CARRIE BICKMORE: Please welcome Nikki Webster!
NIKKI WEBSTER: Hi!
CARRIE: Do they superglue those masks on? It looks like it took forever to get your head out of that.
NIKKI: Oh they’re so hard to take off, exactly. Nothing like TV to get it off.
CARRIE: How was the whole experience, did you love it?
NIKKI: I loved it. It was so much fun. Crazy, wacky but just a great time to kind of perform and sing again, and you know, behind a mask where no one kind of, well, no one knew who I was until they heard me sing. So it was a pretty awesome experience.
WALEED ALY: Well officially no one knew who you were but I think a fair few people guessed it.
NIKKI: I think so.
WALEED: What I have a problem with is, right, because Strawberry Kisses was set on a space ship. And I remember this because I was clearly the target demographic for that song. But if you’re gonna be famous for a film clip on a space ship, when they come to give you a costume, could they have given you something other than the alien?
NIKKI: I know, why couldn’t I be the unicorn or something?
WALEED: Yes!
NIKKI: Or the lion? I had my ‘rawr’ ready, I don’t know! I guess it was more about the alien being, people kind of think they know who the alien is but do they really know who they are. So it was kind of that idea.
WALEED: Well it turns out yes, they knew.
NIKKI: They guessed! I’m very predictable, what can I say?
JACINTA: Watching you last night talk about your daughter was so surreal. We still think of you as little Nikki Webster, and now you’re 32 and mum of two kids.
NIKKI: Thanks for making me feel old, but yeah! [laughs] But yes I get older like everyone else, and it’s the best job of what I do, is being a mum. So to make them proud was incredible and watching them watch the reveal last night just made everything well worth it, that’s for sure!
TOMMY LITTLE: Nikki, I’m so sorry about Jacinta’s question. Are you at the age now where we’re not meant to mention your age?
NIKKI: Well never to a lady. That’s it, see I’m a lady now. So never to a lady, that’s for sure!
WALEED: Nikki I’m so sorry for Tommy’s question, which only repeated, really, the guts of Jacinta’s question
NIKKI: You just like to keep saying it. I’m old, I’m old. [laughs]
CARRIE: How hard was it keeping it from your kids? Well one’s one, I’m sure that one didn’t care.
NIKKI: Yeah, he was all right.
CARRIE: Was it tricky, to say where you were all the time?
NIKKI: Well she was at school so it was pretty easy. I’d drop her off and then I’d get to go and become this alien. So it was pretty awesome, and I’d come home and she’d come home, and I was home. So it was a pretty awesome experience and I didn’t really have to divulge much. Other than, “Why do you have hair and makeup on, Mum?” And she’s so used to me doing all different things. But it was more… I’m kind of glad I kept it a secret because the whole week last week, everyone was trying to get it out of her. On the street, “Is your mum the alien?” And so it was lucky she didn’t know and it was so nice so see.
CARRIE: “Is your mum the alien?” [laughs]
TOMMY: Someone goes, “Is your mum the cow?” and you go, “That’s not even a character on The Masked Singer!” Nikki, just before we let you go, who’s the prawn?
NIKKI: I have no clue who the prawn is. I’m stumped on the prawn. There are a couple of others I think I know just from looking at the clue packages, but the others, I don’t know.
TOMMY: Oh! Give us one!
NIKKI: No, no! My lips are sealed.
TOMMY: Oh come on! You’re allowed to guess!
NIKKI: No I’m not gonna guess in case I’m wrong! I don’t like being wrong. [laughs]
TOMMY: Oh, most people are worried about in case they’re right.
NIKKI: Ah, there you go!
CARRIE: Well The Masked Singer continues tonight straight after us. Great to see you again, Nikki. Would you please thank Nikki Webster?
NIKKI: Thanks guys!
Source: 10play.com.au