The fourth regular celeb on the Masked Singer’s Star Panel, Rita Ora, is noticeably absent from the new show’s line-up. Ora, of course, caused a storm of controversy when she was found knowingly to have ignored national COVID-19 restrictions by having her birthday party at a West London restaurant, Casa Cruz in Notting Hill – her team paying the venue £5,000 to ignore government health regulations and to switch off the CCTV cameras.
Despite issuing a groveling apology, many fans of the show disliked her continued presence in the second series of The Masked Singer which had been pre-recorded before her flouting of lockdown rules became known.
It seems that the How We Do (Party) singer’s antics have cost her a place of the new high-profile series.