The season premiere of The Masked Singer had an enormous shock for a lot of viewers when former New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani didn’t make a much-anticipated look.

The present airing on Fox tv concluded with superstar chef Duff Goldman unmasked after performing Loverboy’s Eighties pop-rock hit “Working for the Weekend,” disguised as a Scottish terrier named “McTerrier.”

Within the run-up to the Wednesday evening debut of the present’s seventh season, the web had been abuzz with studies that Giuliani can be a contestant on the present. He has turn into an more and more controversial determine after serving on former President Donald Trump‘s authorized staff and advancing baseless assertions that the 2020 election was stolen.

The season debut of “The Masked Singer” on Fox had an enormous shock for viewers when ex-New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani didn’t seem on the present. Above, Giuliani exhibits as much as assist fellow Republican Curtis Sliwa, who ran for NYC mayor, on June 21, 2021.
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Jean Guerin, FOX Leisure’s vice chairman for publicity and company communications, informed Newsweek in an electronic mail that “the present’s common format options three teams throughout the season, and like most productions, the teams usually are not essentially taped sequentially, so we do not all the time know the order they may air.”

Newsweek has discovered that Giuliani’s look has not been minimize from the present’s schedule.

Twitter took notice of Giuliani’s absence with some customers questioning if he’ll make a future look.

Replace (March 9, 10 p.m.): This story has been up to date to incorporate remark from FOX Leisure.