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Kathryn Williams

ITV The Masked Singer Mushroom theory as Kate Garraway's Life Stories makes another schedule change

Theories about who's hidden inside the Mushroom on ITV's The Masked Singer have been flying around for weeks and there's one big Welsh name that just won't go away.

Now the changing of the running order of episodes for the new series of Kate Garraway's Life Stories is adding fuel to the fire that Mushroom is definitely Charlotte Church.

Read more: How Aled Jones tried to disguise his famous voice during 'bonkers' stint as Traffic Cone

Kate's taken over from Piers Morgan as Life Stories host and the show started on February 3.

Initially TV listings revealed Charlotte would be the first guest but footballer John Barnes, earmarked for the second show, was bumped up to episode one.

Now Charlotte, who was then pushed back to episode two, has been bumped again due to 'production issues' and will hopefully be on episode three, the final of this series of Life Stories. The second episode on Thursday, February 10 will now feature Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain.

We'd put a fiver on the appearance of Charlotte on Kate's show being delayed so they can talk about her big reveal as Mushroom on the primetime, Saturday night show, which so far has seen celebs like Aled Jones, Michael Owen, Gloria Hunniford and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child unmasked.

Charlotte Church on This Morning (ITV)

The clues that it's Charlotte, who's currently appearing on Charlotte Church's Dream Build on the Really Channel, are positively overwhelming.

The eight-part series follows Charlotte's journey of transforming fashion icon Laura Ashley's former home called Rhydoldog House into a health and wellbeing retreat.

In the latest episode she goes foraging for mushrooms and teaches some people to sing, with Charlotte telling the participants about the different methods of singing that can produce different types of voices including a 'pop singer' voice.

She demonstrates how she can make her voice sound different depending on how she breathes and where the voice is projected from. You can read more about it here.

Meanwhile, on the most recent episode of The Masked Singer, Mushroom sang Jade's Don't Walk Away and a stunning version of Jennifer Rush's The Power of Love.

And in that episode's clue package, Mushroom said: "We see and hear everything and when we think it's the right time you'll hear us speak up.

"I'm not afraid to use my voice to give to support to the things I believe in. In fact I think it's important that people who can, do.

"I once gave a speech to a quarter of a million people, it's important to stand up for what you believe in and to protect the things you love."

Charlotte isn't afraid to speak up for what she believes in and often joined protests against the Tories and austerity and in 2015 she joined feminist punk rebels Pussy Riot on stage at Glastonbury.

The Masked Singer UK returns for the final on Saturday at 7pm on ITV.

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