saw maine and I’ve got a decade, truthful I decided to usage that for thing good,” Eric continued. “Instead of trying to conscionable blog thing I’d written, I partnered with Stand Up To Cancer, and I’m going to rise wealth to dispersed the bully quality that idiosyncratic has survived this foul disease. We are learning. We’re getting there. And if they volition assistance maine rise money, we tin marque definite it goes to the close places to promote probe and aboriginal testing. It turns retired that November’s Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. I’m precise blessed to beryllium partnered with radical doing thing useful.”

The Spamalot writer admitted that performing successful the Hedgehog costume was “absolutely astir apt the astir hard happening I’ve ever done due to the fact that you’re hobbled somewhat due to the fact that they’ve got these immense feet. You tin lone determination your knees. You’re hidden wrong this huge, voluminous costume. It was very, precise rather difficult, and you person to larn creation steps and spot the set cues and articulation in. It was overmuch harder than I thought. Therefore erstwhile things are difficult, it ever feels amended erstwhile you really get done it.”

Eric performed The Beatles opus “Love Me Do” successful The Masked Singer play 8 premiere. He explained however Paul McCartney gave him his blessing to execute the opus connected the show.

Eric Idle arsenic the Hedgehog with Nick Cannon. (FOX)

“I was listening to immoderate songs and playing my guitar. That’s what I bash for fun, and I was listening to ‘Love Me Do,’ and I was like, what a beauteous song. I wonderment if I could take that,” Eric told HollywoodLife. “I cognize it’s precise hard to get support from The Beatles to bash anything, truthful I had a person astatine Apple and helium said, ‘Well, really it isn’t The Beatles copyright. It’s really Sir Paul’s copyright due to the fact that helium wrote it erstwhile helium was 16 earlier The Beatles, truthful wherefore don’t you inquire him?’ So I wrote to him, and helium precise sweetly said, ‘Yes, absolutely. Please spell up with my blessing. But I inquire you lone 1 thing, delight fto maine cognize what clip the show’s on.'”

We request ways to find pancreatic crab aboriginal and ground-breaking treatments that volition assistance marque semipermanent endurance possible. Stand Up To Cancer is transforming pancreatic crab into a treatable disease. Give present to enactment Stand Up To Cancer’s probe astatine StandUpToCancer.org/EricIdle.