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Rhino's Masked Singer identity given away by Hollywood stars as Davina McCall 'cottons on'

Days before this year's Masked Singer semi-final, eagle-eyed viewers have claimed that the identity of Rhino is now beyond all doubt and it's all down to the surprise appearance of two Hollywoods stars during Saturday's show.

It took just a verse and a chorus of Snow patrol's Chasing Cars on Rhino's Masked Singer debut for many fans of the crazy and massively popular ITV show to declare that it was Charlie Simpson behind the mask, based on just his singing voice alone. Busted and Fightstar musician Charlie has always had very distinctive vocals and people were alerted to them straight away, putting their faith in Rhino being the 37-year-old, without even paying attention to any clues.

Performances from Rhino over the course of the new series so far have also included covers of Pink's Try and, most recently, Ariana Grande's Into You. That was the song that Rhino sang ahead of a brutal double elimination last weekend and, it proved to be a really turning point as Davina McCall became the first judge to guess at Charlie for Rhino.

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Other names thrown into the ring by The Masked Singer panel to date have ranged from James Arthur to Charlie Puth but, for Busted fans who saw Saturday's show, the fact that Charlie is Rhino is now a done deal, thanks to one crucial clue. During Rhino's latest TV, pictures of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson appeared on a Wanted poster. They are the stars of hit movie Wedding Crashers and one of Busted's number one singles was Crashed the Wedding.

Picking up on the reference during Saturday's show, which also saw Jacket Potato exposed as a famous rock star and Fawn leave the judges puzzled once again, one viewer rushed to Twitter to post: "OK so....Rhino is Charlie Simpson from Busted all day long and I don't get how he hasn't been rumbled yet! Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn were the Wedding Crashers - hence Crashed The Wedding. And he's also just bloody said "BUSTED" in the VT."

Also seizing on the link to Crashed the Wedding, another tweeted: "Glad somebody on #MaskedSingerUK finally said Charlie Simpson's name. I thought the Wedding Crashers clue was very nicely done."

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