The Masked Singer’s Cherry Blossom had a special connection to one of the show’s judges, Robin Thicke.
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“Robin and I have known each other since we were kids, and he was honestly my first crush,” Candace Cameron Bure exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of her elimination on the Wednesday, March 26, episode. “I think we were boyfriend and girlfriend for, like, a week. We were 12 years old!”
Cameron Bure’s brother, Kirk Cameron, starred on the family sitcom Growing Pains, which aired from 1985 to 1992 and also featured Robin’s late father, Alan Thicke. Cameron Bure, 48, guest-starred on one episode shortly after making her Full House debut as eldest Tanner sister D.J.
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While the actress went home during her first week on the show, she told Us that her second clue package would have been about her short-lived childhood romance with Robin, also 48. “So I wished I had stayed on one more week!” she added.
The clue package fans did get to see was about Cherry Blossom’s connection to the late Bob Saget, who appeared on The Masked Singer season 4 in 2020. Cameron Bure had never seen the show before Saget’s turn on the singing competition, and the first episode she caught happened to be the one where he made his debut as Squiggly Monster.
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“I just flipped it on not knowing,” she recalled. “It’s so crazy. … I heard his voice, first note, and I was like, ‘That’s Bob.’ I know that voice anywhere. And I got so excited. I called him right away and I’m like, ‘Is it you? Is it you?’ And he’s like, ‘I can’t tell you.’ And I’m like, ‘OK, then you just told me.’”
After he was unmasked, Cameron Bure asked her former costar, who died in 2022 at age 65, how he liked competing on the show, and he had only good things to say.
“He’s like, ‘It was so fun,’” she told Us. “And he [also] said your competitiveness just kind of kicks in, and he’s like, ‘I wish I stayed on longer.’”
Cameron Bure noted that she’d been asked to do The Masked Singer four times and finally said yes after taking voice lessons with vocal coach Tara Simon, who appeared on her podcast.
“She said anyone can learn to sing as long as you’re not tone-deaf,” the Fuller House alum said. “She gave me tools to improve. I’ll never be Kelly Clarkson … [but] I felt a little bit more confident to do it because she’d given me some lessons. I think because of that experience, my fans will still be surprised that I went on it, just because after I took the singing lessons, I’m still not a good singer, but I did learn something.”
The Masked Singer airs on Fox Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Hulu.
With reporting by Travis Cronin
