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But the \u201890s rapper wasn\u2019t the only star to bid the stage farewell: The Scarab was also unmasked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During her clue segment, she revealed her dad knew she was going to make it in Hollywood as the camera panned on a small rocket ship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe told me I was going to be a huge star,\u201d Scarab said, \u201cand that I\u2019d be nominated for an Oscar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n And all of her father\u2019s predictions came true\u2014\u201ceven that nomination.\u201d Unfortunately, he passed away a week before the Oscar ceremony, which made the evening a difficult one for the actress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt was hard to smile in those photos that night, but mom and I made the most of it,\u201d she shared. \u201cHe would have loved it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Scarab then launched into an emotional rendition of <\/span>Cyndi Lauper<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cGirls Just Want To Have Fun.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Her last clue? A roll of cookie dough, as she told the judges there was, \u201cA lot of baking under pressure to get where I am.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And while the judges were all shocked she was one of the two headed home, they of course had several guesses as to who she was. Robin switched his pick from <\/span>Sheryl Lee Ralph<\/strong> to <\/span>Regina King<\/strong>, while Jenny stuck with her initial choice of <\/span>Angela<\/strong> <\/span>Bassett<\/strong>. Ken found himself noting the green and pink in her costume, closing his case with <\/span>Wicked<\/span> star <\/span>Cynthia Erivo<\/strong>. But Rita was the one to guess correctly that it was <\/span>Empire<\/span> actress <\/span>Taraji P. Henson<\/strong><\/a>, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2009 for <\/span>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But the \u201890s rapper wasn\u2019t the only star to bid the stage farewell: The Scarab was also unmasked.\u00a0 During her clue segment, she revealed her dad knew she was going to make it in Hollywood as the camera panned on a small rocket ship.\u00a0 \u201cHe told me I was going to be a huge star,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-Masked-Singer-Taraji-P-Henson-Tone-Loc-Revealed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244903,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244901\/revisions\/2244903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}