What is The Masked Singer and how does the ITV contest work?

Presenting your new Saturday night TV obsession (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)
Saturday night TV is about to get a whole lot more unpredictable with the arrival of The Masked Singer – a new singing competition quite unlike any you’ll have seen before.
There’s singing involved – as you might have gathered from the title – and celebrities, except unusually for a celebrity singing show nobody knows exactly who’s taking part.
So why the secrecy – and just what