I am not rich but for the first time I am not poor, and that s**t is well exciting, says Masked Singer’s Joel Dommett
thesun.co.ukYOU can hardly switch on the telly these days without seeing Joel Dommett, who in five years has swapped bit parts and tiny comedy shows for the giddy heights of prime-time TV.
Now he is hosting ITV’s monster hit The Masked Singer, the celebrity guessing game with an A-list cast. But you wouldn’t find many who would celebrate like the Bristol-born comedian did.
When he got the gig, he splashed out on . . . a set of pubic hair trimmers. Joel, 36, said: “If you are on television, people assume you are wealthy, very rich. “I am not rich but for the first time in my life I am not poor, and that s**t is well exciting. “For the first time in my life I have separate clippers for my beard and my pubes. “I had to use the same pair until two years ago.” It is this kind of frankness that is at the heart of Joel’s act, which he honed at comedy clubs across the world before making it big.
But as far as he’s concerned, he has a long way to go. He went on: “I am that thing now where people point at me then they realise they don’t give a s**t.
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