Ever she made a splash with her first performance, fans have had one question. on their minds: Who is Goldfish on The Masked Singer Season 11? Well, if our prediction is correct, she’s a former Disney Channel star who was everywhere in the 2010s. Keep reading for our best guess to who Goldfish is on The Masked Singer 2024 and the celebrity under the mask.
Goldfish was one of 16 contestants on Season 11 of The Masked Singer, FOX’s reality TV singing competition where celebrities compete against each other in performances while wearing head-to-to costumes and face masks to conceal their identities. Throughout the season, a panel of judges guess who the celebrities are based on their voices and clues provided before and after each performance. Each week, the contestant with the least amount of votes from a studio audience is sent home and takes off their mask to reveal their identity.
The Masked Singer is based on South Korea’s King of the Mask Singer, which follows a similar format. Since the premiere of The King of the Mask Singer in 2015, The Masked Singer has expanded to dozens of countries across the world including France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil.“It was flypaper TV right from the get-go,” The Masked Singer executive producer Craig Plestis told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 about why he wanted to produce the show in the United States. “I just knew right away this was a special show. It was unbelievable in its appeal — and the game play, spectacle, family-viewing…[and] it was this huge hit in Asia…. If we do the job here, it should work here.”
The Masked Singer premiered in 2019 with host Nick Cannon and judges Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke, and Nicole Scherzinger. Scherzinger was the first judge to leave following Season 10 and was replaced in Season 11 by singer Rita Ora, who was also a judge on The Masked Singer UK for five seasons.
“Of course I was familiar by doing the U.K. show for about five seasons, and when they asked me to do this one, I was so excited,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2024. “I just felt like a hundred percent [yes] because I already knew the show so well, and I just love it and I love the excitement of it. It’s just so crazy and it’s like a huge game show, and such a great family show. You can’t really go wrong. I mean, you may look crazy with the names you [guess], but who cares? Because the whole show is a bit bonkers anyway, so it doesn’t feel like work at all.”
Throughout The Masked Singer‘s 10-plus seasons, dozens of celebrities, including LeeAnn Rimes, Jesse McCartney, Gladys Knight, Donny Osmond, and T-Pain, have competed on the show under secret identities and complex costumes. So who is Goldfish on The Masked Singer Season 11? Keep reading for our best guess to who Goldfish is on The Masked Singer 2024 and the celebrity we’re convinced will be revealed under the mask.
Who's Goldfish on The Masked Singer?
Who’s Goldfish on The Masked Singer? Vanessa Hudgens, an actress and singer best known for movies like the High School Musical franchise, is our best guess for Goldfish on The Masked Singer Season 11 based on her voice and clues. Read on for the clues that support Hudgens as Goldfish on The Masked Singer ahead.
“Vampire” by Olivia Rodrigo (Week 1)
Goldfish performed “Vampire” by Olivia Rodrigo in Week 1 of The Masked Singer Season 11, which was a clue to Hudgens. Rodrigo played Nini Salazar-Roberts in Disney Plus’ High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. In Season 1 of HSMTMTS, Nini played Hudgens’ High School Musical character, Gabriella Montez, in a high school production of the Disney Channel original movie.
Posing from cameras and running away from them; paparazzi flashes; Hollywood can be a little “soul-sucking” (Week 1)
Hudgens was in a high-profile relationship with her High School Musical co-star, Zac efron, from 2005 to 2010. “A sense of knowing I’m a part of something bigger than myself has allowed me to enjoy life more,” Hudgens told Marie Claire in 2013 about the media attention she received during her relationship with Efron. “And not worry about the little things, like paparazzi.”
Glass slipper (Week 1)
A glass slipper is worn by Cinderella in Walt Disney’s 1950 movie Cinderella. Hudgens’ movie franchise, High School Musical, is also a Disney production and aired on Disney Channel. Cinderella, who is a princess, could also be a reference to Hudgens’ Netflix movie franchise, The Princess Switch.
She could play it safe or dive into “deeper, darker, edgier waters” (Week 1)
One of Hudgens’ first movies after the end of the High School Musical franchise was 2013 thriller The Frozen Ground, in which she played Cindy Paulson, a 17-year-old prostitute who escapes the murder of real-life Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen and helped lead police to his capture. “I mean it’s different from anything I’ve done but that’s the way I love it. I keep on doing these different parts – but she’s a girl who has very little self love, you know she, she’s just a survivor I really admire that about her,” Hudgens told Wonderland magazine at the time about how the movie was different than the work on the Disney Channel.
Following High School Musical, Hudgens also starred in 2012’s Spring Breakers, in which she played a college student who goes to spring break in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she falls into the world of drugs, crime and violence, and 2013’s Gimme Shelter, in which she played a runaway teenage girl who becomes pregnant. “I think that’s what auditioning is for. I take pride in my auditions because people in general know me as Gabriella Montez, so not only do they not know what I can do, but they have a preconceived idea of who I am. So I auditioned for Gimme Shelter and Spring Breakers and won them fair and square. I think I showed my chops doing that,” Hudgens told Vanity Fair in 2013.
“Sometimes the most transformative moments are actually breakups. I always thought I would be married young, like my mom, but dating in Hollywood is hard, and this Goldfish wasn’t always lucky." (Week 6)
Hudgens has been in two public relationships. She dated Zac Efron for five years from 2005 to 2010, and she dated Austin Butler for nine years from 2011 to 2020. In an interview with Shape in 2021, Hudgens revealed that her mother was 25 years old when she got married, a timeline she also thought she would follow. “Where I am now is better than I could have dreamed of,” Vanessa said. “My relationship with myself is something I value deeply, even if things don’t always go the way I expected. For instance, my mom got married at 25, so I always thought I was going to be married at 25. That didn’t happen,” she said.
She saw her ex everywhere and their run-ins were turned into TikToks. (Week 6)
Hudgens has run into her ex-boyfriends Zac Efron and Austin Butler at numerous events since their breakups. The most infamous run-in was at the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscars Party, where TikTok videos showed Butler waving to fans as Hudgens walked past him while texting on her phone.
Christmas snowglobe. (Week 6)
Hudgens starred in three Christmas movies for Netflix: 2018’s The Princess Switch; 2020’s The Princess Switch: Switched Again; and 2021’s The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star.
A vampire bat hanging from a tree. (Week 6)
Hudgens played Lorelei, a human who is turned into a vampire in 2015 movie, Freaks and Nature.
A koi pond. (Week 6)
Hudgens’ current husband, Cole Tucker, at a koi pond for her birthday in December 2023, the same month they married.
