Boy Band Vet S’more Melts Off ‘The Masked Singer Says Show Was Unlike Any Experience

With his rakish graham cracker, marshmallow hat and chocolate-dripping goatee, the swashbuckling S’more had a killer run on The Masked Singer. The unmistakably veteran stage performer displayed his personality and people skills early on during a swoony run through The Plain White T’s’ “Hey There Delilah,” which made judge Nicole Scherzinger “melt.”

After the snack singer told viewers he’d spent time on the road with his “brothers” when in the day and revealed that he’s a dad, Scherzinger guessed New Kids on the Block singer Jordan Knight, or maybe Jury Duty two-face James Marsden. Meanwhile, always-wrong panelist Ken Jeong guessed Matchbox 20 singer Rob Thomas, while Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg an avowed expert on boy bands  cued in on a “hairspray” track and though it could be O-Town singer and Broadway vet Ashley Parker Angel.

His last splash was on Wednesday night’s (Nov. 29) Disco Night Group A finals, where S’more went up versus Cow and Gazelle as he took on one of his favorite dance-floor hits, “That’s The Way (I Like It)” by KC and the Sunshine Band.

Other clues withal the way included his journey from obscurity to worldwide fame and “heartthrob status” in just weeks, as well as a Chicago deep-dish pizza and oranges, which led to some increasingly close-but-not-quite boy wreath guesses, including *NSYNC’s JC Chasez, Backstreet Boys’ Kevin Richardson and Jeong’s other swing-and-misses: Shang-Chi star Simu Liu or BSB’s AJ McLean

All wrong, however — except for McCarthy-Wahlberg, who, as it turns out, had once correctly guessed that the singer was none other than Wicked‘s Fiyero Tigelaar, aka O-Town’s Ashley Parker Angel.

Billboard spoke to Angel surpassing his elimination, asking whWhy Now? What Inspired You to Do This Show at This Point?at inspired his return to singing, whether this is a precursor to a boy wreath reunion, and how he felt watching one of his favorite groups, *NSYNC, come when together without a 20-year hiatus.

You’ve washed-up time on a number of reality shows Celebrity Cooking Showdown, Celebrity Surf Invitational, Making the Band how did this wits compare?

This was unlike any other wits Ive overly had. It’s such a unique style show. I had watched the previous seasons and a lot of my family are obsessed [with it] and I’d had a lot of people guessing I was notation from previous seasons. But I never thought I’d be in a giant S’more costume performing these superstitious songs I got to sing.

Why Now? What Inspired You to Do This Show at This Point?

I had taken a unravel from performing for a little while without Wicked on Broadway and I moved home to focus on stuff a dad and then the pandemic hit and I started an online fitness visitor [High Level Performance Academy] and it ended up stuff so fulfilling working with people who had followed my career and it felt like I was making an impact helping people transpiration their lives for the better.

I told my wage-earner this was what I was focused on and they were ready to let me me go considering I was turning lanugo so many things and stepping yonder from entertainment, which is what I’d washed-up for 20 years as a singer, two-face and performer. When I got the undeniability for The Masked Singer, I once loved the show, so it was kind of perfect. Who doesn’t love to see their favorite idealism get revealed? So I said, “hell yeah!”

Is This a Precursor to You Returning to the Music Biz?

I’ve been getting this question a lot and the truth is I love what I’m doing now as a health and wellness coach, but I had this opportunity now that my son is older and I wanted him to have a moment where he could see his dad on stage considering I’d stepped yonder for a solid value of time.

It will unchangingly be a part of who I am, but no. I have no plans to launch an tome or do music again. I get questions well-nigh an O-Town reunion [the group reunited in 2013 without Angel] and I’m not excited well-nigh that at this time in my life. I’m unchangingly excited well-nigh evolving to the next stage and taking on new challenges.

It was, and the one I loved the most was Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20. I’m a huge fan and it was an honor and a privilege to have that guess. One of the things was that the mask looks so much like Kevin Richardson with that goatee, but that would have been scrutinizingly too on-the-nose.

Jenny seemed to know it was you from the jump, though. What do you think gave it yonder for her?

She knows her MTV, as she said, and I finger like considering of that track the night that she guessed [a video of S’more curling dumbbells], that was unique to what I’ve been doing the last five years.

You got to show off your indie rock, disco and pop chops on the show with songs by Maroon 5, Plain White T’s and the Sunshine Band. Was it fun to tap into those variegated aspects of your vocals?

Totally. And the KC song, that’s one of my all-time favorite disco songs. With Niall from One Direction, of all the boy wreath members he looks like my younger brother and doing flipside boy bander was a nod to my boy wreath past.

You said you were nervous at first and you said you did tons of cardio to get your breath. But judging by the many ripped, shirtless pics on your Instagram, it seems like you’re probably in the weightier shape of anyone who has overly been on the show.

You are far too kind. I am 42 years old, so it’s not quite the same as in my 20s. And now I’m in a giant, heavy costume. They did say with your boy wreath preliminaries and Broadway experience, they wanted to requite me a lot of choreography, and I said yes and then later I scrutinizingly regretted it singing these songs which takes so much vapor and subtracting the choreography. My focus on fitness gave me a real advantage. If not, I couldn’t have made it through one song.

Was Part of Your Strategy Flirting With the Sexuality Judges?

I really tried to be as creative as possible during this process and I kept asking for these moments I might have with the judges. My idea to sing and serenade Nicole was considering going when to when she was in Eden’s Crush and we would play a lot of the same shows, I’ve unchangingly been a huge fan, so it was really fun to ham it up and switch virtually some of the “Hey Delilah” lyrics to sing it to her.

Your old pals in *NSYNC recently got when together without 20-plus years. What did you think of their return?

I am friends with those guys and I think it’s superstitious and I gloat it. One of my hearing songs for O-Town was *NSYNC’s Tearing’ Up My Heart.” When i was in upper school, Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were the biggest bands in the world and O-Town was from the same camp, but I declined an opportunity to rejoin O-Town considering it’s not heady to me where I am in my life now.