This post contains spoilers from Wednesday’s episode ofThe Masked Singer.
Just like magic,Masked Singerguest judgeNicole ByerguessedPenn Jilletteand Teller as Wednesday’s eliminated contestant Hydra.
“I thought, ‘Well, about f—ing time.’ We went much longer than we thought we were going to,” Jillette, 67, tells PEOPLE.
The magician says he and his partner suspected they’d be the first ones eliminated from the Fox competition show, but they actually sang three songs across two episodes since Hydra faced off against Armadillo in Wednesday’s duel.
“I wanted to pick songs that didn’t give away who we were, so we stayed away from Vegas and we stayed away from our youth and we stayed away from contemporary,” Jillette says of performing Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister” and ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man.”
He adds, “And then we didn’t get to do it, but we worked up ‘Karma Chameleon.’ "
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Teller, 74, doesn’t typically talk during his magic act with Jillette — which they do together at the Penn & Teller Theater in Las Vegas and on their CW showFool Us— but he spoke and sang as Hydra onThe Masked Singer. The duo even had the judges thinking there might be three singers under that three-headed dragon outfit.
“We knew that if we were two people, we would be busted right away, and we also knew we couldn’t get into one person costume,” Jillette explains. “So three was a good number.”
Jillette recalls sharing the small space with his longtime partner, his reaction to being guessed as various Muppets and how doing the show inspired new magic tricks.
Why did you and Teller pick the Hydra costume?The costume designers came up with this wonderful Hydra idea: the three-headed dog, guarding the gates of hell, which seemed like a really good choice for us. Also, being magicians, we have spent a lot of our lives forced into little tiny places together. So if you’re going to put anybody in a horribly cramped costume, we’re the ones to choose. We were jammed in there together and we’ve been jammed together for 47 years. So, we did okay.
Did you consciously decide to try to make it sound like three people were under the costume?My voice is distinctive. I worked at carnivals for a long time. I have a carney trash voice. So Teller had to really do the other two characters. He did a wonderful job. One of the characters we called Rex because he was trying to do Rex Harrison, the old, old, old singer. And the other character was just Teller doing his own voice. Teller was the one doing the real vocal showing off. He had to do those two characters and switch off, sometimes in mid-line. And I thought he did a beautiful job.How did being on stage as Hydra compare to doing your magic act?There’s really very little comparison. When we are doing our magic show, it’s entirely our show. It’s just the two of us. And we are not in a little box. At least for most of the show, we’re out there where people can see us. On top of that, we don’t sing. That’s one of the things that made this show so fun, is that Teller and I don’t get to sing, and Teller and I both love music.
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Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.You and Teller have been performing together for almost 50 years. Any plans of slowing down?No plans yet, no. We have our 10th season ofPenn & Teller: Fool Us, and we’re very excited about that. And we are always running at the Penn & Teller Theater in Las Vegas.
The Masked Singerairs Wednesdays (8 p.m. ET) on Fox.
source: people.com
