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Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten appeared on The Masked Singer: wanted to please his wife who suffers from Alzheimer’s
The Masked Singer show format is popular around the world, and people like to guess the identity of different characters.
Now, in the US, The Masked Singer featured a character familiar to punk lovers behind jester mask. Under the mask was Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. Rotten, real name John Lydon, appeared on the show to cheer up his wife Nora, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
“I hope that when my wife sees it, she’ll get it, or at least be entertained,” Lydon told the Yahoo! website and continues:
“Because I did it for my lovely Nora who’s currently suffering from Alzheimer’s, a disease that she’s never going to recover from and it’s slowing going to get worse. So, this should bring some great joy to her.”
While on the show, Rotten performed Alice Cooper’s hit “School’s Out” and the old folk song “Man Of Constant Sorrow”. Rotten says that many people guessed whether Ozzy Osbourne or Jack Black was behind the mask.
“Flea I could somewhat understand. But Simon Cowell? Howard Stern? Jack Black? Ozzy Osbourne? These are characters whose body shapes defies any logical thinking, if that’s what you’re coming up with.”