Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompsonand MamaJune Shannon’s time onThe Masked Singerdidn’t end up being a day at the beach.
The mother-daughter duo entered the singing competition as wildcard contestant Beach Ball on Wednesday, but their first performance turned out to be their last when Thompson, 16, and Shannon, 42, received the fewest number of votes from the panel, studio audience and at-home superfans, and unmasked at theend of the episode.
“I was bummed, but I wasn’t in the same aspect because I can’t sing,” Thompson tells PEOPLE. “So I was kind of sad, but I was also kind of happy because I didn’t have to sing in front of millions of folks.”
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Shannon wishes they made it to week 3 when they planned to singPaula Abdul’s “Straight Up,” which she calls “my favorite song.”
Mama June: From Not to Hotviewers will get a behind-the-scenes look at Thompson and Shannon’sMasked Singerjourney when season 6 airs this spring, but for now they dished on sweating inside Beach Ball, reconnecting on the Fox series and spending 10 years in the spotlight.
Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and Mama June Shannon.Robin L Marshall/Getty
Why did you two want to go onThe Masked Singer?AT: Because I felt like it would just be a fun experience, something different and something I’ve never done.JS: The shows that we do outside of our shows, likeDancing with the Stars, that’s for us. These are challenging because we’re used to filming our everyday life. We’ve been doing it for 10 years. We just hit our 10-year anniversary on Oct. 12. We like showing fans that we can step outside the box and do something fun and give them something, another show to watch when our show is just in production. It’s all about having fun at the end of the day and branching out.Can you talk about being inside that costume? You expressed after being unmasked that being Beach Ball posed quite the physical challenge.AT: It was definitely challenging because it was on wheels, and it was very dark in there, very hot. Like, oh my God, it was challenging.JS: Our cameras caught all that hotness. That craziness inside the Beach Ball, outside the Beach Ball and atThe Masked Singer, so you’re going to be able to see all of our craziness that went behind the Beach Ball on our show this spring.
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Alana, what did it mean to have your mom there after all she’s been through?AT: It was very fun, and I just love being in California. That’s the main thing I really liked. We were out there in California for a while, and it was just a good time altogether.
Who else in your family knew you were both coming onThe Masked Singer?AT: Not many people knew. It was like my sister, Pumpkin and [her husband] Josh, obviously. The close immediate family knew, but if you basically didn’t live in the house with us, you don’t know.JS: When I tell you the people in our circle is very small, it includes Alana, [daughter] Jessica, [daughter] Pumpkin, Josh,[Pumpkin’s son] Bentley, myself. That’s it. We don’t associate with too many other people because people just get too much into your business and want to sell it. That’s a huge reason why all of us don’t talk to [her oldest daughter] Anna that much. When we share things with her, she just wants to tell our business, and we like some stuff to be private.
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free weekly newsletterto get the biggest news of the week delivered to your inbox every Friday.Now that you two have reconnected, what’s next for you both?AT: I’m filming, working towards graduating high school, so that’s probably what’s next for me. But if another show calls, I’ll probably hop on it because I love doing cool, fun experiments and cool new things. So who knows?JS: Right now we don’t have any projects, but if anybody wants us to, you know what I’m saying, do it, you know what I’m saying? Y’all know how to get ahold of us.
The Masked Singerairs Wednesdays (8 p.m. ET) on Fox.
source: people.com
