“I’m done,” the comedian said, before walking off stage as the former mayor of New York started his performance.
Controversy followed the revealing of Rudy Giuliani as one of the costumed contestants of The Masked Singer, with the most striking reaction being that of Ken Jeong, who walked off the set of the singing competition saying he felt “disrespected” and “livid.” News that 76-year-old Giuliani was taking part in the popular Fox singing show broke out in February. But when the former mayor of New York and attorney to Donald Trump was unmasked in the episode of The Masked Singer aired on Wednesday night—and revealed to be the ‘Jack in the Box’—judges on the show, as well as the public in studio, looked stunned. Giuliani appeared smiling out of a bizarre-looking costume of a rainbow-feathered bird with a crested chicken head (which The Daily Beast ‘s journalist Marlow Stern aptly described as “the face of the Jigsaw puppet”). “Is that Robert Duvall?” asked Nicole Scherzinger before Jeong simply replied, deadpan: “No, that’s not Robert Duvall.” Questioned by host Nick Cannon about his decision to take part in the show despite the controversy surrounding him, Giuliani said that he wanted to show his newborn granddaughter Grace that “you should try anything.
