ITV The Masked Dancer viewers divided over Pillar and Post with Corrie, This Morning and Dancing On Ice stars named

The guessing has begun as The Masked Dancer returned to our screens. The equally as bonkers spin-off to The Masked Singer was back on ITV on Saturday night (September) with new celebrities hiding their identities and a slight change to the judging panel.

After this year's characters kicked off the show with a joint performance, host Joel Dommett was back on stage to introduce who will be guessing again this year. Former Strictly Come Dancing pro Oti Mabuse, chat show host Jonathan Ross and TV presenter Davina McCall were joined by former footballer Peter Crouch as they started their latest efforts to work out who is behind the mask.

And the extravagant characters of Candlestick, Odd Socks, Prawn Cocktail, Astronaut, Scissors, and the show’s first duo – Pillar and Post – all took to the stage during episode one. But it was Astronaut who became the first to be unmasked with the panel left open-mouthed at their identity.

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Oti started freaking out as her childhood crush, and Desperate Housewives star, Jesse Metcalfe revealed himself as the dancing character. Next Saturday the remaining characters will follow in the footsteps of last night's dancers as they head onto the iconic dancefloor.

As well as the panel doing the guessing, viewers at home have already get stuck in with Amanda Holden being named as Scissors and ITV's Rob Rinder, aka Judge Rinder, being tipped to being behind Candlestick.

But it appears Pillar and Post have got fans stumped as Coronation Street, This Morning, and Dancing On Ice stars have all been named as being behind the duo's masks.

Oti reckoned they could be This Morning's Rochelle Humes and