Osher Gunsberg reveals unexpected future of The Masked Singer

Osher Gunsberg has shed more light on whether The Masked Singer Australia is likely to return in 2025 after Channel 10 announced earlier this year that the reality singing competition is being "rested" for the year, alongside The Bachelor, also hosted by Osher.

In May, a Ten spokesperson said: “Network 10 will be packing away the masks and roses this year", confirming that The Masked Singer and The Bachelor franchises won’t appear in its program schedule. At the time, Osher appeared on 2DAY FM's Hughesy, Ed and Erin Show saying that it was the nature of the job.

"This is the gig that I chose," Osher said. "This is the job I chose. I'm still busy building a very large independent podcast empire, I've written my second book, and I'm busy doing things. I've been a freelancer for a long time, and anyone in a freelance gig knows this is the nature of it. The industry is moving around, and things are repositioning. You gotta be able to move ahead, move with it, and be nimble."

Osher confirms fate of The Masked Singer

Now, in a recent episode of his podcast Better Than Yesterday, Osher candidly admitted: “If it’s [The Masked Singer] coming back, I don’t know about it – but no, I don’t believe it is coming back.”

Yahoo Lifestyle understands there are no plans to bring back The Bachelor to the network in 2025 either, however, it's been revealed recently that Channel Nine is looking to air The Golden Bachelor in 2025 - and allegedly have Sonia Kruger in their sights for hosting duties.

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Osher's insight into '00s Australian Idol: 'I'm not innocent'

In the recent episode of his podcast, Osher also admitted to feeling “very differently now” about how he has previously helped “set up” people for failure and public ridicule on reality TV throughout his career.

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He reflected: “I’m not innocent in this, in early seasons of Australian Idol a big part of the format was setting up people who weren’t that great. Going ‘Oh you’re brilliant, come and sing in front of the judges’ – then they would sing in front of the judges and then everyone watching got a chance to go ha ha. I feel very differently about that now than I did back then. I didn’t really think about it back then… I was so caught up in it all. I can’t undo it, it is what it was.”

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