‘The Masked Singer’s Venus Fly Trap Is A Boxing Legend & His Wife ‘Pressed’ Him To Do The Show (Exclusive)

The Venus Fly Trap was revealed arsenic erstwhile nonrecreational boxer George Foreman during the November 9 occurrence of The Masked Singer. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with George astir his clip connected the show. His wife, Mary Joan Martelly, is simply a longtime instrumentality of the amusement and convinced him to do the show.

George Foreman was revealed arsenic the Venus Fly Trap connected ‘The Masked Singer.’ (Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

“It was my woman who pressed me,” George said. “She’s been a instrumentality of the amusement forever, and she’s ever telling me, ‘You can’t judge that so-and-so could sing. You should bash the show.’ I would ever resist, saying, “No, no, no, no.” But finally, she talked maine into it. Once I got there, the unit and each the radical progressive made maine consciousness truthful welcome.”

George admitted that his “dear woman was truly happy” for him erstwhile helium decided to bash the show. He added, “As a substance of fact, we traveled to Los Angeles together. She got maine ready. She did everything else. She didn’t spell to spot the costume oregon went to the studio, but she was truly arrogant of me. You could bash 1,000 things, and past possibly 1 retired of 1,000 that my woman was truly arrogant of maine and that was one. She was blessed astir that.”

The Venus Fly Trap was rather the elaborate costume. The costume had a agelong stem arsenic portion of its headpiece. “Thank goodness for my leftover tummy muscles. It took a batch of balance. It wasn’t an casual fit. My lone occupation was I said if I marque 1 incorrect determination I’m going to tumble down. I didn’t tumble, but it was the remnants of my boxing tummy muscles that saved me,” George admitted.

George Foreman underneath the Venus Fly Trap costume. (FOX)

George has been halfway signifier plentifulness of times erstwhile competing successful the ring, but The Masked Singer was a wholly antithetic acquisition for him. “I’ve been introduced connected stages from The Tonight Show to each those antithetic shows wherever performers travel retired and sing. That was the archetypal clip the curtains were unfastened and I was a singer. I loved it,” George told HollywoodLife.

“I truly wanted to win. It was similar being successful a boxing lucifer again,” helium continued. The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays connected FOX.