Tonight on GDS as our final stops on our search
to find this Stateline's best chicken wings.
Plus the first unmasked contestant from this season's
Msked Singer.
Hi, and welcome to Good Day Stateline.
Thanks so much for being here tonight.
We are so excited to talk to you.
The first unmasked contestant from the masked singer.
You know him from Monty Python and so many other things.
Eric Idle. Hi, Eric.
Hello. How are you? I'm good.
Thanks so much for being here with us.
My pleasure.
So normally I would ask you
why you wanted to be on the masked singer,
but I did a lot of reading today
and I already found the answer to this one
that you said you wanted to be on the show after surviving
pancreatic cancer.
My mom is actually a 15 year pancreatic cancer survivor,
so I felt like we needed to talk to that.
Yeah, for sure.
Well, that's right, because
I was the mash.
I wanted to see if I could do it.
And instead of plugging a book or a film,
I thought I would sort of join
with to cancer and raise money to help,
you know, to help other people survive.
So that's what I'm doing now.
But with the next stage of my life
that I've been granted.
Yeah, that's so incredible.
I'm very happy to.
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, it's
it's appropriate at my age and and it'll be it'll be fun.
I can. How I can.
I think this is good news and I think it should be shared.
And I'd been keeping it to myself
and I thought, well, I should actually out myself.
I should unmask myself
as well as a cancer pancreatic cancer survivor.
Well, we are so glad that
you're doing well and that you are using
I mean, this is awesome to use this platform.
I know I've
known more about this cancer
than I ever thought I would 15 years ago
when it wasn't really in the headlines so much.
So it's it's great to hear stories of survival like yours.
And the producers of the masked singer
have been very helpful and supportive.
And I'm very grateful to them because they sort of
changed my life a bit.
And I'm
you know, it's
nice to have that happen and so I'm happy to do that.
And I'm happy to hear about your mom. Yeah.
Thank you.
So we, of course, knew you had a ton of musical talent,
but as the Hedgehog, was it easier or harder to perform
with that giant costume?
Well, it was very kind of very difficult.
And you kept worrying on nice plan
because you have to dance and sing
and you're completely, you know, hidden.
So it was challenging, as we say.
What was your favorite part about being on the show?
The favorite part, I'm that's a good question.
I thought it was very interesting
to be hidden all week from other people.
So you just were hidden in around the studio,
which is a big sign on your chest saying, don't
talk to me, I'm completely covered.
That was kind of interesting, was like being a special agent.
You're not a spy. Being a spy.
But I was.
Hedgehog license to license to thrill like.
Did you have a reason why you picked the hedgehog costume?
Well,
I do tend to curl up into a ball when attacked, so.
And I quite like being under hedges, so.
Yeah. So I felt I felt drawn to a hedgehog.
I'd been the singing water rats.
I've sung
I played most other kind of creatures on Monty Python
at some time or another.
So this was, which was very this was great fun, actually.
Yeah.
It's really exciting
to be able
to talk to
and just hear how fun it is, right?
Like, that's what we need more of in our lives. It's fun.
Absolutely.
And they make it so they're very good company.
They make you welcome and they support you
and they protect you and they help you every step you go.
You have to be humbled and led.
So it's so it was an experience and I enjoyed it
and I'm grateful to them. I'm so glad.
It was so nice to talk to you tonight, Eric,
and thank you for sharing your story and unmasking yourself.
You're very welcome.
And thank you
for talking about your your
your own interest in it, too, which is very important to me.
Thank you.
Well, I had a great time talking with you.
Thanks so much for your time.
Okay. You're welcome.
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