‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals Identity of Miss Cleocatra: Here Is the Celebrity Under the Costume

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 11, Episode 8 of “The Masked Singer,” “Girl Group Night,” which aired April 24 on Fox. Jenifer Lewis spent a year recovering from a devastating 10-foot fall while on safari in Tanzania.

It was while she was still in bed, convalescing, that she got a call from “The Masked Singer.” “I still couldn’t walk,” she told Variety. “And my friends encouraged me to get out of bed and go do what I love to do. ‘You’ll be in front of a live audience, you’ll be singing, you’ll be in a mask, but you’ll still be doing what you really love to do, which is to entertain.'” “The Masked Singer” revealed on Wednesday night’s edition that “Black-ish” star Lewis was Group B’s “Miss Cleocatra.” Lewis was unmasked after performing “Free Your Mind,” by En Vogue, and before that, “Stormy Weather,” by Etta James.

Lewis said the show accommodated her limitations on stage. “They bolted me to the floor in a harness when I sang ‘Stormy Weather,’ and when I sang the En Vogue song, the mic was bolted.

You’ll see, I never let go of it because I couldn’t walk. But it did lift my spirit to get up and do ‘The Masked Singer.’ It was the best decision I made.” Lewis came up with the idea of being a Cleopatra-like character, “because I knew they could carry me out on the stage.